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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

July 1, 1938 (12 pages)

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ag 10 6 ean came ere rr NEVADA CITY NUGGET ieee FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938. EET _ OF 1850 FINED 5° BY PIONEER JURY No* on'y is Nevada City ecelebraiing its 90th birthday, but the Methodist Episcopal church of this city ’ #s also celebrating its 88th bir-hday “this week. The Methodist d2urch was Methodist .church the first following not only the firs¢ in Nevada Ciiy but a‘so @hureh of any kind. The eondensat*ous have been taken from Pe history owned by Nev. H. HH. Buck: er. n > Broad and Pine streets and meeings were held here and also at Main and Washing on streets. In August, 1850, Rev. Cc. A. Leaman was sent by Rev. Isaac Owens, then dn charge of the Pacific Coast, to reach in Nevada City. In the summer of 1850, Alcalde Stamps and Mr. Lamden built a shake house on the north half ofthe site, now oceupied by whe Glad Tid nes Tabernacle. ad located at prayer Cumberland Presbyterians, Baptists and .Methodists were housed in this ehurch. About this time, Rev. R. R. Dunlap, a member of the (Missouri conference arrived to take charge. In September, Rev. Isaac Owens came from Sacramento and officially op. ened the church and accepted mem-' a for ieé church. R. R. Dunlap. and C. A. Leaman were the first min. isters. . Soon after this meeting Rev. Horn} of North Carolina was appointed by . the superintendent, Rev. Owens, A little laver another building was built. Messrs. C. Burdick. and J. Wilson} took the contract to build the church. Mr. Ccle built the pulpit and put in was finished in 1851 and dedicated by C. Briggs, S: . Simonds and W. G. Deal. Rev. Adams Bland came as the first regularly appointed pastor by the annual conference. The following anecdote is about Rev: Bland. “while the church was on the hill, men would sometimes come as far as tfze door with their wives and then go on down town. Bland referred to this practice in a sermon. On the day ite seats. I tevs, M. told T Serr Nevada era man die laughing! nee Sunday 2 p. m. FRIDAY MERRILY WE LIVE::::: : and Brian Aherne. The camit’s about a screwy family tramps. It's the gayest love spree of 1938. SATURDAY G0 CH ASE You RSELF: with Joe Penner and ‘ Lucille Ball. Anyone who is behind in their laughs, should see this uproarious farce and catch up. And ROSE OF THE RIO GRANDE with John Carroll fighting for the woman he loves, Movita. SUNDAY Gorgeous technicolor drama, tuneful, romROBIN HOOD. thrilling. Erroll Flyn DeHaviland surpass all their splendid performances in their lovely love scenes and great moments. MatiTheatre With more laughs than ever Constance Bennett that . adopts New . side-splitting comand . Olivia SATURDAY SUNDAY-MONDAY . JULY 2 JULY 3 AND 4 Rollin Banta <2"! His 10-Piece Orchestra BA LA éE C2 Farewell Night . 2 % yr Meaging % & Hees CARTER se ot aint SIME ORCHESTRA LAKE OLYMPIA . ————— the chu:ch was moved he’ went back to repair the fence and one of whe . men referred to in the Sermon met him and began abusing him. Bland ’tried to persuade him to go away but ENDS FEB ? 1848 instead he undertook to soil the gars fe 24 ments of the man of the cloth. Bland Although history relates that Calibased his hammer and, “a physical fornia was under Mexican governorgiant in etature he seized his abuser . hip between the years 1822-1847, and butted his head into the ground. strictly speaking there was no Maxi. For this kind of treatment, the man 4, period of California history. had Band arrested. = ‘trial was had, . 4 ctually for a quarter 6f a century gamblers and all being on Bland’s . ine rule of Mexico was more or less ra Compiled by 3 Sacramento Chamber of SACRAMENTO, June 30. — Construction of the 1,820. foot diversion tunnel at the site of Shasta Dam, focal point in the Central Valleys Project, got under way this week. side, and the result was a fine.of five Boos shel Wal ve Sees $.de,'a acknowledged, but direct interventhe west abutment of the dam site Washington, D. C., are to state cement prices f.o.b. at the point of manufacture or storage. Hada bidder will be required to submit a statement that the prices quoted “are neither directly or indirectly the result of any agreement with any other bidder.” DOGS KILL RABBITS Richard Haddy, who has a nice lot .of rabbits, had the misfortune to have dogs which entered his Park avenue, cents.” ne ition into the affairs of this distant, and will be used at present for refather’s premises on sah deans Geel nee Tanprovince éntailed no more than ap-. routing the Southern Pacific main. the early part of the week, kill 22 sey was appointed. He had Ue ointment of a few governors and the/ line track around the dam site propof them. Seven were large rabbits church moved back on the lot and an and the others were ready to Bot. addition of twelve feet made in front The first church draggled soldiery. of a steeple. mn NONEEIVET 1863. Rev. J. B Hill ary, 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe . Hang saim daniel rie another caurch Hidalgo, which released California which was built, in 1864. . from this rule was signed two weeks . Fireworks . AT. COLFAX ' AFTER THE CELEBRATION AT NEVADA CITY VISIT YOUR NEIGHBORING CITY OF COLFAX AND SEE THE oo BIG DISPLAY OF. FIREWORKS MONDAY EVENING — JULY 4TH (9 o'clock) ing LASHBAUGHS WILL OPEN tt ettects ot thie release were no RESTAURANT HERE My. and Mrs. Hampton Lashbaugzh and Mrs. Elizabeth Lashbaugh will open a new restaurant in the old Several thousand dollars have been spent remodeling and renovating the building: The outside has ‘been géven a stucco finish in white and brown. Lund counters extend almost the
full length of the room and private booths have been built along one side. Mrs. Elizabeth Lashbaugh has had 25 years experience in hotel management and comes before the Nevada county public as an. 'experienced restaurant operator. The group have resided.in Nevada City several years and are well acquainted here. Dersonal. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Noyes will spend the coming week end at Gold Lake ‘on a short vacation and fishing trip. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Trewhella and two daughters of Richmond are spending a two weeks vacation iin the park at Grass Valley. Mr. Trewhella is a former Nevada City resident. Dr. and Mrs. Salvatore Shiro of San Francisco and their son and daughter will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McKee at McKeesport on the Tahoe Ukiah highway over this week end. Other week end guests of Mr. and Mrs, McKee will be Mr. and Mrs. L. Rocco of San Francisco and their son Raymond. : ‘ Mr. and Mrs. William Treglaw will nave as a guest over the holiday Mrs. Treglown’s aunt, Mrs. Sophie Nickerson of Sacramento. Mrs. Ida Guenther expects’ her daughter, Mrs. Clay Epperson, Mr. Epperson and son of Bakersfield; and son, Charles Guenther, and family of Yreka for the icoming week end and the Fourth. Daniels building just south of the . court house on Commercial street. . on the vagaries of the old Mexican ‘immediately felt, and Nevada City . rwas still more or tess-under the~in= . fluence of the Mexican regime dur. ing that year and in fact, until Cali'fornia formed her own constitution in. 1849, records of this period are very vague. a Another interesting side light up. regime are the records of the inde. finite boundary. lines of the La Habra Rando, once in Los Angeles, but now 'n Orange ‘county. : “Commencing at tihe Camino Viejo and running in a right line 550 varas more or less dis‘ant from a small corral of tuna plants, which plants were taken as a land mark, thence in a direction west by south running along the Camino Viejo 18,200 varas to a point of small hills ,at which place was fixed as a land mark the head of a steer, from thence east by north passing a cuchillo 11,000 vasmall ‘corral of tunas aforesaid, to the point of the beginning.” It leaves one rather’ breathless, and one ‘ponders on what must shave been the ultimate outcome, for no doubt the course of the ‘old road” was eventually changed, the tunas probably died of old age, and surely some hungry coyote finally carried off what migtht have remained of the steers head. With the landmarks lost, one wonders whether the La Habra Rancho expanded where and .when the mood os perhaps did a bit of crowding on their own. In any event, it probably ended in expensive litigation for some one, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fisher stopped over Wednesday night for a visit with Mrs. Ida Guenther. They were on a three week vacation having gone to Indianapolis on a stream line train returned with a new car. Mrs. Davir May and two children who have been visiting Mrs. May’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker in this city the past two months, returned to their home in Denver, Colorado. ras terminating at the right line of, 1848. However . Unemp dictated, or if the adjoining ranch. sending along of a.few score of be-. er, Later, it will be used for divertwees Marshall found) ing the flow of the river around the an +4 ly 19, 1856 and 16 a gold in the tail race of a saw mill in ‘dam site during early stages of conjitnow th July Te, 26o0 ane ao Coloma under Mexican rule in Janu-" struction. Walker Young, engineer in charge of Central Valleys Project, warned loyed laborers against going to the dam in the hope of obtaining employment on the tunnel job. He said tat all labor will taken from the state employment office registrations ‘and that more than sufficient numbers already are registered. Under new government tions of centralizing the purchase of cement for all federal agencies in the procurement division of the treasury department, an advertisement has been issued for 75,000 barrels of finely ground standard Portland coment for Central Valley Project construction. The bids, to be opened June 30 in regulaThere are a number of dogs in the and he. is making protect his rabbits. neighborhood every effort to Mr: and Mrs. George Smith of Los Angeles are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Louie’ Kopp. ; Mrs, Charles E. Parsons of this city motored to Lake Tahoe Wednesday. : Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Richards and sons of Berkeley are visiting with Ts W. Richards for a few days. The man sniffed contemptuously at the ties the cerk showed him. Then he noticed that the clerk carefully put them away in a separate box. “What beconies of those,’ he asked. “Well,” said the clerk, ‘‘we sell them to women whe.come in to buy ties for men.” Its 90th NEVADA LUMBER Boulder Street Nevada’ City CELEBRATES Birthday Let every loyal citizen join in making it a joyous and colorful three-day fiesta. e COUNTY COMPANY Oscar Odegaard, Mgr. Nevada City ALPHA STORES, LTD. HEARTILY JOINS IN THIS Festival Celebration Nevada City’s Ninetieth Birthday *. LPHA STORES, Ltd. and its eN. predecessors for almost three Leow quarters of a century have served the citizens of Nevada County, and. have done their part toward bringing happiness and prosperity to all. There is hardly a home in the entire country, that either in building hardware, furnishings, household appliances, table ware, or kitchen utensils, has not been served by Alpha Stores Ltd. Grass Valley Phone 88 204 W. Main Nevada City Phone 5 , 221 Broad