July 12, 1937 (4 pages)

HYDRAULIC MINERS ENCOURAGED BY REPORTS that the North Fork Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. “Tact is an almighty good thing to have’’ said the Old. Timer, picking out the easiest office chair. “It is just as useful in the hills as in the metropolitan centers. I remember when I was a few years younger I used to travel in an old open air car to Downieville whenever they had af big dance there or other celebration. They didn’t have so much swank maybe as some of those big city night clubs, but they had a whole lot more of wholesome hospitality, and no funny’ business with the girls. “Well one night they had adver-' tised something extra special and had brought an orchestra up from Marysville. The farther away the orchestra comes from, the}general idea is, that the better it is,These were a citified bunch of musicians. Pants white and creased. Shirts white and fresh, ties just like you see in. advertisements. They might: have stepped out of Esquire. Well, the hall was filled and everybody waiting for the orchestra, who had had a special free chicken dinner prepared for them, besides $25 apiece for playing all: night. “These dudes came in a very leisudely way and looked over the crowd with an air of a sight-seer in a museum or menagerie. Then one of them bursts out: ‘Oo! Say, fellows, look at that old billy goat with the side whiskers over there in the corner. I’ll ‘bet he’s never been out of these hills in 50 years,’’ and he pointed one of his manicured fingers right at Cy Billibee, who owns just about half the county ‘and has been around the world several times, but likes. to come back to Downieville for the friends he has there and the fishing. A “Well this bunch of silly fops burst right out’ laughing with a whee-hee-hee, and took out more time when the whole crowd was anxious to be dancing, and their antics COVERS RICHEST GOLD Nevada City Negget{z AREA IN CALIFORNIA aid eT advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. prosperity. by -subsribing to, and therefote, 7 Wol. 11, No. 55. ie County Seat Paper_ _NEVADA CITY, CAL. IFORNIA Tic Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. \ OF CAR CRASH BORNE T0 REST A triple funeral service was held in Grass Valley last Friday for Mr. and Mrs. _Asa Eddings and their daughter, Betty Jean, 7, all victims of an automobile accident near Cisco Sunday, July 4. The funeral services were private. Burial was ih the ig Ade Cemetery. oe Raymond Smith, negro’ chauffeur who was driving the automobile which crashed into the Eddings car, still is in the Sutter hospital in Sacramentt, unable to give details of the accident. Captain Joseph Blake of the California Highway Patrol said Smith will be charged with erence homicide. MARRIED IN RENO John H. Morris, Jr., of Forest and June A. Bishop of Nevada City were married in Reno on July 7. Mrs. Morris was formerly employed at the National Hotel in Nevada City. Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Hughes, parents of the bride and A. G. Tessler were in the wedding party in Reno. BANNER MT. AUXILIARY “ADOPTS” WAR VETERAN A most interesting meeting of Banner Mt. Post, V. F. W., Auxiliary was held Thursday evening when Mrs. Minnie Young, recent delegate to the encampment at Oroville gave. the highlights of the several days . meeting. It was decided at this meeting to . adopt a disabled war veteran and! the auxiliary has taken Jack Proctor . and remarks enraged the folks. Two . young huskies stepped out of the} front ranks, and one of them says: “Young fellers, cut the gab and git! to sawing them fiddles. If we amoose you it is nothin’ to the amoosement you are to us. Either git going or “The smile was wiped right off those musical mugs. They had been told where to:-head in and they headed. And they ’did not have so good a time. Usually the orchestra gets, a free supper ’round one o’clock, bet-) ter than the supper the others pay for. They lost that. Usually some big hearted hillman passes his ten. gallon hat toward sunrise and takes up a fifty dollar tip for the music-' ians.' They lost that, and also the chance of ever seeing Downieville again and being paid for it. Doubt if any of those young fellows ever ac,’ ecumulate any cash, They may inherit something maybe, but they never could make the grade, because their folks never taught ’em good manners. The passel of them, six I think it was, weren’t worth a whisker out of old Cy Billibee’s beard. “Smartalecks, when they’re young, . if they weren’t such a pest, would be . worth something just as object les. sons, to right thinking folks. But the! trouble is they never get over the} complex. They grow up that way, and their neighbors and relatives have to endure ‘em. They never learn to put themselves in other people’s shoes. Of course that is what tact is,/knowing your own self and crediting other folks with the same feelings that you have yourself. Tact I should say is the golden rule applied to smal) matters in everyday coming and goings, meetings and goodbyes. It’s a lubricant that eliminates friction in social relations, and the fellow with out it carries a heavy handicap.” President George Hallock presid-. ed at the meeting of the California . Hydraulic Miners Association held . at Auburn Saturday. Major Harris of the California . Debris Commission informally stated that wtih both the River Mines and . Omega mines assurances filed, he! knew of no obstacle in the way of . early inauguration of the project. . It was reported at the meeting} project had, progressed to the point where con-. tracts might be considered by Sept-. ember. It was also reported that the Middle Fork plans are well advanced. . The next meeting will be held on July 24 at Colfax. “to winners. 'o’clock /and a crew of men under } who is at the’ soldiers home at} ' Yountville. The lodge purchased a) dozen eard tables for their hall The auxiliary is preparing to sive . a food sale Saturday, July 17 to! raise money for their general funds! and it will be held in front of the . Alpha hardware store. . A publie card party is being ds at the home of Mrs. Howard Burr, the Rossen house near Cleland’s ser. . vice station Wednesday evenings, July 17. Mrs. Marie Haddy will as sist Mrs. Burr. Many choice ee FIRE MC COURTNEY ROAD QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED The state division of forestry at! Nevada City’s southern limits was! ealled vesterday to éxtinguish a fire . on the MeCourtney road near the) North Star mine/It was put out after burning over a half acre mostly) of pine needles. The state office also: reported two/ false alarms were sent} in. Today a/fire started in the Spence-. ville area west of Nevada City at 3 State Ranger William F. Sharp and Assistant Ranger ~~ Rickard are one, the fire lines. t flared up strongly, died down, and last reports it hadsprung up again. It seemingly is burning over grass land . and brush. A further reported was, being awaited fromthe lookout. as to condition and whethe it was neccessary to send more men into the} area. TRAFFIC CFNSUS IS. BEING TAKEN HERE Superintendent of state highways Fred Garrison for this section, has had traffic counters on reads leading into and out of ‘Nevada City Grass Valley and Downievillesince Sunday morning. The count will be up tonight at ten o'clock. This is a statewide traffic census that takes places in July each year. MINUTE MELODIES (Songsof Northern Califoinia) JULY NIGHT (Downieville) winds, have whipped The summer to creant The winding misty Milky Great. firs stand silently dream While creuching mountains kneel Way, and and pray Beside a, little starflecked stream Now aren't thesé foolish things to say? ROY GRIPFTHS DEETER. THREE VICTIMS F . are {for men and women will be awarded . . Me safety department of the Califor/nia State 'has made the following summary of . intersection ithe right. ‘driver must give a proper hand sig. LIQUOR DEALER ar . $100 FOR PUTTING GIRL. 14 AT TENDING BARi} eases oho . ' Edmund M. Joubert of the Wil. ; i low Tree on the Marysville high-. . way near Rough and Ready, . came into Judge W. L. Mobley’s . ,court today and was fined $100 . and given a 60 day suspended sen. . tence. He was arrested by Russell . B. Farley, board of equalization agent, for having a 14 year old girl bar tender. She had ‘been serv~ ing liquor three days when the ar. ! rest was made. \\ GYPSY PICNIC . AT LAKE VERA In ccelebration of the tenth annivarsary of Camp Celio, on the shores of Lake Vera, a gypsy picnic was held on July 13 with 400 people in attendance. The Oakland, Berkeley ' and Alameda Camp Fire Girls invit-' ed as their guests twenty five citiz-j ens of Nevada City who have shown! . 1 interest in Camp Celio during the 10 years of it sexistence on the lake. Among them was Mr. William B. Celio, who gave the property to the Oakland Camp Fire Girls in memory of his wife. Other guests included the girls from the three other camps on Lake Vera; Sacramento Camp Fire Girls at Mineluta, Piedmont Camp Fire Girls at Augusta, and Oakland Girl Reserves at Gold Hollow. . Celio campers, headed by Miss. Gladys Snyder, camp director, pro-. vided a gypsy supper for the entire group, while members of the other camps on. the lake entertained at three different campfires with skits and songs in keeping with the gypsy theme of the pienic. Costumes in gay and picturesque gypsy styles added eolog. and interest to the affair. WHEN YOURE RIGHT ON RIGHT-OF-WAY When do you haye the legal right lof wav? Pointing ont that manv caused by motorists unfamiliar with the right of way rules, the pubaecidents Automobile Association the state motor vehicle code on the subject. Approaching of way must be yielded which has already entered the section. Only when two cars enter an from different directions at approximately the same time is the driver on the left required to . vield the right of way to‘the car on « intersections, right . +0 any inter. ear . When intending to turn left, the the last fifty! but the actual nal continuously for feet before turning, turn cannot ‘be made unless it cau be done with reasonable safety. The person turning must yield the right of way to all oncoming traffie within the intersection or so close as to constitute an° immediate hazard. Thereafter the driver may proceed with the turn and ancoming troffic subsequently approaching the intersection must permit the turning car to pass. Upon entering an arterial or through highway, the driver must} first stop and yield the ‘right of way . to all traffic immediately approach. ing. Thereafter he may proceed and all vehicles approaching the intersection on the through highway must yield the right of way to him. Drivers entering puhlie highways from prviate roads or driveways have no right of way, but must wait until they can proceed safely. # When the driver hears the sound of a police car,.amibulance or fire apparatus siren, he must pull over to the right as far as. possible, but clear of any intersection, and siop. Pedestrians have the right of way . within marked crosswalks or un-. marked crosswalks at the end of a/ block. Although ‘‘jaywalkers”’ do not . the right of motorisis . must use caution for their safety. hare Way, STENTS a i B: AND CONCERT Another entertaining band con-' cert will be given Wednesday night . from the National hotel baleony. A! balancing group of overtures and . marehes will be given, L. E. Sween-. similar gatherings. ey. director, and the band invites all to come out and listen. i ness and started scouting around for . another career. . "looked like the best bet, . Service family ever . Creek, on the site of after the customers’ . has been on the Auburn school board for nineteen years and chairman . member of every welfare organizaHERB COOPER’S LIFE SKETCH IN P.G E. JOURNAL in PG; ond Te Précress,”” organ of the Pacafie Gas and_ Electric company this week is an entertaining article under the title: ‘‘On the Job with the Old Timers’’ that many an old timer in Nevada County will be glad to read because it gives a life sketch of Herb Cooper, one of Nevada City’s sons. It follows: Herbert M. Cooper of Auburn, manager. of the Drum division of the P. G. and E., is the sort of man almost anyone would like to be. He is a success in an important business, a respected leader in his community, popular with old and young. It isn’t surprising that Herb is popular; he’s forever doing nice things for people, especially children, He probably won’t forgive us for even mentioning the subject, but we'll cite a couple of examples. Not long ago he heard of a schoolgirl whose, parents couldn’t buy her a! new dress for graduation. He sent her one. When the San FranciscoOakland bay. bridge was opened he was instrumental in arranging -for 55. Apburn students to come down and see it. Herb was born in 1872 in Blue Tent, Nevada county, then a bustling mining camp with 2000 inhabitants and now hardly a pinpoint on the map. He became a resident of Nevada City at the age of two and grew up in the lumber industry—his father had a lumber yard there and a sawmill at Deer Creek, twelve miles east. When seventeen, Herb, eager to begin making his own way, quit school and went to work at the btg sawmill. Soon he could run the big saws as well as,the next fellow and, fefore his’ father installed donkey engines to haul logs, mastered the difficult are of driving six oxen at a time. After six years in the woods, he was transferred to the lumber yard. in Nevada City, where he served as manager, salesman, delivery man and general handy man. Soon after his return to town he began “keeping company” with Nettie Hackley and they were married in 1898. They had a happy life togeth. 100 girls from Nevada { Satiletiotdas another is antes trees to beautify his community. And he gets a big kick out of “sticking the general office men for lunch.” SWIMMING LESSONS FOR NEVADA CITY WOMEN Verle Gray, life guard at the municipal pool, states that the first of the series of swimmig lessons for women will begin tomorrow morning. The lessons will be given from 9:30 until 11:30 in the morning, Tues-' days and Thursdays. Courts for hopscotch have been marked off near the bath change rooms and Gray announces that the tournament for girls will open at once. GIRLS’ WEEK AT CAMP PAHATSI Ten Camp Fire Girls from the Ahdenah group left Sunday for Camp Pahatsi to spend this week at camp. Miss Bonnie Flint, a member who is in training at St. Mary’”’s hospital in San Francisco is visiting her mother in Nevada City, and accompanied the girls for a two day visit, returning home today. Over City and . Grass Valley and Placer county have . enrolled for camp. The following . week will be for the Boy. Scouts. . Girls from Ahdenah group ore: . Betty Norton, Alice Norton, Marian . ‘Gwin, Billie Keller, Barbara Cain, . Betty Foote, Betty Smith, Henwood, Jean Martz and Flint. : A nomination of officers was held Friday afternoon with Miss Marian . Gwin being chosen president. Jean Martz and Barbara Cain, vice presi. dents; ;Vella Flint and Betty Nor. ton, secretaries; Alice Norton, treas. urer; Jean Martz, song leader; Lau-. ra Price and Barbara Phariss, ! scribes. An election will be held Friday, July 23. A new group of Camp Fire Girls, the Yallini Group, was organized last week. They received their phy-. sical examinations Saturday and left at noon Sunday for the camp. In! this group are Betty Lou Krough, . Sylvia Tyhurst, Marylin Lee, Mar-. ‘garet Odegaarde, Doris Rozynski andi Pauline Marshall. Vella i er until she died ‘in 19382. Two daughters—Mrs. Ww. T. Hughes of . Auburn and: Mrs. T. J. Nolan of San)! Francisco—have helped to make up, for “her, loss. ; In 1904, on the death of his fath-. er, Herb wound up the lumber busiThe electric industry . ”’ so, early he applied for a job and in the Pacifte At the a few in 1905, got it. He has been since. outset he did odd jobs for days and then was sent to Camptonville, Yuba county, to .boss a sawmill that cut lumber to maintain , the Colgate power house flume. . “In February, 1906, Herb was siven the task of building a camp and . making other preparations for the! construction of a power plant at Deer . his father’s mill. The project was suspended soon afterward, because of the San Francisco earthquake,.and he spent the next several months in Amador county cruising and buying timber for repair work on the Standard canFOR ELEANOR WILLOUGHBY ' chapter Mrs. P. E. Marshall, a new coun-' ‘sellor from Nevada City has gone to} camp and will have charge of music. and: singing. N. D. G. W. SCHOLARSHIP One of the five scholarships award. ed by the Native Daughters of the Golden West during the recent grand sessions at San Jose was awarded to Miss Eleanor Wiltloughby of Yuba City, formerly of Nevada City. Miss Willoughby is the daughter of Mrs. [. L. Putnam formerly of Nevada City. Miss Willoughby has completed one year at Mills College’ and plans to attend there next year. BIRTHDAYSII ae . . ow Send a Greeting . ™ to Your Friends. al. The following year he ran e company’s saw mill at Tiger Gree . That was Herb’s last crack at lum-. bering. In 1908 he was moved to Al-. ta, Placer county, as superintendent . of the P. G. and E. water system in that region, which supplies Auburn, ad half a dozen other towns, feeds a string of power plants and irrigates a large fruit growing area. Three years later he ‘was put in charge of the Placer district, with headquarters at Auburn. When Drum Division was established in 1921 he was appointed manager. In. this role he cares for ‘the ‘electric, gas jand water needs of Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties and part of ElDorado. Herb does a lot ibesides looking interests. He most of the time. He’s an officer or tion in the place. Through his untiring efforts for twelve years, the city: now has'a beautiful outdoor auditorium — Codpér Amphitheatre—for plays, music, festivals, rallies ‘and Our hero has several hobbies. One is collecting rocks from the nation’s JULY 12 TO JULY 18 The Nevada City Nugget has acquired a “birthday list” of several hundred Nevada City folk through the kiridness of William Tamblyn who compiled .it several years ago. The Nugget invties all those who may be interested to join its-birthday club and to bring the birthday dates of their friends, papers containing mention of happy event will be mailed to those whose birthdays fall on Monday, the day in which this feature appears, and during ~ the week, ‘ July 12th DAVID A. DANIEL July 13th MRS. THOMAS D. JONES . July 14th KARL KORP DONALD ODGERS July 17th Sacramento third with sales of $ DALE BERGER 646, July 18th KARL KOPP, SR. — Fenton vf Bob). Flemi KATIE EDDY ' . Roy Neilson of Sac JOHN C. RIEDEL ‘. week end —Happy Birthday __—_ . der street ar S 5 wie : Bak ii : 3 3 eS ' Sunday, val EGGS LANDED _in @ homemade parachute with only ‘periments in lowering supplies from : CHAUFFEUR WHO CRASHED HELD IN CUSTODY Raymond Smith, chauffeur William Williams, oil and mine bse erator, whose car allegedly collided headon into the machine of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Eddings, kiHing them and the elder of their two daughters, July 4, was brought to the sheriff’s office at Nevada City today . and then taken to Grass Valley for. the coroner’s inquest this afternoon. j Smith, who suffered a broken chin, still had bandages on his chin and forehead from the accident. He has been under guard of a deputy sheriff day and night at the Sutter hospital in Sacramento and is charg~ ed with negligent homicide. The accident occurred when with his employer he was driving from Reno, Nevada,.to San Francisco on the Auburn highway not far from Cisco, July 4 VACATION ENDED Mrs. Leland Smith, daughter, Miss Betty Smith and twin ‘eons, Warren and Leland, Jr., of thsi city — accompanied by Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. W. Willard of Auburn, returned Saturday evening from over & three weeks vacation at Ajturas wheres they visited relatives and friends. -FROMPLANEFOR. FIRE FIGHTERS When you can toss 108 eggs outof a plane and lower them 590 feet slight damage to two of the hen fruit—that’s news! Forest rangers © who are carrving on avseries of explanes to a camp of fire fighters, are sure that the old hen has not been given credit for the lopsideded ‘surdiness of her product. Not only eggs but pickles in glass jars, canned milk, and all sorts of eatables as well as tools and water were dropped by the Forest Service . last fall near Vancouver, Washington. In many parts of the western national forests package dropping from airplanes is and will continue to be a vast aid in. supplying fire fighting crews. These experiments are to determine methods and materials ‘by which supplies could be lowered by simple yet effective parachutes in regions where ground transportation has not been highly developed. The most effective so far seen to be burlap wool, sack, opened up and tied in the four corners to shrouds 17 feet long. Such a “chute’’ is very cheap, can be made in less than five minutes, can be used re peatedly and will lower about 100 pounds of some items. LIQUOR REVENUE, YEAR $8,063,990 SACRAMENTO, Jt July 12.—Sales . , of liquor excise tax stamps amount— ing to $638,910.36 during June. brought the revenue from this source of state income up to $8,063,990.56 . for the last fiscal year, fhe state board of equalization announced. The income from the excise tax amounted to $638,910 last month, an increase of 14.81 per cent over that of the same month of the previous year. The total for the fiscal year was 9.97 per cent above that of the previous 12 month period. Records of the board revealed that the tax on distilled spirits, collected by meats of stamps at the rate of . 80 cents a gallon, has netted the — state a total of $15,396,980 since isk inception in 1935. : As in previous months, slog half of the stamp sales were made in the Los Angeles district with a total of $270,310. San Francisco wag seeond with $191,208 during June, an

HYDRAULIC MINERS ENCOURAGED BY REPORTS that the North Fork Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. “Tact is an almighty good thing to have’’ said the Old. Timer, picking out the easiest office chair. “It is just as useful in the hills as in the metropolitan centers. I remember when I was a few years younger I used to travel in an old open air car to Downieville whenever they had af big dance there or other celebration. They didn’t have so much swank maybe as some of those big city night clubs, but they had a whole lot more of wholesome hospitality, and no funny’ business with the girls. “Well one night they had adver-' tised something extra special and had brought an orchestra up from Marysville. The farther away the orchestra comes from, the}general idea is, that the better it is,These were a citified bunch of musicians. Pants white and creased. Shirts white and fresh, ties just like you see in. advertisements. They might: have stepped out of Esquire. Well, the hall was filled and everybody waiting for the orchestra, who had had a special free chicken dinner prepared for them, besides $25 apiece for playing all: night. “These dudes came in a very leisudely way and looked over the crowd with an air of a sight-seer in a museum or menagerie. Then one of them bursts out: ‘Oo! Say, fellows, look at that old billy goat with the side whiskers over there in the corner. I’ll ‘bet he’s never been out of these hills in 50 years,’’ and he pointed one of his manicured fingers right at Cy Billibee, who owns just about half the county ‘and has been around the world several times, but likes. to come back to Downieville for the friends he has there and the fishing. A “Well this bunch of silly fops burst right out’ laughing with a whee-hee-hee, and took out more time when the whole crowd was anxious to be dancing, and their antics COVERS RICHEST GOLD Nevada City Negget{z AREA IN CALIFORNIA aid eT advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. prosperity. by -subsribing to, and therefote, 7 Wol. 11, No. 55. ie County Seat Paper_ _NEVADA CITY, CAL. IFORNIA Tic Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. \ OF CAR CRASH BORNE T0 REST A triple funeral service was held in Grass Valley last Friday for Mr. and Mrs. _Asa Eddings and their daughter, Betty Jean, 7, all victims of an automobile accident near Cisco Sunday, July 4. The funeral services were private. Burial was ih the ig Ade Cemetery. oe Raymond Smith, negro’ chauffeur who was driving the automobile which crashed into the Eddings car, still is in the Sutter hospital in Sacramentt, unable to give details of the accident. Captain Joseph Blake of the California Highway Patrol said Smith will be charged with erence homicide. MARRIED IN RENO John H. Morris, Jr., of Forest and June A. Bishop of Nevada City were married in Reno on July 7. Mrs. Morris was formerly employed at the National Hotel in Nevada City. Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Hughes, parents of the bride and A. G. Tessler were in the wedding party in Reno. BANNER MT. AUXILIARY “ADOPTS” WAR VETERAN A most interesting meeting of Banner Mt. Post, V. F. W., Auxiliary was held Thursday evening when Mrs. Minnie Young, recent delegate to the encampment at Oroville gave. the highlights of the several days . meeting. It was decided at this meeting to . adopt a disabled war veteran and! the auxiliary has taken Jack Proctor . and remarks enraged the folks. Two . young huskies stepped out of the} front ranks, and one of them says: “Young fellers, cut the gab and git! to sawing them fiddles. If we amoose you it is nothin’ to the amoosement you are to us. Either git going or “The smile was wiped right off those musical mugs. They had been told where to:-head in and they headed. And they ’did not have so good a time. Usually the orchestra gets, a free supper ’round one o’clock, bet-) ter than the supper the others pay for. They lost that. Usually some big hearted hillman passes his ten. gallon hat toward sunrise and takes up a fifty dollar tip for the music-' ians.' They lost that, and also the chance of ever seeing Downieville again and being paid for it. Doubt if any of those young fellows ever ac,’ ecumulate any cash, They may inherit something maybe, but they never could make the grade, because their folks never taught ’em good manners. The passel of them, six I think it was, weren’t worth a whisker out of old Cy Billibee’s beard. “Smartalecks, when they’re young, . if they weren’t such a pest, would be . worth something just as object les. sons, to right thinking folks. But the! trouble is they never get over the} complex. They grow up that way, and their neighbors and relatives have to endure ‘em. They never learn to put themselves in other people’s shoes. Of course that is what tact is,/knowing your own self and crediting other folks with the same feelings that you have yourself. Tact I should say is the golden rule applied to smal) matters in everyday coming and goings, meetings and goodbyes. It’s a lubricant that eliminates friction in social relations, and the fellow with out it carries a heavy handicap.” President George Hallock presid-. ed at the meeting of the California . Hydraulic Miners Association held . at Auburn Saturday. Major Harris of the California . Debris Commission informally stated that wtih both the River Mines and . Omega mines assurances filed, he! knew of no obstacle in the way of . early inauguration of the project. . It was reported at the meeting} project had, progressed to the point where con-. tracts might be considered by Sept-. ember. It was also reported that the Middle Fork plans are well advanced. . The next meeting will be held on July 24 at Colfax. “to winners. 'o’clock /and a crew of men under } who is at the’ soldiers home at} ' Yountville. The lodge purchased a) dozen eard tables for their hall The auxiliary is preparing to sive . a food sale Saturday, July 17 to! raise money for their general funds! and it will be held in front of the . Alpha hardware store. . A publie card party is being ds at the home of Mrs. Howard Burr, the Rossen house near Cleland’s ser. . vice station Wednesday evenings, July 17. Mrs. Marie Haddy will as sist Mrs. Burr. Many choice ee FIRE MC COURTNEY ROAD QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED The state division of forestry at! Nevada City’s southern limits was! ealled vesterday to éxtinguish a fire . on the MeCourtney road near the) North Star mine/It was put out after burning over a half acre mostly) of pine needles. The state office also: reported two/ false alarms were sent} in. Today a/fire started in the Spence-. ville area west of Nevada City at 3 State Ranger William F. Sharp and Assistant Ranger ~~ Rickard are one, the fire lines. t flared up strongly, died down, and last reports it hadsprung up again. It seemingly is burning over grass land . and brush. A further reported was, being awaited fromthe lookout. as to condition and whethe it was neccessary to send more men into the} area. TRAFFIC CFNSUS IS. BEING TAKEN HERE Superintendent of state highways Fred Garrison for this section, has had traffic counters on reads leading into and out of ‘Nevada City Grass Valley and Downievillesince Sunday morning. The count will be up tonight at ten o'clock. This is a statewide traffic census that takes places in July each year. MINUTE MELODIES (Songsof Northern Califoinia) JULY NIGHT (Downieville) winds, have whipped The summer to creant The winding misty Milky Great. firs stand silently dream While creuching mountains kneel Way, and and pray Beside a, little starflecked stream Now aren't thesé foolish things to say? ROY GRIPFTHS DEETER. THREE VICTIMS F . are {for men and women will be awarded . . Me safety department of the Califor/nia State 'has made the following summary of . intersection ithe right. ‘driver must give a proper hand sig. LIQUOR DEALER ar . $100 FOR PUTTING GIRL. 14 AT TENDING BARi} eases oho . ' Edmund M. Joubert of the Wil. ; i low Tree on the Marysville high-. . way near Rough and Ready, . came into Judge W. L. Mobley’s . ,court today and was fined $100 . and given a 60 day suspended sen. . tence. He was arrested by Russell . B. Farley, board of equalization agent, for having a 14 year old girl bar tender. She had ‘been serv~ ing liquor three days when the ar. ! rest was made. \\ GYPSY PICNIC . AT LAKE VERA In ccelebration of the tenth annivarsary of Camp Celio, on the shores of Lake Vera, a gypsy picnic was held on July 13 with 400 people in attendance. The Oakland, Berkeley ' and Alameda Camp Fire Girls invit-' ed as their guests twenty five citiz-j ens of Nevada City who have shown! . 1 interest in Camp Celio during the 10 years of it sexistence on the lake. Among them was Mr. William B. Celio, who gave the property to the Oakland Camp Fire Girls in memory of his wife. Other guests included the girls from the three other camps on Lake Vera; Sacramento Camp Fire Girls at Mineluta, Piedmont Camp Fire Girls at Augusta, and Oakland Girl Reserves at Gold Hollow. . Celio campers, headed by Miss. Gladys Snyder, camp director, pro-. vided a gypsy supper for the entire group, while members of the other camps on. the lake entertained at three different campfires with skits and songs in keeping with the gypsy theme of the pienic. Costumes in gay and picturesque gypsy styles added eolog. and interest to the affair. WHEN YOURE RIGHT ON RIGHT-OF-WAY When do you haye the legal right lof wav? Pointing ont that manv caused by motorists unfamiliar with the right of way rules, the pubaecidents Automobile Association the state motor vehicle code on the subject. Approaching of way must be yielded which has already entered the section. Only when two cars enter an from different directions at approximately the same time is the driver on the left required to . vield the right of way to‘the car on « intersections, right . +0 any inter. ear . When intending to turn left, the the last fifty! but the actual nal continuously for feet before turning, turn cannot ‘be made unless it cau be done with reasonable safety. The person turning must yield the right of way to all oncoming traffie within the intersection or so close as to constitute an° immediate hazard. Thereafter the driver may proceed with the turn and ancoming troffic subsequently approaching the intersection must permit the turning car to pass. Upon entering an arterial or through highway, the driver must} first stop and yield the ‘right of way . to all traffic immediately approach. ing. Thereafter he may proceed and all vehicles approaching the intersection on the through highway must yield the right of way to him. Drivers entering puhlie highways from prviate roads or driveways have no right of way, but must wait until they can proceed safely. # When the driver hears the sound of a police car,.amibulance or fire

apparatus siren, he must pull over to the right as far as. possible, but clear of any intersection, and siop. Pedestrians have the right of way . within marked crosswalks or un-. marked crosswalks at the end of a/ block. Although ‘‘jaywalkers”’ do not . the right of motorisis . must use caution for their safety. hare Way, STENTS a i B: AND CONCERT Another entertaining band con-' cert will be given Wednesday night . from the National hotel baleony. A! balancing group of overtures and . marehes will be given, L. E. Sween-. similar gatherings. ey. director, and the band invites all to come out and listen. i ness and started scouting around for . another career. . "looked like the best bet, . Service family ever . Creek, on the site of after the customers’ . has been on the Auburn school board for nineteen years and chairman . member of every welfare organizaHERB COOPER’S LIFE SKETCH IN P.G E. JOURNAL in PG; ond Te Précress,”” organ of the Pacafie Gas and_ Electric company this week is an entertaining article under the title: ‘‘On the Job with the Old Timers’’ that many an old timer in Nevada County will be glad to read because it gives a life sketch of Herb Cooper, one of Nevada City’s sons. It follows: Herbert M. Cooper of Auburn, manager. of the Drum division of the P. G. and E., is the sort of man almost anyone would like to be. He is a success in an important business, a respected leader in his community, popular with old and young. It isn’t surprising that Herb is popular; he’s forever doing nice things for people, especially children, He probably won’t forgive us for even mentioning the subject, but we'll cite a couple of examples. Not long ago he heard of a schoolgirl whose, parents couldn’t buy her a! new dress for graduation. He sent her one. When the San FranciscoOakland bay. bridge was opened he was instrumental in arranging -for 55. Apburn students to come down and see it. Herb was born in 1872 in Blue Tent, Nevada county, then a bustling mining camp with 2000 inhabitants and now hardly a pinpoint on the map. He became a resident of Nevada City at the age of two and grew up in the lumber industry—his father had a lumber yard there and a sawmill at Deer Creek, twelve miles east. When seventeen, Herb, eager to begin making his own way, quit school and went to work at the btg sawmill. Soon he could run the big saws as well as,the next fellow and, fefore his’ father installed donkey engines to haul logs, mastered the difficult are of driving six oxen at a time. After six years in the woods, he was transferred to the lumber yard. in Nevada City, where he served as manager, salesman, delivery man and general handy man. Soon after his return to town he began “keeping company” with Nettie Hackley and they were married in 1898. They had a happy life togeth. 100 girls from Nevada { Satiletiotdas another is antes trees to beautify his community. And he gets a big kick out of “sticking the general office men for lunch.” SWIMMING LESSONS FOR NEVADA CITY WOMEN Verle Gray, life guard at the municipal pool, states that the first of the series of swimmig lessons for women will begin tomorrow morning. The lessons will be given from 9:30 until 11:30 in the morning, Tues-' days and Thursdays. Courts for hopscotch have been marked off near the bath change rooms and Gray announces that the tournament for girls will open at once. GIRLS’ WEEK AT CAMP PAHATSI Ten Camp Fire Girls from the Ahdenah group left Sunday for Camp Pahatsi to spend this week at camp. Miss Bonnie Flint, a member who is in training at St. Mary’”’s hospital in San Francisco is visiting her mother in Nevada City, and accompanied the girls for a two day visit, returning home today. Over City and . Grass Valley and Placer county have . enrolled for camp. The following . week will be for the Boy. Scouts. . Girls from Ahdenah group ore: . Betty Norton, Alice Norton, Marian . ‘Gwin, Billie Keller, Barbara Cain, . Betty Foote, Betty Smith, Henwood, Jean Martz and Flint. : A nomination of officers was held Friday afternoon with Miss Marian . Gwin being chosen president. Jean Martz and Barbara Cain, vice presi. dents; ;Vella Flint and Betty Nor. ton, secretaries; Alice Norton, treas. urer; Jean Martz, song leader; Lau-. ra Price and Barbara Phariss, ! scribes. An election will be held Friday, July 23. A new group of Camp Fire Girls, the Yallini Group, was organized last week. They received their phy-. sical examinations Saturday and left at noon Sunday for the camp. In! this group are Betty Lou Krough, . Sylvia Tyhurst, Marylin Lee, Mar-. ‘garet Odegaarde, Doris Rozynski andi Pauline Marshall. Vella i er until she died ‘in 19382. Two daughters—Mrs. Ww. T. Hughes of . Auburn and: Mrs. T. J. Nolan of San)! Francisco—have helped to make up, for “her, loss. ; In 1904, on the death of his fath-. er, Herb wound up the lumber busiThe electric industry . ”’ so, early he applied for a job and in the Pacifte At the a few in 1905, got it. He has been since. outset he did odd jobs for days and then was sent to Camptonville, Yuba county, to .boss a sawmill that cut lumber to maintain , the Colgate power house flume. . “In February, 1906, Herb was siven the task of building a camp and . making other preparations for the! construction of a power plant at Deer . his father’s mill. The project was suspended soon afterward, because of the San Francisco earthquake,.and he spent the next several months in Amador county cruising and buying timber for repair work on the Standard canFOR ELEANOR WILLOUGHBY ' chapter Mrs. P. E. Marshall, a new coun-' ‘sellor from Nevada City has gone to} camp and will have charge of music. and: singing. N. D. G. W. SCHOLARSHIP One of the five scholarships award. ed by the Native Daughters of the Golden West during the recent grand sessions at San Jose was awarded to Miss Eleanor Wiltloughby of Yuba City, formerly of Nevada City. Miss Willoughby is the daughter of Mrs. [. L. Putnam formerly of Nevada City. Miss Willoughby has completed one year at Mills College’ and plans to attend there next year. BIRTHDAYSII ae . . ow Send a Greeting . ™ to Your Friends. al. The following year he ran e company’s saw mill at Tiger Gree . That was Herb’s last crack at lum-. bering. In 1908 he was moved to Al-. ta, Placer county, as superintendent . of the P. G. and E. water system in that region, which supplies Auburn, ad half a dozen other towns, feeds a string of power plants and irrigates a large fruit growing area. Three years later he ‘was put in charge of the Placer district, with headquarters at Auburn. When Drum Division was established in 1921 he was appointed manager. In. this role he cares for ‘the ‘electric, gas jand water needs of Placer, Nevada and Sierra counties and part of ElDorado. Herb does a lot ibesides looking interests. He most of the time. He’s an officer or tion in the place. Through his untiring efforts for twelve years, the city: now has'a beautiful outdoor auditorium — Codpér Amphitheatre—for plays, music, festivals, rallies ‘and Our hero has several hobbies. One is collecting rocks from the nation’s JULY 12 TO JULY 18 The Nevada City Nugget has acquired a “birthday list” of several hundred Nevada City folk through the kiridness of William Tamblyn who compiled .it several years ago. The Nugget invties all those who may be interested to join its-birthday club and to bring the birthday dates of their friends, papers containing mention of happy event will be mailed to those whose birthdays fall on Monday, the day in which this feature appears, and during ~ the week, ‘ July 12th DAVID A. DANIEL July 13th MRS. THOMAS D. JONES . July 14th KARL KORP DONALD ODGERS July 17th Sacramento third with sales of $ DALE BERGER 646, July 18th KARL KOPP, SR. — Fenton vf Bob). Flemi KATIE EDDY ' . Roy Neilson of Sac JOHN C. RIEDEL ‘. week end —Happy Birthday __—_ . der street ar S 5 wie : Bak ii : 3 3 eS ' Sunday, val EGGS LANDED _in @ homemade parachute with only ‘periments in lowering supplies from : CHAUFFEUR WHO CRASHED HELD IN CUSTODY Raymond Smith, chauffeur William Williams, oil and mine bse erator, whose car allegedly collided headon into the machine of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Eddings, kiHing them and the elder of their two daughters, July 4, was brought to the sheriff’s office at Nevada City today . and then taken to Grass Valley for. the coroner’s inquest this afternoon. j Smith, who suffered a broken chin, still had bandages on his chin and forehead from the accident. He has been under guard of a deputy sheriff day and night at the Sutter hospital in Sacramento and is charg~ ed with negligent homicide. The accident occurred when with his employer he was driving from Reno, Nevada,.to San Francisco on the Auburn highway not far from Cisco, July 4 VACATION ENDED Mrs. Leland Smith, daughter, Miss Betty Smith and twin ‘eons, Warren and Leland, Jr., of thsi city — accompanied by Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. W. Willard of Auburn, returned Saturday evening from over & three weeks vacation at Ajturas wheres they visited relatives and friends. -FROMPLANEFOR. FIRE FIGHTERS When you can toss 108 eggs outof a plane and lower them 590 feet slight damage to two of the hen fruit—that’s news! Forest rangers © who are carrving on avseries of explanes to a camp of fire fighters, are sure that the old hen has not been given credit for the lopsideded ‘surdiness of her product. Not only eggs but pickles in glass jars, canned milk, and all sorts of eatables as well as tools and water were dropped by the Forest Service . last fall near Vancouver, Washington. In many parts of the western national forests package dropping from airplanes is and will continue to be a vast aid in. supplying fire fighting crews. These experiments are to determine methods and materials ‘by which supplies could be lowered by simple yet effective parachutes in regions where ground transportation has not been highly developed. The most effective so far seen to be burlap wool, sack, opened up and tied in the four corners to shrouds 17 feet long. Such a “chute’’ is very cheap, can be made in less than five minutes, can be used re peatedly and will lower about 100 pounds of some items. LIQUOR REVENUE, YEAR $8,063,990 SACRAMENTO, Jt July 12.—Sales . , of liquor excise tax stamps amount— ing to $638,910.36 during June. brought the revenue from this source of state income up to $8,063,990.56 . for the last fiscal year, fhe state board of equalization announced. The income from the excise tax amounted to $638,910 last month, an increase of 14.81 per cent over that of the same month of the previous year. The total for the fiscal year was 9.97 per cent above that of the previous 12 month period. Records of the board revealed that the tax on distilled spirits, collected by meats of stamps at the rate of . 80 cents a gallon, has netted the — state a total of $15,396,980 since isk inception in 1935. : As in previous months, slog half of the stamp sales were made in the Los Angeles district with a total of $270,310. San Francisco wag seeond with $191,208 during June, an