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June 15, 1934 (8 pages)

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4 This is Nevada scribe for it? ONLY Hometown Newspaper. I¢ supports things worth while. Do you subCity’s . Vol. VIII, No. V2 The County Seat Paper NEV * 7 O a ate —"s Os = Z Newspaper Publishers Association . fd ooet i. Your Hometown Newspaper helps build your community. Readers: and advertisers make it a . . good builder. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934 ADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ “Black Rock To Vote On Dam Bonds--And Say ~ Talk About Pre _ “Hey! Hey! Look what you're . bonds for the purpose of conrstructthrowing away,’ said one miner to}ing a debris dam on the South Yuba! nother, working along the sluice} river. boxes on the Omega gravel mine. The date for the bond election is With that he picked up a nugget;set for July 5 and voting will take weighing 2 ounces: which his com-. place in the house of Claude Clark. panion had just thrown out of the Election officials consist of 'W. re. sluice box’along with a fork full of . Taylor, inspector, and Arthur iW. coarse gravel. a4 An examination of the sluice boxes followed and a nice handful of nuggets were recovered, one weighing three ounces, which is a beauty, and another weighing one and a half ounces, along with smaller gobs of Sold that ranged from $5 in value upward. Arthur Hoge was showiny to friends yesterday some of these high powered nuggets. The Omega property, owned by the Hoge interests, is of the largest gravel property in the Black Rock Placer Mining district. This district is now preparing to issue $200,000 in Hoge and Frank Hoge, judges. The Black Rock is the first mining district in California to avail itself of the new law legalizing the formaalong the line other for some tion of such districts of lighting, highway and brovement districts, which years have been successfully organized and operated in California. Fourteen men are now em ployed in the Omega sawmill which is preparing timbers. for mine operations and will be ready to Provide the necessary lumber for the construction of the debris dam in the South Yuba, if and when authorized. im= { i] PERSONAL MENTION t Mr. A. Tobiassen, who has been seriously ill, is somewhat better today. Mr. and Mrs. William Eden ana son, Robert, of Death Valley, are . visiting Mr. Eden’s parents,.Mr. and: Mrs. Charles Eden, in Idian Flat. F. F. Breese is Painting the front . of his home and plumbing shop oni Commercial street, adding much tu the appearance of. his property. Fred Searls, who hasbeen in the . Nevada City district for several days, . spent a short time in San Francisco , and returned to Nevada City Thurs, day morning. . A nine pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dunn Thursday morning,,at the home of Mrs. Ww. G. . Perry. Son and mother are doing . nicely. A baby girl, Sheron Lee, arrived Tuesday, June 12, at noon to: bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth . Bannock. Dr. B. W. Hummelt was the attending physician. : Albert Pratti, while working ati Parson's Nursery Wednesday mor-} ning, run a pitch fork tine into his . hand. Dr. B. W. Hummelt disin=. fected ang dressed the injury. Mr. and Mrs. Orlando McCraney ' N. A. Tobiassen, father of C. will today attend the graduation of . their son, Thomas, in the chapel of . Ithe wound, jat the county } is survived by one lof Sacramento. suicide by setting off a charge of dynimite recently, near Forest Hill, was known in the Nevada City — district. A little over a year ago he was investigating properties here. Robert Grant, Jr., son. of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant, of Nevada City, cut his thumb on a butcher knife Wednesday morning. De-B8 WwW. Hummelt took five stitches to close In a letter written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Perry, in the last few days, Wesley Perry told them of attending a three day convention at the Home of the Blind at Ogden. He had a fine time and stated there were some present from the state of Pennsylvania and many other states. Wesleywill spend the summer in Salt Lake City. FUNERAL SERVICES — _ FOR GIACOMS SAVORA Funeral services were held Thursday for Giacomo Savora, a native of Italy, aged 53 years, who had died hospital on Monday morning after a prolonged illness. He sister, Mrs. Albert gets!! ‘CONVERSATION HALTS . I 1] WHEN LIGHTNING HITS” Chester Scheemer, of the Plaza . i. } Grocery, was standing at the eortwo other during the las; '. ner of the building, and talking to . men, lightits bolt of power thunder storm. <A ning Hit the tall pole flash. His acquaintances quit in i) middle of a sentence, ran for their ll cars and it Sacramento . I street. They were only a than the lightning itself. . . . Apparently they did not believe . . adage that il never strikes. twice in the 1. . place.” tee wires with a blinding two }. if . t . . . . beat up . . slower i . . . . . “cc the old SCOUTS HUSTLE CAMP PAHATSI INTO READINESS This week preparations for Scouts and Cubs summer camp at Kilborn Lake near Soda Swrings, assumes greater activity. Nine worked on the camp road -and miscellaneous projects last week end. Wednesday, W. H. Holmes, of Roseville, H. Campbell, of Penryn and R. Ebbert, of Auburn, starteq work on kitchen fixtures in the lodge, road work and. oil house. June 17th is the Eagle Scout picnic with friends and parents: at Camp Pahatsi. The Eagles have made this a work day. for camp and the project they have undertaken is to clear the ground and start the foundation for the future handicraft and museum lodge. They expect at least 30 workers. Other friends of Scouting and Scout parents also have indicated their intengion of putting in a few “licks’’ for camp-thesame. day. ~ attendance at Summer Point to the largest Scout camp of three yet for Tahoe Area Council. Reg trations have and 9 more Planning to. Last Sunday looked over Kilborn Lake. of these were Camp Roseville, Placer and Nevada county two weeks starting after Scout camp July. 29. : $$ %__ TWO HUNDRED CAMP FIRE GIRLS COMING CITY POOL ATOP GOLD IN WALLS, Hd } front of them and glanced off the . the . j little . . ti lightning . same . . Estimates by the seoutmasters in . 1 ! . . ; Vating for the bigs plunge, about 40° visitors . nes W. Twenty. S¢hools of Yuba county, Mr, Fire Girls of; Osuna, 5 who plan to attend the } Union high school and Yuba county Camp;{JuUnior College, and Miss Lesta H. Fire Girls camp at Camp Pahatsi, for! Joubert, student at the University of . California. . GOLD 1. 1 4 Nevada City is Out Swimming really upon gold. Cipal x, ago while excapool, Contractor ©. Soda, a‘few days to a_ gold ledge. Councilman Ben Hall made some Panning tests that! show, in his own language, a “sood prospect.”’ Another. mining expert, who owns property in the vicinity of founded 4 at the new muni-} ! j } I { . . } . ripped in-} . the municipal park, assayed the ! honey-comb quartz, a specimen of Which is in the window of the Neé-. vada City Nugget, and this assay re. vealed a “fine Prospect.’’ Neither of them, it seems, tive assay of the rock. Not only is the swimming pool located right on top of a gold ledge, but the very walls are being fillea with gold bearing quartz. For the rock mixture that foes into the cement is from the North Star dump and much of it Carries gold values. Thus it is that Nevada City’s. swimming pool will be unique among the thousands of pools in California, for its literally floored and walled with Sold bearing rock, and is built over a gold vein. Just by way of encouragement to the boys and girls, the young and old, who look forward to a plunge in the pool on the Fourth, the Nugget Was again assured today that the Pool would be completed by that date. . Throng Attends Wedding Commencement Ceremony CAMPTONVILLE, June 10.—The auditorium of the local Masonic hall was filled to Capacity Saturday evening when 500. people coming from miles around gathered to participate {in the commencement exercises of the Camptonville Union grammar school and the Camptonville branch weeks; Of the Marysville Union high school, . is-; and the wedding ceremony of James increased materially; L. Jeffrey and Miss Mabel Geraldine this week, with Troop No. 19, of Au. Beach. burn, having a total of 10 registered . Brief addresses were made on the commencement program by Mrs. Ag-! Meade, superintendent jot Pedro director of /the Marysville Miss Silver of Marysville, played a flute solo. As soon as the exercises were over, the strains of Lohongrin’s wedding march beckoned the bridal procession, and James Lowe Jeffrey and Miss Mabel Geraldine Beach were obtained a quantita. amember of Cort County Foresters. Mr. Savora was Stanford University; where: the an-. ‘ = Cristofer; Nevada nual graduation exercises are held. T! ; ; a ted : te nals te funeral services were conducter Walter Carlson, Principal of the ; ~. by the Foresters at Holmes Funeral Washington grammar school, has! pices oe : . Parlors yesterday at 3:30 p. m. ‘Mr. left this city for Arcata, Humboldt Ps 5 Savora has resided inthis county for ta br Railroad has procured two coaches to} fire united in Marriage by Justice of the Peace Acton M. Cleveland. Following the ceremony the bride and groom led the grand march around the hall and an all night benefit dance for the high school was enjoyed, dancThe Nevada County Narrow Gauge ke the place of those destroyed by ; last year. They were used to ing -in130 Camp Fire girls that in " Darke county, where'he will spend his yva-} au . 29 years and was highly esteemed Saree ee had many friends in the Italian Fish are still biting well, BOOT lane: : ing to Donald Budi, who: eaught 22) x
in Deer Creek and on the stream . i near the Gold Run bridge, last Tues-! day: ; . Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Searls, of the . bay region, are spending a few d Nevada City visitine Fred ays . with his . old . Mrs. Searls, who the mother, spending Summer in her home Mr. and Mrs. Clay Apperson and . SOm and her mother, Mrs. Charles . Guenther; spent Wednesday in Sac-! ramento and Vacaville. At Vaca:. ville Mr. Apperson visited an aunt . who is ill. \ R. CC. Hisenhauer, engineer in charge of the Alaska mine, passed throuzh Nevada City Tuesday en-; route to the mine from his home in Berkeiey. Mesiames Nellie Clarke, Annie : William Davey, and Ida Sweeney, ‘as delegates from Laurel: Patlor, N. D. G. W., are leaving Sunday to attend Grand Parlor at Santa Cruz Mr. John Darke will motor to Santa Cruz with the ladies. i Harry E. Bolton, of Nevada City, and brother-in-law, Ted Sinnock, of Colfax, motored to Gustine Sunday and returned with Mr. Bolton’s ; mother who will visit. here. for a} time Bs Mis» Kitty Kimball returned Tues. . day evening from as-visit with oS) and Mrs. Corley and Major Hoepner near Brownsville, Butte county. The Corieys and Major Hoepner own . a fine zold bearing gravel property. . John P. ‘Sallee,’ who committed :Of the vein with a stronger showing MRS. FARMER TO PREACH SUNDAY AT M. E. CHURCH and Mrs. H. H. Buekner attending the Methodist at the College of the Pacifie in Stockton and will return about the middle of next week. Mrs. Farmey, sister oF Ww Tamblyn, of this city, will fill the Methodist church pulpit next Sunday. She is a native of Nevada City and her many friends will enjoy hearing her sermon, Rey. are conference HUSSEY DEVELOPMENT INDICATES STRONG VEIN Operations are proceeding steadily at. the Hussey mine of West Mines Corporation with interesting condi. . i . } { . tions developing in the bottom level. Indications point to a consolidation Sinking to Planned. below the present level. determine this feature is raising fre Drifting and proceeding Steadily with the production being . treated at the company’s mill west . of town, j aUemaeeenaenceriee eas ef FAHOE CIPY. June 14-— a4 new . vein is being worked this week at/. the Tahoe mine’ above Quail Lake. Hight men have been added to the . crew and a cyanide plant is being inStalled. : came Wednesday and 76 are coming Saturday from the broad gauge depot-at Colfax. The girls Wednesday were from Piedmont, California and eoming Saturday will be from land. Miss Rupert has here several days preparing the those OakRhea been on Lake Vera for thenr. Snyder and group of councilors have been .at Camp Celio for several days and the camp is almost ready. -/RENO MAN PURCHASES — . SMITH’S CABINET SHOP. ' camp Miss Gladys . ‘ing to the strains of the Marysville i Union h igh school orchestra. FH . Wyoming Tribe Assists Initiation i } . . t Red Men went Monday eveWyoming Tribe of 0 Grass’ Valley. last ning: and initiated six candidates for . } Weimer i I i galia. € € Tribe, Twenty-five »€YS were present from Nevada Cty neluding the drill team in full Grand Sachem George Smith of San Jose, was present for the most njoyable evening. memre~A delegation of the Wyoming R. C. Rodgers. of Reno, has purTribe.-is going to Lincoln next Monchased the cabinet shop of J. L,(@ay to attend the meeting of the CenSmith, 220 Commercial street. Mr. tral California Red Men's AssociaRodgers has had long experience in . t1onIn the election of officers last carpentry and contracting, and will bring his family here as soon as property interests in Nevada can be adjusted. Mr. Smith expects to devote himself at present to his mining interests. ae SCOUT FINDS GOOD JOB. Thursday, the following were chosen for the coming term: . Charles Eiiott, Prophet; Ernest Briesbil, Sachem; Fred Deal, Senior Sagamore; Darrell Moody, Junior Sagamore; George Gildersleeve, Chief of Records; Will James, Collector of Wampve pum; George Falmbigl, Keeper. of Albert Pratti, Junior Assistant Wampum, Scout Master, of the Boy Scouts, seInstallation will take place at a happy over it. Miller I cured work at Parson's Nursery meeting in July. They are to be inabout two hours after a story appear-. stalled by District Deputy Great Saced-in the Nugget Monday evening, hem Steven Trathen, of Grass Valasking that work be given boys in ley. . order that they could earn enough SH !money to attend summer camp at Mrs. Henry Schroeder, who after a 'Lake Kilborne. The work wil} last . Serious illness early in the year, has for’ several days and he is quite} been living with her sister, Mrs. F. in Grass Valley, has opened 1er home on Prospect Hill and will eK Mrs. Emina Foley has returned reside there until she further regains from a visit with her sister, Mrs. her stréngth, when she plans to take Joseph Ryan; in Reno, Nevada. a trip. A . . . i i t { v YOUNG Republican Candidate for Governor, who will visit Nevada City and Grass Valley next Wednesday afternoon. Next Thursday he will call at Dow ville, Truckee, Tahoe City and return to Sacramento. FORMER GOV. CG. ©. Former Gov. Young . _ Te Visit Nevada City Southern California, where all his former admirers and Supporters are. rallying to his banner, the sbduth, tours ‘and Calaveras counties. Stockton calling at and at noon will lunch‘at Auburn. He He will visit Colfax in the afternoon, be Nevada City’s Zuest mentioned above, and drive Valley for dinner where he will meet the County. Young wilt next Wednesday af’ Governor C. . AY sit Nevada ternoon between 3:40and 4:15." He desires to meet as many Nevada City voters as possible in the brief time al. lotted him: by his field representative, . Robert Ge, Alderman, who was in Ne{ vada City yesterday making arrange: ments. Young is now campaigning in he returns from Tuolumne, Amador He will leave early Wednesday morning, rious towns along the route, Early next week during the hours to Grass tepublican leadership of Nevada nieville, Sierra City, Satlee, SierraWhat Would The Fourth — Be Without Columbia? ee eccemnes This is a story for girls, pretty girls, plain girls, ambitious girls, thin girls and stout girls, girls blonde as Elaine, girls brunette as Carmen, girls tall and girls short, solemn girls or giggling girls: Now. do_listen girls, for it is-really Fred Conner, chairman of Nevada City’s’ Fourth of July Parade Committee, who is addressing . you through the medium of this Nugget. . No parade since the days of “Forty Nine,’ has been a real parade unless Columbia has sat enthronea and moved with regal splendor down Broad street or up Commercial, as the case might be. Now (Fred Coner js speaking again) with the full commendation of the Fourth of July Committee ot which Frank Finnegan is chairman, a plan has been evolved for choosing Columbia this year among Nevada City’s host of attractive girls: “In years agone elections were held as a money raising stunt. Sentiments. were all smeared with commercialism. the most votes got the office of Columbia. Other methods,’ mostly Our patriotic : over } The girl with . office of Columbia on July ‘Fourth either at the Grass Valley Union office or the Nevada City Nugget of' fice. And that will be all she has to do, until one day during the last of June all the candidates registered will be called together and under the expert eye of three judges, will hold a grand coin matching contest. They will sit around a table and match coins, heads or tales, until all l pa one is eliminated, and that girl ‘will be Columbia: on July Fourth. . She will. have provided for her a . beautiful fSown, a beautiful crown, 2 beautiful throne and a beautiful ve-° hecle‘or float, and as many beautiful i Princesses in Waiting as there are /among the candidates who lost out in the coin matching. For when all is said and done, , every girl will agree with Fred Con‘ner, that matching coins is the grand 'old Forty Niner and American way of settling all matters concerning which there may be doubts of any kind. . Now, all that the girls need to remember in this contest, is their own tainted with the same mmercial. : S a 60 Crete) :@ges’and these are very important ism, were used, and all but one of: “ : : i dates, June 16 to June 26, Me’ whichthe dear youg things were disap; oe : : all candidates must register. pointed. ; ; de But this is the year of sweetness : and light and the New Deal. ' . . ceived with . Night in June” (serenade) ; and, mark the parallel ere, ‘between the dates. June 16 and June 26, may enter her candidacy for the THRONGS ENJOY HIGH SCHOOL BAND CONCERT From the National Hotel baleony at eight o’clock Wednesday night, the high school band delivered a fine rethe They were pleasure by numbers. much listeners assembled below: sroup. of The musicians played the fellowing pieces: ‘Parade of the Guards,’’ {march), ‘‘Ocean Waves’’ (waltz); “Dawn in the Forest” (overture) ; “Dull Razor .Blades”’ (fantasy); “A “Great Northwest” (overture); “Trombone Troubles” ang “Pride of the Land” (march). The concert was conducted by Mr. L. E. Sweeney with his usual verve and vigor. * WwW INS FISHING BETS Dick Lane, who conducts the mechanical part of the Plaza Garage, holds the record for the best fisherman in the district so far ag ascertainable, with 325 trout caught. so far this season, in limits. He has won two wagers totaling $6 from envious and skeptical friends. ah. A mezzine floor was completed ‘in the Racket Store Saturday. The pro-prietors, Mr. and Mrs. H. RB. Bolton, have moved their office upstairs, Any . sirl between the ages of 16 and 26,1 BELOVED WOMAN . BORNETO REST Funeral services were conducted — Wednesday afternoon at the Trinity Episcopal church for the late Mrs. A. Hartung, The church was filled with sorrowine relatives and friends, . who paid tribute to one of Nevada . City’s best loved ‘women, Members of Trinity Guild, Native Daughters ;and Eastern Star, of which she was a member, were present. Masses of beautiful flowers gave i; mute testimony of the sincere love jand esteem in Which Mrs, Hartung . was held in this community. Rev. Charles E, Washburn delivered a simple, touching eulogy. The . Holmes Funeral Home conducted the ‘funeral arrangements. : Interment was made in . Pine Grove cemetery with the following acting as pall bearers: R. L. P. Bigelow, P. G. Scadden, James F. Colley, John O'Neill; James Penrose and A. & W. Hoge. NO LIQUOR, OR JAIL, FOR THIS WIFE BEATER Tuesday morning Judge, W. L. Mobley, sentenced Walter Shepher, Who lives near the Pine Products plant, to 90. days in jail for wife beating. Deputy Sheriff Jack Net‘tle arrested him on. complaint of hiswife. ‘Sentence was suspended on — condition that he would refrain ‘from. the use of liquor and conduct. him. self as a law abiding citizen,