June 19, 1936 (8 pages)

PAGE TWO CITY NUGCET » NEVADA = — SOS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. Se i i i i i ie a ee a ~PARENTS—WAKE. UP! 305 Bread Street. Phone 36 ¢ A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published ‘ at Nevasla City. Peg, Reema iC SCR ae rea Oe IRE NDR aaeN) Eddtor and Publisher H, M.: LEETE Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matter of the second-class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, A a -Nevada-City Nugget aks . ss \ Pp 1879. 7 d SUBSCRIPTION RATES : : : . ‘ ay One year: (In Advance) ..2.. POAT $2.50 F a H i nd , : History Speaks : . . , (Contributed) ! In these days when partisan argument is filling the air with a blue haze of verbiage, men ought to remember that there is still one place they can get the truth. History, unprejudiced ‘and factual, is speak to any who will listen. : Someone shouts for this or that. Is:it good or bad? Whatever it is, history will have a verdict on its past success or failure. There are few things new under the sun. For example many people believe that the Single Tax, which will be on California's ballot in November, has never been tried, just because it has never been enacted anywhere nthe United States. Yet it has been tried, in Canada almost three decades always there to ia @ PANS PINTO ago where, of course, it failed miserably. The provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the cities of Edmonton and Vancouver got into financial messes with it, and by 1918 ‘were forced to return to sane tax methods. Professor A. B. Clark of the University of Manitoba later summed up the experience thus: “Generally speaking, throughout the municipalities of the three provinc2s wheze the Single Tax experiment has been tried, the result has been the same; a hasty adoption of the Single Tax policy—voluntarily or under legislative compulsion—during the years of real estate inflation, followed by the rapid contraction and disappearance of land values in 1913-14 and the accumulation of tax arrears and of debts.”’ “That is the verdict of history. It is to be hoped that California will heed, and that men will not forget, in these argumentative times, that the most reliable informant in all things —is history. DISPLAY AT NATIONAL HOTEL The National Hotel in Nevada City has'a displaay of several old registers, in the lobby, that are quite incarries a “Strangers Guide to Leading Business Houses in Nevada City.”” Among names listed are many prominent ones some being A. W. Lester and Co., George W. Kidd & Co., Banner Bros., Charles Ferrand, R:. M. Hunt; M. D., Dr. A. Chapman; William Holmes, J. I. Caldwell, ete. The other side of the page carries names of hotel guests. This famous old hotel has sheltered and fed many famous men and women over a long period of years. Grass Valley . . Miss Barbara Dell of Clearlake The studio that satisfies, Good . Highlands. Lake county,’ is visiting 107 her school:chum, Miss Dorreen ForeMill St. : j Mill photos at reasonable prices—no guess work. 8-hour Kodak finish; : in Lake county with her parents before moving to Nevada City, and the Pee a 44, Sirls are having a fine visit. ing service. <— ao © om 6 6 s b& & = = 4 teresting. A large volume of 1869 } man of this city. Miss Foreman lived . REV. BUCKNER RETURNED Of 143 appointments made to the charges in four districts’at’ttié close of the 84th California Annual Conference of the Methodist church at Stockton in the last few days, Rev. H.”°H. Buckner of this city, was returned to the local pulpit. He has served faithfully in the local Methodist church at least 12 years. Mrs. Buckner also takes a deep interest in the work of the church and has served as president of the Missionary societies for several terms, resigning this spring after a successpeut term as president of the general aid society. The Mattie Mine on Deadman’s Flat southwest of Grass Valley, was reopened last week. Bert C. Austin, engineer of San Francisco, is backing the property which has been’ closed for about a year. Mr. Maguire of Grass Valley is superin. mining ANOTHER SQUAWK Grass Valley, Calif., 6-18-36. The Nevada City Nugget. Sir: I hope you will allow me a little space in your paper to relate some unreasonable Czaristic methods of the local director of the National Re-employment Service. . This fellow, without reason or regard for anyone else, applies his methods in a fashion that would indicate he was taking a correspondence course from Mussolini of Faseist Italy. I was employed ona WPA project, a new service, recently established in this county, making concrete “units” for outdoor sanitary toilets. I began at this work last April, with the understanding that if I qualified after a reasonable period of apprenticeship I would be entitled to the regular rate of wages ($55.00 per month of 120 hours) which is being paid for this class of work. \I was recently told that I would begin receiving $55.00 per month beginning with the 21st instant. But in the meantime the local Czar, entrusted with the directorship of NRS for this county sent me word to come before his throne immediately, but instead, I finished my~day’s work, that day, the 11st inst. and then went before his throne. He began with the process of transferring my. name, etc., from one card to another, and explained that that was being done in order to put all those previously registered on new cards. This was explained to me in such a cunning way that I almost the typewriter operator to have her make out my new work order to transfer me to the grammar school work on the concrete gang wheeling gravel to thé mixer. Before I started to sign my new work order I attempted to explain my situation, but . he again employed ‘his Czaristic method, and told me that I would have to accept that or be dropped. As it happens there are bigger and stronger men on the project I-was working on than myself. And me being a runt, weighing, only . 130 pounds, and considering the advantheard a fox’ bark. Then he went tol sink to lower. Ievels FOURTH CELEBRATION GEORGETOWN (EI Dorado Co.), June 19.—Georgetown celebrates the Fourth and honors its pioneers with . a. big two day celebration on July 4 and 5, This is the first event of its kind here, and alsd is the first town celebration to be held since 1910. There will be a parade on July a queen. The queen is being chosen by popular vote and the contest is centering about four lovely young girls. rea Features of baseball game with Vallejo on the Fourth. and another game on the ‘fifth, old fashioned sports of all kinds, including a greased pig, greased pole, races for everyones and all with cash prizes. Georgetown was settled in 1850, and is a quaint old mining town where the past is rapidly being forgotten in the mining boom of the present. WESTERN MERGER PROPERTY It is reported a good ledge containing rich ore has been encountered in prospecting on the old Western Merger ground north of Nevada City, which is owned by the Davis Brothers. About eight years ago Mr. A. A. Codd and several other mining men shrunk a shaft and took out splendid ore for some time on this property Unfortunately in following this ledge at the old site they came to their boundary line and larger mining machinery was needed to causing the property to be closed. It is thought the new site will give sufficient ground for extensive development and mining. he blindly went about with — his bunglind method regardless of. the consequences. He proved his bungling method by placing a new man to fill in on the project he transferred me from,, For such inconsistent, age I was entitled to after my apprenticeship, he picks me out for a. heavy job and gives a bigger and stronger man the job Ihad. Without consulting my foreman, myself or anyone else as to ascertain which would be the one that the foreman could let go with the least disadtendent. vatitage* to the project, but instead unreasonable methods, no doubt all his own, he receives a handsome salary. No doubt that Roosevyelt’s good intentions were, and are; that the various, projects should be run with the least possible amount of friction consistent with the maximum amount of efficiency. ANTON BUTCH. rr y, LE Lanna PIONEER CELEBRATION GEORGETOWN, EL DORADO COUNTY ~ JULY 4-5 Free Barbecue mtd Dancing: Sports Baseball Parade at 11 a. m. July 4 COME TO THE MOUNTAINS FOR A COOL FOURTH GOOD ROADS BEAUTIFUL SCENERY a eee de dina Geis ie ie eee Le Le Le LOLS Le Le LeeLee LeeLee LeeLee Mawel Beall Bema Heel Weel Based Boe! decd Bead Seed Mees’ Wand Boece Weel Boo Henll Hench Yea Hoel Deed Bead Peo” Bio bo Vb bn NEVADA CITY NUGGET PROVERB CONTEST FUN FOR ALL AND (Canterbury @ SAN FRANCISCO'S distinctive downtown hotel where elegance combines with : economy. Rooms are comfortably furnished, all with bath and shower. Convenient to shopi. ping district and theatres. i! Excellent meals at moderate cost. {1 Each week for The Nevada City of a series of some well known Recs low the pictures. or near complete } year subscription Nugget. The only downtown hotel with iF a beautiful private garden, = picture, . . . [email protected] 3 One Person $379 Persons $400. 3 FREE GARAGE _ 0 TRANSIENT GUESTS ele . 750 SUTTER: STREET Between Taylor and Jones best set. pencil, printed or First Prize Second Prize Third Prize CONTEST RULES cartoons Contestants solve the picture puzzles by writing the proverb that the cartoon suggests or illusrates in the blanks beThe prizes, totaling $10 in cash, wili be awarded those sending in complete best and most appropriate answers to . the pictures published; and either pay. ing their own subscription fér a period of one year or securing one new oneCartoons should not be sent to the papér' until the series is complete, Only one answer may be given to a Only one member of a family will be given a prize, the award going to the berson in that family submitting the The answers may be written in pen, PRIZE LIST a period of six“weeks Nugget will print one representing proverb’ or saying. picture sets with the to The Nevada City typewritten. ee $5.00 in Cash $3.00 in Cash $2.00 in Cash SIO INCASH TO THE CLEVER WINNERS! ~ PROVERB NO. 4 : GEORGETOWN TO HOLD = 4 at 11 a. m. which will be lead by: -° the celebration will FO include a free barbecue, dancing, a r

PAGE TWO CITY NUGCET » NEVADA = — SOS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. Se i i i i i ie a ee a ~PARENTS—WAKE. UP! 305 Bread Street. Phone 36 ¢ A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published ‘ at Nevasla City. Peg, Reema iC SCR ae rea Oe IRE NDR aaeN) Eddtor and Publisher H, M.: LEETE Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matter of the second-class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, A a -Nevada-City Nugget aks . ss \ Pp 1879. 7 d SUBSCRIPTION RATES : : : . ‘ ay One year: (In Advance) ...2... POAT $2.50 F a H i nd , : History Speaks : . . , (Contributed) ! In these days when partisan argument is filling the air with a blue haze of verbiage, men ought to remember that there is still one place they can get the truth. History, unprejudiced ‘and factual, is speak to any who will listen. : Someone shouts for this or that. Is:it good or bad? Whatever it is, history will have a verdict on its past success or failure. There are few things new under the sun. For example many people believe that the Single Tax, which will be on California's ballot in November, has never been tried, just because it has never been enacted anywhere nthe United States. Yet it has been tried, in Canada almost three decades always there to ia @ PANS PINTO ago where, of course, it failed miserably. The provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the cities of Edmonton and Vancouver got into financial messes with it, and by 1918 ‘were forced to return to sane tax methods. Professor A. B. Clark of the University of Manitoba later summed up the experience thus: “Generally speaking, throughout the municipalities of the three provinc2s wheze the Single Tax experiment has been tried, the result has been the same; a hasty adoption of the Single Tax policy—voluntarily or under legislative compulsion—during the years of real estate inflation, followed by the rapid contraction and disappearance of land values in 1913-14 and the accumulation of tax arrears and of debts.”’ “That is the verdict of history. It is to be hoped that California will heed, and that men will not forget, in these argumentative times, that the most reliable informant in all things —is history. DISPLAY AT NATIONAL HOTEL The National Hotel in Nevada City has'a displaay of several old registers, in the lobby, that are quite incarries a “Strangers Guide to Leading Business Houses in Nevada City.”” Among names listed are many prominent ones some being A. W. Lester and Co., George W. Kidd & Co., Banner Bros., Charles Ferrand, R:. M. Hunt; M. D., Dr. A. Chapman; William Holmes, J. I. Caldwell, ete. The other side of the page carries names of hotel guests. This famous old hotel has sheltered and fed many famous men and women over a long period of years. Grass Valley . . Miss Barbara Dell of Clearlake The studio that satisfies, Good . Highlands. Lake county,’ is visiting 107 her school:chum, Miss Dorreen ForeMill St. : j Mill photos at reasonable prices—no guess work. 8-hour Kodak finish; : in Lake county with her parents before moving to Nevada City, and the Pee a 44, Sirls are having a fine visit. ing service. <— ao © om 6 6 s b& & = = 4 teresting. A large volume of 1869 } man of this city. Miss Foreman lived . REV. BUCKNER RETURNED Of 143 appointments made to the charges in four districts’at’ttié close of the 84th California Annual Conference of the Methodist church at Stockton in the last few days, Rev. H.”°H. Buckner of this city, was returned to the local pulpit. He has served faithfully in the local Methodist church at least 12 years. Mrs. Buckner also takes a deep interest in the work of the church and has served as president of the Missionary societies for several terms, resigning this spring after a successpeut term as president of the general aid society. The Mattie Mine on Deadman’s Flat southwest of Grass Valley, was reopened last week. Bert C. Austin, engineer of San Francisco, is backing the property which has been’ closed for about a year. Mr. Maguire of Grass Valley is superin. mining ANOTHER SQUAWK Grass Valley, Calif., 6-18-36. The Nevada City Nugget. Sir: I hope you will allow me a little space in your paper to relate some unreasonable Czaristic methods of the local director of the National Re-employment Service. . This fellow, without reason or regard for anyone else, applies his methods in a fashion that would indicate he was taking a correspondence course from Mussolini of Faseist Italy. I was employed ona WPA project, a new service, recently established in this county, making concrete “units” for outdoor sanitary toilets. I began at this work last April, with the understanding that if I qualified after a reasonable period of apprenticeship I would be entitled to the regular rate of wages ($55.00 per month of 120 hours) which is being paid for this class of work. \I was recently told that I would begin receiving $55.00 per month beginning with the 21st instant. But in the meantime the local Czar, entrusted with the directorship of NRS for this county sent me word to come before his throne immediately, but instead, I finished my~day’s work, that day, the 11st inst. and then went before his throne. He began with the process of transferring my. name, etc., from one card to another, and explained that that was being done in order to put all those previously registered on new cards. This was explained to me in such a cunning way that I almost the typewriter operator to have her make out my new work order to transfer me to the grammar school work on the concrete gang wheeling gravel to thé mixer. Before I started to sign my new work order I attempted to explain my situation, but . he again employed ‘his Czaristic method, and told me that I would have to accept that or be dropped. As it happens there are bigger and stronger men on the project I-was working on than myself. And me being a runt, weighing, only . 130 pounds, and considering the advantheard a fox’ bark. Then he went tol

sink to lower. Ievels FOURTH CELEBRATION GEORGETOWN (EI Dorado Co.), June 19.—Georgetown celebrates the Fourth and honors its pioneers with . a. big two day celebration on July 4 and 5, This is the first event of its kind here, and alsd is the first town celebration to be held since 1910. There will be a parade on July a queen. The queen is being chosen by popular vote and the contest is centering about four lovely young girls. rea Features of baseball game with Vallejo on the Fourth. and another game on the ‘fifth, old fashioned sports of all kinds, including a greased pig, greased pole, races for everyones and all with cash prizes. Georgetown was settled in 1850, and is a quaint old mining town where the past is rapidly being forgotten in the mining boom of the present. WESTERN MERGER PROPERTY It is reported a good ledge containing rich ore has been encountered in prospecting on the old Western Merger ground north of Nevada City, which is owned by the Davis Brothers. About eight years ago Mr. A. A. Codd and several other mining men shrunk a shaft and took out splendid ore for some time on this property Unfortunately in following this ledge at the old site they came to their boundary line and larger mining machinery was needed to causing the property to be closed. It is thought the new site will give sufficient ground for extensive development and mining. he blindly went about with — his bunglind method regardless of. the consequences. He proved his bungling method by placing a new man to fill in on the project he transferred me from,, For such inconsistent, age I was entitled to after my apprenticeship, he picks me out for a. heavy job and gives a bigger and stronger man the job Ihad. Without consulting my foreman, myself or anyone else as to ascertain which would be the one that the foreman could let go with the least disadtendent. vatitage* to the project, but instead unreasonable methods, no doubt all his own, he receives a handsome salary. No doubt that Roosevyelt’s good intentions were, and are; that the various, projects should be run with the least possible amount of friction consistent with the maximum amount of efficiency. ANTON BUTCH. rr y, LE Lanna PIONEER CELEBRATION GEORGETOWN, EL DORADO COUNTY ~ JULY 4-5 Free Barbecue mtd Dancing: Sports Baseball Parade at 11 a. m. July 4 COME TO THE MOUNTAINS FOR A COOL FOURTH GOOD ROADS BEAUTIFUL SCENERY a eee de dina Geis ie ie eee Le Le Le LOLS Le Le LeeLee LeeLee LeeLee Mawel Beall Bema Heel Weel Based Boe! decd Bead Seed Mees’ Wand Boece Weel Boo Henll Hench Yea Hoel Deed Bead Peo” Bio bo Vb bn NEVADA CITY NUGGET PROVERB CONTEST FUN FOR ALL AND (Canterbury @ SAN FRANCISCO'S distinctive downtown hotel where elegance combines with : economy. Rooms are comfortably furnished, all with bath and shower. Convenient to shopi. ping district and theatres. i! Excellent meals at moderate cost. {1 Each week for The Nevada City of a series of some well known Recs low the pictures. or near complete } year subscription Nugget. The only downtown hotel with iF a beautiful private garden, = picture, . . . [email protected] 3 One Person $379 Persons $400. 3 FREE GARAGE _ 0 TRANSIENT GUESTS ele . 750 SUTTER: STREET Between Taylor and Jones best set. pencil, printed or First Prize Second Prize Third Prize CONTEST RULES cartoons Contestants solve the picture puzzles by writing the proverb that the cartoon suggests or illusrates in the blanks beThe prizes, totaling $10 in cash, wili be awarded those sending in complete best and most appropriate answers to . the pictures published; and either pay. ing their own subscription fér a period of one year or securing one new oneCartoons should not be sent to the papér' until the series is complete, Only one answer may be given to a Only one member of a family will be given a prize, the award going to the berson in that family submitting the The answers may be written in pen, PRIZE LIST a period of six“weeks Nugget will print one representing proverb’ or saying. picture sets with the to The Nevada City typewritten. ee $5.00 in Cash $3.00 in Cash $2.00 in Cash SIO INCASH TO THE CLEVER WINNERS! ~ PROVERB NO. 4 : GEORGETOWN TO HOLD = 4 at 11 a. m. which will be lead by: -° the celebration will FO include a free barbecue, dancing, a r