March 11, 1940 (4 pages)

PAGE TWO NEVADA. CITY NUGGET ee me ” Bt ine” MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940, Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street, Phone 36. A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published ’ at Nevada City. H. M. LEETE oe Editor and Publisher ~ Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail 7 matter of the second class in thé postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSORIPTION RATES One year (In. Advance) ...-.-------------0+-+ $2.50 teteieiesienies, ie fetle fe sleatentiteterietestionteny 3s ae Liquid Gardens \ When agricultural scientists first announced they had developed soil-less tank gardens — in which plant roots are nourished with chemicals—most people thought that was very nice but they weren't sure they wanted to plant corn-in the bathtub. They didn’t really see how chemical solutions in tanks as substitutes for natural soi! were ever, going to be of much use to anybody. Then trans-Pacific clipper planes began taking passengers to China and other points east. and the airline discovered that sandv. U. S. owned Wake Island wes just the right distance between terminals to make an ideal stonp-over spot. The chief difficulty was that the soil on the island couldn't even support a blade of grass—-and station crews and_ overnight passengers had to have vegetables and greens. The airline called in a University of California scientist who set up tank gardens. Now there are enough beans and carrots and lettuce to go around for a second helping. You can never tell when even Uncle Horace’s most fantastic inventions will be useful to a world that keeps hopping ahead. —From the Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal. Average American Did the depression of the Thirties harm the. American spirit? Did it cause some to lose faith in what we call the American dream? Did it lessen self-reliance and stimulate class hatreds? ~ A lot of people have feared that it did. Read, then, what the Americcn ncople think of selves today, as mirrored in a new Fortune poll: Eighty per cent of Americans, from farm hands and factory workers to prospverous executives, regard themselves as members of the middle class. : Most Americans—including three out of five married men with families to support, and more than half of the un‘employed—would rather have a job, with an even chance of getting promoted or fired, than-a secure job at just enough wages to get by. . A majority think that they are better prepared to succeed than their parents were. that their chances of success are better, and that their sons’ chances will be still better. Seventy five per cent feel that they have an obligation to pass on to the next veneration: better living and social conditions, a higher standard of citnzenship, more education, better health. Only ten per cent feel that bequeathing material wealth to their sons is important. Self-confident. proud, believers in oppprtunity. builders of a better: world—that’s us: average Americans! Those qualities and ideals have made America’s middle class the highest common.denominator of citizenship in the world, a class in whicH the all-American headline still is: Local Boy Makes Good.—From the Minneapolis Star-Journal. them. The Legion Rides Again } celal One of the strangest adventure dramas in military history is revealed by the current lifting of the. British-French veil of secrecy on the Allied army now massed in the . Near East. Army of Mystery, its own leaders call it — for it may _ fight Germans, or Russians, or possibly Italians, if war spreads _southward. And it may not fight at all, if that sector remains quiet! Never has an army of nearly a million men “been so conglomerate—including Moroccans, Syrians; Bedouins,. Algerians, Tunesians, Senegalese, Arabs, Turks, along with French and English regulars. . There are modern tanks and trucks—and camels; olive drab uniforms—and_ desert costumes identical with those worn in the Middle Ages by thé soldiers of Saracen when they fought the Crusaders; soldiers drilled into a smooth-working force by General Weygand, the “French fox’’—but speaking scores of languages and dialects, representing scores of nationalities and creeds. Yet correspondents note the paradox that the strangest unit of all is the only one that seems to fit naturally into the __ bizarre setting the French Foreign Legion. Perhaps that is be_ Cause the Foreign Legion is of itself the most incredible fighting organization in exstence. It is the last refuge of desperate . men, of fugitives, of born. adventurers; of men of all nations who wish to bury their identities, and are contemptuous of death. They confide neither in their officers nor in each other; no questions are askéd arid no information volunteered: Even the circumstances that no one is sure when, or against whom, the Army of Mystery may fight, is matter-of-fact to the For--eign Legionnaires. They have but one thing in common—loyalty to the colors. Over hot sands in far places, indifferent as always to the causes, the enemy and the dangers, the Legion Tides again. Together, the silent men form.a deadly military — IF THE RABBIT STANDS STILL IN THE MEANTIME NZ — : jl mAh . sil . Tp, BALLOT Should the zoning ordinance of Nevada City defining certain districts as “residential” and ‘“‘busiMr. and Mrs. Bill Helling of San Francisco were Nevada City visitors Friday, while here they visited J. H. Suss who is in a local hospital, besides calling on other friends. ness” be repealed? — NO Address IMPORTANT: This ballot can be signed only by property owners. The name and address of each voter must be written in the allotted space for the ballot to be bona fide. A ballot box is provided at the city hall. Ballots must be in by 6p. m. Wednesday. Ed Norton, ditch tender for the Nevada Irrigation District in the Quaker Hill district east of Nevada City, walked into this city Saturday because ‘of a washout, slide and big J SPEAKER GARLAND CASE WEARS CONSERVATIVE PATIENCE THIN By RALPH H. TAYLOR Left-wing ‘‘liberals’’?’ and _ clever radicals, who invariably demand al} the protection and privileges of Amon 9 AY Y if ra . erican democracy sven if they are . creases. enggaed in trying to destroy the very . government whose protection they seek—recently appeared in great numbers before the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee leged violations of their American citizens. Before the Senate committee, which, to say the least, allowed them great latitude, the leftists and ‘“‘redhots’’ excoriated and castigated (California farmers for assertedly denying them such “‘liberties’’ as the right to foment labor troubles at peak harvest seasons, or turn over trucks carrying farm producé. Some of their grievances may have been just, as farmers and other employers, whose patience had worn thin under constant attack, may, in certain instances, have fet violence with violence—and baseball bats with pick axes. Guilt Placed But as a matter of fact, the radicals and so-called liberals who have prated the most of violation of their civil liberties in California, have been guilty of that offense far more often—and in far greater degree— than the conservative citizens whom they bitterly accuse. California, at the moment, has a case in point—the disgusting, thoroughly reprehensible attempt of leftists and pseudo-liberals at Sacramento to spy on Speaker Gordon Garland of the State Assembly by means of a dictaphone recording set concealed in the hotel rooms occpied by Mr. Garland and his wife. Such activities smack of gestapo methods and the contemptible spy systems of Russia and Germany where liberty is an unknown quantity and privacy is invaded at the slightest whim-of dictators who brook no opposition. Only Offense And Speaker Garland’s. only —offense, so far as can be ascertained, was that he had spoken out ‘sharply and effectively against radicalism and extremeism in high places. One of the most highly respected members of the legislature, whose integrity is unquestioned, he was guilty-of being a ‘‘conservative.”’ On theday before he made the startling revelation to the legislature that he had discovered a sound-recording device in his hotel rooms (which led to another room occupied by an SRA “‘detective’’), Assemblyman Garland had made a <ublic address in which he had _ ecnarged that the SRA was exploiting both the taxpayers and the needy—and wasting money ‘“‘like drunken sailors.”’ In the same address, he had served no tice that the bi-partisan economy . bloc in the Legislature, of which he was a leader, would demand a cleanup of the relief administration and would turn thumbs down on all requests of the state administration for additional taxes. — Cleanup Over-Due California farmers, and virtually all California taxpayers, will agree with Assemblyman (Garland that a cleanup in relief is long over-due. And they certainly concur ‘most heartily in his statement that California has reached the tax ceiling and must call @ halt on new tax inYet Mr. Garland, seeking to do his duty by his district and the ‘‘conservative’ people of California (the peo' ple who foot the-bills!) was the victoprotest al-,”, ba hiphhanded at ane ghee. tim of a high-handed attempt at coercion that one might expect in Soviet Russia, but certainly not in America. It is to be hoped that the legislative committee which has been appointed to investigate this incipient gestano in California will ferret out not only the “‘secret police’’ responsible for it, but the higher-ups who hired them—and that all who are party to the plot will be exposed and adequately punished. In certain ‘“‘liberal’’ circles in California, it is common knowledge that such methods have been looked upfor some time past. Communists, of course, may be expected to resort to the Soviet spy system; it is part of their program of “boring from within’. But American ‘‘liberals’’ — if they are really American — should reconsider before they make use of such contemptible methods, for they are tampering with the most sacred civil liberties of American citizens. Camptonville Club Resents Lynching Story CAMPTONVILLE, March 11.— The Women’s Club held a meeting Friday evening at the Groves homie. Reports of the road committee with the reading of various correspondence on road improvement matters were heard. It was voted to. subscribe to a literary guild. After the elub has finished with this material it is to be donated to the Camptonville library. The club resented newspaper and radio reports of a threatened lynching here as a result of the Stuart murder, and the incident an insult to the law abiding community of Camptonville. The club passed a motion condemning such ridiculous reports and instructed the secretary to draft a protest to the newspapers and radio stations that gave out the story. A committee headed by Miss Elsie Price has been actively engaged during the past week in circulating petitions addressed to the state highway commission requesting that improvements be ‘made between this place and the Middle Yuba river at Freeman’s (Crossing. Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey N. Wisker and daughter of Sacramento spent Sunday visiting Mrs. Wisker’s sister, Miss Alma Marsh of Park Ave. Mr. and Mrs Will S. Coughlan of Silva Avenue will have as week end guests their daughter Mrs. Ci, King and son, Jimmie, of San Frarcisco and sons, Daryl Caughlan and +two-daughters.of Alameda, Dick Wilson who has spent nearly all of last week conferring with the local forestry officials, departed for his: home in El] Cerrito Friday. force; individually, each is as alone and solitary, among his CE 207 mi street “Nevada County Photo Center PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, : 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, Drorvoerapnes Enlarging and Framing, BU 8 Merl uel Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Movie Cameras and Films . very company comrades, as he will be when his fierce days end and they pause to dig him an unmarked grave. Here, in a world where even war is systemized ‘ and] streamlined, still exists sheer masculine adventure — hard, somehow tragic, and yet incredibly romantic.—Contributed. ~ on with favor and openly condoned . oak tree across the road two miles . from his camp. He drove as far as the slide and then had to walk. oy Keep lamp bulbs clean, replace bulbs about to burn out, use modern shades, adaptors opal glass diffusing bowls and right size bulbs—all these little tricks help you get the greatest amount of light for your money. It is easy and costs nothing to find out how your lighting measures up. And it costs very little to change indifferent lighting into better » light for better sight. sf SEE OR YOUR THIS DEALER COMPANY VJ ry , ¥ « “ e and ) ® Pp Cx coo PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS Proposals \are being solicited to furnish suitable quarters for the Nevada City, California post office. This lease subject to provisions of the standard form of lease used by the Post. Office Department, at a stated price per annum, including heat, power, water, toilet facilities, plumbing, heating and lighting fixtures, safe and or vault, and all necessary furniture and equipment, for a term of five years from August 16, 1940. Floor space of .about 2400 square feet is desired. Alternate propozals both with and without safe equipment are desired. Important considerations are a reasonably central location, good daylight and accessibility to rear or side entrance for mails. Diagram~of the rooms -offered, showing inside dimensions, offsets, doors, windows, etc., and any adjoining ground for light areas, driveways or parking areas, must be submitted with the proposal. The Post Office reserves the right. to -reject any: or all proposals, to negotiate further with the proponents for better terms, and to endeavor either before or after the closing date to secure offers on suitable properties, in addition to those submitted in response to this advertisement. Proponents may be required to show whether the property offered is mortgaged and to furnish a gage. Proposals will be received in the office of Post Office, Inspector, W. B. Mouser at San Francisco, California up to and including, March 31, 1940. Detailed information will be also furnished by Inspector Mouser at his San Francisco address. General building requirements, equipment, specifications, and form of proposal, together with information concerning the provisions of the lease, may be obtained from the Postmaster at Nevada City, California or from Inspector W. B. Mouser, San Francisco, California. A detailed copy of this adver'tisement is posted in the lobby of the local post office. No, 4035IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE. OF CALIFORNIA IN. AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. OF TIME APPOINTED FOR PROVING WILL, ETC. . In the Matter of the Estate of MARGARET E. HARDING, also known as M. E. HARDING, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 15th day of March 1940, at ten o’clock A. M. of said day, at. the Court Room of said Court, at the Court House in the City of Nevada, County of Nevada, has been appointed by me as the time and place for proving the Will of said Margaret E. Harding,. alias deceased, and_ for hearing the application of Anne C. Lang for the issuance to her of Letters Testamentary when and where any person interested may appear and contest the same. : Dated March 4th, 1940. R. N. McCORMACK, Clerk. R. E .DEEBLE, Deputy Clerk. PRANK G. FINNEGAN, Attorney for Petitioner, Nevada City, California. Mar. 408) 1b: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, DISTRICT LAND OFFICE AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 032406 January 25, 1940 NOTICE. IS HERBY GIVEN that T. B., ENGLISH, MARGARET J. COUGHLAN, and THE HEIRS OF MRS. C. J. ENGLISH. deceased, all of North Columbia, Nevada County, California, have made application for patent for a placer mining claim situate in the Columbia Hill Mining District, Nevada County; California, in the Northwest quarter of Section 4 and the Northeast quarter of Section 5, Township 17 North, Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Medidian, described as follows: ROSE VALLEY PLACER CLAIM, west quarter of Section 4, in Township 17 North, of Range 9. Bast, Mount Diablo Base and “Meridian, and Lots 1 and 2 of Section 5, in Township 17 North, o Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, containing 54.80 acres, more or less. That the lands adjoining on the North, South, East and West are patented. That the location notice for the Rose Valley Placer Claim is recorded in Book “25” of Mining Claims, at page 492, Records of Nevada County, California. ELLIS. PURLEE, Register. Date of. first publication: January 29, 1940. “Date of last publication: 29, 1940. \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND. OFFICE,.M. A. No. 032400, DISTRICT LAND,.ORFICE, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 26, 1940. Notice is ‘hereby given ‘that March umbia, California, has made application’ for patent for the Frandy-Black Placer Mining Claim in the Columbia Hill Mining District, Nevada County, California, described as_ follows: E., M. D. M., California. That the/ lands adjoining on the North, South, East and West are patented. The location notice is recorded in Book “27” of Mining Claims, at page 3, Eecorce of Nevada County, California. i ELLIS PURLEE, Register. Date of first publication: January 29, 1940. / Date of last publication: March 29, 1940. concurring agreement ‘by the mortconsisting of Lot No. 4, of the North_ Jerome C. Coughlan of North Col. Lots 5, and 6, Sec. 4, T. 17 N., R. 9/

PAGE TWO NEVADA. CITY NUGGET ee me ” Bt ine” MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940, Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street, Phone 36. A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published ’ at Nevada City. H. M. LEETE oe Editor and Publisher ~ Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail 7 matter of the second class in thé postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSORIPTION RATES One year (In. Advance) .....-..-------------0+-+ $2.50 teteieiesienies, ie fetle fe sleatentiteterietestionteny 3s ae Liquid Gardens \ When agricultural scientists first announced they had developed soil-less tank gardens — in which plant roots are nourished with chemicals—most people thought that was very nice but they weren't sure they wanted to plant corn-in the bathtub. They didn’t really see how chemical solutions in tanks as substitutes for natural soi! were ever, going to be of much use to anybody. Then trans-Pacific clipper planes began taking passengers to China and other points east. and the airline discovered that sandv. U. S. owned Wake Island wes just the right distance between terminals to make an ideal stonp-over spot. The chief difficulty was that the soil on the island couldn't even support a blade of grass—-and station crews and_ overnight passengers had to have vegetables and greens. The airline called in a University of California scientist who set up tank gardens. Now there are enough beans and carrots and lettuce to go around for a second helping. You can never tell when even Uncle Horace’s most fantastic inventions will be useful to a world that keeps hopping ahead. —From the Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal. Average American Did the depression of the Thirties harm the. American spirit? Did it cause some to lose faith in what we call the American dream? Did it lessen self-reliance and stimulate class hatreds? ~ A lot of people have feared that it did. Read, then, what the Americcn ncople think of selves today, as mirrored in a new Fortune poll: Eighty per cent of Americans, from farm hands and factory workers to prospverous executives, regard themselves as members of the middle class. : Most Americans—including three out of five married men with families to support, and more than half of the un‘employed—would rather have a job, with an even chance of getting promoted or fired, than-a secure job at just enough wages to get by. . A majority think that they are better prepared to succeed than their parents were. that their chances of success are better, and that their sons’ chances will be still better. Seventy five per cent feel that they have an obligation to pass on to the next veneration: better living and social conditions, a higher standard of citnzenship, more education, better health. Only ten per cent feel that bequeathing material wealth to their sons is important. Self-confident. proud, believers in oppprtunity. builders of a better: world—that’s us: average Americans! Those qualities and ideals have made America’s middle class the highest common.denominator of citizenship in the world, a class in whicH the all-American headline still is: Local Boy Makes Good.—From the Minneapolis Star-Journal. them. The Legion Rides Again } celal One of the strangest adventure dramas in military history is revealed by the current lifting of the. British-French veil of secrecy on the Allied army now massed in the . Near East. Army of Mystery, its own leaders call it — for it may _ fight Germans, or Russians, or possibly Italians, if war spreads _southward. And it may not fight at all, if that sector remains quiet! Never has an army of nearly a million men “been so conglomerate—including Moroccans, Syrians; Bedouins,. Algerians, Tunesians, Senegalese, Arabs, Turks, along with French and English regulars. . There are modern tanks and trucks—and camels; olive drab uniforms—and_ desert costumes identical with those worn in the Middle Ages by thé soldiers of Saracen when they fought the Crusaders; soldiers drilled into a smooth-working force by General Weygand, the “French fox’’—but speaking scores of languages and dialects, representing scores of nationalities and creeds. Yet correspondents note the paradox that the strangest unit of all is the only one that seems to fit naturally into the __ bizarre setting the French Foreign Legion. Perhaps that is be_ Cause the Foreign Legion is of itself the most incredible fighting organization in exstence. It is the last refuge of desperate . men, of fugitives, of born. adventurers; of men of all nations who wish to bury their identities, and are contemptuous of death. They confide neither in their officers nor in each other; no questions are askéd arid no information volunteered: Even the circumstances that no one is sure when, or against whom, the Army of Mystery may fight, is matter-of-fact to the For--eign Legionnaires. They have but one thing in common—loyalty to the colors. Over hot sands in far places, indifferent as always to the causes, the enemy and the dangers, the Legion Tides again. Together, the silent men form.a deadly military — IF THE RABBIT STANDS STILL IN THE MEANTIME NZ — : jl mAh . sil . Tp, BALLOT Should the zoning ordinance of Nevada City defining certain districts as “residential” and ‘“‘busiMr. and Mrs. Bill Helling of San Francisco were Nevada City visitors Friday, while here they visited J. H. Suss who is in a local hospital, besides calling on other friends. ness” be repealed? — NO Address IMPORTANT: This ballot can be signed only by property owners. The name and address of each voter must be written in the allotted space for the ballot to be bona fide. A ballot box is provided at the city hall. Ballots must be in by 6p. m. Wednesday. Ed Norton, ditch tender for the Nevada Irrigation District in the Quaker Hill district east of Nevada City, walked into this city Saturday because ‘of a washout, slide and big J SPEAKER GARLAND CASE WEARS CONSERVATIVE PATIENCE THIN By RALPH H. TAYLOR Left-wing ‘‘liberals’’?’ and _ clever radicals, who invariably demand al} the protection and privileges of Amon 9 AY Y if ra . erican democracy sven if they are . creases. enggaed in trying to destroy the very . government whose protection they seek—recently appeared in great numbers before the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee leged violations of their American citizens. Before the Senate committee, which, to say the least, allowed them great latitude, the leftists and ‘“‘redhots’’ excoriated and castigated (California farmers for assertedly denying them such “‘liberties’’ as the right to foment labor troubles at peak harvest seasons, or turn over trucks carrying farm producé. Some of their grievances may have been just, as farmers and other employers, whose patience had worn thin under constant attack, may, in certain instances, have fet violence with violence—and baseball bats with pick axes. Guilt Placed But as a matter of fact, the radicals and so-called liberals who have prated the most of violation of their civil liberties in California, have been guilty of that offense far more often—and in far greater degree— than the conservative citizens whom they bitterly accuse. California, at the moment, has a case in point—the disgusting, thoroughly reprehensible attempt of leftists and pseudo-liberals at Sacramento to spy on Speaker Gordon Garland of the State Assembly by means of a dictaphone recording set concealed in the hotel rooms occpied by Mr. Garland and his wife. Such activities smack of gestapo methods and the contemptible spy systems of Russia and Germany where liberty is an unknown quantity and privacy is invaded at the slightest whim-of dictators who brook no opposition. Only Offense And Speaker Garland’s. only —offense, so far as can be ascertained, was that he had spoken out ‘sharply and effectively against radicalism and extremeism in high places. One of the most highly respected members of the legislature, whose integrity is unquestioned, he was guilty-of being a ‘‘conservative.”’ On theday before he made the startling revelation to the legislature that he had discovered a sound-recording device in his hotel rooms (which led to another room occupied by an SRA “‘detective’’), Assemblyman Garland had made a <ublic address in which he had _ ecnarged that the SRA was exploiting both the taxpayers and the needy—and wasting money ‘“‘like drunken sailors.”’ In the same address, he had served no tice that the bi-partisan economy . bloc in the Legislature, of which he was a leader, would demand a cleanup of the relief administration and would turn thumbs down on all requests of the state administration for additional taxes. — Cleanup Over-Due California farmers, and virtually all California taxpayers, will agree with Assemblyman (Garland that a cleanup in relief is long over-due. And they certainly concur ‘most heartily in his statement that California has reached the tax ceiling and must call @ halt on new tax inYet Mr. Garland, seeking to do his duty by his district and the ‘‘conservative’ people of California (the peo' ple who foot the-bills!) was the victoprotest al-,”, ba hiphhanded at ane ghee. tim of a high-handed attempt at coercion that one might expect in Soviet Russia, but certainly not in America. It is to be hoped that the legislative committee which has been appointed to investigate this incipient gestano in California will ferret out not only the “‘secret police’’ responsible for it, but the higher-ups who hired them—and that all who are party to the plot will be exposed and adequately punished. In certain ‘“‘liberal’’ circles in California, it is common knowledge that such methods have been looked upfor some time past. Communists, of course, may be expected to resort to the Soviet spy system; it is part of their program of “boring from within’. But American ‘‘liberals’’ — if they are really American — should reconsider before they make use of such contemptible methods, for they are tampering with the most sacred civil liberties of American citizens. Camptonville Club

Resents Lynching Story CAMPTONVILLE, March 11.— The Women’s Club held a meeting Friday evening at the Groves homie. Reports of the road committee with the reading of various correspondence on road improvement matters were heard. It was voted to. subscribe to a literary guild. After the elub has finished with this material it is to be donated to the Camptonville library. The club resented newspaper and radio reports of a threatened lynching here as a result of the Stuart murder, and the incident an insult to the law abiding community of Camptonville. The club passed a motion condemning such ridiculous reports and instructed the secretary to draft a protest to the newspapers and radio stations that gave out the story. A committee headed by Miss Elsie Price has been actively engaged during the past week in circulating petitions addressed to the state highway commission requesting that improvements be ‘made between this place and the Middle Yuba river at Freeman’s (Crossing. Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey N. Wisker and daughter of Sacramento spent Sunday visiting Mrs. Wisker’s sister, Miss Alma Marsh of Park Ave. Mr. and Mrs Will S. Coughlan of Silva Avenue will have as week end guests their daughter Mrs. Ci, King and son, Jimmie, of San Frarcisco and sons, Daryl Caughlan and +two-daughters.of Alameda, Dick Wilson who has spent nearly all of last week conferring with the local forestry officials, departed for his: home in El] Cerrito Friday. force; individually, each is as alone and solitary, among his CE 207 mi street “Nevada County Photo Center PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, : 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, Drorvoerapnes Enlarging and Framing, BU 8 Merl uel Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Movie Cameras and Films . very company comrades, as he will be when his fierce days end and they pause to dig him an unmarked grave. Here, in a world where even war is systemized ‘ and] streamlined, still exists sheer masculine adventure — hard, somehow tragic, and yet incredibly romantic.—Contributed. ~ on with favor and openly condoned . oak tree across the road two miles . from his camp. He drove as far as the slide and then had to walk. oy Keep lamp bulbs clean, replace bulbs about to burn out, use modern shades, adaptors opal glass diffusing bowls and right size bulbs—all these little tricks help you get the greatest amount of light for your money. It is easy and costs nothing to find out how your lighting measures up. And it costs very little to change indifferent lighting into better » light for better sight. sf SEE OR YOUR THIS DEALER COMPANY VJ ry , ¥ « “ e and ) ® Pp Cx coo PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS Proposals \are being solicited to furnish suitable quarters for the Nevada City, California post office. This lease subject to provisions of the standard form of lease used by the Post. Office Department, at a stated price per annum, including heat, power, water, toilet facilities, plumbing, heating and lighting fixtures, safe and or vault, and all necessary furniture and equipment, for a term of five years from August 16, 1940. Floor space of .about 2400 square feet is desired. Alternate propozals both with and without safe equipment are desired. Important considerations are a reasonably central location, good daylight and accessibility to rear or side entrance for mails. Diagram~of the rooms -offered, showing inside dimensions, offsets, doors, windows, etc., and any adjoining ground for light areas, driveways or parking areas, must be submitted with the proposal. The Post Office reserves the right. to -reject any: or all proposals, to negotiate further with the proponents for better terms, and to endeavor either before or after the closing date to secure offers on suitable properties, in addition to those submitted in response to this advertisement. Proponents may be required to show whether the property offered is mortgaged and to furnish a gage. Proposals will be received in the office of Post Office, Inspector, W. B. Mouser at San Francisco, California up to and including, March 31, 1940. Detailed information will be also furnished by Inspector Mouser at his San Francisco address. General building requirements, equipment, specifications, and form of proposal, together with information concerning the provisions of the lease, may be obtained from the Postmaster at Nevada City, California or from Inspector W. B. Mouser, San Francisco, California. A detailed copy of this adver'tisement is posted in the lobby of the local post office. No, 4035IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE. OF CALIFORNIA IN. AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. OF TIME APPOINTED FOR PROVING WILL, ETC. . In the Matter of the Estate of MARGARET E. HARDING, also known as M. E. HARDING, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 15th day of March 1940, at ten o’clock A. M. of said day, at. the Court Room of said Court, at the Court House in the City of Nevada, County of Nevada, has been appointed by me as the time and place for proving the Will of said Margaret E. Harding,. alias deceased, and_ for hearing the application of Anne C. Lang for the issuance to her of Letters Testamentary when and where any person interested may appear and contest the same. : Dated March 4th, 1940. R. N. McCORMACK, Clerk. R. E .DEEBLE, Deputy Clerk. PRANK G. FINNEGAN, Attorney for Petitioner, Nevada City, California. Mar. 408) 1b: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, DISTRICT LAND OFFICE AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 032406 January 25, 1940 NOTICE. IS HERBY GIVEN that T. B., ENGLISH, MARGARET J. COUGHLAN, and THE HEIRS OF MRS. C. J. ENGLISH. deceased, all of North Columbia, Nevada County, California, have made application for patent for a placer mining claim situate in the Columbia Hill Mining District, Nevada County; California, in the Northwest quarter of Section 4 and the Northeast quarter of Section 5, Township 17 North, Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Medidian, described as follows: ROSE VALLEY PLACER CLAIM, west quarter of Section 4, in Township 17 North, of Range 9. Bast, Mount Diablo Base and “Meridian, and Lots 1 and 2 of Section 5, in Township 17 North, o Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, containing 54.80 acres, more or less. That the lands adjoining on the North, South, East and West are patented. That the location notice for the Rose Valley Placer Claim is recorded in Book “25” of Mining Claims, at page 492, Records of Nevada County, California. ELLIS. PURLEE, Register. Date of. first publication: January 29, 1940. “Date of last publication: 29, 1940. \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND. OFFICE,.M. A. No. 032400, DISTRICT LAND,.ORFICE, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 26, 1940. Notice is ‘hereby given ‘that March umbia, California, has made application’ for patent for the Frandy-Black Placer Mining Claim in the Columbia Hill Mining District, Nevada County, California, described as_ follows: E., M. D. M., California. That the/ lands adjoining on the North, South, East and West are patented. The location notice is recorded in Book “27” of Mining Claims, at page 3, Eecorce of Nevada County, California. i ELLIS PURLEE, Register. Date of first publication: January 29, 1940. / Date of last publication: March 29, 1940. concurring agreement ‘by the mortconsisting of Lot No. 4, of the North_ Jerome C. Coughlan of North Col. Lots 5, and 6, Sec. 4, T. 17 N., R. 9/