May 1, 1936 (6 pages)

ghee be considered gravely. 4 4 * ¥ Thinking Out Loud / Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD. AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and you 7 he Nevada City Nugget helps your and county to grow in population prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, help yourself. (By H. M. L.) The emancipation and rise of Woman dates from the fall of Whiskers. Delilah and Samson. are symbolic. Now that Nevada City is abloom with a_ great variety of s-hiskers and on every: beautyrest the debate goes on far into the night, whether or not the beard shali grow, it is time that this issue Whiskers were the first vegetables cultivated ‘by man. In cave days a man’s strength of brawn and character was measured by the length of his beard. As civilization gradually encraoched on_ primitive tribes, whiskers played an enormous and important role. They became sancti« fied. ‘‘By the Beard of the Prophet” was once a very mean cuss word. Their effect, in general, was to keep the fair sex jolly well subjugated and at the same time fascinated. The veil of the prophet, of which we hear so.much, was in fact his whiskers. Women in the Old Testament times found them irresistable. A man with long luxuriant whiskers was inevitably popular with the women. He could marry as many as he chose, and no mangy bearded, or short haired fellow in the tribe dared question his right. We suspect that Esau was expelled from his home and tribe by ‘his dear old dad, not because he had done anything especially wrong, but because in his altogether he was clothed from head to foot in whiskers, constituting therefore a challenge and a menace to the peace and happiness of tribal leaders. Oldsters of today will recall the Mormons. They grew mighty manes. ‘They knew no scissors, much less razors. They just naturally attracted women, who, lured by the same he and the other retiring officials curiosity which prompted Bluepbeard’s wives to open the secret, door, married the hirsute followers . of Joseph Smith to find out just . what kind of creature it was that) Jurked behind the whiskers. . In pre-Revolutionary days, following a fad of the English court, men took to shaving The Father of his country was clean shaven. But after the British had been licked and the United States of America had been} declared independent, it was notic. .able that many women believed they had been freed by the same sword and musket that had freed the men. They became uppity and difficult. Our male ancestors knew instinctively-what to do in these cirecumstances. They retreated in good order to cover, They grew and lay in ambush behind their whiskers again. And once again women assumed their proper place in the home. The mark of a good wife in the Forties,: Fifties and Sixties was a woman who fondly combed and cur-} ried her husband’s whiskers and kept them clean and flowing. The mark of a termagant, a very, rare phenomenon in those days, was a woman who flew into a terrible temper and wrapping her little hands her good man‘s beard tried to tear his head from his shoulders. in After the Civil War whiskers became diversified.: Men tried different styles to suit their type of beauty. teneral: Burnsides gave his name to the flowing side chops that figure so much in old family albums. There was the Imperial, closely resembling the chin adornment of the male goat. The Imperial begot a degenerate offspring known as the. Goatee. The Van Dyke was imported from abroud from Paris colonies or artists too poor to buy razors. It covered the face fairly well, but the chin area still grew the Imperial or the Goatee. The Shoe Brush was a refinement of the full bushed whiskers of the frontiersmen. With the advent of church socials and husking bees men discovered that the full bush beard. was a handicap at the table. Gravy and bits of food were frequently lost. So it became the style to shave all of the map around the mouth, leaving a clearing where food and drink could be assimulated without handicaps. This fashion left a stiff fringe of beard. round the jaws and under the chin. This was a double advantage, for the ugly gymnastics of the Adam’s apple were ‘thus concealed. Some antiquarians date the first discovery of sanitation in American history to #he milk strainer, but erudite students now generally attribute the introduction of the Shoe Brush’ whiskers as the first step in sanitary uplift. The Shoe Brush was popular in California as soon es razors began to come around. the t Vol. 10. No. 49. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS HONOR R.LP. BIGELOW R. L. P. Bigelow, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest. area, today having reached the age limit, retires from the Forest Service. Many honors are being shown him. Marks of appreciation both from his comrad and fellow officers in the service, and from the hundreds of friends he has made in his long residence and ad+ ministration of his ofifice in Nevada City, are being showered upon hi. Last night it was the Nevada City Rotary club whi@h gave a dinner in his honor at Gene’s Cafe. The event was a “ladies night’? and many old friends and neighbors of Mr. Bigelow joined.in the merry festivity. Ih the assembly room of National Forest Service headquarters in San Francisco last Saturday over 209 Forest Service men gathered to give Mr. Bigelow, J. A. Barrett, assistant forester of the regional office, and Hale Mace, forest ranger of the Sierra National Forest, who had also reached the age limit, an ovation befitting the occasion. Mr. Begilow was presented with an oil painting of the beautiful Sierra Buttes, the most outstanding promontory of his wide domain. He also received a volume of letters written by his associates in the service. This meeting was followed by a luncheon in the Town club at which were guests of honor. OFFSIDER FINED $15 CAMPTONVILLE, April 29.—Miss Loretta O’Connor of Mary: Ville, who by Traffic Officer A. J: Ponta last week on a charge of havwas cited ing no operator's’ leense and being on the wrong side of the road, entered a plea of guilty Tuesday in the local justice court. Judge Acton M. Cieveland dismissed the charge of not having an operator’s license upon presentation of license in court. A fine of $15 was assessed for being on the wrong side of the highway. Horn. Other specially California . styles were the Grandee, in which . the moustache joined smoothly into . the side chops. These were permittea . to broom out, giving the male map. ! the wide handsome appearance of a . tom-cat. The Grandee, of course, was adopted from the Spanish dons, and another early beard style was! Don Gaspar de Portola, which . resembled the Imperial but} In the the closely was permitted to grow longer. high winds it was tucked into waistcoat. In the Seventies of meetings swept over the land. From the the Deacon. California Deacon like the wild broom along our moutatin road sides There were infinite varieties of this famous beard but one characteristic was common—the smooth shaven upper lip. Ministers set’ the fashion for their congregations. Besides affording abundant cover, the Deacon whiskers offered special advantages in coffee drinking and kissing. Where kigging had formerly pleasure. Piety. and romance were wedded. a, wave camp meeting was evolved From Maine to whiskers spread camp In the Gay Nineties women came out of the bushes, so to speak. They grew tired of living with whiskers. The most beautiful women began to marry bare faced men. In a few years all facial brush had been cut, Man capitulated and hauled down the flag of his masculinity. Men’s faces reflected their thoughts, and women perceiving for the first time what men thought about, more and more took to the divorce courts. Many men who really loved their wives cultivated a-poker face, but it was no substitute for whiskers. It is hoped that this Whisker revival in Nevada City, done in the spirit of fun, will arouse in the mind of man the thought of his lost empire. It is hoped that, once having resumed his natural. charm, his bush, behind which he can retreat for peace of mind and meditation, many a man will be wise and courageous enough to keep, to cherish and to defend the sacred badge of . day his manhood. SUBSCRIPTION FUND TO REHABILITATE FAMILY CAMPTONVILLE, April 30.— The home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood located in the upper town was completely destroyed by fire at 9 o’clock Friday /morning. The fire started in the attic from a defective lue and when discovered by Mrs. Woods the whole roof was in flames. A few of the WPA crew who were working near town responded, all the rest of the men being at a distance out of town, but nothing could be done to save the building. Very little of the contents were saved, and the family.dog, chainea to thexporch, was badly singed before being rescued. Woods, who was working in the gravel pot on the local WPA project was informed of the disaster, returning in time to find all his possessions lost. The building was owned by Mrs. Rachael M. Labadie, who had no insurance on the property. The loss is estimated at about $800 for the building in addition to the household effects of the unfortunate family. On-suggestion of Louie E. Bullington a subscription list was started Friday for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Henry ‘Wood to assist them in re-establishing themselves in a home after they had lost everything when the house in which they resided burned down Friday morning. It is also expected to provide them with clothing. Up to Saturday noon the list read as follows: Louie E. Bullington $1.00; Lola B. Cleveland, $1.00; Myron Pauly, $1.00; Meek Mercantile Co., $1.00; Acton M. Cleveland, $1.00; M. R. Carlson, $1.00; Davia Lewis, $1.00; W. M. Brown, $1.00; B. Spencer, $1.00; James F. Knick, $5.00; Ff. B: Hanson, $1200: Jack. Titus, $1.00; Supervisor W. J. Mellon, $2.00. Contributions may be left at the Camptonville store. TRI-COUNTY WOMEN PREPARING SOUVENIRS The tri-county unit, consisting of Nevada, Placer and ElDorado counties, of the California Federation of Women’s clubs are making preparation for the state convention which will be held on May 16. That day is to be marked by a_ gathering at Marshall’s monument at Colma. It is expected that 260 members of the California Federation will be present, The unit preparing souvenirs for each womenthere present. The souvenirs will be small neat boxes containing a collection of ore specimens, petrified limestone. tri-county is wood and STUDENTS X-RAYED _ IN MEDICAL TEST X-Rays-have been-taken this the lungs of 28 boys and girls of the Nevada City high school. These photographs will be sent to an expert in Francisco ‘who. will read them and their report to Dr. B. W. Hummelt who through the school authorities will communicate the results to the parents of the students, The X-rays were taken of the lungs of the students who showed a positive reaction to the preliminary tuberculin test. The positive reaction does not person has tuberculosis but merely shows that the germ is present and may be latent or active. The X-ray will complete the diagnosis. The tests of the high school students have been made _ possible through funds in the hands of the local Red Cross authorities receive 4 from the sale of Christmas seals. CHARGE AGAINST TIBERT AND SISTER DISMISSED Sheriff Carl Tobiassen was advised yesterday by Chief of Police Lou M. Gammell of Reno that the district attorney there has dismissed the charges against Arthur Tibert and his sister Alberta Tibert, who were accused of having kidnapped Tibert’s young daughter, on the streets of Reno, It developed that Tibert had a court order issued by a Los Angeles judge giving him custody of his child. The Tiberts ,. were out on bail, after having spent Sunnight in the county jail here following their arrest on’ a warrant from Reno. : week of San indicate that the. SCOUTS’ SPRINGCAMPOREE T0 BE HELD IN NEY. CO. The. Spring Camporee of the Tahoe Area Council to be held May 16 and 17 in Nevada County, will rate the patrols eligible .to attend the Northern California Camporal at Sacramento October 10 and 11 according to a decision.made at a recent meeting of Northern California Scout Executives. In order to give additional practice in patrol camping many of the Tahoe Council districts are holding district camporees under the direction of their district commissioners. : c Oscar A. Kirkham, Associate Regional Scout Executive of Salt Lake City, will be presént to take part in the Saturday evening campfire, and to take charge of.the Sunday morning Scout service. He has asked to meet with all Scout leaders also Sunday morning. The selection for the site is being left, to George Schrader of Nevada City and Harry Goudge of Grass Valley. Each patrol will present themselves at 4 p. m. Saturday prepared to go into camp overnight exemplifying outdoor activities of scouting including organization, tenting, cooking and campfire programs. Closing ceremonies and awards will conclude the 24 hour camp. From 25 to 40 patrols are expected to participate for the opportunity to go to the Northern California Camporal at Sacramento. WHISKERINO CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED MAY 5 With more than hundred Whiskerinos expected Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock from Auburn and ville, a huge mass meeting vada City men has ‘been that night, May 5, in Armory Hall where this city’s Whiskerino club will be organized under the chairmanship of Ted Janiss. There will be inaugurated the famous whiskerino kangaroo’ court, the august tribunal before which al! bare faced males will be sorted out. Those presenting . certificates of whisker incapacity from any certified veterinarian, will be given ‘‘exempt” cards, while those who prefer to wield the razor and will be accomodated. Officers of the Nevada. City Whiskerino club will be elected at this meeting and their duties defined. In Grass. Valley it that nearly many blossoming as in this city, and Janiss issues a cordial invitation to all candidates for membership in the Whiskekino club in Grass Valley tu attend this meeting. Roseof Necalled for pay .a fine noticeable is as whiskers are BIG AUDIENCE APPLAUDS TWO SENIOR DRAMAS A good sized audience of local citizens was in attendance at the Nevada Theatre Thursday evening, when the members of the Senior Class of the Nevada City high schoo entertained with two plays, ‘‘Three Cornered Moon” and “The Wedding.’”’ Both productions received the plaudits of the audiences, and both were worthy of the praise they received. The full cast of the players appeared in Monday’s Nugget with the exception of one member whose name, Everett Brown, who played the part of the groomsman in ‘“‘The Wedding,” was inadvertently omitted. FOREST SPRINGS PUPILS TO GIVE P. T. A. PROGRAM the Forest The program feawill meet this afternoon —§ at given by groups from Springs school. tures will be musical under the direction of Mrs. Libby. The students will. provide their own scenery sets for their program. These are reported to be unusually —interesting from a standpoint of both coloring and drawing. Following the program Principal Waiter Carlson will give a talk on Public Schools Week. This is the week that parents are especWORK MAY START . received the recommendation of both For State (By H. M, LEETE) It was announced early this morning that R. L, P. Bigelow, who retired yesterday from the National Forest Service, in which he has, for almost 28. years,.been supervisor in this, the Tahoe National Forest, wil! be a candidate for State Senator in the coming election. Three counties, Nevada, Sierra and Placer, constitute this senatorial district, and in these counties no man is better known and has more friends than Bigelow. Over this area he has been#the forest supervisor for.over a generation. He has been the friend of every forward movement in the counties. He has cooperated with Grass Valley, Auburn, Nevada City, Downieville, in fact all the communities in, or adjoining, the Tahoe Forest in building roads, bridges, fire.trails, telephone lines, recreational camps, and mary another project that improved communications among the people of the mountains, protected their Cities and homes from ravaging forest» fires, and attracted to the mountains an ever increasing number of tourists and campers whose spending has helped to bring prosperity to the mountain counties. Putting his shoulder to the wheel Mr. Bigelow for years advocated the Rim-of-the-Lake road along Tahoe’s western shore, and the Yuba Pass road. It was largely due to his tenacity of purpose and far seeing visFRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936. R. L. P. Bigelow In Race Senatorshipion that these roads were finally completed, and are today traversed by thousands of motorists, who find along those-routes the most gorgeous scenery in the Sierras. These roads were perhaps’ the crowning achievements of the forest service in this area in the last twenty years. Several agencies of course were concerned in their construction, Federal funds other than the forest service, and state funds were drawn upon to pay the cost, but all forces had to be conciliated and co-ordinated in building the two great mountain highways, and that infatigable coordinator and co-operator was R. L. P. Bigelow. With this announcement of his candidacy for the office for state senator, hundreds of friends will stand ready to back him in his race. There is not a man, woman or child in the three counties which he seeks to represent in state legislature, who is not a beneficiary of Mr. BigeJow’s far-flung forest activities during. the long years in which he was forest supervisor. It is\seldom that a man of Mr. Bigelow’s\character and calibre can be induced run for public office. His candigacy affords an opportunity which the people of this» district too seldom aré offered, to elect a man whose devotion to the welfare of the three counties has been demonstrated in so many ways. ON DEBRIS DAMS IN NINETY DAYS i Late word from Congressman . Harry L. Englebright is to the effect that prospects are bright for the beginning of construction on the debris dams on the Yuba, Bear and Middle and North Forks of,the American rivers within 90 days. With the appropriation of sufficient funds for the first year’s .construction works passed the senate, the War Appropriations Bill, of which the dam funds are a part, is now in a house conference awaiting changes and additions to projects other than the debris dams. Having . houses and the War Department, unRAIL BOARD TO HALT UNLICENSED TRUCK TRAFFIC Herbert W. Kerrigan, statistician for the California Rablroad Commission, was-in Nevada and Sierra counties Monday and Tuesday making a check of unlicensed rucks which are using the highways. He states that in a very short time inspectors for the commission will -be in this field-to tag unlicensed truck operators and put. a stop to their illegal activities. : He stated that to bring ahout orderly competition, to place every trucking corcern and individual truck owner on an equal basis of rate making and a decent living profit, and to give the shipper and the pubwhose will be construction will start~shortly after . . July st, this year, when the funds} become available. der jurisdiction the dams . built, Englebright feels one Arising to‘a situation, which vice-. , California Says. president C. E. Clark of Hydraulic Mining Association, “May never come to: Us placer mining interests throughont: the state have signed up far more yardage than sufficient to for the construction of the dams but the sign-up is being continued so as to give the smaller operator an equal opportunity for storage and to give an idea as to future storage that will be necessary. SIERRA COUNTY MINE > SOLD TO SYNDICATE The Alaska, formerly the SierraAlaska mine of Pike City one of Sierra county’s notable producers, with a record of grossing $1,650,000 for former operators, has. been sold to New again,’ is pay a syndicate of Los Angeles, York and Chicago interests. Richard Travers, of Los Angeles, who announced the deal, said the 150 ton mill, 150 horse power double drum hoist, shops, boarding house and other surface buildings are in good condition. Mr, R. C. BHisenhauer, engineer, had. another company developing the! iin blasting operations. Larger pumps ~ property over a period of several months but they closed last spring when they found they could not give their “undivided attention to operations, as they were operating other mines in the west. This company spent several thousand dollars reconditioning the surface buildings and equipment, re-timbered the _ shaft collar, and repaired the drain tunnel. Underground streams producing a heavy flow of water hindered operationws and closed the mine years ially invited to visit the schools. ) . sion to regulate the use of lic a dependable, uninterrupted highway service for the transportation of property at reasonable rates, the srg Acts were decided upon. ‘These Railroad Commispublic highways by motor vehicles operat> power to the ing for profit. And this is precisely what the Railroad Commission now attempting to do. Commission representatives are going into the field to aid the truck operators and to faeilitate the filing of applications, which must be made with insuranee policies attached, and must be sent to the Transportation Department, State Building. San Francisco. is WHISKERINOS Mr. Ted Janiss, chairman of the Whiskerino Club. of Nevada City, spoke for ten minutes Tuesday evening before the 20-30 Club of Grass Valley. Mr. Janiss talked on tite Whiskerino Club’ and his remarks” were received with enthusiasm. He expects a 100 per cent whiskerino response from Grass Valley. There were a fiumber of persons at the meeting with handsome beards. Miss Katherine Celio left Wednesday for Los Angeles with friends and will spend a few days in the southern city. t grade or jewelry rock was uncovered and present methods of mining will — overcome obstacles which hindered development in the past. The property consists of 450 acres «having more than two miles of un derground workings. Developme has gone to the 600 foot level. Eisenhauer, engineer, who rece examined the property. believes of the six veins probably join the 200 foot level where high y ago, and when it is understood high —_ should be found.-It is stated to start at once. ‘

ghee be considered gravely. 4 4 * ¥ Thinking Out Loud / Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD. AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and you 7 he Nevada City Nugget helps your and county to grow in population prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, help yourself. (By H. M. L.) The emancipation and rise of Woman dates from the fall of Whiskers. Delilah and Samson. are symbolic. Now that Nevada City is abloom with a_ great variety of s-hiskers and on every: beautyrest the debate goes on far into the night, whether or not the beard shali grow, it is time that this issue Whiskers were the first vegetables cultivated ‘by man. In cave days a man’s strength of brawn and character was measured by the length of his beard. As civilization gradually encraoched on_ primitive tribes, whiskers played an enormous and important role. They became sancti« fied. ‘‘By the Beard of the Prophet” was once a very mean cuss word. Their effect, in general, was to keep the fair sex jolly well subjugated and at the same time fascinated. The veil of the prophet, of which we hear so.much, was in fact his whiskers. Women in the Old Testament times found them irresistable. A man with long luxuriant whiskers was inevitably popular with the women. He could marry as many as he chose, and no mangy bearded, or short haired fellow in the tribe dared question his right. We suspect that Esau was expelled from his home and tribe by ‘his dear old dad, not because he had done anything especially wrong, but because in his altogether he was clothed from head to foot in whiskers, constituting therefore a challenge and a menace to the peace and happiness of tribal leaders. Oldsters of today will recall the Mormons. They grew mighty manes. ‘They knew no scissors, much less razors. They just naturally attracted women, who, lured by the same he and the other retiring officials curiosity which prompted Bluepbeard’s wives to open the secret, door, married the hirsute followers . of Joseph Smith to find out just . what kind of creature it was that) Jurked behind the whiskers. . In pre-Revolutionary days, following a fad of the English court, men took to shaving The Father of his country was clean shaven. But after the British had been licked and the United States of America had been} declared independent, it was notic. .able that many women believed they had been freed by the same sword and musket that had freed the men. They became uppity and difficult. Our male ancestors knew instinctively-what to do in these cirecumstances. They retreated in good order to cover, They grew and lay in ambush behind their whiskers again. And once again women assumed their proper place in the home. The mark of a good wife in the Forties,: Fifties and Sixties was a woman who fondly combed and cur-} ried her husband’s whiskers and kept them clean and flowing. The mark of a termagant, a very, rare phenomenon in those days, was a woman who flew into a terrible temper and wrapping her little hands her good man‘s beard tried to tear his head from his shoulders. in After the Civil War whiskers became diversified.: Men tried different styles to suit their type of beauty. teneral: Burnsides gave his name to the flowing side chops that figure so much in old family albums. There was the Imperial, closely resembling the chin adornment of the male goat. The Imperial begot a degenerate offspring known as the. Goatee. The Van Dyke was imported from abroud from Paris colonies or artists too poor to buy razors. It covered the face fairly well, but the chin area still grew the Imperial or the Goatee. The Shoe Brush was a refinement of the full bushed whiskers of the frontiersmen. With the advent of church socials and husking bees men discovered that the full bush beard. was a handicap at the table. Gravy and bits of food were frequently lost. So it became the style to shave all of the map around the mouth, leaving a clearing where food and drink could be assimulated without handicaps. This fashion left a stiff fringe of beard. round the jaws and under the chin. This was a double advantage, for the ugly gymnastics of the Adam’s apple were ‘thus concealed. Some antiquarians date the first discovery of sanitation in American history to #he milk strainer, but erudite students now generally attribute the introduction of the Shoe Brush’ whiskers as the first step in sanitary uplift. The Shoe Brush was popular in California as soon es razors began to come around. the t Vol. 10. No. 49. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS HONOR R.LP. BIGELOW R. L. P. Bigelow, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest. area, today having reached the age limit, retires from the Forest Service. Many honors are being shown him. Marks of appreciation both from his comrad and fellow officers in the service, and from the hundreds of friends he has made in his long residence and ad+ ministration of his ofifice in Nevada City, are being showered upon hi. Last night it was the Nevada City Rotary club whi@h gave a dinner in his honor at Gene’s Cafe. The event was a “ladies night’? and many old friends and neighbors of Mr. Bigelow joined.in the merry festivity. Ih the assembly room of National Forest Service headquarters in San Francisco last Saturday over 209 Forest Service men gathered to give Mr. Bigelow, J. A. Barrett, assistant forester of the regional office, and Hale Mace, forest ranger of the Sierra National Forest, who had also reached the age limit, an ovation befitting the occasion. Mr. Begilow was presented with an oil painting of the beautiful Sierra Buttes, the most outstanding promontory of his wide domain. He also received a volume of letters written by his associates in the service. This meeting was followed by a luncheon in the Town club at which were guests of honor. OFFSIDER FINED $15 CAMPTONVILLE, April 29.—Miss Loretta O’Connor of Mary: Ville, who by Traffic Officer A. J: Ponta last week on a charge of havwas cited ing no operator's’ leense and being on the wrong side of the road, entered a plea of guilty Tuesday in the local justice court. Judge Acton M. Cieveland dismissed the charge of not having an operator’s license upon presentation of license in court. A fine of $15 was assessed for being on the wrong side of the highway. Horn. Other specially California . styles were the Grandee, in which . the moustache joined smoothly into . the side chops. These were permittea . to broom out, giving the male map. ! the wide handsome appearance of a . tom-cat. The Grandee, of course, was adopted from the Spanish dons, and another early beard style was! Don Gaspar de Portola, which . resembled the Imperial but} In the the closely was permitted to grow longer. high winds it was tucked into waistcoat. In the Seventies of meetings swept over the land. From the the Deacon. California Deacon like the wild broom along our moutatin road sides There were infinite varieties of this famous beard but one characteristic was common—the smooth shaven upper lip. Ministers set’ the fashion for their congregations. Besides affording abundant cover, the Deacon whiskers offered special advantages in coffee drinking and kissing. Where kigging had formerly pleasure. Piety. and romance were wedded. a, wave camp meeting was evolved From Maine to whiskers spread camp In the Gay Nineties women came out of the bushes, so to speak. They grew tired of living with whiskers. The most beautiful women began to marry bare faced men. In a few years all facial brush had been cut, Man capitulated and hauled down the flag of his masculinity. Men’s faces reflected their thoughts, and women perceiving for the first time what men thought about, more and more took to the divorce courts. Many men who really loved their wives cultivated a-poker face, but it was no substitute for whiskers. It is hoped that this Whisker revival in Nevada City, done in the spirit of fun, will arouse in the mind of man the thought of his lost empire. It is hoped that, once having resumed his natural. charm, his bush, behind which he can retreat for peace of mind and meditation, many a man will be wise and courageous enough to keep, to cherish and to defend the sacred badge of . day his manhood. SUBSCRIPTION FUND TO REHABILITATE FAMILY CAMPTONVILLE, April 30.— The home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood located in the upper town was completely destroyed by fire at 9 o’clock Friday /morning. The fire started in the attic from a defective lue and when discovered by Mrs. Woods the whole roof was in flames. A few of the WPA crew who were working near town responded, all the rest of the men being at a distance out of town, but nothing could be done to save the building. Very little of the contents were saved, and the family.dog, chainea to thexporch, was badly singed before being rescued. Woods, who was working in the gravel pot on the local WPA project was informed of the disaster, returning in time to find all his possessions lost. The building was owned by Mrs. Rachael M. Labadie, who had no insurance on the property. The loss is estimated at about $800 for the building in addition to the household effects of the unfortunate family. On-suggestion of Louie E. Bullington a subscription list was started Friday for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Henry ‘Wood to assist them in re-establishing themselves in a home after they had lost everything when the house in which they resided burned down Friday morning. It is also expected to provide them with clothing. Up to Saturday noon the list read as follows: Louie E. Bullington $1.00; Lola B. Cleveland, $1.00; Myron Pauly, $1.00; Meek Mercantile Co., $1.00; Acton M. Cleveland, $1.00; M. R. Carlson, $1.00; Davia Lewis, $1.00; W. M. Brown, $1.00; B. Spencer, $1.00; James F. Knick, $5.00; Ff. B: Hanson, $1200: Jack. Titus, $1.00; Supervisor W. J. Mellon, $2.00. Contributions may be left at the Camptonville store. TRI-COUNTY WOMEN PREPARING SOUVENIRS The tri-county unit, consisting of Nevada, Placer and ElDorado counties, of the California Federation of Women’s clubs are making preparation for the state convention which will be held on May 16. That day is to be marked by a_ gathering at Marshall’s monument at Colma. It is expected that 260 members of the California Federation will be present, The unit preparing souvenirs for each womenthere present. The souvenirs will be small neat boxes containing a collection of ore specimens, petrified limestone. tri-county is wood and STUDENTS X-RAYED _ IN MEDICAL TEST X-Rays-have been-taken this the lungs of 28 boys and girls of the Nevada City high school. These photographs will be sent to an expert in Francisco ‘who. will read them and their report to Dr. B. W. Hummelt who through the school authorities will communicate the results to the parents of the students, The X-rays were taken of

the lungs of the students who showed a positive reaction to the preliminary tuberculin test. The positive reaction does not person has tuberculosis but merely shows that the germ is present and may be latent or active. The X-ray will complete the diagnosis. The tests of the high school students have been made _ possible through funds in the hands of the local Red Cross authorities receive 4 from the sale of Christmas seals. CHARGE AGAINST TIBERT AND SISTER DISMISSED Sheriff Carl Tobiassen was advised yesterday by Chief of Police Lou M. Gammell of Reno that the district attorney there has dismissed the charges against Arthur Tibert and his sister Alberta Tibert, who were accused of having kidnapped Tibert’s young daughter, on the streets of Reno, It developed that Tibert had a court order issued by a Los Angeles judge giving him custody of his child. The Tiberts ,. were out on bail, after having spent Sunnight in the county jail here following their arrest on’ a warrant from Reno. : week of San indicate that the. SCOUTS’ SPRINGCAMPOREE T0 BE HELD IN NEY. CO. The. Spring Camporee of the Tahoe Area Council to be held May 16 and 17 in Nevada County, will rate the patrols eligible .to attend the Northern California Camporal at Sacramento October 10 and 11 according to a decision.made at a recent meeting of Northern California Scout Executives. In order to give additional practice in patrol camping many of the Tahoe Council districts are holding district camporees under the direction of their district commissioners. : c Oscar A. Kirkham, Associate Regional Scout Executive of Salt Lake City, will be presént to take part in the Saturday evening campfire, and to take charge of.the Sunday morning Scout service. He has asked to meet with all Scout leaders also Sunday morning. The selection for the site is being left, to George Schrader of Nevada City and Harry Goudge of Grass Valley. Each patrol will present themselves at 4 p. m. Saturday prepared to go into camp overnight exemplifying outdoor activities of scouting including organization, tenting, cooking and campfire programs. Closing ceremonies and awards will conclude the 24 hour camp. From 25 to 40 patrols are expected to participate for the opportunity to go to the Northern California Camporal at Sacramento. WHISKERINO CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED MAY 5 With more than hundred Whiskerinos expected Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock from Auburn and ville, a huge mass meeting vada City men has ‘been that night, May 5, in Armory Hall where this city’s Whiskerino club will be organized under the chairmanship of Ted Janiss. There will be inaugurated the famous whiskerino kangaroo’ court, the august tribunal before which al! bare faced males will be sorted out. Those presenting . certificates of whisker incapacity from any certified veterinarian, will be given ‘‘exempt” cards, while those who prefer to wield the razor and will be accomodated. Officers of the Nevada. City Whiskerino club will be elected at this meeting and their duties defined. In Grass. Valley it that nearly many blossoming as in this city, and Janiss issues a cordial invitation to all candidates for membership in the Whiskekino club in Grass Valley tu attend this meeting. Roseof Necalled for pay .a fine noticeable is as whiskers are BIG AUDIENCE APPLAUDS TWO SENIOR DRAMAS A good sized audience of local citizens was in attendance at the Nevada Theatre Thursday evening, when the members of the Senior Class of the Nevada City high schoo entertained with two plays, ‘‘Three Cornered Moon” and “The Wedding.’”’ Both productions received the plaudits of the audiences, and both were worthy of the praise they received. The full cast of the players appeared in Monday’s Nugget with the exception of one member whose name, Everett Brown, who played the part of the groomsman in ‘“‘The Wedding,” was inadvertently omitted. FOREST SPRINGS PUPILS TO GIVE P. T. A. PROGRAM the Forest The program feawill meet this afternoon —§ at given by groups from Springs school. tures will be musical under the direction of Mrs. Libby. The students will. provide their own scenery sets for their program. These are reported to be unusually —interesting from a standpoint of both coloring and drawing. Following the program Principal Waiter Carlson will give a talk on Public Schools Week. This is the week that parents are especWORK MAY START . received the recommendation of both For State (By H. M, LEETE) It was announced early this morning that R. L, P. Bigelow, who retired yesterday from the National Forest Service, in which he has, for almost 28. years,.been supervisor in this, the Tahoe National Forest, wil! be a candidate for State Senator in the coming election. Three counties, Nevada, Sierra and Placer, constitute this senatorial district, and in these counties no man is better known and has more friends than Bigelow. Over this area he has been#the forest supervisor for.over a generation. He has been the friend of every forward movement in the counties. He has cooperated with Grass Valley, Auburn, Nevada City, Downieville, in fact all the communities in, or adjoining, the Tahoe Forest in building roads, bridges, fire.trails, telephone lines, recreational camps, and mary another project that improved communications among the people of the mountains, protected their Cities and homes from ravaging forest» fires, and attracted to the mountains an ever increasing number of tourists and campers whose spending has helped to bring prosperity to the mountain counties. Putting his shoulder to the wheel Mr. Bigelow for years advocated the Rim-of-the-Lake road along Tahoe’s western shore, and the Yuba Pass road. It was largely due to his tenacity of purpose and far seeing visFRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936. R. L. P. Bigelow In Race Senatorshipion that these roads were finally completed, and are today traversed by thousands of motorists, who find along those-routes the most gorgeous scenery in the Sierras. These roads were perhaps’ the crowning achievements of the forest service in this area in the last twenty years. Several agencies of course were concerned in their construction, Federal funds other than the forest service, and state funds were drawn upon to pay the cost, but all forces had to be conciliated and co-ordinated in building the two great mountain highways, and that infatigable coordinator and co-operator was R. L. P. Bigelow. With this announcement of his candidacy for the office for state senator, hundreds of friends will stand ready to back him in his race. There is not a man, woman or child in the three counties which he seeks to represent in state legislature, who is not a beneficiary of Mr. BigeJow’s far-flung forest activities during. the long years in which he was forest supervisor. It is\seldom that a man of Mr. Bigelow’s\character and calibre can be induced run for public office. His candigacy affords an opportunity which the people of this» district too seldom aré offered, to elect a man whose devotion to the welfare of the three counties has been demonstrated in so many ways. ON DEBRIS DAMS IN NINETY DAYS i Late word from Congressman . Harry L. Englebright is to the effect that prospects are bright for the beginning of construction on the debris dams on the Yuba, Bear and Middle and North Forks of,the American rivers within 90 days. With the appropriation of sufficient funds for the first year’s .construction works passed the senate, the War Appropriations Bill, of which the dam funds are a part, is now in a house conference awaiting changes and additions to projects other than the debris dams. Having . houses and the War Department, unRAIL BOARD TO HALT UNLICENSED TRUCK TRAFFIC Herbert W. Kerrigan, statistician for the California Rablroad Commission, was-in Nevada and Sierra counties Monday and Tuesday making a check of unlicensed rucks which are using the highways. He states that in a very short time inspectors for the commission will -be in this field-to tag unlicensed truck operators and put. a stop to their illegal activities. : He stated that to bring ahout orderly competition, to place every trucking corcern and individual truck owner on an equal basis of rate making and a decent living profit, and to give the shipper and the pubwhose will be construction will start~shortly after . . July st, this year, when the funds} become available. der jurisdiction the dams . built, Englebright feels one Arising to‘a situation, which vice-. , California Says. president C. E. Clark of Hydraulic Mining Association, “May never come to: Us placer mining interests throughont: the state have signed up far more yardage than sufficient to for the construction of the dams but the sign-up is being continued so as to give the smaller operator an equal opportunity for storage and to give an idea as to future storage that will be necessary. SIERRA COUNTY MINE > SOLD TO SYNDICATE The Alaska, formerly the SierraAlaska mine of Pike City one of Sierra county’s notable producers, with a record of grossing $1,650,000 for former operators, has. been sold to New again,’ is pay a syndicate of Los Angeles, York and Chicago interests. Richard Travers, of Los Angeles, who announced the deal, said the 150 ton mill, 150 horse power double drum hoist, shops, boarding house and other surface buildings are in good condition. Mr, R. C. BHisenhauer, engineer, had. another company developing the! iin blasting operations. Larger pumps ~ property over a period of several months but they closed last spring when they found they could not give their “undivided attention to operations, as they were operating other mines in the west. This company spent several thousand dollars reconditioning the surface buildings and equipment, re-timbered the _ shaft collar, and repaired the drain tunnel. Underground streams producing a heavy flow of water hindered operationws and closed the mine years ially invited to visit the schools. ) . sion to regulate the use of lic a dependable, uninterrupted highway service for the transportation of property at reasonable rates, the srg Acts were decided upon. ‘These Railroad Commispublic highways by motor vehicles operat> power to the ing for profit. And this is precisely what the Railroad Commission now attempting to do. Commission representatives are going into the field to aid the truck operators and to faeilitate the filing of applications, which must be made with insuranee policies attached, and must be sent to the Transportation Department, State Building. San Francisco. is WHISKERINOS Mr. Ted Janiss, chairman of the Whiskerino Club. of Nevada City, spoke for ten minutes Tuesday evening before the 20-30 Club of Grass Valley. Mr. Janiss talked on tite Whiskerino Club’ and his remarks” were received with enthusiasm. He expects a 100 per cent whiskerino response from Grass Valley. There were a fiumber of persons at the meeting with handsome beards. Miss Katherine Celio left Wednesday for Los Angeles with friends and will spend a few days in the southern city. t grade or jewelry rock was uncovered and present methods of mining will — overcome obstacles which hindered development in the past. The property consists of 450 acres «having more than two miles of un derground workings. Developme has gone to the 600 foot level. Eisenhauer, engineer, who rece examined the property. believes of the six veins probably join the 200 foot level where high y ago, and when it is understood high —_ should be found.-It is stated to start at once. ‘