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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

May 10, 1937 (6 pages)

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Large selection of every type of card used on Mothers Day. Also mottoes, * 5c UP Mother’s Day Candy Gales Florentine and Spun Aluminum packages—$1.00 and $1.50 Saylors Special Boxes $1.00 Up Also many beautiful items in sta,fionery, toiletries, perfumes, ete. Most suitable as gifts for Mother. eS The current issue of Sunset Masgazine carries a clear beautiful picture of the private park of R. J. Bennetts in Nevada City. The picture of Mr. Bennetts who is standing on the flight of steps is also good. This park is one of the most notable scenic man made spots in all the Sierras. He has transformed a rough gulch into. rock gardens, terraces of flowering shrubs and flowers, pools, . evergreen trees, shrubs, and flower beds, BICYCLE SPILE INJURES LAD Little Billie Hatch received a gash on his head and a broken front tooth Wednesday evening when he took 2 spill while riding on his _ bicycle PHONE 100 THE REXALL DRUG STORE Prescription Specialists with a little chum after leaving the Gold Flat school. In some way the bicycle went out of balance throwing the boys to the pavement. T. Carigeegesfestecderteteeg tet iertestendeatestetecteedeetenterissiecieotestetestes doce fee for ser ge ls MH rs Ne st Si ie Sac oe Meat ts Helos at he sh st "as One of these smart occasional tables (unfinished hardwood) free with each $2.50 purchase of Fuller Paints.* Seleloioeitey . Og Supply limited.” Offer holds = only from Apr. 26-May 8, incl.Look around your home z now. Note the spots that 5% % need freshening and brightening. Then jot down your paint list and see us right away. It'll pay you to shop early because our supply’ of these free tables is limited. (Only one to a.customer.) i, aou ‘7 s Alpha St Grass Valley Phone 88 *Make a $2.50 purchase of any of these Fuller Paints — and you get the table free Fuller Pure Prepared Paint—Fuller Porch and Deck Paint—Decoret Enamel—Fullerwear Floor Enamel—Lin-Bar Varnish— Speedite Interior Varnish—Fullerspar Exterior Varnish—Fullerglo Interior Finish jin. WT Sa Ue oto Sa ie aac se afesterteaferferesfesiesfeofestesteaerteafe siete niente fertesteaiefestesieaten Y rt S s, Ltd Nevada City Phone 5 ie he tfettereste te res ~ Al tastes! % Pa 2 ce 2 a hoeiaieieitin’ oa a oa Circus Grounds, MARYSVILLE TWO PERFORMANCES, 2 and s P.M. TUES. MAY Lafayette Square COOLE tained. UNION ICE HAS FINEST AIR CONDITIONED REFRIGERATION Moist circulating air protects delicate foods. Flavors reLowest priced perfect refrigeration NEW SHIPMENT—Come in and see them. Small ones for apartments, family size, and larger. FRED SAUVEE, Manager Telephone—Nevada City 57 RATOR COMPANY Practical mining tests from 25 to Mail order check: work Ast ‘for. New ‘York-California “ Capital pf California. a oe AUTOMOBILE _ NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE . percentage of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Fire pearance Companies. E. J. N. OTT, ene 1000 pounds, giving the free gold promptly attended to. Underwriters, Westchester and ¥E INSURANCE toseelli coming along in his car picked Billie up and took him to Dr. B. W. Hummelt, waiting until the injury was dressed and-returned the boy to his home on Clark street. REVOLT AGAINST NEW DEAL H.C.0L. BERKELEY, May 10.—Claiming that farmers are unjustly. being blamed for skyrocketing prices of vital necessities. Mrs. Mary Cleverdon, president of the California Housewives League has. hurled the threat of a buyers’ strike unless the cost of-living comes down. Ina letter to President Roosevelt, which contained a sharp warning to member@ of the state legislature. ‘Mrs, Cleverdon said in part: “In a meeting held in the Oakland city hall Wednesday afternoon, April 28, the Housewives League went on record as commending your action in calling a halt to further price fixing legislation by our Corngress. “We are strongly opposed to price fixing legislation either by our government at Washington or at Sacra“mento, believing it grossly unfair to the consuming public and wrong in principle. It is a generally recognized fact that consumers everywhere are unorganized and are therefore unable to defend . themselves against the injustice of price control. “Housewives everywhere.are complaining about the control in the milk industry, which, in our opinion penefits only the milk trust and the big and uowerful city distributors. We are well aware of the powerful milk lobby working both at Washington and in our legislature now in session in Sacramento, and, in the name of the undernourished children in our nation, .we hereby protest to you. The situation housewives and calls for the abolishingvof thé artificial controls exercised by federal and state authorities. “Wases of workers everywhere have not\kept pace with increased costs of the.necessities of life. These least able to pay them. “The artificial contro] set up and exercised by city distributors everywhere is responsible in a very large has never been a milk war in California that has not been paid\for by the dairy farmers. The city distributors, through their organizations who eontrol the avenues of distribution, pass on the cost to the producer. He must pay the bill or lose the market for his milk. She producers and consumers are the victims of these price raising schemes. “The housewives League was organized during the World War, and learned then how to deal with profiteers. It is our determination now to use the same methods we: used during the war—reduce our consupmtion and to use all the influence of our organization toward this end. Housewives everywhere will cooperate in this movement. They always have.’’ NO. 3761 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Nevada School District will receive bids for furnishing all labor, material, transportation, and services for the furnishing of equipment,for the Nevada City Elementary School building liocated at Nevada City, California. Bids will be asked for on school desks, miscellaneous classroom equipment, auditorium chairs, stage equipment, and venetian blinds. Each bid shall be made out on a iform to be obtained at the office of Wm. Mooser, Architect, 244 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, or from E. M. Rector, Chairman Building Committee, Bank of America, Nevada City, California, must be accompanied by a Certified or Cashiers’ Check, or bid bond for 5% of the amount of the bid, made payable to the order of P. G. Seadden, Clerk of Board of Education, Nevada City; California; shall be sealed and filed with P. G. Seadden, Clerk of Board of Education, Nevada City, California; on or before Monday May 3, 1937, at. 12 noon, o’clock, of that day, and will be opened and publicly read aloud at or about Four P. M. o’clock of that day, in the Elementary School Building, Nevada City, California. The above mentioned gheck or bond shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder will enter into contract if awarded the same, and will be declared forfeited if the successful bidder refuses to enter into said contract after being requested so to do by the Board of Education of the Nevada School District. The Board of Education of the Nevada School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids and ——or waive any informality or irregularity in bid. Dated, Nevada City, California, April 12, 1937. NEVADA SCHOOL DISTRICT By J. F. Colley, President. P. G. Scadden, Clerk of Board. Dates published: Mon. Apr. 19, Mon. NEVADA. city NUGGET Ww holly. is intolerable to . HYDRAULIC MINERS ASSN. ELECTS OFFICERS MAY 15 The postponed meeting of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will meet Saturday, May 15 at the Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley. In the meantime ballots will be mailed to members for return to the secretary prior to the opening of the May 15 meeting. The list of nominees, as made at the Auburn meeting on April 16 follows: For president: .George W. Hallock, Alleghany;. A. H. Turner, Colfax. For vice president: J. P. Hall, Au/burn. (C. E. Clark of North Bloomfield, incumbent, states he is available as a write in candidate.) For secretary: Mrs. W. C. Milton of Alta; Miss Genevieve Harvey, of Galt. Directors: North Fork American I. E. Rose; Middle Fork, George Duffy; Bear River, Ralph Ross; Yuba (District 1) E. B. Dudley, (District 2) Ross Taylor, (District
3) Dr. W. B. Hardie. It is urged that each member cast a ballot. In case of dues being delinquent, payment should accompany the ballot. CAKE WALK AND DUTCH DANCE AT MINSTRELS TUES: been a minstrel show presented in Nevada City, but tomorrow night those who remember the last one or those who don’t will be able to see for themselves an old time minstrel show. The show is presented by the Nevada Clty High School ComM4ined Choruses, under the excellent direc+jonof. Mrs. Libby. The. ‘‘Dixie Minstrels’’ will provide for interested listeners dances, solos, jokes and songs. The highlight dance of the evening will be the ‘‘Floradora Sextette’”’ dance troupe, consisting of six girls and six boys. This dance will undoubtedly prove entertaining with high prices fall heaviest upon those . . ties. measure for our farm problem. There , the dresses and steps of the gay nineDancing to the songs of the ipeasant, the “French Peasant” dance, which consists of all girls, will contrast with.the gay ninety number the dances of the two -coun. tries. Still another country comes itnto the headlines in the dance, in the “Dutch Dance‘ with boys and girls dancing to the German tune, “Oh, where, oh where, has my little dog gone?’ The ‘‘cake walk’’ dance numbber is being kept a secret even from ‘the rest of the Minstrel show performers and will surprise _ all. The “end men’’ of the Show will entertain, the audience with, jokes old and new and keep the show going. The ‘“Pickaninnies’’ will tap to a rea] old southern tune and show that they ‘‘have rythm.”’ six solos wil!-be given by the end me nand many beautiful songs will be.sung by the entire company. The important job of interlocketer is being filled by Dick Tuttle. There are other surprises in store for attenders and those who go will ‘get their moneys worth.’’ The admission price is forty cents, seats may be reserved at Foleys’ Confectionery on Pine street? It will be given at the Nevada Theatre. There will be .a matinee Tuesday afternoon. IMPROVEMENTS BYP.GE.WILL . COST $61,000 Costing in excess of $61,000 and planned to improve service on its properties in the neighborhood of Auburn and Grass Valley, the building program of the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company is already under way, according to Division: Manager H. M. Cooper. Foremost item of. expeniture is $36,500 to replace four 300 KVA transformers with four 1000 KVA. transformers at Rocklin sub-station and increase primary capacity from Rocklin to Penryn sub-station. This ‘. will provide additional capacity and relieve Wise power house from any overload. Facilities serving the Placer county hospital at Auburn are.to be replaced and rearranged in order to provide service for the nex annex (being built there, and distribution facilities for the Grass Valley business district will also be reconstruted and -rearranged. Installation of additional circuits to improve voltage conditions in Grass Valley; concrete flume to the Chalf Bluff improve reliability and accuary. of’ measumement of water delivered to Apr. 26, Mon. May 3, 1937. addition of new con-. : Its been a long time since there’s . Approximately . ‘eanal near. Deer ;Creek . Ferebay to], " SOPHOMORES PRESENT PROGRAM aa In the activity period Friday the program was presented by the sophomore class. Karl Kopp, sophomore, acted as master of ceremonies and introduced the following numbers: Tap dance by Elton Tobiassen;: song by Georgia Glennon; musical reading by Laura Price; play, ‘‘At the Soda Fountain’? with. the following char. : acters: Bernice McQuay, Laurel Biggs, Evelyn Elliott, Georgia Glennon, Doreen Foreman, Wilfred Joyal, Carlos Casmore and Virginia Carney; Clarinet trio,. Virginia Carney, Bernice McQuay and Doreen Fore; man; cornet solo, Bill Dent; and piano duet, Evelyn Lotz and John Muscardini, Mr. L. E. Sweeney is the class advisor and Virginia Carney is the class president. An assembly by the Social Science Class will be givon this Friday. Nevada Irrigation district, and various minor replacements and improvements complete the _ present project. i HOTEL CLUNIE 8th and K Streets Sacramento $1.50 to $2.50 per day deen CLUB RENDEZVOUS COCKTAIL BAR AND COFFEE SHOB MODERATE PRICES QUICK SERVICE Breakfast. ........ 25c, 40c, 50c Luncheon ....... 45¢c and 50c Dinner .....:. 65c, 75c and $1.00 sfeebeceofeofe Open Ali Night K) (SUP our AND . ALKA: PEER How many times has a Headache ruined your d4y’s work— spoiled your evening’s pleasure? Users of Alka-Seltzer say that AlkaSeltzer gives unusually prompt and effective relief from Headache. Alka-Seltzer for Acid -Indigestion, Muscular, Rheumatic, and Sciatic ains. Alka-Seltzer contains an analgesic (Acetyl-Salicylate) for pain relief. Its: vegetable and mineral alkalizers correct the cause when due to hyperacidity of the stomach. At your drug store soda fountain < and in 30 and 60 cent packages for home use. BE WISE-ALKALIZE! . ‘THE SUN PRODUCE AND GROCERY CO . Fresh Fruits and Vegetables FREE DELIVERY 315 Broad Street Phone 8&8 is the food that furnishes the variety Food Value, Flavor, Satisfaction to the dinner > Serve—Lamb Chops, Pot Roast * og Standing Roast, Veal Stew, % Beef Stew, Lamb Stew, Our Special Hamburger »Pork Chops, Veal Cutlets 7 Commercial Street, Nevada City % PHONE 67 Ee a. oe ee ee ole he ole We le Se ie ec he —AND— COFFEE SHOP Nevada City, California e¢ ¢ We Specialize in SUNDAY DINNERS 60c TO 80c e¢ @ 12 (Noon) to 8:30. p. m. OUR BUSINESS HAS BEEN BUILT UPON COURTEOUS SERVICE OF QUALITY MEATS KEYSTONE MARKET CALANAN & RICHARDS FEAL AIDS Mees reer Me wheats ra RA af ; FRATERNAL A AND CLUB DIRECTORY E HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, ' N. S. G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at . Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street. . Visiting ‘Native Sons welcome. . ALLEN JONES, President. LDR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Ree. Sec’y. ny WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and fourth Mondays of the month, at the Brand Studio. Mrs. James Penrose. Mrs. Charles Elliott. Pres., Sec., Nevada City Lodge, No. 518, B. P. O. Elks Meets second and fourth Friday evenings in Elks home, Pine Street. Phone 108. Visiting Elks welcome. ROLAND WRIGHT, Pxalted Ruler .PHILLIP SCADDEN, Secretary. Be Comfortable Get Your . .\MATTRESSES Repaired and Cleaned by John W. Darke Commercial St. Nevada City 109 J. Phones 109M. $450 to $250 te ‘ Desirable, Economical Comfortable, Convenient ’ ? 161 PovweEete AT O’FARRELL VISUAL. DEFECTS PROPERLY CORRECTED NEVADA COUNTY “. Banner Gold County of ° California Annual production over ~ $7,000,000 For Information Address Chamber of Commerce Nevada City, Calif. — om L