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LOMOMLIING Re eons ae ete te tie Ne eee ees
(By H. M. 1.)
We feel like throwing away our
nat and giving three cheers, The
victory for new schoo] buildings was
‘remendously satisfying. The two*hirds majority called .for was real‘y, in the case of the grammar school
16 to 1, which is strangely remindjul of William Jennings Bryan. The
majority in favor of the high school
honds was around 7 to 1, and‘ while
not so whole-heartedly an endorsement as'in the case of the grammar
school, it is still far from Jean triaumph. In any case this city reveals a
Vol. IX, No. 96. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA
The GOLD Cente:
YELLOWJACKETS
FAST GRIDDERS
iront more nearly united than
other community in this writer’s exmerience.
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The repeated vote, for the mun
cipal swimming pool, and its final
victory. and realization, should have
heen an index to the temper of Nevada City in matters affecting its} — of : ;
The Auburn outfit had remained vic.
advancement. But when a great : : aa :
; : torious for that long until last week
cause hangs in the balance, too often
j i : encounter: when’ the Purple and
we disregard the plain sign posts ‘ :
eee ah : Gold eleven changed the set-up. Tha
erected in the past, and give way to; ~ : : :
: e is a fact, and the fact that Auburn de
jitters. The: great rallying of citiz . — : : :
feated Roseville already this sea
ens and practically all organization
the support of: the bond
considering the short time there wa
for such activity, really amaz
It is not easy to assume such
hurden as these
‘out it is well worth while.
10
bonds will
When the
down on the job and permitted Ja-!
pan to take Manchuria away fron
China, it made history. On Monday}! Stilt practice In preparation
when the League of
formally voted lialy the agressor ir
the war with Ethiopia. and
ast
is now
moving toward economic and financial sanctions, it made history of annot complain
*oo0 much of this inequal application
this country
nine murderers escape the hemp and
the tenth hangs. The point is, the
League ‘is now functioning as President Wilson expected it to function,
Other kind. We need
‘f League justice. In
what ever its delinquencies in
Hast.
If the League of, Nations really!
sees through with the application
rt economic
‘end the, Italian war upon the Ethiofians is long drawn out, as military
experts predict it will the sanc-~
ultimately will defeat italy.
that country must depend
sustainance upon ‘impprtations,
be,
rions
Bt
For for
applied and it seems probable Engtand will the war
may ‘be much shortened,
press for those,
Finally, if the League is successany
issue
a
impose,.
League of Nations lay
Nations
the! plan if all works out as it should.
and financial sanctions :
{ft.
military sanctions are ordered to bel
When the Nevada City Yellowjac
kets took the Apburn B squad to th
last ‘Saturday, they wer
is
cleaners
ST
s!
! tomorrow s game. At
liskeoraoon. the locals will meet Rose
ville for
the
on
the second League
year. The
the Nevada
con
test of game
played City
}, outcome, are putting in long hours
the game.
n With Ray Steger, flashy right end,
ri; still on
Yellowjackets will be
morrow or not,
. practice tonight. That is: the present
. Citizens are invited to attend this
‘. game to watch last week’s victors
attempt to keep the loss side of the
i tally column clean through the league
season,
CCCBOYSFIND
“JOBS QUICKLY
Oct. 10.—The
Conservation Corps constitutes one of the .most_ effective
means of eventually getting emCivilian
FRANCISCO,
ser saath
ul in its efforts to enforce peace in
the Italo-Ethiopian instance, it will
thave immeasurably increased
_. authority and prestige in the world. .
The. time may not be so far away, in,
ieed, that war will be outlawed, and
that nations, to. limit populations
beyond the supporting capacity of
heir land and natural resources,
will be forced to resort to birth control, Better unborn millions, than
millions suffering famine and slaughThe United’ States, in declaring
an embargo on arms and munitions
‘to either belligerent, the first great
nation to do so, is indirectly work;
ing with the League of Nations. More
important, it is pursuing rigidly that
policy of isolation advocated by its
first President. Wealthy beyond any
other country on earth, still with
vast areas within itself for an expanding population, the United
States can make this policy effect.
ive. But the time will come when
the United States will find it a better policy to join with other nations
in enforcing peace. Swift transportation and the trade needs of one nation with another has” made this
world one great community, in
which one member nation depends
vitally upon the others. The American people, for the time being are
80 well situated that it is much easier to endure the hardships of neutrality in foreign quarrels, than to
participate in them. Ultimately we
shall have to join with our neighbors across the seas in some form
of international administration
justice.
TRIED FOR THEFT
The case of the People vg. Wells
was heard in Judge W. L. Mobley’s
court yesterday afternoon. Attorney
W. E. Wright represented the defendant, Dick Wells. Mr. Wells was
arrested on a wararant sworn out
by.-Mr. T. Larsen, for the alleged
theft of windows and doors from
buildings on the Omega mine property, recently. After the hearing the
_ €ase was submitted to. Judge Mobley for a decision.
its .
of?
pPloyment,-according to statistics re‘ceived from Washington by Datyon
; Jones, director of the CCC service in
i California.
MOuring the two years that the CCC
have been in existence a survey of
the employment satus of former
members of the corps shows a con
. stantly increasing percentage~ of
those who leave the camps. fina
work, Jones stated.
A. survey of the first six month
period of the Emergency Conservation Work showed that 19.2 per “
j;cent of the men had found employ. .
ment on leaving the CCC.
The second survey covering the
second six-month period of the CCC
ishowed an increase to 36.4 of the
men who found work after leaving
the camps.
The survey of the third six-month
. period showed a falling off of those
‘who ‘found jobs upon leaving the
camps when the number amounted
to only 22.8 per cent.
The fourth and last survey for the
six months period ending August
81, however, showed a total of 39.4
per cent of the men found work upon leaving the camps.
California, Jones stated, has a total of 115 of these camps more than
any other state in the Union. Approximately 5,000 replacements will be
needed during October to bring the
California camps up to their full enrollment, according to Jones.
HI GIRLS PLAY FAST
. SERIES OF BASEBALL
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. Miss Peterson, girls physical di. rector at the high school, announced Wednesday that the sophomore
and junior teams would mix on that
afternoon, followed by a frosh-junior contest on Thursday, closing the
week with a-game between the sophomore and freshmen girl teams,
this afternoon. _—These games are held after school
in the field adjoining the high
school.
Interested fans may attend free
of charge with a guarantee of good
OF ROSEVILLE
performing a little task that had not .
been taken care of for three years. .
es are reasons why the dope sheet
‘tis leaning toward the local boy® for
2:15 tomorrow ;
will be
High
School field, and the boys, far from
being over-contfident of the game's
the shelf from an ankle injufy in the Grass Valley game, the!
handicapped. }
It is not yet certain whether Steger .
will be in, condition to see action tonot Coach Barron. will . Whether or
start the game with the reserves
will depend upon the outcome of
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ead
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School Bonds Carry Te
Electors Stamp Approval on
Issue of $118,000 for Schoois —
These are the facades of the new buildings which the people of Nevada City
yesterday gave permission to the school board to build for the city’s 700> children,
with provision made for needs of the school children of the future. The new schoo!
buildings are no longer in the “proposed” state. They have been accepted.
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WILLIAM:MOOSER: JR: ARCH: &+ CHAS: RLINDLEY
PROPOSED: ADDIT1ON+TO-NEVADA:CITY< H
WILLIAM: MOOSERTIRTAREH KUCHAS a
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Nevada City took a long stride
forward , yesterday in giving the
school bonds victory.
an overwhelming
The bonds for the grammar
school carried 715 to 45, or-around
16 to 1. The high school bonds carried 672 to 88, or better than 7 to
1. It was a’ clean cut, decisive vic
tory for both issues and heralds a
better day for ‘this ‘city and. its
youngsters. ‘
Voting was slow during the mori
ing hours and by noon only 169 bat:
lots had been cast. But
noon and evening there was a steady
stream going to and from
at’ the Washington school.
of 781 votes
c)
in the alfterthe polls
A total
were cast on_ both
bond questions:
The board.of school directors, wiie .
submitted the proposals to the voters,. chose a most propitious’ time
for the election, and submitted whut
in their judgment was the minimum
amount required to place
with
schools throughout the state, and lo
Nevaia
City schools on a parity
meet the immediate imperative need
of a rapidly growing population.
Members of the school board are
receiving many commendations fo1
the manner in which they presentea
the needs of the schools to the votThe questionnaire issued with
answers was fair and thorough,
ers.
SOPHOMORE GIRLS
_WIN BASEBALL GAME
_ Nevada City high ‘sophomores
Dlayed a fast ,hard game of
ball with the freshmen Thursday afternoon, the sophomore team outplaying all the way through and wining by a scere of 12 to 1. Captains
of the teams were sophomore, Annie
Brklacich; freshmen, Jean . Martz.
If the freshmen win the game with
the juniors Friday night the sophomores will be champions, but if they
do not win the sophomores and juniors will have to play another game.
The sophomore lineup is as follows: Edna Doolittle, catcher; Annie Brklacich, pitcher;: Ruth Godfrey, first base; Madge Pianezzi,
second base; Vella Flindt, third base;
Gilda Botelli, first short; Mary
Martz, second short; Helen Provine,
first field; Ali Jean Graham, second field. :
The freshmen team was composed of: Martz pitcher; Laura
Price, Alice No;rton, first
base Irma Hurst, second base; Evelyn Elliott, second base; Norlene
. Whitney, first short Doreen -Fore. man, first field; Virginia Carney,
. second field; Catherine Saban, ihira
field. :
Dase-1
Jean
catcher
LAST RITES FOR PIONEER
Funeral services were held yesterday at Goodyear’s Bar for the
late William-B; Owens. who died in
Sacramento Tuesday. The deceased
came to California via the Isthmus
of Panama’ in 1856. He was one of
the old pioneer residents of Sierra
County. Services were conducted by
baseball from beginning to end.
Rev, H. H. Buckner of Nevada City.
HIGH BAND IN.
JUBILEE CONCERT
OVER BONDS
The school bells rang out
good news last night that the bonds
for a new grammar school and a
new high school had carried with a
big majority.
The high school band formed at
the top of Broad street and with
cheering music -jubilantly marched
down to Pine and Broad where they
gave a concert with a crowd = applauding.
Everyone was jubilant and happy that the bonds had passed. Somehow, somewhere the “‘noes’’ had disappeared.
PONEMAH COUNCIL
Mrs. Nettie Gildersleeve was honored by Ponemah Council No. 6, Degree of Pocahontas at their last regular meeting. at which a number:‘from
Ceanotha Council of “Grass Valley
were present.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lashbaugh the
Pocahontas of Ceanotha Council
presented Mrs. Gildersleeve with
gift. Mrs Carter presented her with
a. beautiful bouquet ‘in honor of her
birthday. Mrs. Gildersleeve has recently been appointed on the Great
Council of the state.
MINE BOARDING HOUSE BURNED
The two story boarding house at
the Republic mine near Graniteville
was completely destroyed by fire
Monday. The Rpublic mine has poi
)
good .
<r
rO
the !
. organization did more to promote a
. sound undtrstanding of the school
. problem facing the city, than did the
, school board. It was largely on the
. efforts of many civic and patriotic
their
,and the personal work done by such
jee be
bodies, through committees,
organizations as the two
the Chamber of Commerce, the Legand the
that
. ardused, friendly lifts to the pol
ion Veterans of. Foreign
personal interest was
.
Wars,
arranged for those without
the final count: of ballois.
L. $. SMITH INSTRUCTS
SCHOOL OF FORESTRY
Mr. Leland Smith, grazing inspector of the Tahoe National Forest,
will leave Sunday for Quincy to attend a special school. of forestry
which covers all phases of national
forest service. He will instruct a
class on grazing in national forests.
Mr. Hobson of Big Bend Ranger Station, and Mr. Bowers of Forest Hill
will attend the school as students.
CAR DOOR FLIES OPEN
AND WOMAN FALLS OUT
CAMPTONVILLE, Oct. 10.—Mrs.
Kenneth Barker of Grass Valley narrowly escaped serious injury Monday afternoon while motoring north
on the Yuba Pass highway, with her
husband. The car door came open
and she fell out, her -husband did
not miss her for a few seconds all
the while she was hanging on and
being dragged along the pavement.
She was brought to town and there
being no doctor here, she was taken to the office of Judge Acton M.
Cleveland where first aid was administered. She was considerably
bruised, cut on the head, arm, and
considerably on one foot, and badly
shocked. In a short time they were
able to continue their journey. Mrs.
Barker thankful that she was not
more seriously hurt.
Mrs. R. L. P. Bigelow, who has
been quite Seriously ill for the pasv
two months, came out for the first
time, yesterday in order to vote for
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
as-,
sociations, the Women’s Civic Club,
Is 3
CONVEY: ;
2 Poe ee =F j $ wn tot
ance, and a good showirz made in . Boy Scout Council in raising funds
. to
11, 1935.
ACCOUNTANTS
CITY INCREASED
E. Straine
completed
i
just
1 cal
and Co., who have
an audit of the fisof Nevada City ‘from
1934 to July: 1, 1935, fing wu,
. : :
fae city now has fixed assets totalaffairs
; dune 30,
. }ing $94,294.70, divided as follows:
. Water utility. $75,000; swimming
. pool and park, $17j113.92; and air. port, $2,180.78. :
. Current assets including cash and
. accounts receivable in the water de. partment total $11,326. Liabilities in
j the way of bonds outstanding total
. $43,000. Of this amount street bonds
total $36,000, swimming pool bonds
$2,000, water bonds, $1,500 and the
sewer bonds $3,500. The city’s total
surplus amounts to $62,621.51..
Excess. of revenues.over expendituresduring the past fiscal year
totaled $13,410.40. This surplus
was devoted to reducing the bonded
indebtedness by $12,900, and to improvements of the municipal pool
fand park.
Taxes during the year yielded
$15,091, licenses $8,301, water. and
‘irrigation $21,679, miscellaneous in. come $2,438.a total of $47,510. On
; the expense side of the ledger was
. tHe cost of general government, ini eluding insurance ete.,
. which $6,810, street,
and sewer departments $13,256, and
fire department $1,089.
Salaries,
amounted. to
Summarizing the result of their.
examination of the city’s books, the
accountants praised .Frank Wright,
the water collector for his excellent
handling of avater accounts, commended the improvements made in
his bookkeeping system by City Clerk
George Calanan, and in general
found good things to say regarding
the city’s: management of its fiscal
affairs. i
P.T.A.TOSTAGE.
COUNTY FAIR
The Grammar School P. T. A. of
; Nevada Cty held an executive meeting yesterday afternoon in the Public Library and voted to assist the
complete the log cabin for the .
Boy Scouts by giving a County Fair.
The fair will be under the direction
ot Mr. Christian ‘Anderson who will
be assisted by County Horticultural
Commissioner L. G. Lageson. The
big affair will be held in Armory
Hall on a Saturday evening so as to —
‘give everyone an opportunity to attend.
An exhibit from local apple growrs orchards will be made. There will
be home made quilts, fancy work,
ete. In the evening an amateur hour
is to be held after which there will
be an old fashionedbarn—dance.
The logs for this lodge have been
eut for some time and it has been
decided to build the Seout Lodge in
Pioneer Park not far from the municipal swimming pool.
RANGE CATTLE LEAVE :
FOR VALLEY PASTURES
Mr. Leland Smith, in charge of
the Tahoe National forest grazing
permits, stated Wednesday that practically all stock had been brought
off the mountain ranges in anticipated winter, there being a few small
scattered herds a total of about 2,000 head. Much of the range feed
is drying up rapidly. — ;
In this district Mr. M. Church has
300 head of cattle in the mountains
east of Nevada City; there are a few
herds near Folsom, and a small n
ber.of cattle are on the east side of
the National forest in Nevada state.
The latter stock wilk be moved as
soon as range and water can
found, which will be about the en
of this month, ~ _. c
Cattle in the Tahoe National
est this season on forest 1}
bered 6,700 head and on forest
ented land, 5,000. Sheep on
been operating for some time.
the school bonds. .
ove on forest land 32,500
and on patented land 43,500.