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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

October 17, 1938 (4 pages)

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this the ' Boulder street and Park avenue secearly in City crews started “morning cleaning gutters tions removimg fallen leaves, trash and an accumulation of other ish. A truck picked up the piles of trash as it was cleared. rub-,! allele I THIS AND THAT “y ROY GRIFFITHS “DEETER a PEPSODENT ONE CENT SALE Buy a Regular 50c bottle of Pepsodent Antiseptic and reeive for ic more another botUe of the same size. QUANTITY LiMiTED Buy Now Two 50c Bottles for 51c R. E. HARRIS THE Rexall DRUG STORE Phone 100 Nevada erackling with laughter. in SAFETY IN NUMBERS. MONDAY SPAWN OF THE NORTH Northle:-7, warring for the booty. of the ice-choked sea. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY LETTER OF INTRODUCTION with a master cast, in a drama of heart, THURSDAY RICH MAN, POOR GIRL family but they ais helped themselves. Also the Jones Family PERSCONALITIES—At the Horse} Vernon Stoll, smothered in . his elegant nose, an elegant! eone! (You shovld have seen ours, talk, about a BEACON!) Mr: and Mrs. John Gaskins watching events . with keen interest. Ed Burtner, the only person we saw who looked real-. ly warm and comfortable. Mrs. Lagerson and young son, the latter really equipped for the affair, ten galbinoculars comShow. Pa igs, lon Hat, rug and WE ARE STILL taking our hat off to the Chamberlain, adverse press ' notwithstanding. We received some “very interesting commiunications ‘from London recently. There peoi ple go out and buy gas masks as easlually as we would handkerchiefs. 3ut what really brought the sitnation into a brilliant and glaring ae aene was the fact that spare . bedrooms in London homes were con‘verted in AIR AID SHELTERS! We ; Americans, should we find ourselves lin a similar position, would doubtless also chorus lustily for peace at Theatre With George Raft, in a drama of men tough as the Artic Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, moving and human, yet With the whimsical Robert Young. He wanted to help her eee Projects radiant heat in Floor. have directed heat. Radiant rays, that warm every surface sides of the new Superfex places.. See our display. Nevada City Phone 5 i y occas Wiis, "Jo b4H heat with tle BURNS OIL SUPERFEX 0:0 draéeg HEATERS Made by PERFECTION STOVE COMPANY desired direction..Warms the . See a Demonstration.. NOW, any stove-heated home can touch, are sent out by the patentod heat-directing shutters on three mechanical parts..No drafts to regulate..No dirt, dust or ashes: Models for small or large homes and business Alpha Stores, Ltd. heat. they ag es Heat-Director..No moving Grass Valley Phone 88 (Political Advertisement) You Will Pay More Under A Single Tax The single tax, which_ appears as proposition 20 on the November ballot, was designed by a few theoretical men who believed that there should be no private ownership of land. In other words they saw no reason why people should own their own homes. CONFISCATION To prevent anyone from pri vately owning land these single taxers devised a way to take it. They would double or treble present land taxes. This is their plan. Six times they tried in one form or another to foster their scheme on the of California. Six times an, ‘This time they try a dif: c California wouldn’t be California under a single tax! When it is realized that a single tax is not a substitute for any tax but is a substitute for Democratic government, you will realize why you will pay more under its terms than you do now under the sales tax. Under the sales tax, you and I share alike, according to our ability to pay, in the costs of government. We share equally in its benefits too. That is Democracy. have seen through theSALES TAX KITE They believe the sales tax to be sufficiently ware to make us want to repeal it. So they propose this— Repeal the sales tax and substitute for it the single tax on land alone. It is plain to see that by this subterfuge they believe they can dupe Californians into voting away their civil rights, their rights to own property. Other dangerous parts of the single tax proposition are these strong possibilities that insufficient money could be raised by the plan to— Keep our schools open, Bree, vide aid for our aged, b a other unfortunates. This an’t happen. We must vote ‘noon 20! J all costs’ A world war, now-a-days would make the Great War seem like child’s play. If that was a gory nightmare, a war now, would’ mean “a world dripping with blood.” Yes, indeed, life is sweet and peace is worth every effort and sacrifice. THOSE OF YOU who missed the Horse Show at our first County Fair certainly passed up a bet! Having had a very British up-bringing which {means a fair amount of time spent in the saddle, we have a shy idea we know good horse flesh when we see it (Although given a fiery sted at this writing, we’d no doubt do a pretty persistent White Knight! However, time was, when—. But to get back to our muttons, we were thrilled (by the horses) and chilled (by the weather) through all} our layers of fat to the very marrow ‘of our bones. In the first place the ring set-up was PERFECT, and the We would like to extend three rousing cheers to the officers, directors, judges and managers for a job magnificently done, Admittedly, it is a bit late in the season in these hyar hills for a out door show, but no doubt that is something that will be remedied next year, and judging by this year’s effort, next year’s ought to be a lally-pa-looser. We got off to a grand start anyway, because one of the first people we ran. into was Sonny Moore, and he told us, that his lovely trick horse, Candy, stands a splendid chance of recovering from his recent. tragic injury, and that news -made us feel swell. Then we prowled about and had a good looksee. The exhibits in the Legion Hall were most interesting and varied. We were particularly impressed with the poultry show, . (the ‘pheasants were*simply GORGEOUS and _ the stock show. The fattest and grandest Suffolk sheep and some simply devastating cows, but alack, Mr. Editor no porkers! Then came the horses! Oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh, those horses! The five gaited saddle horses, and three gaited combination events were superb. The polo ponies and their demonstrations were a real thrill, we roared with laughter at the musical chairs and ohed and ahed at the draft horse four-in-hand event. The jumpers were grand, althought we had the impression that had it not been so bitterly cold there would have been less faults made. The children’s event, Nevada County Trail horses (a FINE display with about fifteen entries) and the stock horses (in which the beautiful pala‘mino O’Shaughnessy took the honors) were grand entertainment. The Maple stables showed some gorgeous animals, and Miss Barbara Worth
who rode most of her own entries displayed magnificent horsemanship and took plues in jumping, polo pory and stock events. We cannot praise our first Nevada. County Fair too highly, it is something of which we should be justly proud. AND SO with this we say, yoicks and tally-ho everybody! HELENE EBELTOFT DAVIS (By ROY GRIFFITHS DEETER) The sun was shining brightly in Nevada City the afternoon we went over to see Helene Ebeltoft Davis and the sky was as blue as her amazingly blue eyes. Tall, slender, with beautiful iron gray hair, this very charming person is as gracious as her delightful book, “The Year is a Round Thing’ (Harpers) that is one of the outstanding features of Children’s Book Week. Mrs Davis is a Norwegian, born in Trdémso (the town of which she writes so entertainingly) and here she spent all her girlhood days. Later, in 1916, she came to New York on a visit.) It was there she met her husband, H. P. Davis, of the very literary Davis famiy and author of. (among many other things) the much discussed ‘book on Haiti: “Black Democracy.” We asked her about this meeting. “Oh,”’ she said, her blue eyes sparkling, ‘I was working in an office and I got a cramp. So I chinned myself over the transom and there he was!” H. P. must have been tremendously impressed by the girl that gazed down at him from over a transom, (of all things!) for they were marNEVADA CITY NUGGET whole affair marvelously handled. ; SEPT. LIBRARY VISITORS, 1340 Mrs. Iva. Williamson, city librarian, reporting for September, states that books borrowed for home use totaled 1382; fiction 1012; juvenile 225; miscellaneous 145. Books borrowed from state library 5. Visitors to the reading rooms 1340; men 361; women 173; boys 425; girls 381; number of borrowers 913; total attendance 2253; daily’ attendance 94. Cards issued 17; adult and 14 juvenile and ecards cancelled 6 adult and 5 juvenile, present registration 991. Books purchased 17; books donated 65; present accession 10944. The books purchased are Malice, of Men, Warwick Deeping; The Captain-Needs a Mate, Eric Hatch; Hotel Hostess, Faith Baldwin; The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe, Erle Stanley Gardner; Appointment with Death, Agathe Christie; A New Birth of Freedom; Nicholas Roosevelt; A Hall & Co. Joseph C. Lincoln; In Defense of Mrs. Maxon, George A. ried almost at once, and with equal promptitude left for Haiti. There they spent the next twelve years. ‘Did you enjoy it?” we asked. “Oh, it was wonderful. It is the most interesting pla¢e imaginable. I loved it.’’ We had the fleeting impression that she was sgh about having to return to the U. We asked her then, ane she came to write a book about Tromso when she was so much in love with Haiti. “It was Genevieve Parkhurst who put.the idea into my head. She was asking me about our life in Tromso and the three months of darkness and all that. Later she asked me why I did not write about it. I told her I simply could not write and she wanted to know who told me so. I explained that Hal had dinned it into my head that to write a book is ‘agony, and cannot be done by scribbling.’ Besides even if I do speak a number of languages I did not feel I had the command of English necessary. Genevieve laughed and said: ‘All the more reason that you try.’ So I did, and there your are!” Chatting about her linguistical ability we learned also that the only existing permanent recordings of the Creole language of’ Haiti, made at Columbia for the Museum. of Dialects of the United States were done Chamberlain; Refugees, Anarchy or and 5; Hubert H. ‘Bancroft; PersonOrganization, Tell of ime, Laura Kreg; The Hestling Knife, George Save; Thirty Days. in Eden, Peggy Dern; Téx, Clarence, and 2; James G. Blaine; E. Mulford; The Long Valley, John Steinbeck; Wharton; The Fathers, Allen Tate; What a Heaven For?, Percy Marks. ceived from a friend; Native Races of the Pa@ific States, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1938. al Memoirs of. U. S. Grant, Vols. 1 and 2, U. S. Grant; American Year Book and National Register Vols. 1 Life and Works of Garfield, John Ridfaith, Dorothy Thompson; The Buccaneers, Edith NEW TODAY FOR SALE—5-h. p. Gas Engirie, $35. Inquire L. H. Berry, Rt. 1, Willow Valley, 2 miles beyond County Hospital. 10-172tp Among our gifts which were reby Helene Davis. We asked her if she had done any “seribbling’’, aS she calls it, prior to her book, and found that she has written articles for the Kansas City Star Magazine Section, one of particular interest being ‘‘My Visit to a Lost Tribe of Haitians.” At the present time she is busy on a book about “how the other half lives in Haiti.” (Mrs. Davis’ ready wit and suspicion of an accent are really fascinating. She is full of the most amusing little anecdotes, one in particular we think you will like. It seems that upon her return to New York from Haiti she attended a big cocktail party given by Katy Seabrook. There, midst a crowd of strangers, she met a very large and cheerful man, whom, upon finding out that she was a Norweigian, started doing rapid sketches on odd bits of paper and asking her if she recognized the places. This game went on for quite some time until finally Mrs. Davis became most curious as to the identinty of this rapid sketch artist who was so familiar with her own country. “It would be nies,” she told him, “if you would sign one of those charming sketches so I might know-who you are.” “Don’t you know who I am?” he asked slightly amazed. “I have not the remotest idea,”’ she replied. “Whereupon, the busy artist signed one.of the sketches and presented it to her. The signature was that of Hendrick. Van Loon. 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