October 22, 1937 (6 pages)

meee Thinking Out Loud — H. M. L. “Life chastens the best of us’’ affirmed the Old Timer as he settled in the editor’s guest chair. ’’Associations in school begin the grinding off of rough surfacés. Courting will polish off any man more or less, and amarriage will give him a kind of, patina that adds such fantastic values, for instance, to old furniture. But the children that come along provide the real antiquity for the paternal frame. Nothing matures and ages a man like a family. Some men, under this influente, mellow gently with the years, like a fine wine; oth«ers turn acrid and sour. These are commonly known among the younger generation of today as vinegar balls and sour pusses. “Of course there are other things that chasten or, if you prefer, discipJine the human character. Driving in’ traffic is one way, where you can’t be careless of the other fellow’s life and limb without. jeopardizing your own. Belonging to a Chamber of Commerce or 4 debating society where you have to hear the other fellow’s opinions if you expect to express your own. Hewing to the line with an attempt at singleness of purpose when all around are those, apparenntly just as sane as you are, pursuing futilities. The main thing, of course is to keep the doors and windows of the mind open. Lots of people do that but they put screens up to keep out certain ideas. In other words they strain out anything that touches their prejudices. “There is Henry Ford for instance. probably the most independent character in North America. His screens keep out any lessons that history may teach. His screens won't admit Jews, nor labor unions, nor a pater nal government. And .probably since this country was founded there never thas been such @ paternalist as Henry . ‘Ford is in his own industrial ephore: The doors and windows of his mind Nevada Gity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eget make This newspaper tries to be helpful in all community en to stimulate a healthful growth in busi-— ness. Those who subscribe to, or adver-_ tise in the Nevada City Nugget join with it in this endeavor. eo; rises that tend to this a better to live. It seeks — 3 ‘Vol. 11, No. 83. oo The County Seat Paper’ The Gold Center _ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA LOCALNOTABLES MARRY’ OCT. 27 Eighty prominent local men _ to abandon dignity in ‘‘When Men Marry” all-men star cast reports to director for rehearsal of Lions , club show. With practically all of Grass Valley and Nevada City well known ‘business men playing leading roles in a comedy at the Memorial Auditorium, Grass Valley. October 27 and 28 it is easy to draw conclusions relative to the merits of .the entertainment and the possibilities of its success. Wherever this farce has been staged over California, it has ‘brought a riot of laughs. with its clever burlesque, and its unique feature of a ‘‘womanless wedding.’’ “When Men Marry” is the title of the show, which will be sponsored by the Grass Valley Lions Club and the characters are all men, most of them impersonating flappers, matrons, fashion plates, etc. Such a sight promises to attract as one of the most novel and side-splitting productions ever staged in Nevada County when these eighty men become ‘show girls.’’ : This popular community stunt is receiving the stimulus of the entire community in the fact that members from all organizations are giving OBSOLETE GOLD COIN _ FOUND BY P. G. E. MAN isa Sar . Louis Bobo a member of the P. G. & E. crew which is engaged in renewing gas mains and services in Nevada City streets on Wednesday picked up a $2.50 gold piece of 1865 date in the ditch in which he was working in the alley east of the Gault bridge. Another member of the crew had just stepped out of the: ditch and the bright coin lay in ithe center of his footprint. Bobo denied his petition for a “divy.”’ The $2.50 coin was obsolete long before all gold coins were removed from circulation by the government.‘ PEACE DISTURBERS ARE FROM NORWAY TO JAILED AND FINED INVENTORY OF NEW DRAG LINE DREDGE AT WORK Horace §. Little, mining engineer, who has been engaged in the installation of the drag line “dredge on Kanaka Creek, states the Kanaka Corporation thas 300,000 yards of gravel, some of which runs as high as $2.50 a yard. Little reports that this typé of dredger, made expressly for the rough terraine of mountainous regions, costs but $50,000 and operates with very little water. The process of recovering gold is by HAITI IS ROTARY Skipping blithely ‘from the little island of Tromso, on the northern’ shores. of Norway where she was born and (eared, to the subtropical island republic, Haiti, Mrs. H. P.’ Davis entertained the Rotary club at luncheon yesterday with a vivid description of peoples among whom she lived and with whom she had made friends. The Rotary club yesterday welcomed into its membership Robert Adamson, Past President Frank Finnegan giving the wélcoming address: The board of directors meeting after the luncheon voted $10 toward the purchase of the inhalator, which the fire department is sponsoring. Scoutmaster Leslie who has taken charge of a troop of Boy Scouts which the Rotary Club is organizing was a guest. Frank FinCLUB TOPIC and joyously negan, chairman of the day introduced Mrs. Davis. « “The island Tromso’’ said Mrs. Davis, “is a beautfiul little gem in a sheltered sea, three miles wide and twenty one miles long. I was, the daughter of a merchant there. My father’s family had been merchants there for seven generations., Gray bearded fishermen would come to 1 him at the beginning of the fishing ENROLL NOW FOR night school classes which it is. proposed to open at the high school eaimen, namely, Leslie Cook, 21, Otto Gedowsky, 21, William Doliner, 22 Valley plead guilty before Judge Miles Coughlan Wednesday and were jail sentence which was suspended in a week. The men came to town at about themselves a general nuisance. They were refused drinks at Long Johus and Gene’s Cafe and expressed their wrath at Long Johns by tearing down an iron rail in front of the place. At Gene’s Cafe they knocked down a patron who was trying to phone the police. They also attacked night officer James Allen when he appeared at Gene’s Cafe to investigate the trouble. 2 Max Solaro, fire truck driver, and j Bight watchman Allen locked “the quartet in the city jail. NIGHT CLASSES Those who desire to enroll in y in November, should enroll at Charged with disturbing the peace in Nevada City Tuesday night, ‘four and Frank Chernik, 22, all of Grass fined $12.50 each, with -a five 2>on condition they pay the fine with10 o’clock Tuesday night and made clock last night at James Hennessy schoo! auditorium for further and definite plans in casting and rehearsing Feminine pulchritude will be portrayed to the nth degree, as 89 stalwart males mingle together in old fashioned, modern, tight fitting, and chorus style costumes, and the parts to be assigned tonight will make a-.transformation which will are wide open toa great many ideas, ing most of them, to be sure, cas oe with mechanics. But the sereens sl tT portant things that might have : out im er than a, made the man much great j . master mind in the industrial world. Libel suits helped discipline ~ Ford. : . “Being President of the Jee States, of course is the most chastening of all disciplines. While, the oct of the White House too freupan ver d, surroundinsulate quently becomes insu a e usually is by party chiefed as h n sychotains, job geekers and plai : phants, his insulation does bree under pressure of public opinion, at. times, and discipline is administered. , influence upon on, can easonstitutional “Instances of this the present administrati ily be cited. First the cons barriers the Supreme Court raised to much of the Rooseveltian reform ‘aroused the anger of the ram, prog ted itChief Magistrate. This manifes self in the attempt to pack the court with six new members of his own prand of judicial timber, an attack of national scope, and the private attack to show; his abounding contempt of the court by inviting the members of the Supreme Bench to dinner at which also was anex-prize. pi1) Hope, fighter. Finally defeated in his court packing scheme, he appoints a man of such a character to fill the one place he is suffered to fill on the Supreme Bench, that even members of his own party are aghast at his monumental affrontery. “You may conclude from this instance that the Democratic party and the people of this country are undergoing the chastening rather than the President. But I take the view that the ultimate effect of Black's appointment, revealing as it does the President’s profound contempt for the Supreme Court and his vindictive reaction to defeat, will undermine public confidence, not in the Court, but in the Executive himself. It was the boldest**atténipt Saeedietatorship. Hooper. ever made in this country. From now on whatever the President submits for approval to Congress, will be tested in the light of our experience in the Supreme Court matter. And the severest scrutiny will come from members of his own party, who fear that another blunder or two will destroy. it. “Sometimes to some characters, discipline _is so severe that it is fatal. The spirit cannot brook the shattering of its great dreams. I recall the sad end of President Wilson. Still’ I am inclined to believe that eventually his was a dream that will come true. The logic of world events points to that conclusion. By this I Pesca : , Clard, Earl no doubt bring many chie and dazzling portrayals. Many prominent Nevada City citizens having leading parts are: Bride, Myers Mobley. College President, Noble McCormack. Grandfather, R. L. P. Bigelow. Absent Minded Professor, Frank Finnegan. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carrol Coughlan. Village School Marm, Larry Larrabee. Chorus Girl, Charlie Leiter. Jilted Sweetheart, Earl Bonham. Among those in Grass Valley taking leading parts are: Carl Sahl, Jr., Chick O'Donnell, Dr. Hogue, Dr. H. N. Nash, Jim Henwood, Ray Pengelly, Ed Burtner, Joe Connor, Dr. Shirkey, Bill Casertari, Bert Chegwidden, Del Powell, Harold Robinson, T. O’Hara, Ed Smart, Max Yonkers, Elmer Stevens, Harold Hartung, Howard Bennetts, Stu Chalmers, Jess Moomy, Fred Conway, Bob Jefford, Harry Poole, Lee Jeffery, Ed Bosanki, Cliff Plant, Jack Gilbert, Bill Sprohl B,ruce McCaddy, Tom _ Carter, Frank Keefer, Fred Barker, Dr. Berryman, Dr. Hirsch, Cliff DeBerry, ; Larry Larrabee, Church McDonnell, Key Heffern, Carlton Reaslee, Wayne Foote, Bobby Vincent, Al Aronson, Dick Curneen, Harry Twitchell, Avery “Phillips, © Earl Tennyson, Len Larson, Babe ‘Bishop, Bud King, Ralph Brown, Mike Ford, Ned Dennis, . Frank Pierce, John Hearn, Dick Steel, Al Welts, Lloyd Taylér, Earl Bonham, Vic Brveur, Ed Bodwen, Tom Carter, Carlos Vincent, Roy Ellery, Fred Barker, Hi Hocking, Art Remple, Ed Farley, Gordon Bennett, Lee Allen, Chuck Ingram, Chet Kearney, W. W. Page, Bill George, J. R. Bushby, Jack Cleary, Bill Hope, Henry Strick, Barvick, Cecil Hooper, Roy Stoke, Dennis Christian, Oakley Johns, Bud George, Al Thorne, Elton Rhodda Beflnorz, Robert Cleveland. Art : 8 DAISY BLUE PROPERTY Jim Kistle has leased the. Marks or, Daisy Blue property on Cement their talent and cooperation in putting over the stunt, The entire cast had its initial meeting at 8:00 o’Hill northwest of Nevada City. The papers were signed Thursday. Kis-. tle has selected a crew and drifting is underway on the 125 foot or bottom level. It is understood drifting will proceed both ways on the vein. mean to draw no parallel. Wilson was an idealist and a builder. He bequeathed the country an ideal of means of successive jigs, more like that of a mill in quartz mines than in placer mining where riffles are used. It recovers both the free gold and the .sulphides. The plant will handle 1600 yards of gravel daily. The capacity of the drag bucket is three fourths of a yard. This method of treating gravel is altogether new in this region and many engineers and gravel owners will watch the perforniance of this dredge with keen interest. PV Vint is the engineer in charge. P.GE TOBUILD ‘NEW SUBSTATION Construction of a new substation in Auburn with facilities to handle the increase in load there is being started by Pacific Gas and Hlectric Company, according to Division Manager H. M. Cooper. New equipment also to be installed at the substation in RoSeville and transformers replaced, to take care of additional load requirements. Work now. going require expenditure of approximately $96,000, and-ineludes line and pole reis on will placements and new gas mains for Nevada City. Important repairs to the South Yuba Canal inelude installation of 43,500 square feet of gunite side lining to prevent leakage. It will take several years to complete necessary gunite lining work on the canal. The wood crib diversion dam at the Fall Creek Canal, built in 1873, is to be replaced with a concrete dam. Low sections of the Bear River Canal will be raised and the metal flume at the Lake Valley Canal is scheduled ‘to be replaced. VOLUNTEERS AID IN . PAHATSI IMPROVEMENT Fifteen workers from Penryn, Nevada City and Auburn, spent Saturday and Sunday at Camp _ Pahatsi ‘working on the well, concrete walls ‘and roughing in studding for the wash porch extension. 2 Driving a well in solid rock has been in progress for the past several weeks as weather permitted, in the effort to secure running water inside the lodge during the winter. It is hoped this well will be completed this week. ‘ Framing the walls for the wash porch extension was started and with the same sized work party planned for the comingweek end should see the project practically completed exeept for interior work planned to care for a year round caretaker. The workers were camp chairman L. H. Reynolds, LaVerne Riley, H. S and Gordon Foreman, Tom Edwards, Ken and Jim Ricksecker, Ralph Narramore, J. Q. Crabtree, J. H. Claytor, W. H. Campbell, J. Jensen, B. Bentley, H.Muzzey and H. RicksecForman, Ernest Young, Stanley season and would say: ‘Now father, I shall not be able to fish unless you help me.’ And my father who was a splendid looking young man many years their junior,, would always help them. No money ever changed hands. He supplied them with fishing gear, nets, lines, provisions, sails, whatever they. needed, and they paid him in fish. Most of Norway’s fish in those days went to the Catholic countries, Spain and Italy, and to Russia, which ‘owing to its topography and climatic conditions could not get fish in the winter time. “My first skiis were a bright red and little more than a yard long and most of its income. Lumber is secvillages are clustered. way, who can do so, takes trips during the year. sunshine darkness at Tromso make-such trips a delightful change. But when the war came the continent of Europe was closed to travel, so I came to New York and there was married and went to Haiti with my husband. We were there for twelve years. came to love its beauty and its gentle kindly people, and they liked us, parwhatever against their color. volted, killed, burned and destroyed everything white or pertaining to the white people. Occasionally one sees an old wall or beautiful gate in the jungle, relic of a splendid age. When we arrived in 1915 there had been seven presidents in the six preceding years. Government by revoluPresidents were shot, burned and exiled. The people were debt aitd tax a sad condition. I was almost born on them. Only a few years ago I was with a party who were in the mountains to ski. I wondered whether I had forgotten the knack, and rose very early before breBkfast, feeling qimorous abowt it. But once I strapped them on, it all came back in a flash. Reassured I had great day skiing with my friends. Norway lives by and with the sea. Its fisheries account for ond. The coast is over a thousand miles long indented with beautiful fiords in which lovely little fishing “Almost everyone in Northern NorThe three months of and the three months of So I ticularly I think because I was a European and had no _ prejudices “Tn 1802 this richest colony © of France had its great revolution, in which millions of negro slaves retion had become a settled system, ridden and government finances in “The United States government time, under military” financial stability was restored, sanitary’ methods and measures _instituted, and roads built. This made life turbed several times .house and the back door unlocked. ed. I became so brown living in the open, tramping about on foot or og sent marines and Meera S. ghorty, ervision, Stato tReet ee ae _ They] would ho heir lig Town arms! far pleasanter than it had been. Before the United States initervened hospitals were death traps and prisons were death itself. Far better to lose one’s head than go_to prison, The lower classes were specially grateful to the Americans because they were able to plant, and what Was more important to harvest their little crops. © Formerly, under the e white, my skin was theirs. ‘We had seven servants and they cost us, all told, $42 per month. I knew the butler and cook and gardner, in fact most of them, but some I never ler from ‘the golf links at 5 o'clock once, with the high school principal, Mr. Kjorlie. The courses offered are typing, free hand drawing, community choral training, Physical education and indoor sports, and applied arts, such as leather tooling, weaying, pottery and linoleum block printing. TRIED FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE FOR CHILDREN Ed Ryan of Taylorsville below Grass Valley was ‘brought to trial yesterday. Judge Mobley in the local court heard the ease. Ryan was charged with failure to provide for three minor children. His wife appeared as the complaining witness. Judge Mobley continued Ryan’s ease until November 5 and instructed him to get a job, keepit and stay sober, or else— HARRY ENGLEBRIGHT TO SPEAK IN AUBURN Congressman Harry L. Englebright of Nevada City will be guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Auburn Rotary. Club Tuesday, October 26. It is expected this will be about his final appearance at a service club before leaving for the extra session of Congress in November, He has been busy ever since his return in VILES ROBBERY TOTALS $600 Paul Viles, whose log residence on Sunday night was robbed while ‘he and Mrs. Viles were in Reno, reports to Sheriff Carl Tobiassen that the value of the loot taken by the midnight thieves will amount to between $600 and $800. He has provided the sheriff with a@ list of articles stolen. They include the following: Gallon thermo jug, labeled, “Little Brown Jug’. Man’s wrist watch, Elgin. Man’s white gold watch and thin white gold chain, monogram “Vv” on back. Model 54 Winchester rifle, 30, 1906 bolt action. Remington automatic 22 rifle. Cavalry scabbard. Telechron Electric clock, one ‘Side repaired with tape. Between 10 and 15 men’s shirts, size 15. Mis~ cellaneous men’s underwear. Man‘s Russian Fitch fur coat with large black collar. Tanned deer skin gloves for man. Two hunting knives, one in sheath, one closing. Shaefer pen and pencil set. Tan elk skin jacket with-zipper. Woman’s watch, m1scellaneous jewelry and some currency, all in blue velvet case. Motor‘ola car radio and speaker. Assorted canned goods and groceries. “Enders’ safety razor. Dark blue overcoat. Ornamental dwarf clock, Rogers silverware. $50 pair of Elk’s teeth. The robbery took place about one o'clock Monday morning. The thieves parked their car in the road ana apparently after ascertaining the family was away pried open a window in the rear. They made a leisurely survey and examination of everything in the house annd garage, ate a cold chicken in the efrigerator and drank several bottles-of beer, then gathered\up their selected loot, and departed. They had probably. been — gone less than half an hour before Mr. and Mrs. Viles: returned. They had been delayed on their return by a heavy fog near the summit which covered more than thirty miles of their route. Mr. and Mrs. John Minarich had as week end guests Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rumpley and Mr. and _ Mrs. Meyers and three children of Redding. with Nevada City. LIQUOR DEALERS John The visitors were delighted TO MEET HERE A joint meeting of the Nevada, Placer and El Dorado county members of the California Federated Institute will be held in the National hotel o'clock. The Nevada County presinext Monday afternoon at 1 July making a tour of his territory. Congressman Englebright addressed the hydraulic mining association in . Roseville Saturday, October 9. : recently to enter the home, of U. S. N. Johnson on Jordan street. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were disduring the night by noises but upon investigation at the time found no evidence of night prowlers. In the morning they found that a window pane had been taken out in the rear of the themselves lost at any time, all one has to dois to clap his hands and} presently from the brush will emerge the grinning black face of a Haitian, asking in gentle tones what is wanthorseback, that my arms were browner than those of the women whom I against mine and exclaim over the contrast in color. It amused them to note that though I was born darker than “There was no servant problen:. ven knew. I could phone to the butis an Downieville at three o'clock yester-. day afternoon. She was born in that world peace and wrecked his party. The man in the White House today is wrecking his party and leaving us an assorted jumble of reforms and ®@ collosal debt to digest.” 2 ker .Mrs. L. H. Reynolds and Mrs. H. Ricksecker cooked. W. P. Clerkin, mining man of ¥rench Coral, was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. i “Today there. are roads ¢hroughdespotic rule of the politicians, crops were confiscated and the men forced into military service. : out the island. If one should feel with the calm assurampe that everyand ask to have places laid for seven guests at dinner, and then at dinner time walk in like one of my guests, thing would have been arranged and wee properly. cared for”. — dent of the organization, Ted Janiss, will preside. The California Federated Institute organization of wholesale and retail liquor dealers formed to conHOUSEBREAKERS STILL aT . °¢'¥e their interest and to reduce LARGE staxes and méderate restrictions Housebreakers apparently tried whenever feasible. Among those who will be guests and speakers at Monday’s meeting are Richard Collins, © of the State Board of Equalization, George Stout, charge of the liquor administration, Louis Gilbert, Russel Farley, Board of Equalization supervisor Jake Bettencourt, president of the: C. F. I. Robert Martland, assemblyman Jesse Mayo, Chester Smith, H.: P. Kerrigan and Sstate Senator A. P. Pierovich. of Amador County and State Senator Jerrold Seawell. Among other topics to be discussed it ‘nounced that the need and method of cutting down the numberiof licensees will be broached. : MRS. ANNA BESSLER OF state executive in . is an_ DOWNIEVILLE DEAD 2 Mrs, Anna Maria Bessler died in city. February 22, 1859. Known and ? revered throughout Sierra and Ne— vada counties her passing will come as a shockto many friends, ae Left to mourn her passing. are three sons, Thomas Bessler, ¥ Béssler and George Bessler the latter of Downieyille, besides severa grand children. Holmes Fu Heme ambulance brough

meee Thinking Out Loud — H. M. L. “Life chastens the best of us’’ affirmed the Old Timer as he settled in the editor’s guest chair. ’’Associations in school begin the grinding off of rough surfacés. Courting will polish off any man more or less, and amarriage will give him a kind of, patina that adds such fantastic values, for instance, to old furniture. But the children that come along provide the real antiquity for the paternal frame. Nothing matures and ages a man like a family. Some men, under this influente, mellow gently with the years, like a fine wine; oth«ers turn acrid and sour. These are commonly known among the younger generation of today as vinegar balls and sour pusses. “Of course there are other things that chasten or, if you prefer, discipJine the human character. Driving in’ traffic is one way, where you can’t be careless of the other fellow’s life and limb without. jeopardizing your own. Belonging to a Chamber of Commerce or 4 debating society where you have to hear the other fellow’s opinions if you expect to express your own. Hewing to the line with an attempt at singleness of purpose when all around are those, apparenntly just as sane as you are, pursuing futilities. The main thing, of course is to keep the doors and windows of the mind open. Lots of people do that but they put screens up to keep out certain ideas. In other words they strain out anything that touches their prejudices. “There is Henry Ford for instance. probably the most independent character in North America. His screens keep out any lessons that history may teach. His screens won't admit Jews, nor labor unions, nor a pater nal government. And .probably since this country was founded there never thas been such @ paternalist as Henry . ‘Ford is in his own industrial ephore: The doors and windows of his mind Nevada Gity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eget make This newspaper tries to be helpful in all community en to stimulate a healthful growth in busi-— ness. Those who subscribe to, or adver-_ tise in the Nevada City Nugget join with it in this endeavor. eo; rises that tend to this a better to live. It seeks — 3 ‘Vol. 11, No. 83. oo The County Seat Paper’ The Gold Center _ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA LOCALNOTABLES MARRY’ OCT. 27 Eighty prominent local men _ to abandon dignity in ‘‘When Men Marry” all-men star cast reports to director for rehearsal of Lions , club show. With practically all of Grass Valley and Nevada City well known ‘business men playing leading roles in a comedy at the Memorial Auditorium, Grass Valley. October 27 and 28 it is easy to draw conclusions relative to the merits of .the entertainment and the possibilities of its success. Wherever this farce has been staged over California, it has ‘brought a riot of laughs. with its clever burlesque, and its unique feature of a ‘‘womanless wedding.’’ “When Men Marry” is the title of the show, which will be sponsored by the Grass Valley Lions Club and the characters are all men, most of them impersonating flappers, matrons, fashion plates, etc. Such a sight promises to attract as one of the most novel and side-splitting productions ever staged in Nevada County when these eighty men become ‘show girls.’’ : This popular community stunt is receiving the stimulus of the entire community in the fact that members from all organizations are giving OBSOLETE GOLD COIN _ FOUND BY P. G. E. MAN isa Sar . Louis Bobo a member of the P. G. & E. crew which is engaged in renewing gas mains and services in Nevada City streets on Wednesday picked up a $2.50 gold piece of 1865 date in the ditch in which he was working in the alley east of the Gault bridge. Another member of the crew had just stepped out of the: ditch and the bright coin lay in ithe center of his footprint. Bobo denied his petition for a “divy.”’ The $2.50 coin was obsolete long before all gold coins were removed from circulation by the government..‘ PEACE DISTURBERS ARE FROM NORWAY TO JAILED AND FINED INVENTORY OF NEW DRAG LINE DREDGE AT WORK Horace §. Little, mining engineer, who has been engaged in the installation of the drag line “dredge on Kanaka Creek, states the Kanaka Corporation thas 300,000 yards of gravel, some of which runs as high as $2.50 a yard. Little reports that this typé of dredger, made expressly for the rough terraine of mountainous regions, costs but $50,000 and operates with very little water. The process of recovering gold is by HAITI IS ROTARY Skipping blithely ‘from the little island of Tromso, on the northern’ shores. of Norway where she was born and (eared, to the subtropical island republic, Haiti, Mrs. H. P.’ Davis entertained the Rotary club at luncheon yesterday with a vivid description of peoples among whom she lived and with whom she had made friends. The Rotary club yesterday welcomed into its membership Robert Adamson, Past President Frank Finnegan giving the wélcoming address: The board of directors meeting after the luncheon voted $10 toward the purchase of the inhalator, which the fire department is sponsoring. Scoutmaster Leslie who has taken charge of a troop of Boy Scouts which the Rotary Club is organizing was a guest. Frank FinCLUB TOPIC and joyously negan, chairman of the day introduced Mrs. Davis. « “The island Tromso’’ said Mrs. Davis, “is a beautfiul little gem in a sheltered sea, three miles wide and twenty one miles long. I was, the daughter of a merchant there. My father’s family had been merchants there for seven generations., Gray bearded fishermen would come to 1 him at the beginning of the fishing ENROLL NOW FOR night school classes which it is. proposed to open at the high school eaimen, namely, Leslie Cook, 21, Otto Gedowsky, 21, William Doliner, 22 Valley plead guilty before Judge Miles Coughlan Wednesday and were jail sentence which was suspended in a week. The men came to town at about themselves a general nuisance. They were refused drinks at Long Johus and Gene’s Cafe and expressed their wrath at Long Johns by tearing down an iron rail in front of the place. At Gene’s Cafe they knocked down a patron who was trying to phone the police. They also attacked night officer James Allen when he appeared at Gene’s Cafe to investigate the trouble. 2 Max Solaro, fire truck driver, and j Bight watchman Allen locked “the quartet in the city jail. NIGHT CLASSES Those who desire to enroll in y in November, should enroll at Charged with disturbing the peace in Nevada City Tuesday night, ‘four and Frank Chernik, 22, all of Grass fined $12.50 each, with -a five 2>on condition they pay the fine with10 o’clock Tuesday night and made clock last night at James Hennessy schoo! auditorium for further and definite plans in casting and rehearsing Feminine pulchritude will be portrayed to the nth degree, as 89 stalwart males mingle together in old fashioned, modern, tight fitting, and chorus style costumes, and the parts to be assigned tonight will make a-.transformation which will are wide open toa great many ideas, ing most of them, to be sure, cas oe with mechanics. But the sereens sl tT portant things that might have : out im er than a, made the man much great j . master mind in the industrial world. Libel suits helped discipline ~ Ford. : . “Being President of the Jee States, of course is the most chastening of all disciplines. While, the oct of the White House too freupan ver d, surroundinsulate quently becomes insu a e usually is by party chiefed as h n sychotains, job geekers and plai : phants, his insulation does bree under pressure of public opinion, at. times, and discipline is administered. , influence upon on, can easonstitutional “Instances of this the present administrati ily be cited. First the cons barriers the Supreme Court raised to much of the Rooseveltian reform ‘aroused the anger of the ram, prog ted itChief Magistrate. This manifes self in the attempt to pack the court with six new members of his own prand of judicial timber, an attack of national scope, and the private attack to show; his abounding contempt of the court by inviting the members of the Supreme Bench to dinner at which also was anex-prize. pi1) Hope, fighter. Finally defeated in his court packing scheme, he appoints a man of such a character to fill the one place he is suffered to fill on the Supreme Bench, that even members of his own party are aghast at his monumental affrontery. “You may conclude from this instance that the Democratic party and the people of this country are undergoing the chastening rather than the President. But I take the view that the ultimate effect of Black's appointment, revealing as it does the President’s profound contempt for the Supreme Court and his vindictive reaction to defeat, will undermine public confidence, not in the Court, but in the Executive himself. It was the boldest**atténipt Saeedietatorship. Hooper. ever made in this country. From now on whatever the President submits for approval to Congress, will be tested in the light of our experience in the Supreme Court matter. And the severest scrutiny will come from members of his own party, who fear that another blunder or two will destroy. it. “Sometimes to some characters, discipline _is so severe that it is fatal. The spirit cannot brook the shattering of its great dreams. I recall the sad end of President Wilson. Still’ I am inclined to believe that eventually his was a dream that will come true. The logic of world events points to that conclusion. By this I Pesca : , Clard, Earl no doubt bring many chie and dazzling portrayals. Many prominent Nevada City citizens having leading parts are: Bride, Myers Mobley. College President, Noble McCormack. Grandfather, R. L. P. Bigelow. Absent Minded Professor, Frank Finnegan. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carrol Coughlan. Village School Marm, Larry Larrabee. Chorus Girl, Charlie Leiter. Jilted Sweetheart, Earl Bonham. Among those in Grass Valley taking leading parts are: Carl Sahl, Jr., Chick O'Donnell, Dr. Hogue, Dr. H. N. Nash, Jim Henwood, Ray Pengelly, Ed Burtner, Joe Connor, Dr. Shirkey, Bill Casertari, Bert Chegwidden, Del Powell, Harold Robinson, T. O’Hara, Ed Smart, Max Yonkers, Elmer Stevens, Harold Hartung, Howard Bennetts, Stu Chalmers, Jess Moomy, Fred Conway, Bob Jefford, Harry Poole, Lee Jeffery, Ed Bosanki, Cliff Plant, Jack Gilbert, Bill Sprohl B,ruce McCaddy, Tom _ Carter, Frank Keefer, Fred Barker, Dr. Berryman, Dr. Hirsch, Cliff DeBerry, ; Larry Larrabee, Church McDonnell, Key Heffern, Carlton Reaslee, Wayne Foote, Bobby Vincent, Al Aronson, Dick Curneen, Harry Twitchell, Avery “Phillips, © Earl Tennyson, Len Larson, Babe ‘Bishop, Bud King, Ralph Brown, Mike Ford, Ned Dennis, . Frank Pierce, John Hearn, Dick Steel, Al Welts, Lloyd Taylér, Earl Bonham, Vic Brveur, Ed Bodwen, Tom Carter, Carlos Vincent, Roy Ellery, Fred Barker, Hi Hocking, Art Remple, Ed Farley, Gordon Bennett, Lee Allen, Chuck Ingram, Chet Kearney, W. W. Page, Bill George, J. R. Bushby, Jack Cleary, Bill Hope, Henry Strick, Barvick, Cecil Hooper, Roy Stoke, Dennis Christian, Oakley Johns, Bud George, Al Thorne, Elton Rhodda Beflnorz, Robert Cleveland. Art : 8 DAISY BLUE PROPERTY Jim Kistle has leased the. Marks or, Daisy Blue property on Cement their talent and cooperation in putting over the stunt, The entire cast had its initial meeting at 8:00 o’Hill northwest of Nevada City. The papers were signed Thursday. Kis-. tle has selected a crew and drifting is underway on the 125 foot or bottom level. It is understood drifting will proceed both ways on the vein.

mean to draw no parallel. Wilson was an idealist and a builder. He bequeathed the country an ideal of means of successive jigs, more like that of a mill in quartz mines than in placer mining where riffles are used. It recovers both the free gold and the .sulphides. The plant will handle 1600 yards of gravel daily. The capacity of the drag bucket is three fourths of a yard. This method of treating gravel is altogether new in this region and many engineers and gravel owners will watch the perforniance of this dredge with keen interest. PV Vint is the engineer in charge. P.GE TOBUILD ‘NEW SUBSTATION Construction of a new substation in Auburn with facilities to handle the increase in load there is being started by Pacific Gas and Hlectric Company, according to Division Manager H. M. Cooper. New equipment also to be installed at the substation in RoSeville and transformers replaced, to take care of additional load requirements. Work now. going require expenditure of approximately $96,000, and-ineludes line and pole reis on will placements and new gas mains for Nevada City. Important repairs to the South Yuba Canal inelude installation of 43,500 square feet of gunite side lining to prevent leakage. It will take several years to complete necessary gunite lining work on the canal. The wood crib diversion dam at the Fall Creek Canal, built in 1873, is to be replaced with a concrete dam. Low sections of the Bear River Canal will be raised and the metal flume at the Lake Valley Canal is scheduled ‘to be replaced. VOLUNTEERS AID IN . PAHATSI IMPROVEMENT Fifteen workers from Penryn, Nevada City and Auburn, spent Saturday and Sunday at Camp _ Pahatsi ‘working on the well, concrete walls ‘and roughing in studding for the wash porch extension. 2 Driving a well in solid rock has been in progress for the past several weeks as weather permitted, in the effort to secure running water inside the lodge during the winter. It is hoped this well will be completed this week. ‘ Framing the walls for the wash porch extension was started and with the same sized work party planned for the comingweek end should see the project practically completed exeept for interior work planned to care for a year round caretaker. The workers were camp chairman L. H. Reynolds, LaVerne Riley, H. S and Gordon Foreman, Tom Edwards, Ken and Jim Ricksecker, Ralph Narramore, J. Q. Crabtree, J. H. Claytor, W. H. Campbell, J. Jensen, B. Bentley, H.Muzzey and H. RicksecForman, Ernest Young, Stanley season and would say: ‘Now father, I shall not be able to fish unless you help me.’ And my father who was a splendid looking young man many years their junior,, would always help them. No money ever changed hands. He supplied them with fishing gear, nets, lines, provisions, sails, whatever they. needed, and they paid him in fish. Most of Norway’s fish in those days went to the Catholic countries, Spain and Italy, and to Russia, which ‘owing to its topography and climatic conditions could not get fish in the winter time. “My first skiis were a bright red and little more than a yard long and most of its income. Lumber is secvillages are clustered. way, who can do so, takes trips during the year. sunshine darkness at Tromso make-such trips a delightful change. But when the war came the continent of Europe was closed to travel, so I came to New York and there was married and went to Haiti with my husband. We were there for twelve years. came to love its beauty and its gentle kindly people, and they liked us, parwhatever against their color. volted, killed, burned and destroyed everything white or pertaining to the white people. Occasionally one sees an old wall or beautiful gate in the jungle, relic of a splendid age. When we arrived in 1915 there had been seven presidents in the six preceding years. Government by revoluPresidents were shot, burned and exiled. The people were debt aitd tax a sad condition. I was almost born on them. Only a few years ago I was with a party who were in the mountains to ski. I wondered whether I had forgotten the knack, and rose very early before breBkfast, feeling qimorous abowt it. But once I strapped them on, it all came back in a flash. Reassured I had great day skiing with my friends. Norway lives by and with the sea. Its fisheries account for ond. The coast is over a thousand miles long indented with beautiful fiords in which lovely little fishing “Almost everyone in Northern NorThe three months of and the three months of So I ticularly I think because I was a European and had no _ prejudices “Tn 1802 this richest colony © of France had its great revolution, in which millions of negro slaves retion had become a settled system, ridden and government finances in “The United States government time, under military” financial stability was restored, sanitary’ methods and measures _instituted, and roads built. This made life turbed several times .house and the back door unlocked. ed. I became so brown living in the open, tramping about on foot or og sent marines and Meera S. ghorty, ervision, Stato tReet ee ae _ They] would ho heir lig Town arms! far pleasanter than it had been. Before the United States initervened hospitals were death traps and prisons were death itself. Far better to lose one’s head than go_to prison, The lower classes were specially grateful to the Americans because they were able to plant, and what Was more important to harvest their little crops. © Formerly, under the e white, my skin was theirs. ‘We had seven servants and they cost us, all told, $42 per month. I knew the butler and cook and gardner, in fact most of them, but some I never ler from ‘the golf links at 5 o'clock once, with the high school principal, Mr. Kjorlie. The courses offered are typing, free hand drawing, community choral training, Physical education and indoor sports, and applied arts, such as leather tooling, weaying, pottery and linoleum block printing. TRIED FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE FOR CHILDREN Ed Ryan of Taylorsville below Grass Valley was ‘brought to trial yesterday. Judge Mobley in the local court heard the ease. Ryan was charged with failure to provide for three minor children. His wife appeared as the complaining witness. Judge Mobley continued Ryan’s ease until November 5 and instructed him to get a job, keepit and stay sober, or else— HARRY ENGLEBRIGHT TO SPEAK IN AUBURN Congressman Harry L. Englebright of Nevada City will be guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Auburn Rotary. Club Tuesday, October 26. It is expected this will be about his final appearance at a service club before leaving for the extra session of Congress in November, He has been busy ever since his return in VILES ROBBERY TOTALS $600 Paul Viles, whose log residence on Sunday night was robbed while ‘he and Mrs. Viles were in Reno, reports to Sheriff Carl Tobiassen that the value of the loot taken by the midnight thieves will amount to between $600 and $800. He has provided the sheriff with a@ list of articles stolen. They include the following: Gallon thermo jug, labeled, “Little Brown Jug’. Man’s wrist watch, Elgin. Man’s white gold watch and thin white gold chain, monogram “Vv” on back. Model 54 Winchester rifle, 30, 1906 bolt action. Remington automatic 22 rifle. Cavalry scabbard. Telechron Electric clock, one ‘Side repaired with tape. Between 10 and 15 men’s shirts, size 15. Mis~ cellaneous men’s underwear. Man‘s Russian Fitch fur coat with large black collar. Tanned deer skin gloves for man. Two hunting knives, one in sheath, one closing. Shaefer pen and pencil set. Tan elk skin jacket with-zipper. Woman’s watch, m1scellaneous jewelry and some currency, all in blue velvet case. Motor‘ola car radio and speaker. Assorted canned goods and groceries. “Enders’ safety razor. Dark blue overcoat. Ornamental dwarf clock, Rogers silverware. $50 pair of Elk’s teeth. The robbery took place about one o'clock Monday morning. The thieves parked their car in the road ana apparently after ascertaining the family was away pried open a window in the rear. They made a leisurely survey and examination of everything in the house annd garage, ate a cold chicken in the efrigerator and drank several bottles-of beer, then gathered\up their selected loot, and departed. They had probably. been — gone less than half an hour before Mr. and Mrs. Viles: returned. They had been delayed on their return by a heavy fog near the summit which covered more than thirty miles of their route. Mr. and Mrs. John Minarich had as week end guests Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rumpley and Mr. and _ Mrs. Meyers and three children of Redding. with Nevada City. LIQUOR DEALERS John The visitors were delighted TO MEET HERE A joint meeting of the Nevada, Placer and El Dorado county members of the California Federated Institute will be held in the National hotel o'clock. The Nevada County presinext Monday afternoon at 1 July making a tour of his territory. Congressman Englebright addressed the hydraulic mining association in . Roseville Saturday, October 9. : recently to enter the home, of U. S. N. Johnson on Jordan street. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were disduring the night by noises but upon investigation at the time found no evidence of night prowlers. In the morning they found that a window pane had been taken out in the rear of the themselves lost at any time, all one has to dois to clap his hands and} presently from the brush will emerge the grinning black face of a Haitian, asking in gentle tones what is wanthorseback, that my arms were browner than those of the women whom I against mine and exclaim over the contrast in color. It amused them to note that though I was born darker than “There was no servant problen:. ven knew. I could phone to the butis an Downieville at three o'clock yester-. day afternoon. She was born in that world peace and wrecked his party. The man in the White House today is wrecking his party and leaving us an assorted jumble of reforms and ®@ collosal debt to digest.” 2 ker .Mrs. L. H. Reynolds and Mrs. H. Ricksecker cooked. W. P. Clerkin, mining man of ¥rench Coral, was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. i “Today there. are roads ¢hroughdespotic rule of the politicians, crops were confiscated and the men forced into military service. : out the island. If one should feel with the calm assurampe that everyand ask to have places laid for seven guests at dinner, and then at dinner time walk in like one of my guests, thing would have been arranged and wee properly. cared for”. — dent of the organization, Ted Janiss, will preside. The California Federated Institute organization of wholesale and retail liquor dealers formed to conHOUSEBREAKERS STILL aT . °¢'¥e their interest and to reduce LARGE staxes and méderate restrictions Housebreakers apparently tried whenever feasible. Among those who will be guests and speakers at Monday’s meeting are Richard Collins, © of the State Board of Equalization, George Stout, charge of the liquor administration, Louis Gilbert, Russel Farley, Board of Equalization supervisor Jake Bettencourt, president of the: C. F. I. Robert Martland, assemblyman Jesse Mayo, Chester Smith, H.: P. Kerrigan and Sstate Senator A. P. Pierovich. of Amador County and State Senator Jerrold Seawell. Among other topics to be discussed it ‘nounced that the need and method of cutting down the numberiof licensees will be broached. : MRS. ANNA BESSLER OF state executive in . is an_ DOWNIEVILLE DEAD 2 Mrs, Anna Maria Bessler died in city. February 22, 1859. Known and ? revered throughout Sierra and Ne— vada counties her passing will come as a shockto many friends, ae Left to mourn her passing. are three sons, Thomas Bessler, ¥ Béssler and George Bessler the latter of Downieyille, besides severa grand children. Holmes Fu Heme ambulance brough