September 10, 1937 (6 pages)

. Thinking * Out Loud H. M. L. “Weary not in well doing,’’ the Good Book enjoins. This is a slogan, if you please, which might well be adopted by all those in Nevada City who have the advancement of the Boy Scout movement at heart. We admit with the ,critics, wHo expect children to be perfect little ladies and gentlemen, that at times our scouts have given cause for criticism. But when. finally all is said and done, we come back to. the solid foundation of our faithin scouting, hamely: The worse boys behave, the more they need scouting. We do not wish especially to make excuses for any lapses from courtesy and good manners which the fifty members of the Scout troop may display. Merely we will recite the facts: that for years the scouts never had a place that they could call own, that scout masters have chang: ed too rapidly to, permit piloting the movement into traditions of orderly and fine achievement, which traditions once established, do so much to maintain scouting on the high plane its founders envisioned. These have been serious handicaps in Nevada City. : But a new day dawns. There is now money available to build an addition to Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park, and the lodge itself has been leased by the scout council for a period of ‘ten years, on condition that the council build that addition. With the addition completed, there will be a room for the Scouts, a room for :the Camp Fire Girls, and a kitchen. The scouts in general will have charge of the building but that will not curtal its use as a place for community gatherings ,as it was originally planned by the late mayor, Al Seaman and the city council of his time. The large hall, 60 by 30 feet in dimensions, will be adequate for many years for these meetings. But«scouting needs the active aid of the parents of Boy Scouts. Their aid and encouragement should be given the scout council which bears the brunt of financing annually the Costs of.this. institution, The citizen ‘who may never have had an active interest or contact with Scouts and Scouting, as a taxpayer should also be in'terested, because while scout" ing costs must be met from voluntary contributions locally, it has become the greatest tax saving institutions of modern times. It saves thousands of boys every year from . . becoming ‘public charges and derelicts, by teaching them the honor of good citizenship, the gallantry of American manhood, the courage and probity of good sportsmanship. It “teaches them to serve. unselfishly their communities in ways that boys can seve, and inculecates honesty and ‘industry as the basis of success in life. Not only these things does it do, but through the various steps which scouts take in rank, it opens to boys a vision of what they would like best to do with their lives. The studies in the natural sciences, in the crafts and in sports, often uncover in a bay those talents which he can best use in gaining a livelihood and reaching his goal in life. The Nevada City Rotary Club is devoting next Thursday’s luncheon meeting mainly to a consideration of Scout problems in Nevada City. It is expected that the club will enroll a band of volunteers to assist in erecting the addition to Seaman’s Lodge, so that these boys may have a real scout home, as other troops in other cities, notably Grass. Valley, have had for many years. Both Scouts and Cubs now have devoted Scout Masters intent on the: upbuilding~and firm establishment of Scouting here. ‘The Rotary club is traditionally a friend of Scouting and will bend its efforts toward making and placing the Scout movement on a sound basis in this community. In fascist and communistic. countries, the Scout organizations have been seized upon by various dictators, to inculcate those false principles of government and citizen slavery that distinguishes their regimes. In free America it behooves those citizens: who believe that, as the old adage has it, as the twig is bent, so the tree inclines, to give more than perfunctory support to those youth organizations which have for their ideal and purpose the training of American boys and girls to become staunch and worthy citizens of a democracy founded upon personal liberty, justice and truth. ; ‘thefr . r da City N COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget city and . The Nevada City 4 and county to grow pe , prosperity, By subsribin Dg to, advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 71. _ The County Seat Paper NEVAD A CITY, CALIFORNIA _ ee mre NEVADA COUNTY ‘WINS $100 PRIZE ~ATSTATEFAIR Nevada county, whose exhibit at the State Fair was organized and arranged by W. H. Griffiths, seerctary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, has won a gold cup and $100 in cash for the arrangement and beauty of its mining exhibit. Third prize was received for its exhibit of apples. Nevada County, as might be ex. pected, gives prominence to its gold mining industry. One of the most Spectacular exhibits at the fair is that in the county booth. So many are the specimens of nuggets, coarse gold and picture rock that the dis.) Dlay fairly glitters. Specimens from the mines in the Nevada City and Grass Valley areas, from North Bloomfield, Washington and elsewhere strike the eye. Thousands of dollars worth of-the yellow metal is to be seeh through the glass fronts of the display cases. Added interest attaches to the exhibit in the display of samples of high-grade from the Idaho-Maryland and North Star and Empire mines. The exhibit has timeliness since it gives many of the spectators an idea of the kind of ore described in recent stories of highgrading from the Nevada county mines. ‘A fragment of the five foot circular core taken from the shaft sunk at the Brunswick mine northeast of Grass Valley by the Idaho-Maryland company, also is interesting exhibit, . showing the first core. of the first . circular shaft ever sunk by a machine. ; A beautiful display of nuggets from the Mugwump mine. northeast of Nevada City and picture rock from the Williamson,or Red Ledge mine at Washington, gold and = quartz specimens owned by Dr. Carl P. Jones of Grass Valley, besides other nuggets, coarse gold, fine gold and gravel, and ore specimens from operating mines are creating much admiratiop. and excited, comment. .There is also a splendid display of apples, and pears in the Nevada County booth. MAURICE FINDS PHOTOGRAPHY IS GOING TO COLOR Maurice Kach, Nevada county’s leading photographer, has returned from a three week’s trip through the East during which he visited Chica'go, attending the convention of the Photographers Association of America and also the retail dealers assocjiation went from there to Buffalo, to Rochester where he was shown through the great manufacturing establishment, where Dr. Mees, preeminent scientist in phetographic research was his host, and from there he visited Binghampton where Agfa camericas and film for moving pictures are manufactured. He visited Rockefeller Center in ‘New York and spent three days there as a guest of Bruno of Hollywood, a former partner, visited the national broadcasting stations and the huge theatre that seats 10,000 and has a revolving stage. The curtain closes, opens immediately upon a new scene appears. He say a scene from “‘Green 'Pastures” in which some 350 persons appeared in the character_cast and the chorus. “Maurice states that color photos graphy is moving forward in~ tremendous strides and that he has made -arrangements with Dufaycolor to print colored enlargements of ordinary film-which he or his clients desire to submit for their process. The rates are extremely reasonable. FORMER RESIDENT OF NEVADA CITY PASSES Word has been received in Nevada yas Schuster, wife of Clement Schuster and mother of three stalwart sons, John C., Todd G.,and Francis J. Schuster. Mrs. Schuster was a sister of the late Mrs. W. G. Richards of this city and was reared in Nevada City. nesday, September 8, in San Francisco where she has resided many ee years. ANNIVERSARY OF City of the passing of Lavinia. Glu. Funeral services were held WedFRESHMEN LEARN TO— DANCE PROPERLY Miss Baggley and Miss Petersen this year were instrumental in starting a class of ball room dancing for the freshmen. The teachers felt that the freshmen’ needed instruction so that they might take an active part in all the annual school dances. Classes of dancing are scheduled for twice a week and the two teachers arexproud jto say attendance is very. promising and increasing rapidly. EXTRA FOREST PATROL SERVICE FOR HUNTERS DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor, in a letter to the Nugget states that ENGINEER TELLS OF EXPERIENCES IN PHILIPPINES _ The following letter written by O. McCraney, Superintendent of the Pan Philippine Corporation, in the Philippine Islands is addressed to his youngest son, Jim, in Nevada City. Mr. McCraney left this city early this spring to take over this new work in the islands and his family remained here: “Dearst Jims: extra patrolmen willbe on duty during the deer and quail hunting seaSon. to contact and advise hunters and ito take measusements and the . weights of deer in order to gather data on the number of the deer herd. Well I Suppose by .the time this Sets to you it will be pretty near time for. the school bell to ring. Tough luck. You ought to be here in the Philippines for there was not enough money for all of the kids to FLOWER SHOW So to school, so about half the school population is having a holiday, Some kids have all the luck. i “T am writing four letters for this clipper—four pesos—TI will be broke for all next week. And I don’t know TOMORROW AT “ARMORY HALL : Tomorrow, Saturday the 11th the Armory Hall will be turned into a bower of beauty ‘for the Flower Show, given by the Womens Civic what I have said in the others, but I am sure I did not say much about earthquakes, so I will tell you about that.: Bpt, you know what a nut I am on earthquakes, if I get started on this I may not even stop. I have no doubt there was something in the papers: there about it as it was Club. The annual flower show has become a tradition of the town, the occasion lending itself to a reunion of friends and acquaintances whi take advantage of a lovely setting to greet each other and renew friendships. Every flower lover in Nevada City is invited to send exhibits and to attend the show. Anyone wishing to display flowers please phone Mrs. A. M. Hoge, Jr., or Mrs. Beverely Barron or bring them to Armory Hall by ten o'clock tomorrow. Besides the display of flowers the ladies have arranged an unusually fine program for the evening. Nevada City is most fortunate. in having so fine talent which isso generously given for this civie project. The show will be open tomorrow from 2 a humdinger. A friend of mine, who was at San Francisco at the time of the earthquake there, said he could see no difference in its intensity and everyone agrees that this is the most violent one ever xperienced here in th islands. I was on my «way back to Manila, on the good ship SS Bicol, enroute from Port Ragay to AloneroS, a gap in the southern route that has to be covered by water. We had finished dinner and, having left the Gulf of Ragay, were well up into the river, in fact but a few minutes from Aloneros, I was seated on the fore A deck, facing aft, when, at a few minutes to eight, the ship was shaken by an earthquake shock of such violence that it actually slewed and “skidded” just as a heavy car might with suddenly applied brakes on a wet pavement. The boat appeared to to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. The programs follow: } AFTERNOON Mrs. Penrose, presiding Piano selections, Margaret Rector. come to a full stop with a terrific grinding noise, again to plunge forward drunkenly, only to stop again, this being repeated several times in the brief period of duration of—not Vocal solo—Mr. Paul A. Bundy. EVENING ‘R, J. Bennetts presiding ‘Vocal solo, Mr. DeWitt Nelson. Vocal solo, Mrs. Chas. Elliott. Vocal trio, Mrs. Carl Libbey and daughters. Vocal solo, Mrs Catherine Celio . Reading, Mrs. Raglan Tuttle. SILVER WEDDING RECTOR AND WIFE: The Rey. and Mrs. Chas.: F, Washburn this evening will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a reception to all parishoners and their many friends, whether of the parish or not. Tre reception will take place at the rectory on South Church street in Grass Valley. In the seven years in which the Rev. Washburn has been rector of Trinity and Emmanuel churches, he and Mrs. Washburn and their son and daughter have established many warm friendships which will be expressed at the open house and reception this evening at the rectory when they felicitate the happy couple on their twenty five years of happy wedded life. MRS. ROBBINS, $1. IS SUMMONED Mrs. Mary Ellen Robbins, aged 81, passed away at 3 o’clock Thursday morning from the effects gf a fall she suffered in her home several weeks ago when she broke her hip. Left-to mourn her passing are thre cousins, Mayor Ben Hall of Nevada City, and two of his sisters, Mrs. Annie Sherman, of this city and another in ‘Oakland; and a second cousin, Mrs. Alvin Richards of Oakland, Family members have been notified and. arrived in this city last evening. Funera) arrangements are peiding. The remains are at Holmes Fueral Home and funeral services to exceed ten seconds. The sensattion from this motion was most unPleasant, but not particularly alarming as we kept upon an even upright keel throughout, with the exception of the sickening ‘“‘skids’’ we experienced at first. And, of course, the whole thing was all over before’ very much could be done about. it. “A distinct and remarkable thing about the noise mentioned was its progression from the fore to the after part of the ship, quite as if we might have rammed a sunken reef again and again and progressed throug? it or dragged over it, in a series of violent plunges, each of which was tearing the entire bottom off our hull, Other observers agreed with me that the noise ‘definitely originated at the bow and proceeded aft in a series of bumping, grinding crashes, which; anomously, appeared to grind while we were standing still and to cease as we plunged forward. Whether our sensations were of conditions real or apparent, there was no mistake about that noise, which would have been most terrifying to me had I not been so interested init, You will understand that we touched nothing on the bottom. The noise Was merely the actual grinding of thé: earth waves as it happened we were-at the epicenter of the disturbafice and enjoyed the privilege of observing conditions not existant at points more'remote. Just then the ship’s ‘bell sounded and I looked at my Nevada City watch to check the time and noted’ that it was four A. M. Friday morning. (Mr. McCraney has stated this watch which he took with) him to the islands has a record of perfect time.) ‘In a few minutes we docked at Aloneros and ¢ame into a scene of destruction and much shrill voiced excitement. Several houses flattened out and every thing movable thrown down. It was reported that two persons had been. killed but tlis proved to be not.a fact. Not an awful lot of property damage for the reason that there is not much’ property there to damage. The Manila train had, fortunately just come to a stop and the passengers were getting off as the shock .came. Had it been under will be announced later. The Gold Cedtey Nu An analysis of gold mining operations in Nevada County during the year 1936, is of particular’ interest to merchants and wage earners of the Grass Valley-Nevada City area within which is included a predominant percentage of the operating mines. Owing to difficulty ip securing data the Nugget’s monthly tabulation, while of decided value, is as yet incomplete. The Nugget should be given every assistance in connection with this commendable attempt to present each month an accurate indéx of the basic industry of this county. The latest available report of the United States Bureau of Mines includes 42 lode and 32 placer operations as having contributed to Nevada County production during 1936. : In comparing these figures . with the Nugget tabulation, it must. be considered that the Federal returns include all new gold producers, excepting snipers, regardless of the bersistance or magnitude of the operations. ‘ : During 1936, according to the Nugget’s figures, an average of 48 Operating mines, 32 lode and 5 to IDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 19 gget Monthly Mine Tabulations Analyze By H. P. DAVIS 6 -placer operations, employed an average of 2,613 men, an increase of 245 wage earners over the monthly average for 1935. : aa The average monthly Payroll was $365,960, an increase of $37,565. There was a slight inerease in the numiber of lode mines listed by the Nugget and a deérease in the nume ber of placer operations. While figures Segregating lode and gravel production are not available, it is obvious that the contribution _ from placers in 1936 was of comparatively little importance. The Nugget list for 1936 shows an average of only six gravel mines, employing an average of about six See men each. Even if these Sravel erations averaged a Production of $5000 per year per man employed, (about the average for the lode mine =~ es), the total contribution by. gravel mines in 1936 was considerably legs. than $200,000. : The U. S. Bureau of Mines reports an oré production from lode mines of 989,898 tons, an increase over 1935 of 185,074 tons. Granting that gravel operations contributed Jess than $200,000 to the total value production of gold mines, it is apparent that the average value of lode ore mined exceeded $10.00 per ton. MANY NEW HIGH STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE TOWNS, The Nevada City high school has . twenty five students whose families have moved to this town recentnly. From Grass Valley are: Ginger and Dorothy Paxon and Richard Pease; from North Sacramento, Earl Walton; from Sacramento George and Pearl Strach; from Oroville, Dick Sherrill;’ from~ Fairfield; Martha Harry; from Beaumont, Carl Dixon; fom Roseville, Don and Bob Gilkey; from Los Angeles, Byron King; from San Francisco, Bill Theurer; from Smartsville, Mary Baker, from Oak land, Harry Roberts; from Visalia, Audrey Ruth; from Birchville, Ray ‘Nielson; from Las Vegas, Jack McCarthy; from Salina, Ashton and Chad Martin. There were three newcomers from out of state: Robert Hudnal from Talent, Oregon; June Goodman from Joplin, Mtssouri and Roy Keeny, from Hartshorn, Oklahoma, The Nevada City high school student body bids these new students welcome, SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY OFFICIALS HONOR DUDLEY Pending the appointment of a successor to Supervisor E. B. Dudley on the county board of supervisors, Cary Arbogast, of this district, has been named as chairman of the board to succeed Dudley, until.a permanent reorganization. of the board can be made. It is expected that Governor Merriam will appoint a successor to Dudley within a few days. Supervisor Dudley has been appointed by the board to be County, Welfare officer. * AS a testimonial to the esteem in which Supervisor Dudley is held by fellow members of the board and county officials, on Wednesday he was called into the board meeting and County Clerk McCormack on. behalf of the county officials presented him with.a—fine gold mounted fountain pen inscribed with his name. He recited the long term in office during which Supervisor Dudley has served the county and maintained a close cooperative relationship with other county officials, and predicted that the.welfare office will be served with the same care and efficiency that have distinguished. his service on the board, Mrs. Robt. Grant states that her daughter, Joan Grantn, writes from St. Lukes Nursing school . in New York that she is getting along n (Continued om Page Three) . JMrs. “Mary: Regan is isitin; awarded Johnson was 98.7. The ROTARY HEARS HISTORY SKETCH OF CALIFORNIA E. K. Smart, ‘secretary of the highway patrol station in Grass Valley, gave a short historical sketch ‘of California, at the Admission day luncheon of the Rotary club yesterday. Smart briefly outlined the development of California from the old Spanish romances to the time in. 1552 when Cabrillo actually landed ;in San Diego bay, and the slow progress of the centuries that followed, with Spain losing the great territory to Mexico and Mexico finally yielding to the United States. The talk closed with an inspiring tribute to the ‘pioneer fathers and mothers, who braved the sea and the terrors of the great plains to reach California and founded the commonwealth that now leads all states in the Union in many respects. He invoked the spirit of the fathers to vanish the foreign disrupting .influences that now threaten the stability of its government. It was decided that next Thursday’s luncheon meeting will be devoted largely to the Boy Scouts. Patrol leaders, scoutmasters and the friends of the movement in this Clty. will be guests of the club. ont: The Rotary board of directors will ° meet with the president, Bill Cain, this evening to discuss. several matters of club importance, COLD MEDAL FOR — MILK WON HERE. U. S. N. Johnson, proprietor of the — Bret Harte Dairy, has again won first prizé in the California gold medal for the best milk at the State Fair. For some years Johnson has been first in milk quality in Calf fornia as attested by the five or siz gold medals he has won consecutively at hte great California exposition Ten judges passed on the sam of milk submitted and all ten ed Johnson first place. The best sible score'is 99.8 and the ‘8€0) bas on which milk is judged is bacter! count, butterfat content, odor, tag and cream line, The Brét Harteexcelled all others in every fact HIGH SCHOOL BAND Sweeney, instructor Nevada City high school reported that due

. Thinking * Out Loud H. M. L. “Weary not in well doing,’’ the Good Book enjoins. This is a slogan, if you please, which might well be adopted by all those in Nevada City who have the advancement of the Boy Scout movement at heart. We admit with the ,critics, wHo expect children to be perfect little ladies and gentlemen, that at times our scouts have given cause for criticism. But when. finally all is said and done, we come back to. the solid foundation of our faithin scouting, hamely: The worse boys behave, the more they need scouting. We do not wish especially to make excuses for any lapses from courtesy and good manners which the fifty members of the Scout troop may display. Merely we will recite the facts: that for years the scouts never had a place that they could call own, that scout masters have chang: ed too rapidly to, permit piloting the movement into traditions of orderly and fine achievement, which traditions once established, do so much to maintain scouting on the high plane its founders envisioned. These have been serious handicaps in Nevada City. : But a new day dawns. There is now money available to build an addition to Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park, and the lodge itself has been leased by the scout council for a period of ‘ten years, on condition that the council build that addition. With the addition completed, there will be a room for the Scouts, a room for :the Camp Fire Girls, and a kitchen. The scouts in general will have charge of the building but that will not curtal its use as a place for community gatherings ,as it was originally planned by the late mayor, Al Seaman and the city council of his time. The large hall, 60 by 30 feet in dimensions, will be adequate for many years for these meetings. But«scouting needs the active aid of the parents of Boy Scouts. Their aid and encouragement should be given the scout council which bears the brunt of financing annually the Costs of.this. institution, The citizen ‘who may never have had an active interest or contact with Scouts and Scouting, as a taxpayer should also be in'terested, because while scout" ing costs must be met from voluntary contributions locally, it has become the greatest tax saving institutions of modern times. It saves thousands of boys every year from . . becoming ‘public charges and derelicts, by teaching them the honor of good citizenship, the gallantry of American manhood, the courage and probity of good sportsmanship. It “teaches them to serve. unselfishly their communities in ways that boys can seve, and inculecates honesty and ‘industry as the basis of success in life. Not only these things does it do, but through the various steps which scouts take in rank, it opens to boys a vision of what they would like best to do with their lives. The studies in the natural sciences, in the crafts and in sports, often uncover in a bay those talents which he can best use in gaining a livelihood and reaching his goal in life. The Nevada City Rotary Club is devoting next Thursday’s luncheon meeting mainly to a consideration of Scout problems in Nevada City. It is expected that the club will enroll a band of volunteers to assist in erecting the addition to Seaman’s Lodge, so that these boys may have a real scout home, as other troops in other cities, notably Grass. Valley, have had for many years. Both Scouts and Cubs now have devoted Scout Masters intent on the: upbuilding~and firm establishment of Scouting here. ‘The Rotary club is traditionally a friend of Scouting and will bend its efforts toward making and placing the Scout movement on a sound basis in this community. In fascist and communistic. countries, the Scout organizations have been seized upon by various dictators, to inculcate those false principles of government and citizen slavery that distinguishes their regimes. In free America it behooves those citizens: who believe that, as the old adage has it, as the twig is bent, so the tree inclines, to give more than perfunctory support to those youth organizations which have for their ideal and purpose the training of American boys and girls to become staunch and worthy citizens of a democracy founded upon personal liberty, justice and truth. ; ‘thefr . r da City N COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget city and . The Nevada City 4 and county to grow pe , prosperity, By subsribin Dg to, advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 71. _ The County Seat Paper NEVAD A CITY, CALIFORNIA _ ee mre NEVADA COUNTY ‘WINS $100 PRIZE ~ATSTATEFAIR Nevada county, whose exhibit at the State Fair was organized and arranged by W. H. Griffiths, seerctary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, has won a gold cup and $100 in cash for the arrangement and beauty of its mining exhibit. Third prize was received for its exhibit of apples. Nevada County, as might be ex. pected, gives prominence to its gold mining industry. One of the most Spectacular exhibits at the fair is that in the county booth. So many are the specimens of nuggets, coarse gold and picture rock that the dis.) Dlay fairly glitters. Specimens from the mines in the Nevada City and Grass Valley areas, from North Bloomfield, Washington and elsewhere strike the eye. Thousands of dollars worth of-the yellow metal is to be seeh through the glass fronts of the display cases. Added interest attaches to the exhibit in the display of samples of high-grade from the Idaho-Maryland and North Star and Empire mines. The exhibit has timeliness since it gives many of the spectators an idea of the kind of ore described in recent stories of highgrading from the Nevada county mines. ‘A fragment of the five foot circular core taken from the shaft sunk at the Brunswick mine northeast of Grass Valley by the Idaho-Maryland company, also is interesting exhibit, . showing the first core. of the first . circular shaft ever sunk by a machine. ; A beautiful display of nuggets from the Mugwump mine. northeast of Nevada City and picture rock from the Williamson,or Red Ledge mine at Washington, gold and = quartz specimens owned by Dr. Carl P. Jones of Grass Valley, besides other nuggets, coarse gold, fine gold and gravel, and ore specimens from operating mines are creating much admiratiop. and excited, comment. .There is also a splendid display of apples, and pears in the Nevada County booth. MAURICE FINDS PHOTOGRAPHY IS GOING TO COLOR Maurice Kach, Nevada county’s leading photographer, has returned from a three week’s trip through the East during which he visited Chica'go, attending the convention of the Photographers Association of America and also the retail dealers assocjiation went from there to Buffalo, to Rochester where he was shown through the great manufacturing establishment, where Dr. Mees, preeminent scientist in phetographic research was his host, and from there he visited Binghampton where Agfa camericas and film for moving pictures are manufactured. He visited Rockefeller Center in ‘New York and spent three days there as a guest of Bruno of Hollywood, a former partner, visited the national broadcasting stations and the huge theatre that seats 10,000 and has a revolving stage. The curtain closes, opens immediately upon a new scene appears. He say a scene from “‘Green 'Pastures” in which some 350 persons appeared in the character_cast and the chorus. “Maurice states that color photos graphy is moving forward in~ tremendous strides and that he has made -arrangements with Dufaycolor to print colored enlargements of ordinary film-which he or his clients desire to submit for their process. The rates are extremely reasonable. FORMER RESIDENT OF NEVADA CITY PASSES Word has been received in Nevada yas Schuster, wife of Clement Schuster and mother of three stalwart sons, John C., Todd G.,and Francis J. Schuster. Mrs. Schuster was a sister of the late Mrs. W. G. Richards of this city and was reared in Nevada City. nesday, September 8, in San Francisco where she has resided many ee years. ANNIVERSARY OF City of the passing of Lavinia. Glu. Funeral services were held WedFRESHMEN LEARN TO— DANCE PROPERLY Miss Baggley and Miss Petersen this year were instrumental in starting a class of ball room dancing for the freshmen. The teachers felt that the freshmen’ needed instruction so that they might take an active part in all the annual school dances. Classes of dancing are scheduled for twice a week and the two teachers arexproud jto say attendance is very. promising and increasing rapidly. EXTRA FOREST PATROL SERVICE FOR HUNTERS DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor, in a letter to the Nugget states that ENGINEER TELLS OF EXPERIENCES IN PHILIPPINES _ The following letter written by O. McCraney, Superintendent of the Pan Philippine Corporation, in the Philippine Islands is addressed to his youngest son, Jim, in Nevada City. Mr. McCraney left this city early this spring to take over this new work in the islands and his family remained here: “Dearst Jims: extra patrolmen willbe on duty during the deer and quail hunting seaSon. to contact and advise hunters and ito take measusements and the . weights of deer in order to gather data on the number of the deer herd. Well I Suppose by .the time this Sets to you it will be pretty near time for. the school bell to ring. Tough luck. You ought to be here in the Philippines for there was not enough money for all of the kids to FLOWER SHOW So to school, so about half the school population is having a holiday, Some kids have all the luck. i “T am writing four letters for this clipper—four pesos—TI will be broke for all next week. And I don’t know TOMORROW AT “ARMORY HALL : Tomorrow, Saturday the 11th the Armory Hall will be turned into a bower of beauty ‘for the Flower Show, given by the Womens Civic what I have said in the others, but I am sure I did not say much about earthquakes, so I will tell you about that.: Bpt, you know what a nut I am on earthquakes, if I get started on this I may not even stop. I have no doubt there was something in the papers: there about it as it was Club. The annual flower show has become a tradition of the town, the occasion lending itself to a reunion of friends and acquaintances whi take advantage of a lovely setting to greet each other and renew friendships. Every flower lover in Nevada City is invited to send exhibits and to attend the show. Anyone wishing to display flowers please phone Mrs. A. M. Hoge, Jr., or Mrs. Beverely Barron or bring them to Armory Hall by ten o'clock tomorrow. Besides the display of flowers the ladies have arranged an unusually

fine program for the evening. Nevada City is most fortunate. in having so fine talent which isso generously given for this civie project. The show will be open tomorrow from 2 a humdinger. A friend of mine, who was at San Francisco at the time of the earthquake there, said he could see no difference in its intensity and everyone agrees that this is the most violent one ever xperienced here in th islands. I was on my «way back to Manila, on the good ship SS Bicol, enroute from Port Ragay to AloneroS, a gap in the southern route that has to be covered by water. We had finished dinner and, having left the Gulf of Ragay, were well up into the river, in fact but a few minutes from Aloneros, I was seated on the fore A deck, facing aft, when, at a few minutes to eight, the ship was shaken by an earthquake shock of such violence that it actually slewed and “skidded” just as a heavy car might with suddenly applied brakes on a wet pavement. The boat appeared to to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. The programs follow: } AFTERNOON Mrs. Penrose, presiding Piano selections, Margaret Rector. come to a full stop with a terrific grinding noise, again to plunge forward drunkenly, only to stop again, this being repeated several times in the brief period of duration of—not Vocal solo—Mr. Paul A. Bundy. EVENING ‘R, J. Bennetts presiding ‘Vocal solo, Mr. DeWitt Nelson. Vocal solo, Mrs. Chas. Elliott. Vocal trio, Mrs. Carl Libbey and daughters. Vocal solo, Mrs Catherine Celio . Reading, Mrs. Raglan Tuttle. SILVER WEDDING RECTOR AND WIFE: The Rey. and Mrs. Chas.: F, Washburn this evening will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a reception to all parishoners and their many friends, whether of the parish or not. Tre reception will take place at the rectory on South Church street in Grass Valley. In the seven years in which the Rev. Washburn has been rector of Trinity and Emmanuel churches, he and Mrs. Washburn and their son and daughter have established many warm friendships which will be expressed at the open house and reception this evening at the rectory when they felicitate the happy couple on their twenty five years of happy wedded life. MRS. ROBBINS, $1. IS SUMMONED Mrs. Mary Ellen Robbins, aged 81, passed away at 3 o’clock Thursday morning from the effects gf a fall she suffered in her home several weeks ago when she broke her hip. Left-to mourn her passing are thre cousins, Mayor Ben Hall of Nevada City, and two of his sisters, Mrs. Annie Sherman, of this city and another in ‘Oakland; and a second cousin, Mrs. Alvin Richards of Oakland, Family members have been notified and. arrived in this city last evening. Funera) arrangements are peiding. The remains are at Holmes Fueral Home and funeral services to exceed ten seconds. The sensattion from this motion was most unPleasant, but not particularly alarming as we kept upon an even upright keel throughout, with the exception of the sickening ‘“‘skids’’ we experienced at first. And, of course, the whole thing was all over before’ very much could be done about. it. “A distinct and remarkable thing about the noise mentioned was its progression from the fore to the after part of the ship, quite as if we might have rammed a sunken reef again and again and progressed throug? it or dragged over it, in a series of violent plunges, each of which was tearing the entire bottom off our hull, Other observers agreed with me that the noise ‘definitely originated at the bow and proceeded aft in a series of bumping, grinding crashes, which; anomously, appeared to grind while we were standing still and to cease as we plunged forward. Whether our sensations were of conditions real or apparent, there was no mistake about that noise, which would have been most terrifying to me had I not been so interested init, You will understand that we touched nothing on the bottom. The noise Was merely the actual grinding of thé: earth waves as it happened we were-at the epicenter of the disturbafice and enjoyed the privilege of observing conditions not existant at points more'remote. Just then the ship’s ‘bell sounded and I looked at my Nevada City watch to check the time and noted’ that it was four A. M. Friday morning. (Mr. McCraney has stated this watch which he took with) him to the islands has a record of perfect time.) ‘In a few minutes we docked at Aloneros and ¢ame into a scene of destruction and much shrill voiced excitement. Several houses flattened out and every thing movable thrown down. It was reported that two persons had been. killed but tlis proved to be not.a fact. Not an awful lot of property damage for the reason that there is not much’ property there to damage. The Manila train had, fortunately just come to a stop and the passengers were getting off as the shock .came. Had it been under will be announced later. The Gold Cedtey Nu An analysis of gold mining operations in Nevada County during the year 1936, is of particular’ interest to merchants and wage earners of the Grass Valley-Nevada City area within which is included a predominant percentage of the operating mines. Owing to difficulty ip securing data the Nugget’s monthly tabulation, while of decided value, is as yet incomplete. The Nugget should be given every assistance in connection with this commendable attempt to present each month an accurate indéx of the basic industry of this county. The latest available report of the United States Bureau of Mines includes 42 lode and 32 placer operations as having contributed to Nevada County production during 1936. : In comparing these figures . with the Nugget tabulation, it must. be considered that the Federal returns include all new gold producers, excepting snipers, regardless of the bersistance or magnitude of the operations. ‘ : During 1936, according to the Nugget’s figures, an average of 48 Operating mines, 32 lode and 5 to IDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 19 gget Monthly Mine Tabulations Analyze By H. P. DAVIS 6 -placer operations, employed an average of 2,613 men, an increase of 245 wage earners over the monthly average for 1935. : aa The average monthly Payroll was $365,960, an increase of $37,565. There was a slight inerease in the numiber of lode mines listed by the Nugget and a deérease in the nume ber of placer operations. While figures Segregating lode and gravel production are not available, it is obvious that the contribution _ from placers in 1936 was of comparatively little importance. The Nugget list for 1936 shows an average of only six gravel mines, employing an average of about six See men each. Even if these Sravel erations averaged a Production of $5000 per year per man employed, (about the average for the lode mine =~ es), the total contribution by. gravel mines in 1936 was considerably legs. than $200,000. : The U. S. Bureau of Mines reports an oré production from lode mines of 989,898 tons, an increase over 1935 of 185,074 tons. Granting that gravel operations contributed Jess than $200,000 to the total value production of gold mines, it is apparent that the average value of lode ore mined exceeded $10.00 per ton. MANY NEW HIGH STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE TOWNS, The Nevada City high school has . twenty five students whose families have moved to this town recentnly. From Grass Valley are: Ginger and Dorothy Paxon and Richard Pease; from North Sacramento, Earl Walton; from Sacramento George and Pearl Strach; from Oroville, Dick Sherrill;’ from~ Fairfield; Martha Harry; from Beaumont, Carl Dixon; fom Roseville, Don and Bob Gilkey; from Los Angeles, Byron King; from San Francisco, Bill Theurer; from Smartsville, Mary Baker, from Oak land, Harry Roberts; from Visalia, Audrey Ruth; from Birchville, Ray ‘Nielson; from Las Vegas, Jack McCarthy; from Salina, Ashton and Chad Martin. There were three newcomers from out of state: Robert Hudnal from Talent, Oregon; June Goodman from Joplin, Mtssouri and Roy Keeny, from Hartshorn, Oklahoma, The Nevada City high school student body bids these new students welcome, SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY OFFICIALS HONOR DUDLEY Pending the appointment of a successor to Supervisor E. B. Dudley on the county board of supervisors, Cary Arbogast, of this district, has been named as chairman of the board to succeed Dudley, until.a permanent reorganization. of the board can be made. It is expected that Governor Merriam will appoint a successor to Dudley within a few days. Supervisor Dudley has been appointed by the board to be County, Welfare officer. * AS a testimonial to the esteem in which Supervisor Dudley is held by fellow members of the board and county officials, on Wednesday he was called into the board meeting and County Clerk McCormack on. behalf of the county officials presented him with.a—fine gold mounted fountain pen inscribed with his name. He recited the long term in office during which Supervisor Dudley has served the county and maintained a close cooperative relationship with other county officials, and predicted that the.welfare office will be served with the same care and efficiency that have distinguished. his service on the board, Mrs. Robt. Grant states that her daughter, Joan Grantn, writes from St. Lukes Nursing school . in New York that she is getting along n (Continued om Page Three) . JMrs. “Mary: Regan is isitin; awarded Johnson was 98.7. The ROTARY HEARS HISTORY SKETCH OF CALIFORNIA E. K. Smart, ‘secretary of the highway patrol station in Grass Valley, gave a short historical sketch ‘of California, at the Admission day luncheon of the Rotary club yesterday. Smart briefly outlined the development of California from the old Spanish romances to the time in. 1552 when Cabrillo actually landed ;in San Diego bay, and the slow progress of the centuries that followed, with Spain losing the great territory to Mexico and Mexico finally yielding to the United States. The talk closed with an inspiring tribute to the ‘pioneer fathers and mothers, who braved the sea and the terrors of the great plains to reach California and founded the commonwealth that now leads all states in the Union in many respects. He invoked the spirit of the fathers to vanish the foreign disrupting .influences that now threaten the stability of its government. It was decided that next Thursday’s luncheon meeting will be devoted largely to the Boy Scouts. Patrol leaders, scoutmasters and the friends of the movement in this Clty. will be guests of the club. ont: The Rotary board of directors will ° meet with the president, Bill Cain, this evening to discuss. several matters of club importance, COLD MEDAL FOR — MILK WON HERE. U. S. N. Johnson, proprietor of the — Bret Harte Dairy, has again won first prizé in the California gold medal for the best milk at the State Fair. For some years Johnson has been first in milk quality in Calf fornia as attested by the five or siz gold medals he has won consecutively at hte great California exposition Ten judges passed on the sam of milk submitted and all ten ed Johnson first place. The best sible score'is 99.8 and the ‘8€0) bas on which milk is judged is bacter! count, butterfat content, odor, tag and cream line, The Brét Harteexcelled all others in every fact HIGH SCHOOL BAND Sweeney, instructor Nevada City high school reported that due