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September 2, 1938 (6 pages)

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\ NEVADA CITY NUGGET ts FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938. PAGE TWO at ae Fe a ee ee ee ee ee 8 ie ae i oh Nevada City Nugget 7 $s OE RO a SR Me ae Meats 1% 5% staat soot ate One year (In Advance) 2 8305 Broad Street. Phone 36. A Legal Newspaper, as defined by s atute. Printed and Published ; ait Nevada City. ce 5: FE. MW. LEETR . ee eT a es eee ‘Editor and Publisher. 3 Pnblished Serii-Weekly. Monday and Friday at ‘Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Bae Nevada Ciy, under Act of Congress,.March 3, 1879 eS SUBSCRIPTION RATES +, eS 7 a" ste ste ste ste ste ste teste steste stestestestertesteste ste ake steate ste steaks sfesten, » TOO MANY. HITCHHIKERS esate sleneale seslesle she ie rlese the ote et Te teahe ses Me state steste fe ate: oll ust WonNDER IN I wonder about hapless fish, Deceived by gaily baited hooks: 4" And then I think of ct Beguiled and duped astute men by scheming crooks; We cannot blame ,the finny tribes As mindlessly they flop and swish, But why, I ask, should brainy men Conduct themselves like foolish fish? I wonder libility heading the list. We Americans are a gullible people’ and always have been; many of our revered ancestors actually believed in witches, gnomes and vampires. Others, in due time, traded good horses for poor ones and swapped fertile land for windswept wastes and quaking bogs; grandfather bought wooden nutmegs from Yankee traders, gold bricks from shifty eyed strangers, hair restoratives and cure-alls from the traveling medicine man. As a people, we have squandered enough real money upon bogus antiques and spurious works of art, to if those who are seriously counting up and analyzing the forces which make for want and waste in this land_of plentiful resources, will find the item of human gulkeep us in affluent circumstances for years to come. During periods of depression or political excitement, we throw discretion to the four winds of Heaven and indulge in a full-fledged orgy of wishful spending. Our depleted resources are wasted upon every get-rich-quick scheme, which comes to our attention; we consult sooth-sayers, support nuerotic cults and Utopian short-cuts to the promised land. We sometimes become affiliated with un-American organizations— we even purchase lottery tickets, play the races and invest in, phantom gold mines and non-existent. oil wells. Are we gullible—quite as easily deceived as the rainbow trout which rises to the lure of a carefully baited hook? Ponder these questions when next you seek your favorite stream with inIs there an analogy between tent to Waltonize. Even as you and I; He was fairly hooked in Even as you and I. t ‘ ‘wander. . , successful rivals.” fish and men? A fish there was and he took the bait— Regret for the action came just too late, the usual way, So he flopped and floundered in wild dismay— I wonder, considering human guillibility and the waste which creates want, if for every gulee there is a guller; this opens up another and:far more sinister field for speculation, Bouch which I have neither the time nor the ability Uncle Silas says: “‘Some of our candid candidates who found their success quotients low at the primary elections, are probably wishing they hadn't talked so bitterly about their —A. MERRIAM CONNER. 100 YEARS OF oe A mural portraying one hundred “-yeats “of development in mining in _ California will be on display in the Alta California exhibit at the Cali‘fornia state fair in Sacramento on t Friday, September 2. . . The historical canvass, painted by "WPA artists under the directorship Yor Paul O’Byrne, San Francisco de. signer, pictorilly relate the dramatic tale of the forward march of mining from the pre-gold rush era methods to the modern equipment of today. Laid against the background of -» the Sierra_Neyadas, the scene moves -, Successively through the various stages of mining, from “panning” 4) to sluicing, rocker, flume and ar, Tastra, water, power stamp mill, the 47 crude hydraulic, to today’s power “plant. — . 7° Phetmural, which will be display“yf ed by'Alta California Inc., is part 5, Of an exhibit being built for the Golden Gate International Exposi: tion depicting the history, resources “and economic growth of the counties _ ™ of Northern California. _ © Now in process ‘of preparation in _® San ‘Francisco,’this Golden Gate ex” hibit will present thirteen dioramas, MURAL PORTRAYS MINE HISTORY _ dredge, crushing mill and extraction . . jor Vice. She will go to the Grand county. In addition, there will be a natural color motion picture presenting a cross section. of the highlights of the various commercial and industrial activities, agricultural operations and recreational facilities of the area. The project is constructed by WPA funds under the, direction of the supervisors of Alta California counties. AT MT. :ST. MARY'S Among Nevada City young peopl¢ going to Mt. St. Mary’s business school in Grass. Valley are Miss Helen Provine, Madge Pianezzi, Marian Mohr, Katherine Glennon and Edith Delaney.William Griffiths, local Chamber of Commerce secretary, and W. W. Esterley left yesterday afternoon with high grade specimens in their machine, “They. were lead by a special state highway patrol. Captain Joe Blake and Officer C. E. MeKeen were in the official car. ? Mrs. Louella Allen of Ennis, Texas, is the house guest of her sister in law and brother, Mr. and Mrs:G. Tourtellotte in Willow Valley. Mrs. Allen is now National Junior VicePresident of the Auxiliary of Spanish War Veterans and is up for SenEncampment in Portland, Oregon in October. She visited Mr. and Mrs. Tourtellotte five years ago and made a@ number of ffiends while visiting here. : each tracing the development of .one a x, ‘ PHONE 67_ Grass Valley 1 € 107 mm street Nevada County Photo Center ae Portraits, Commercial Photography, ah. . 8 Hour Koda k Finishing, Old Copies, t Enlarging and Framing, Kodaks and Photo Supplies ” to '} county scout activities, and for some == ' 0 ck NGREATES ALWAYS GOOD Barbara Stanwyck has completed another colorful cycle in amazing career. And, oddly enough, more -the glamor girl. star has ‘been appearing in roles of ing beauty was subardinated to the character portrayal. But in ‘Always Goodbye’. 20th Century-Fox film in which she stars with Herbert Marshall, she reverts to the same type of role in which she on as one of the loveliest of the screen glamor queens. She’s back in dazzling surroundings and she gives a one-womar style show such as the films haven't known for months and months. For her special benefit, 24 separate vostumes were created by Royer, 20th Century-Fox’s renowned style expert and they reveal her once more in all her entrancing loveliness. role she prefers. ticular personality, and she a preference. Although her Goodbye’, role: vin 6 orous one, the screen play by Katnhryn Scola and Edith Skouras is remarkable combination of beauty and the forceful dramatic appeal! in which Barbara is so much at home. Ian Hunter heads the featured cast of the film, for which Darryl F. Zanuck in charge, of production, selected Sidney Lanfield to direct. _ Thomas (Mugford and wife of Alleghany have purchased the property of ‘Miss Marietta Ragon on Grove street and moved to their new home. Miss Ragon has rented an apartment on upper Broad Street. Nevada Gity welcomes Mr: and Mrs. Mugford and daughter as new residents. Mrs. Irving Long returned Sunday eveffing from a‘wéek end visit with yher daughter in Berkeley. Miss Margaret is in her senior year at University of California. Donald Bosworth who graduated from Nevada City high school last year is employed at Foley’s Confeetionery part time and taking advaneed studies at the high school. Miss Catherine Stevens, graduate from the local high school and Mt. St. Mary’s business school, has been working for “Court Reporter Miles Coughlin at the Court’ house. ‘Miss Elizabeth Brisebitl is employed in Congressman Englebright’s office. Miss Mamie Fradelizio was employed there during the campaign season of the congressman. Both young ladies are graduates of the local high school and Mt. St. Mary’s school in Grass Valley. (Mrs. Geary Feagans and daughter Mrs. Arthur Dow, and son Raymond Feagans, are enjoying a trip-to Los ‘Angeles. Arthur Dow who has been contracting at Blairsden returned home Wednesday evening. Jeff Mooers, prominent in Nevada years an official of the Idaho Mary_Movie Cameras and Films THEATRE THIS EVE. ‘her For some time now, the alluring ' dramatic depth in which her arrest. first flashed across the film horiz-. right Barbara is not quite sure which Both appeal strongly to her parfeels her fans, women in particular, would find it equally as difficult to indicate Always showing tonight at thé Nevada Theatre, is primarily a glam‘+ themselves. It is a chance for .the
. talked: about, such planning by farFARMER THINKING FOR FARM PLANNING BERKELEY, Sept. 1.—It is time o stop shoving prepared plans and -programs at the farmers of the country, designed to shape their. home lives and their farm operations, and she’s back where she started—once @llow them to .do much more plan{ning on their own accord. . This was a key suggestion brought to the Western States Extension Conference here by Reuben Brigham, Washington, D. C., assistant ex. tenwen director in the United States Department of Agriculture. The conference is made up of agricultural extension executives from the universities and other public institutions of the eleven western states. “Our job should be to help them understand their problems and _ pos. sibilities and work out their own . Dlans;instead of our working out the . plans for them,’’ Grightam said. . “The United States Department. of Agriculture with all of. its action agencies, as well as the: representatives-of the states, have jointly agreed that our basic need is fundamental coordinated from the . standpoint of management of the . “planning But—and: this Naps rare in 4 entire farm and farm home. They town where beauty is the sum of! 5rceq that the planning should be everything —— the completely forthdone largely by the farmers in each community, They agreed to begin by setting up county and state land-use planning committees, dominated by farmer thinking, and that the o%ficial responsible for ‘any land-use program in the county or ‘state is responsible for consulting with those committees before proceeding :-with the program. * “The department has asked the state extension director to take the lead in his state in organizing and to be chairman of the state committees and the county agent to do the same for the articulation from the bottom up, Planned largely by the farmers Mr, and Mrs. Lester Gregory came down from Sierraville Tuesday to vote in the primary election. Theison, Dick, has entered high schoo! Mr. Gregory is employed at the new Tahoe National Forest camp whieh is being built there andthe famity expects to remain another month. FAIR GOERS TO SEE TALLUHAH BANKHEAD ACT Tallulah Bankhead, starring in a new play by Zee Akins called “I Am Different’? will open Sacramento‘s theatrical road show season when she appears in the Memorial Auditorium, Saturday, September 10, matinee and evening performances. in This state fair week attraction of the Ware and Hazelton management takes the place of Pins and Needles, whose visit has been* cancelled because of the extended San Francisco engagement. Another play, On Borrowed Time, which was announced for a Sacfamento appearance, has postponed its tour indefinitely. State fair visitors to the capital . city will have an opportunity to see . . FOR SALE—12 acres of Dairy Farm, situated in Marvelous Marin Disfor only $2500. $200 dow: monthly installments. trict $15 Farm Miss Bankhead before her appearconsists of two houses, one 2-roo ance in San Francisco, for she will cabin and one 3-room house, pricome here direct from her present vate water system, excellent pasture, 1-4 mile from’ town and 25 miles from San Francisco. Pasture can be rented. Write box 5, Poin: Reyes Station, California. engagement at the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles. The coast tour will be followed by a Broadway opening in the early fall. This noted actress, the daughter Jof Speakér of the House William B. Bankhead of Alabama, was last seen on the west coast in Reflected Glory two years ago. Although still in her early thirites, she is a star of international reputation, having made her debut in New York.at the age of 16, graduating from the old Greenwich Theatre to Broadway , productions, where she played in 39 East, Nice People, Her Temporary Husband and dozens of other outstanding hits. 9-22te oar WANT TO LEASE Placer Ground— Have small engine and pump. EINER ROED, Gen. Del., Smariville, Calif. 8-22 2tp have just arrived. Both gas and electric ranges fully automatic. Come and see them. Now is the time to make your Foote. Electrical Co. 132 Mill St., Grass Valley, 8-22-2te KANAKA CORPORATION FOR SALE—$1400 for 240 acras grazing and timber. All year creek from springs on the place. Also 80 acres modern 4 A. family orchard, garden, turkey and chicken house, fencing, water and light system, $1800; both 2 1-2 miles from Nevada City on Lake Vera road, see sign, R1, B. 12, Nevada City. 8-19-6tp ‘Kanaka Corporation at Alleghany which has been working gravel deposits on Kanaka Creek is dismantling their dredge dragline equipment this week and will move it to ground leased—on -Wolf--Creek— southeast of Grass Valley. It is understood results obtained at the Kanaka Creek site were not entirely satisfactory. WwoOoD. We have one of the largest supplies of dry wood in the country and will be pleased to serve our old. a3 well as new customers. Prices delivered to your home— Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Jr., are enjoying a week or ten day vacation. They went to Reno, where they are visiting friends and from there will go to Boulder’ Dam and then to NEW GAS AND ELECTRIC RANGES Santa Cruz. Pine chk, 12;ord4sin, 2. $2.50 Pine stove 12 or 14 in. ...... $2.75 LEGAL NOTICES Oak chk. 12 or 1#in. 2. $3.50 Oak stove 12 or 14 in.. $3.75 No. 3875. Manzanita 12 or 14 in, .. $3.75 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION OF TIME APPOINTED FOR PROVING WILL, ETC, Oak-Pine 16 in., 2 ft., 4 ft., wood in comparison. Also coal and kind! ing. : Phone 698, Grass Valley SQUARE DEAL WOOD YARD Hills Flat IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE . STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND) FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA. . In the Matter of the Estate Of WILLIS GREEN, also’ known as’ FOR SALE—A . ae WILLIS, GREEN, Sr., Deceased. : ra team los Notice is herby given that Friday, hey ne a oe i ae ie the 2nd day of September, 1938, at! eautiful rustic home among the 10 o’clock A. M. of said day, at the pines. On Reward Street 150 Court Room of said Court, at the Court House in the City of Nevada, County of Nevada, has been appointed by me as the time and place for proving the Will of said WILLIS GREEN, deceased, and for hearing the application of Mrs. Ida Magonigal for the issuance to her of letters Testamentary when and where any person interested may appear and yards off of. the main highway and opposite the high school. Full price $1575 cash or nearly so in order to sell. Phone 234-J or see L. Netz, Real Estate and Business Opportunity Broker of City, Calif, Nevada 9-21te NE Extension Service to help farmers develop the kind of coordinated program they need and want, on a community, county,. state and national ‘basis. If I understand the ideal of economic democracy the secretary of agriculture has so often mers must surely be the basis for 4 ad Mr. and Mrs. Dave Richards of Boulder street held open house Tues4 PY) . ’ oP aa day evening with many friends callCalifornia, Attorneys for Petitioner. Aug. 22, 29, Sept. 2. REAL ESTATE _ WALTER H. DANIELS LICENSED BROKER Phone 521 P. O. BOX 501 Nevada City contest the same, Dated August 19th, 1938. R. N. MeCORMACK, Clerk By R, E. DEBBLE, Deputy Clerk. Jones and Finnegan, Nevada City, THANKS TO VOTERS I desire to thank the voters of Nevada Couning. The lovely home and beautiful grounds were a glow of light at night presenting almost a fairy land in the gardens surrounding the house. SAVANT MAKES ty for the fine expression of confidence given me at the polls Tuesday and . promise to represent them dnd to serve them to the fullest extent of my ability during my term of office. A. G. “Scoop” THURMAN. STUDY OF CALIF. WOODPECKERS BERKELEY, Sept. 1.—A unique approach to the problem of cémparative zoology is attained by Dr. William Emerson Ritter, emeritus professor of zoology at the University of California, in his recently published volume, “The California Woodpecker and 1”. : Dr. Ritter’s book has just been published by the University of California Press. It represents the rare achievement of being at the same time an accurate and anentertaining study of the physiology .and habits of man, presented against the background of an equally informing discussion of the life and habits of the woodpecker. Distintcly not a “sugar coated essay,”’ it represents the knowledge and research of Dr. Ritland, has resigned to accept a state post.as mine inspector. ter’s long association with the University of California. SINCERE THANKS To the voters of Nevada County for the handsome vote given me in re-election to the office of County Clerk and Auditor. ~ R. N. MCCORMACK PY selection. ) ¥