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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938. PAGE TWO
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A Legal Newspaper, as defined by s atute. Printed and Published
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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
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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.
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‘ ‘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
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PHONE 67_ Grass Valley
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Enlarging and Framing,
Kodaks and Photo Supplies
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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.
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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
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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.
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R. N. MCCORMACK
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