September 9, 1938 (8 pages)

ae as NEVADA CITY NUGGET COMING IN PORT Trite is the phrase. ‘‘nothing new under the sun,” but Hollywood sent they produced “Port of Seven Seas’”’, atre. Starring Wallace Beery, and with a splendid cast including Frank Morand Jessie Ralph, the picture presents an entirely novel theme. As the gruff, but understanding father and owner of 3 watestront tavern, Beery is outstanding as. usual, and his dramatic ~ work with F SEVEN SEAS the theatregoers something new when! opening Sunday at the Nevada The-. @an, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal! Frank Morgan is equaily as enjoyable as their comedy. Romance is_ supplied by Miss O'Sullivan, who rushed back from London where she appeared in “A Yank at Oxford,” with Robert Taylor, to do this picture; John Beal, who was last seen in “Double -Wedding,’’ and Frank Morgan, LAST RITEHELD FOR DESPONDENCY VICTIM The funeral. of the late Violet . Hale Valceschini of Grass Valley was . conducted Tuesday afternoon by Rev. A. L. Pratt of the Methodist church. . Interment was made in Greenwood . cemetery. Her two brothers’ and a sister survive. Believed despondent over unrequitted love she swallowed an arsenic potion last Friday afternoon and died Sunday despite efforts of Grass Valley physicians to save her life, She was married to John Valceschini about a year and a half ago. According to court house records, a decree of divorce was granted April 20, 1938 and her name remained Violet Hale Valceschini. FOREST THIEF GOES TO PRISON 3 . With the sentencing of Edward F, Kroeger, to 1-14 years in San Quen! ———__ Big City Freckles Champions Eileen Eaton, 10, and Thomas Shannon, 11, are pictured after being chosen as the first-degree freckles champions of New York city at a citywide contest sponsored by the Children’s Aid society. Eileen is auburnhaired and brown-eyed and Thomas is blond and blue-eyed. e j Potential Annie Oakleys FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938. leaves with brilliant browns, reds and yellows. arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere. Bountiful Harvest Season Autumn’s official arrival September 22 has already been iorecast in the northern woods where Jack Frost’s paint brushes have tipped the While men of the northern hemisphere prepare for the winter to come, September 23 mart< *" Dersonaf’ = 3 B. C. Goldsmith and assistant, & 3 James Sowder, have gone from the : local office of the Tahoe National Forest, to the Black Mountain Rx. perimental forest in the Lassen Na. tional forest. They are looking over an experimental, project being ried on in a logging project. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sauvee, Miss Bernice Clemo and George R. Carter are enjoying a two weeks vacation at the Carter summer home on Donner Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Provine and children, Robert and Estelle Provine of Antioch spent the past week end visiting Mrs. Provine’s mother, gis. ter, Mrs. Fred Sauvee, and family and daughter, Miss Helen Proving in Nevada City. On Sunday the group ‘went . o Downieville to visit Mr, Provine’s father. Others in the Dicnic party were Misses Lila and Bernice Clemo, also: sisters of Mrs. Provine. State Lion Hunter Hugh Hensley, stationed at Nevada City, was among the group that went to the bandit hideout where Mrs. William Meeks was hidden by her abductors. It was east of Sheridan in rough country and she had placed a piece of gauze and a'‘portion of her dress on brush to indicate the location. (Miss Frances Davey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davey of Nevada City has left to take up her new work in the Santa Barbara schools, Miss Davey has taught in the Santa Maria schools: for several years and was transferred and promoted by the superintendent of schools to the new position. Her school starts September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Al Williams had.as Saturday guests Mrs. Williams niece and nephew, Mr.’ and Mrs. Barr of. Placerville. They were married in Reno in the forenoon and stopped in Nevada City on their way home. She will be remembered here as the former Miss Dorothy Watkins. Dick Pafsons came down from Peavine Quarantine Station where he is stationed and spent the past week id ¥ end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons in Nevada ‘City. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright spent the past week end in a delightCarful motor trip going first to Reno, Saturday evening and on Sunday traveling over the Feather’ River highway and on to Sacramento and ' Receiving instruction in pistol shooting from an expert, Chief of Police Fred Spoolstra of Sparta, N. J., these fair marksmen are trying their skill on the target. Left to right are Dorothy Cerny of Hillside, N, Ji: Jean Bauer of South Orange, N. J.; Anite and Edith Mumford of Bogoto, tin by Superior Judge Thompson of Placerville, recently, forest officers believe one “avenue of escape”’ for government property and_ private property in mining camps has been! ¢losed, according to DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City. The specific burglary for which Kroeger was apprehended was commit. ted on the Rubicon river between . the Eldorado and Tahoe National . forests on August 14. He was arrest-. ed by law enforcement officer J. D. Rafferty on August 18. Nelson states. that there are one or two portions . of the forest where depredations still . occur periodically, but he plans that the guilty parties will be apprehended in the near future. . . THIMBLE CLUB ae Champion Circle thimble club held @ most enjoyable meeting yesterday . afternoon with 20 members present . for this the first meeting after the Summer vacation period. After sery-. ing dainty refreshments cards were . Played with prizes going to Mrs. C.} B. O’Connor, first and Mrs. Annie . Browning, second. WIND MAKES ELECTRICITY Forest lookout Alfred Johnson has all the latest conveniences of home at his lonely station Point. overlooking Lake Tahoe. The forest service has just recently inStalled a windcharger, and by hooking it up with a storage battery, light and radio power is available at all times. With the building of the most modern type of lookout and improvement of the road to it this station has become more than ever popular ‘with the tourists at Lake Tahoe, ac-. cording to DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City. 4 F. A. Guepin, executive vice president of the Shell Oil company and wife and party were overnight guests at the National Hotel in Nevada City last night. They will visit mines in the Alleghany district today among them being the mine of Ted LeMaire. Plans are to go too Lake Tahoe from there as Mrs. Guepin has not seen much of California. The Guepins came from Europe about six months ago. Mr. Guepins is second in charge of all Shell Oil interests, Mr. Le _ Maire came down from Alleghany. to ‘Meet them yesterday. : Father—‘When I was a little boy ‘your age I didn’t’ tell tibs.” Youngster—‘‘Well, daddy, how old ere you when you started?” — “Where did you ge the tis—“I went to a dance hall ht and I was struck by the Cissell, the after fielding a grounder. leet N. J.; and Lee Drew of Oakland, Calif, A Pirate Dents the Plate Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh’s shortstop, slides home safely for a Pirate on Stateline . score in a recent game against the New York Giants. Giants’ second baseman, ecel Vaughan doublea to open the inning, took third on a long fly and slid across the plate when threw high to Catcher Mancuso —— _ While the comm unity and nation call halt in busi for Labor day, labor a halt usiness and industry Symbolic of thanks for this . Harold Young of Oakland spent farmerettes design their own horn of plenty, a display of products grown in all sections of the United States. year’s bountiful harvest, these pretty . year’s study. dents of North state-operated b selves. lightly. Drivers Throughout America this week youngsters will retrace their steps to the school room to begin another { Some walk, others ride, but none of the riders have a more unique system than the stuus system dled largely by the students them. I About 50 per cent of the bus drivers are of school age, a to the motorist who considers them fellow bus riders who Stop traffic while youngsters cross the street. Upper picture shows a North Caro. lina monitor, while below of the busses ready to take Students home after a day in sehool. afternoon shortly after 3 o’clock hun dreds of these conveyan the children to the waitin Carolina where a is han. nd woe appoint: monitors, are some Each ces carry & parents. home. Mrs. Leland Smith has as guests Wednesday and Thursday her—aunt and son, Mrs, H. E. Stout and Wyatt Stout, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. They are on a tour of western United States. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rundy and ® q small son of San Francisco spent the past week end in Nevada City with Rundy’s parents, Mr: and Mrs. Theo. dore Rundy. the past week end with his mother, Mrs. Minnie Young on Park avenue. . He also visited a brother and sisters . while here. . Miss Mary Martz and cousin, Miss . Grace Sutcliffe came up from Oakland spendin& the week end» with Miss Martz parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Martz. Both young women are attending University of California. Ellard Gates attended the state fair yesterday. He met Miss Alice Hill who has been visiting in Sacramento this week, and they enjoyed the day visiting the many interesting exhibits at the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weege enjoyed a trip over the new Feather River highway last Sunday. While it was interesting they thought it q » would be much finer in the spring. G. E. Johnson, father of Carl Johnson of Nevada City, came up from San Francisco and—is visiting his son and family and Mr. and Mrs. W. Weege, ’ A letter from Carlos Casmore, who joined the army recently states he is in Co. A 30th Infantry at the Presidio. He is the gon of Mrs. Walter Weege of Nevada City. He has met the officers he was training with at (Monterey ast Summer, At night he can'see the Golden Gate bridge lighted and it is a beautiful sight. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. MecMath wil! come to Nevada City from San Francisco today to visit Mrs. McMath’s Sisters, Mrg. Charles Guenther, Mrs. Will Jeffrey and Mrs, Rogers. Mr. MeMath will 80 to Lake county to join a deer hunting party over the week end. Mrs. Roberts and son, William, came down from. Pike City yesterFe #4 day evening for a short visit with Mrs. Roberts’ daughter, Mrs. W. B. Brailey and family of Grove street. Roberts is employed at the Ferrera Mining property in Plum Valley. Warren Goldsmith, who suffered ; of La “enemy” camps, William Green (left), head of the American Federation ~ rie and John Lewis, president of the Committee for Industrial forces. themselves watch the two leaders of an attack of double pneumonia, was able to be out for a ride Wednesday and is making rapid recovery from 4 id his severe illness, Try a Snoopy Sue Ad. .

ae as NEVADA CITY NUGGET COMING IN PORT Trite is the phrase. ‘‘nothing new under the sun,” but Hollywood sent they produced “Port of Seven Seas’”’, atre. Starring Wallace Beery, and with a splendid cast including Frank Morand Jessie Ralph, the picture presents an entirely novel theme. As the gruff, but understanding father and owner of 3 watestront tavern, Beery is outstanding as. usual, and his dramatic ~ work with F SEVEN SEAS the theatregoers something new when! opening Sunday at the Nevada The-. @an, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal! Frank Morgan is equaily as enjoyable as their comedy. Romance is_ supplied by Miss O'Sullivan, who rushed back from London where she appeared in “A Yank at Oxford,” with Robert Taylor, to do this picture; John Beal, who was last seen in “Double -Wedding,’’ and Frank Morgan, LAST RITEHELD FOR DESPONDENCY VICTIM The funeral. of the late Violet . Hale Valceschini of Grass Valley was . conducted Tuesday afternoon by Rev. A. L. Pratt of the Methodist church. . Interment was made in Greenwood . cemetery. Her two brothers’ and a sister survive. Believed despondent over unrequitted love she swallowed an arsenic potion last Friday afternoon and died Sunday despite efforts of Grass Valley physicians to save her life, She was married to John Valceschini about a year and a half ago. According to court house records, a decree of divorce was granted April 20, 1938 and her name remained Violet Hale Valceschini. FOREST THIEF GOES TO PRISON 3 . With the sentencing of Edward F, Kroeger, to 1-14 years in San Quen! ———__ Big City Freckles Champions Eileen Eaton, 10, and Thomas Shannon, 11, are pictured after being chosen as the first-degree freckles champions of New York city at a citywide contest sponsored by the Children’s Aid society. Eileen is auburnhaired and brown-eyed and Thomas is blond and blue-eyed. e j Potential Annie Oakleys FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938. leaves with brilliant browns, reds and yellows. arrival of spring in the southern hemisphere. Bountiful Harvest Season Autumn’s official arrival September 22 has already been iorecast in the northern woods where Jack Frost’s paint brushes have tipped the While men of the northern hemisphere prepare for the winter to come, September 23 mart< *" Dersonaf’ = 3 B. C. Goldsmith and assistant, & 3 James Sowder, have gone from the : local office of the Tahoe National Forest, to the Black Mountain Rx. perimental forest in the Lassen Na. tional forest. They are looking over an experimental, project being ried on in a logging project. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sauvee, Miss Bernice Clemo and George R. Carter are enjoying a two weeks vacation at the Carter summer home on Donner Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Provine and children, Robert and Estelle Provine of Antioch spent the past week end visiting Mrs. Provine’s mother, gis. ter, Mrs. Fred Sauvee, and family and daughter, Miss Helen Proving in Nevada City. On Sunday the group ‘went . o Downieville to visit Mr, Provine’s father. Others in the Dicnic party were Misses Lila and Bernice Clemo, also: sisters of Mrs. Provine. State Lion Hunter Hugh Hensley, stationed at Nevada City, was among the group that went to the bandit hideout where Mrs. William Meeks was hidden by her abductors. It was east of Sheridan in rough country and she had placed a piece of gauze and a'‘portion of her dress on brush to indicate the location. (Miss Frances Davey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davey of Nevada City has left to take up her new work in the Santa Barbara schools, Miss Davey has taught in the Santa Maria schools: for several years and was transferred and promoted by the superintendent of schools to the new position. Her school starts September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Al Williams had.as Saturday guests Mrs. Williams niece and nephew, Mr.’ and Mrs. Barr of. Placerville. They were married in Reno in the forenoon and stopped in Nevada City on their way home. She will be remembered here as the former Miss Dorothy Watkins. Dick Pafsons came down from Peavine Quarantine Station where he is stationed and spent the past week id ¥ end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons in Nevada ‘City. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright spent the past week end in a delightCarful motor trip going first to Reno, Saturday evening and on Sunday traveling over the Feather’ River highway and on to Sacramento and ' Receiving instruction in pistol shooting from an expert, Chief of Police Fred Spoolstra of Sparta, N. J., these fair marksmen are trying their skill on the target. Left to right are Dorothy Cerny of Hillside, N, Ji: Jean Bauer of South Orange, N. J.; Anite and Edith Mumford of Bogoto, tin by Superior Judge Thompson of Placerville, recently, forest officers believe one “avenue of escape”’ for government property and_ private property in mining camps has been! ¢losed, according to DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City. The specific burglary for which Kroeger was apprehended was commit. ted on the Rubicon river between . the Eldorado and Tahoe National . forests on August 14. He was arrest-. ed by law enforcement officer J. D. Rafferty on August 18. Nelson states. that there are one or two portions . of the forest where depredations still . occur periodically, but he plans that the guilty parties will be apprehended in the near future. . . THIMBLE CLUB ae Champion Circle thimble club held @ most enjoyable meeting yesterday . afternoon with 20 members present . for this the first meeting after the Summer vacation period. After sery-. ing dainty refreshments cards were . Played with prizes going to Mrs. C.} B. O’Connor, first and Mrs. Annie . Browning, second. WIND MAKES ELECTRICITY

Forest lookout Alfred Johnson has all the latest conveniences of home at his lonely station Point. overlooking Lake Tahoe. The forest service has just recently inStalled a windcharger, and by hooking it up with a storage battery, light and radio power is available at all times. With the building of the most modern type of lookout and improvement of the road to it this station has become more than ever popular ‘with the tourists at Lake Tahoe, ac-. cording to DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City. 4 F. A. Guepin, executive vice president of the Shell Oil company and wife and party were overnight guests at the National Hotel in Nevada City last night. They will visit mines in the Alleghany district today among them being the mine of Ted LeMaire. Plans are to go too Lake Tahoe from there as Mrs. Guepin has not seen much of California. The Guepins came from Europe about six months ago. Mr. Guepins is second in charge of all Shell Oil interests, Mr. Le _ Maire came down from Alleghany. to ‘Meet them yesterday. : Father—‘When I was a little boy ‘your age I didn’t’ tell tibs.” Youngster—‘‘Well, daddy, how old ere you when you started?” — “Where did you ge the tis—“I went to a dance hall ht and I was struck by the Cissell, the after fielding a grounder. leet N. J.; and Lee Drew of Oakland, Calif, A Pirate Dents the Plate Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh’s shortstop, slides home safely for a Pirate on Stateline . score in a recent game against the New York Giants. Giants’ second baseman, ecel Vaughan doublea to open the inning, took third on a long fly and slid across the plate when threw high to Catcher Mancuso —— _ While the comm unity and nation call halt in busi for Labor day, labor a halt usiness and industry Symbolic of thanks for this . Harold Young of Oakland spent farmerettes design their own horn of plenty, a display of products grown in all sections of the United States. year’s bountiful harvest, these pretty . year’s study. dents of North state-operated b selves. lightly. Drivers Throughout America this week youngsters will retrace their steps to the school room to begin another { Some walk, others ride, but none of the riders have a more unique system than the stuus system dled largely by the students them. I About 50 per cent of the bus drivers are of school age, a to the motorist who considers them fellow bus riders who Stop traffic while youngsters cross the street. Upper picture shows a North Caro. lina monitor, while below of the busses ready to take Students home after a day in sehool. afternoon shortly after 3 o’clock hun dreds of these conveyan the children to the waitin Carolina where a is han. nd woe appoint: monitors, are some Each ces carry & parents. home. Mrs. Leland Smith has as guests Wednesday and Thursday her—aunt and son, Mrs, H. E. Stout and Wyatt Stout, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. They are on a tour of western United States. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rundy and ® q small son of San Francisco spent the past week end in Nevada City with Rundy’s parents, Mr: and Mrs. Theo. dore Rundy. the past week end with his mother, Mrs. Minnie Young on Park avenue. . He also visited a brother and sisters . while here. . Miss Mary Martz and cousin, Miss . Grace Sutcliffe came up from Oakland spendin& the week end» with Miss Martz parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Martz. Both young women are attending University of California. Ellard Gates attended the state fair yesterday. He met Miss Alice Hill who has been visiting in Sacramento this week, and they enjoyed the day visiting the many interesting exhibits at the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weege enjoyed a trip over the new Feather River highway last Sunday. While it was interesting they thought it q » would be much finer in the spring. G. E. Johnson, father of Carl Johnson of Nevada City, came up from San Francisco and—is visiting his son and family and Mr. and Mrs. W. Weege, ’ A letter from Carlos Casmore, who joined the army recently states he is in Co. A 30th Infantry at the Presidio. He is the gon of Mrs. Walter Weege of Nevada City. He has met the officers he was training with at (Monterey ast Summer, At night he can'see the Golden Gate bridge lighted and it is a beautiful sight. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. MecMath wil! come to Nevada City from San Francisco today to visit Mrs. McMath’s Sisters, Mrg. Charles Guenther, Mrs. Will Jeffrey and Mrs, Rogers. Mr. MeMath will 80 to Lake county to join a deer hunting party over the week end. Mrs. Roberts and son, William, came down from. Pike City yesterFe #4 day evening for a short visit with Mrs. Roberts’ daughter, Mrs. W. B. Brailey and family of Grove street. Roberts is employed at the Ferrera Mining property in Plum Valley. Warren Goldsmith, who suffered ; of La “enemy” camps, William Green (left), head of the American Federation ~ rie and John Lewis, president of the Committee for Industrial forces. themselves watch the two leaders of an attack of double pneumonia, was able to be out for a ride Wednesday and is making rapid recovery from 4 id his severe illness, Try a Snoopy Sue Ad. .