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GRASS VALLEY UNION MARCH 5 & 6, 1872 55
Attorney to draw up a bond in the sum of $2,500, to be approved by the Board, for the faithful
performance of the contract.
WALKING MATCH.—John Sarah bets Joseph Quick forty dollars to twenty dollars that
Joseph Quick can not walk around the Glenbrook racetrack forty times in the space of ten hours,
commencing at 7 o'clock in the morning of Thursday next, the 7th of March, 1872, and ending at 5
oclock in the afternoon of the above date.
Witnesses, J. W. Peters, S. W. Jones, W. Fry. Stakeholder, Wm. Wills.
Referees to be chosen on the ground, otherwise to be chosen by both parties.
Dated Grass Valley, March 2nd, 1872.
REBEKAH LODGE.—Last Saturday evening a Lodge of the degree of Rebekah, I.0.0.F. was
instituted at Odd Fellows Hall by Rev. W. H. Hill, Grand Master of California. The following officers
were installed: John Webber, N.G.; Mrs. Thomas Loyd, V.G.; Mrs. F. G. Beatty, Secretary; Mrs. R. G.
Roberts, Treasurer; J. M. Lakenan, Warden; Mrs. Thos. Othet, R.S. to N.G.; Mrs. Joseph Everett, L.S.
to N.G.; Mrs. Martin Quick R.S. to V.G.; Mrs. Bryant, L.S. to N.G.; Mrs. Beverton, Conductor; Mr.
Totten, O.S.; Charles Hocking, I.G. The next meeting of the Lodge will be Friday the 29th instant, at
Odd Fellows Hall.
HISTORY OF LIFE IN THE MINES.—Mr. Harrison McCharles of this county, is engaged in
writing a “History of Twenty-Two Years of Life in the California Mines.” The work will be ready
for the press by the middle of the last of the month of October next. Mr. McCharles has had many
strange experiences and he relates them with clearness and in an interesting style. The book will, we
hope, prove a success.
PARTY.—Next Friday there is to be a party at the Hudson House in Pleasant Valley. The
announcement that the party is to be a “spare rib concern” is not correct. There will be turkeys,
ducks, pigs and all that sort of things, and other good things served up on the occasion. A good dance
and a bountiful supper awaits all who attend on the evening mentioned.
RAILROAD TO COLFAX.—Articles of Incorporation will be filed this week in the Secretary of
State’s office of a company being organized to construct a Railroad from Nevada city to Grass Valley
and Colfax. The Trustees for the first three months will be responsible citizens of Nevada, Grass
Valley and San Francisco.
LIBRARY CONCERT.—Tickets for the concert to be given for the benefit of the Grass Valley
Library Association, at Hamilton Hall, on Saturday evening next, can be had at the book store of W.
K. Spencer, C. C. Smith’s drug store, Lathrop’s jewelry store, and A. Miller’s drug store.
WATER VS. WHISKY.—Two water drinkers, a day or two ago, undertook to play a game of
billiards against two men who indulged in an occasional whisky draught. The men who drank water
were defeated. They took so much of water into their hides that they could not see across a table.
They became waterlogged. The water drinkers made but few counts in the game. The one who drank
whisky had the clearest kind of vision and counted every time. The water drinkers are not good on
billiards. They may be good family men, but never bet on them in any capacity.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1872
LOCAL RAILROAD.
The following communication on the railroad business is a good and timely [one]/ It is singular
that the Clipper Gap and Auburn connections have not been thought of before this time. How is
Auburn on the question? The communication reads as follows: