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Title: 1874 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 274 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION JUNE 9, 1874 105 The proclamation ordering an election in Meadow Lake Township under the law known as the Local Option Law, to be held on the 10th day of June, was declared informal on account of the Clerk not having complied with the requirements of the Act. The said proclamation was published in the Nevada Transcript while it should have been published in the Truckee Republican, under the provisions of the law. The order for an election in Meadow Lake township for the 10th of June was rescinded by order of the Board. A petition from Grass Valley Township, with 393 signatures appended, asking an election in said township, under the Local Option Law was presented, received and filed. The Board ordered that the prayer of said petition be granted and that the election in Grass Valley be held on Monday, the 6th day of July, 1874, in said township of Grass Valley. It was ordered that the election proclamation be published, according to law, in the Grass Valley Daily UNION. ... A petition from Washington Township for a Local Option election, with 58 signatures was presented, and the Board granted the petition, ordering the election for Monday, July 6th, 1874. . . . The proclamation of the election for Washington Township was ordered printed in the Nevada Transcript. An election under the Local Option Law was ordered for Meadow Lake Township to take place on Thursday, the 2d of July, 1874. ... EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.—The regular quarterly examination of teachers was concluded at the big school house in Nevada city last Saturday. There were many applicants for certificates, and but few were successful. To get a first grade certificate 80 per cent was required; for a second grade, 75 per cent; for a third grade, 70 per cent. The persons granted certificates to teach, by the Board of Examiners are: 1st grade, G. P. Rowe, of Birchville; Kate Flemming, of Pacheco; E. S. Waller, of Fairfield. 2nd grade, A. C. Shafer, W. T. Thornton, H. H. McCutchan, Fannie Doom, L. W. Moore. 2d grade, B. S. Pearson, Ella J. Smith. Some of the Grass Valley candidates made percentages enough to get certificates, but as they were under the age of eighteen, they were not given certificates. They were examined merely “for a flyer.” These are Miss Janet Henderson, 84 per cent; Miss Minnie Novitzky, 73 per cent; Master John T. Riley, 77 per cent; Master Wm. Rogers, 72 per cent. FOURTH OF JULY.—The Trustees of the M. E. Church, of this place, are now making arrangements to celebrate the coming National anniversary with appropriate exercises. There will be an oration, poem, reading, etc. and at noon a grand dinner in the parsonage yard, to be followed in the evening with a grand Concert, all for the benefit of that Church. We understand that they propose to have a regular barbecue dinner. The matter will be placed in the hands of proper committees and will no doubt be a decided success. FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC.—We understand that there is to be a picnic near the town of Rough and Ready on the Fourth of July. The entertainment is in the interest of the Sunday School of that place. Rough and Ready people are hospitable and visitors to the picnic will be well treated. It may be that in the evening there will be a social dance at the same place, the dance having no connection, however, with the Sunday School. PHOTOGRAPHS.—Mr. James Quirk, late of Watkins Art Gallery San Francisco, having taken charge of Rudolph’s photograph gallery, Broad street above Pine, Nevada city, begs leave to inform the public that he is prepared to do photographic work in the highest style of the art. He has an entire new outfit with the latest improvements, and none other than first class work will be turned out. All are invited to call and examine specimens.