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91 MAY 8 & 9, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
Saturday night, on the occasion of the exhibition given by the children of the public schools of Grass
Valley. The house was crowded as it has seldom been crowded before. The object was to raise funds
to buy a bell for the use of the public schools. We regard the bell as a certainty, since the exhibition
must have furnished ample funds for its procurement. All the children showed well, acted well
and behaved well. The teachers seem to have had complete control of their pupils. The essay “On
Bells,” that took the prize, was written by Miss Annie Spencer. And it was a most excellently written
production. All did well, and therefore it is not the correct thing to specify other performances.
PANNED OUT WELL.—The school exhibition of last Saturday night netted about $175. That
bell will soon by ringing, and there will then be no longer an excuse for any Grass Valley urchin to
play hooky—but we do not believe they ever did anything of the kind, anyhow.
ELECTION DAY.—Yesterday was cold and windy, and yet it was election day. The patriot,
after voting, had to stand around on the streets and let the chilling winds blow through his clothes
and drive the comfort out of his frame, even from the very marrow of his bones. The saloons were
all closed, and of course warm stoves in back rooms where pedro is wont to flourish, were not
accessible. Several of the street fellows remarked, “where's the use of being so particular, why not
warm up the stoves and leave the crack of a saloon door open so that a fellow can get warm?” But the
barkeep hardened his heart, and obeyed the statutes in such cases made and provided. The voting
was quietly conducted, there being something of a contest all around. The polls closed at sundown
and 424 votes were polled. We cannot give the result before to-morrow morning.
NEVADA CITY ELECTION.—Our sister city, Nevada, was troubled with a election yesterday,
and with a drouth consequent upon such affairs. There were three tickets in the field, for Trustees,
and each ticket had strong friends. The average American citizen wants to be voting for somebody all
the time, and California seemed to have arranged for a multiplicity of elections, with a view to that
want of the average American citizen.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1877
BORN. At Grass Valley, May 6, 1877, to DAN’L McLEAN and Wife, a Son.
At Nevada City, May 7, 1877, to R. W. TULLY and Wife, a Son.
TOWN ELECTIONS.—The town elections on Monday last was a spirited affair. There were two
tickets, for Trustees, in the field and the friends of each ticket rallied all their strength. One of the
tickets issued a poster on Sunday which contained a platform. It read as follows”
TO THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF GRASS VALLEY.
The undersigned find themselves misrepresented by interested parties, desired to be
placed before the public on the following platform of Local Reform in the interests of the
Mercantile and Industrial classes.
1. That the present system whereby peddlers, Chinese huxters and quack doctors are
allowed to canvass our town without license, be stopped at once, and the law fully enforced.
II. That the law of California for the suppression of opium dens and Chinese prostitution
be faithfully executed.
III. That all public works for streets or water be let by sealed proposal to the lowest
bidder, and that foolish and expensive lawsuits be avoided, and that taxes be economically
reduced as much as possible.
To these reforms the following ticket for Town Trustees is pledged”
A. SIMS, JR., J. T. RODDA, WM. BEE.
MANY CITIZENS.