April 16, 1975 (8 pages)

CAMPTONVILLE, April 2. Mr. and Mrs. John Pettit, of Hayward, spent the Easter vacation week end visiting his sister and family Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Rogers. Judge. and Mrs. Acton M. Cleveland made a brief business visit to Sacramento last Wednesday. Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph M. Frankovich made a brief business trip to Oroville last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Wheeler of Sacramento and daughter Miss Debi Wheeler, of Chapman College, Orange, California, and Mrs. Kim Wheeler and son, Gordon, and daughter Kay, of Sacramento, spent Easter Sunday visiting their parents and Grandparents Judge and Mrs. Acton M. Cleveland. , Kenneth Tomlison, of Sacramento, was in town Wednesday on a brief business visit. A large crowd participated in the Easter Egg Hunt at mid-day Sunday given by the Camptonville Improvement Association in the center of town. E.L. Smith, of Woodland, was in town Monday on a brief business visit. Richard F. Ellers, an attorney of Nevada City, was in town Wednesday, representing a client in the local Court. 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., April 16, 1975 . Camptonville News Weimar Med ical facilityreturns to the counties The 15 counties that formerly owned the Weimer Medicial Facility have regained title to it. So Nevada county, one of the 15 counties, is back in the active role of what will happen to the facility. The Board of Supervisors were informed of the latest action by. fourth district supervisor Eric Rood Tuesday. Rood is the county representative on the Weimar Central Committee which meets Friday to start planning the fate of the hospital. The action took place last Friday on the Placer county courthouse steps at a foreclosure sale. Former owner, James Ralph who purchased the facility from the county, wanted the property back. He asked for time to raise the funds to keep his mortgage payments current. He was given 15 minutes and failed to produce the required amount. The sale was conducted by Merle D. McKowen, the assistant treasurer-tax _ collector of Sacramento county, one of the counties which until 1972 had operated Weimar as a tuberculosis sanitarium and public healthhospital for half a century. McKowen stressed at the outset that the bidding would be conducted-on a ‘“‘cash only or cash equivalent basis.” Classified ads work ~ “The Divine Eccentric” hy Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ » STARTED® MARCH 5th IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET “Divine and eccentric’’ were two words most often used by newspapermen the European danseuse that is before she cause of the 1850’s to describe Lola Montez, and favorite of King Ludwig of Bavaria, d his abdication and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the Northerner, and never rocked and scandalized the state from ci stopped until she had ty to mining camp and back again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent and her strange efforts to settle for keeps yin Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history. Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched through California’s newspapers, of every issue published between 1853 and 1861 for the material in this different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about herself — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Mail your check ee miss a single issue *Subscribe Now. .: Receive Back Issue To March 5th THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 Don’t Miss it! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET er $500 3 Years $7.00 Your Western Nevada County-Historical Weekly Newspaper vevapa county NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, . .ime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. 4 . , ‘

CAMPTONVILLE, April 2. Mr. and Mrs. John Pettit, of Hayward, spent the Easter vacation week end visiting his sister and family Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Rogers. Judge. and Mrs. Acton M. Cleveland made a brief business visit to Sacramento last Wednesday. Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph M. Frankovich made a brief business trip to Oroville last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Wheeler of Sacramento and daughter Miss Debi Wheeler, of Chapman College, Orange, California, and Mrs. Kim Wheeler and son, Gordon, and daughter Kay, of Sacramento, spent Easter Sunday visiting their parents and Grandparents Judge and Mrs. Acton M. Cleveland. , Kenneth Tomlison, of Sacramento, was in town Wednesday on a brief business visit. A large crowd participated in the Easter Egg Hunt at mid-day Sunday given by the Camptonville Improvement Association in the center of town. E.L. Smith, of Woodland, was in town Monday on a brief business visit. Richard F. Ellers, an attorney of Nevada City, was in town Wednesday, representing a client in the local Court. 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., April 16, 1975 . Camptonville News Weimar Med ical facilityreturns to the counties The 15 counties that formerly owned the Weimer Medicial Facility have regained title to it. So Nevada county, one of the 15 counties, is back in the active role of what will happen to the facility. The Board of Supervisors were informed of the latest action by. fourth district supervisor Eric Rood Tuesday. Rood is the county representative on the Weimar Central Committee which meets Friday to start planning the fate of the hospital. The action took place last Friday on the Placer county courthouse steps at a foreclosure sale. Former owner, James Ralph who

purchased the facility from the county, wanted the property back. He asked for time to raise the funds to keep his mortgage payments current. He was given 15 minutes and failed to produce the required amount. The sale was conducted by Merle D. McKowen, the assistant treasurer-tax _ collector of Sacramento county, one of the counties which until 1972 had operated Weimar as a tuberculosis sanitarium and public healthhospital for half a century. McKowen stressed at the outset that the bidding would be conducted-on a ‘“‘cash only or cash equivalent basis.” Classified ads work ~ “The Divine Eccentric” hy Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ » STARTED® MARCH 5th IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET “Divine and eccentric’’ were two words most often used by newspapermen the European danseuse that is before she cause of the 1850’s to describe Lola Montez, and favorite of King Ludwig of Bavaria, d his abdication and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the Northerner, and never rocked and scandalized the state from ci stopped until she had ty to mining camp and back again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent and her strange efforts to settle for keeps yin Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history. Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched through California’s newspapers, of every issue published between 1853 and 1861 for the material in this different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about herself — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Mail your check ee miss a single issue *Subscribe Now. .: Receive Back Issue To March 5th THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 Don’t Miss it! SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET er $500 3 Years $7.00 Your Western Nevada County-Historical Weekly Newspaper vevapa county NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, . .ime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. 4 . , ‘