April 3, 1963 (10 pages)

415 446 399 272 Ba Mei ERIC Leesan in Gia ti t SOLU Ie weet nae pot i ie ER SR AES BB The Emma Nevada Story In 1958 we of the Nevada County Historical Society gathered 14 miles east of NC’ on Highway 20, and led by Ed Fellersen, dedicated a plaque to the greatest singing personality ever born in Nevada County---Emma Nevada ---the great soprano prima donna. The monument overlooks the long gone Alpha~Omega hydraulic diggings where Emma was born, Present at the dedication were two who were also born there--George Legg andFanny Holland, One hundred years after her birth to this singer of songs -a song by White Fox Skyhawk-Clampoet, E Clampus Vitus, was sung. These are two of the verses: Pretty queen of Alpha Diggin's; From old Alpha to OmegaHandsome bell of Nevada town, Where the crystal stars are hung, From an anvil's ring you learned to sing, There float on breeze, and through the trees And the gold streams washing down. Sweet notes that you have sung, Warbling song bird of the Yuba; But the chipmunks only hear them Comstock 's comely nightingale; And the timid bushy squirrel O'er desert strand, and mountain land Your alpine home the bobcats roam There echoes hill, and dale. Whose eyes, at night, burn beryl. This is the story of "The Mocking Bird of Mills" -the one and only Emma Nevada. Night had come to the small hydraulic Alpha Diggin's in historic Nevada County, California. It was February 7, 1869. Heavy snow covered the crudely constructed clap-board house among the pines. A young and beautiful auburn-haired woman, on a cot near a flickering fire place, was suffering the labor pains of her first born child. She was a gambling hall card dealer in the saloons of Omega and Washington on the Yuba. Comforting her was her physician husband Dr, William Wallace Wixom, Soonhe was to deliver their child who was to become the toast of the great opera houses of the world. They decided that very cold and snowy night to call the girl Emma---and.years later Emma herself chose her stage name of Emma Nevada, Emma wasto make her singing debut in Nevada City at the Baptist Church. Lumber from this Baptist Church, built in 1850, can be found today in the E.T.R. Powell home at the corner of Spring. & Pine. Later in this story, quoting from a letter that Emma wrote toBelle Douglas, I will let her tell you in her own words of the first time she heard the sweet sound of audience applause. On March 31, 1902, Emma Nevada triumpbanhtly returned to Nevada City, was honored at a banquet at the National Hotel and sang her heart out at the Nevada Theater (now the Cedar). But , these paragraphs will also have to follow.. Near the Wixom home at Alpha was the village blacks mith shop where little Emma went most every afternoon. Big Bill Alexander was the blacksmith, shoeing horses and repairing the five inch monitors.that ripped the hills away each day. Alexander was very fond of little Emma, having lost a daughter of his own Emma's age. Often Emma would-sing as Alexander pounded on his anvil. Years later as he would drink his whiskey neat in the bars at Washington on the Yuba he related how “Little Emma" would sing to the rings of his hammer, to the dashing Yuba torrents, tothe birds and even tothe wind whistling through the trees, I loved the little queen, Bill would say, but one day Dr. Wixom moved mother and daughter far away to Austin, Nevada, after living in Nevada City for a spell. The rugged blacksmith who kept tune on his anvil to little Emma was not to see her again until she returned in all her glory to the National Hotel in NC in 1902. When Emma became famous, the State of Nevada, as they had previously stolen their state's name from Nevada City, tried also to claim Nevada as Emma's birthplace. But in 1933 Emma wrote to Belle Douglasto dispute that claim. .Wrote Emma. "My first appearance was made in Nevada City, California, when I was three years old. We were staying at the National Hotel. The entertainment was a charity affair at the Baptist Church. I wasso small a table had to be provided so that the audience might see me. They wrapped me in an American flag and I sang the Star Spangled-Banner. “Yes -I was born in the hydraulic diggings of Alpha, Nevada County, California, and I am very proud of that, Later we moved to Nevada City and then to Austin, Nevada. Iwas to graduate from Mills College, and then on to Europe. In taking the name of Nevada I wanted to do honor to the wonderful town of Nevada City and to the state of Nevada. » Signed Emma Nevada Palmer Paris FranceNovember 5, 1933, " THE BEST MOVE QUCSVAN & STORAGE © you ever mabe ¥ 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Emma Nevada The Warbling Song Bird of the Yubaeal Photo from the Jean Worth National Hotel Collection (Editor's Note: The National Hotel where Emma Nevada stayed as a child and as a world famous opera singer will be commerated with a plaque on Sunday May 5 1963 by the William Bull Meek William Morris Stewart Chapter of E Clampus Vitus, The National Hotel is perhaps the most famous continuously operated hotel in all the west dating back to the Gold Rush Days.) Se ay co (% gg Ooe® Ss we TE OD % £ ua we iD.E. MATSON ‘FOREST PRODUCTS = HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++ +444+4+4444 +4 Dial 273-2071 FREE Delivery up to 10 miles eet Hide-A-Beds Made To Order EASTER SPECIAL ONE WEEK DELIVERY Any Size Any Material 5469, SHEAHAN’S FURNITURE and UPHOLSTERY 203 West Main St,, Grass Valley.. Phone 273-2739 “aaa ee ane nn aan a ata ia ae a a aa a aa alae aVare tay FREE ESTIMATES PHONE 273—8781 . . Best Looking: Pete Schram, NU News By GREG MOTT June Harney, an NU cheerleader, has been chosen to represent Nevada Union at the Girls’ State Conference to be held this year on the U.C. Davis campus in June. June and her alternate, Diann Keith, were chosen by the teachers from a list of about twenty-five girls. The list was compiled on the basis of scholarship and activities. At Girls’ State, June will learnhow our governm ent is tun and will strive tobe elected or appointed to one of the offices. The purpose of the conference is to preparehigh school students for positions of future political leadership. ++ ++ + A pril 26 has been set as the date for the last formal dance of the school year, the Senior Ball. The theme is to be selected this week by the Senior Cabinet. +++ + + Senior personalities for the 1963 yearbook, the Prospector, were elected by the senior class last week. The following are the results of the voting: Friendliest: Leslie Veldman, Karen Blake . Best Athlete: Bob Thomas, Harry Thomas, Daisy Stair . . Best All-Around: Jack Osborn, Karen Hansen Marty Hoyt Best Dancer: Tom Cox, Roxanne Twitchell Best Sense of Humor: Kerry Hobbs, Kathy McGuire Most Likely to Succeed: Greg Mott, Bill Newton, Terry Taylor ++ +++ Three NU students were chosen by the Bank of America evaluation committee to represent NU next Tuesday in the Zone Selection Event at Marysville. _ Betty Burcham will compete in the Bine Arts division, JoAnne Jenkins in Vocational Arts, and Terry Taylor.in Liberal Arts. These three students were trophy ' winners from our school in these fields. Terry Simpson, NU’s candidate for a trophy . in the field of Science and . Mathematics received an . ! Honorable Mention certificate from the evaluation } committee. Candidates in each general field will participate in a round table discussion on an assigned topic related to their study field. Later in the discussion, questions will be asked by the judges. — Ballots will be tabulated (Continued on Page 6.) NOTICE PROPERTY STATEMENTS & EXEMPTION AFFIDAVITS SHOULD BE FILED AT THE COUNTY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE BEFORE THE FOLLOWING DATES: GVETERAN’S EXEMPTION BEFORE MAY 6, 1963} PROPERTY STATEMENTS BEFORE MAY 27, 1963 CHARLES R. KITTS Assessor > 0°0"070'0' 0°0°0'0'0'070'0.0'0.0.0'0 0 0701010010. 0_0" 6.0.0.0 0001000" 0000 o. ( ‘ ( wwe wwownwnuovwvuowoeueeseeeeseeeeewewewe att, : Easter Perfect / ; Teenagers Go For Clothes } From Novak's } Buy Entire Outfit Now For Only — Se WuFs POPP PEP IIFD ciel OEP FPA et Sportcoat....513% White Shirf....2% Tie eee ENTIRE OUTFIT..5234 $9495 * Sizes 10 & 12 --Sizes 14 thru 18 $3.00 higher NOVAK’S MEN'S WEAR 305 BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, PH, 265 -468 BANKAMERICARD . . UEhione heu Seat i ~~ ae ‘lomorrow 1 out of every 94 employees in California will head for work. on a telephone job Some 68,000 Californians, like Operator Vivian Coleman (below), now make their living from-Pacific Telephone jobs. And as this number has increased to meet California’s growing telephone needs, the payroll they put to work throughout the State has grown larger, too. (1962 total: $426 million.) Yet phone rates in California are among the lowest in the country. @ Pacific Telephone PART OF THE NATION-WIDE BELL SYSTEM

415 446 399 272 Ba Mei ERIC Leesan in Gia ti t SOLU Ie weet nae pot i ie ER SR AES BB The Emma Nevada Story In 1958 we of the Nevada County Historical Society gathered 14 miles east of NC’ on Highway 20, and led by Ed Fellersen, dedicated a plaque to the greatest singing personality ever born in Nevada County---Emma Nevada ---the great soprano prima donna. The monument overlooks the long gone Alpha~Omega hydraulic diggings where Emma was born, Present at the dedication were two who were also born there--George Legg andFanny Holland, One hundred years after her birth to this singer of songs -a song by White Fox Skyhawk-Clampoet, E Clampus Vitus, was sung. These are two of the verses: Pretty queen of Alpha Diggin's; From old Alpha to OmegaHandsome bell of Nevada town, Where the crystal stars are hung, From an anvil's ring you learned to sing, There float on breeze, and through the trees And the gold streams washing down. Sweet notes that you have sung, Warbling song bird of the Yuba; But the chipmunks only hear them Comstock 's comely nightingale; And the timid bushy squirrel O'er desert strand, and mountain land Your alpine home the bobcats roam There echoes hill, and dale. Whose eyes, at night, burn beryl. This is the story of "The Mocking Bird of Mills" -the one and only Emma Nevada.. Night had come to the small hydraulic Alpha Diggin's in historic Nevada County, California. It was February 7, 1869. Heavy snow covered the crudely constructed clap-board house among the pines. A young and beautiful auburn-haired woman, on a cot near a flickering fire place, was suffering the labor pains of her first born child. She was a gambling hall card dealer in the saloons of Omega and Washington on the Yuba. Comforting her was her physician husband Dr, William Wallace Wixom, Soonhe was to deliver their child who was to become the toast of the great opera houses of the world. They decided that very cold and snowy night to call the girl Emma---and.years later Emma herself chose her stage name of Emma Nevada, Emma wasto make her singing debut in Nevada City at the Baptist Church. Lumber from this Baptist Church, built in 1850, can be found today in the E.T.R. Powell home at the corner of Spring. & Pine. Later in this story, quoting from a letter that Emma wrote toBelle Douglas, I will let her tell you in her own words of the first time she heard the sweet sound of audience applause. On March 31, 1902, Emma Nevada triumpbanhtly returned to Nevada City, was honored at a banquet at the National Hotel and sang her heart out at the Nevada Theater (now the Cedar). But , these paragraphs will also have to follow... Near the Wixom home at Alpha was the village blacks mith shop where little Emma went most every afternoon. Big Bill Alexander was the blacksmith, shoeing horses and repairing the five inch monitors.that ripped the hills away each day. Alexander was very fond of little Emma, having lost a daughter of his own Emma's age. Often Emma would-sing as Alexander pounded on his anvil. Years later as he would drink his whiskey neat in the bars at Washington on the Yuba he related how “Little Emma" would sing to the rings of his hammer, to the dashing Yuba torrents, tothe birds and even tothe wind whistling through the trees, I loved the little queen, Bill would say, but one day Dr. Wixom moved mother and daughter far away to Austin, Nevada, after living in Nevada City for a spell. The rugged blacksmith who kept tune on his anvil to little Emma was not to see her again until she returned in all her glory to the National Hotel in NC in 1902. When Emma became famous, the State of Nevada, as they had previously stolen their state's name from Nevada City, tried also to claim Nevada as Emma's birthplace. But in 1933 Emma wrote to Belle Douglasto dispute that claim. ..Wrote Emma.. "My first appearance was made in Nevada City, California, when I was three years old. We were staying at the National Hotel. The entertainment was a charity affair at the Baptist Church. I wasso small a table had to be provided so that the audience might see me. They wrapped me in an American flag and I sang the Star Spangled-Banner. “Yes -I was born in the hydraulic diggings of Alpha, Nevada County, California, and I am very proud of that, Later we moved to Nevada City and then to Austin, Nevada. Iwas to graduate from Mills College, and then on to Europe. In taking the name of Nevada I wanted to do honor to the wonderful town of Nevada City and to the state of Nevada. » Signed Emma Nevada Palmer Paris FranceNovember 5, 1933, " THE BEST MOVE QUCSVAN & STORAGE © you ever mabe ¥ 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Emma Nevada The Warbling Song Bird of the Yubaeal Photo from the Jean Worth National Hotel Collection (Editor's Note: The National Hotel where Emma Nevada stayed as a child and as a world famous opera singer will be commerated with a plaque on Sunday May 5 1963 by the William Bull Meek William Morris Stewart Chapter of E Clampus Vitus, The National Hotel is perhaps the most famous continuously operated hotel in all the west dating back to the Gold Rush Days.) Se ay co (% gg Ooe® Ss we TE OD % £ ua we iD.E. MATSON ‘FOREST PRODUCTS = HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++ +444+4+4444 +4 Dial 273-2071 FREE Delivery up to 10 miles eet Hide-A-Beds Made To Order EASTER SPECIAL ONE WEEK DELIVERY Any Size Any Material 5469, SHEAHAN’S FURNITURE and UPHOLSTERY 203 West Main St,, Grass Valley... Phone 273-2739 “aaa ee ane nn aan a ata ia ae a a aa a aa alae aVare tay FREE ESTIMATES PHONE 273—8781 . . Best Looking: Pete Schram, NU News By GREG MOTT June Harney, an NU cheerleader, has been chosen to represent Nevada Union at the Girls’ State Conference to be held this year on the U.C. Davis campus in June. June and her alternate, Diann Keith, were chosen by the teachers from a list of about twenty-five girls. The list was compiled on the basis of scholarship and activities. At Girls’ State, June will learnhow our governm ent is

tun and will strive tobe elected or appointed to one of the offices. The purpose of the conference is to preparehigh school students for positions of future political leadership. ++ ++ + A pril 26 has been set as the date for the last formal dance of the school year, the Senior Ball. The theme is to be selected this week by the Senior Cabinet. +++ + + Senior personalities for the 1963 yearbook, the Prospector, were elected by the senior class last week. The following are the results of the voting: Friendliest: Leslie Veldman, Karen Blake . Best Athlete: Bob Thomas, Harry Thomas, Daisy Stair . . Best All-Around: Jack Osborn, Karen Hansen Marty Hoyt Best Dancer: Tom Cox, Roxanne Twitchell Best Sense of Humor: Kerry Hobbs, Kathy McGuire Most Likely to Succeed: Greg Mott, Bill Newton, Terry Taylor ++ +++ Three NU students were chosen by the Bank of America evaluation committee to represent NU next Tuesday in the Zone Selection Event at Marysville. _ Betty Burcham will compete in the Bine Arts division, JoAnne Jenkins in Vocational Arts, and Terry Taylor.in Liberal Arts. These three students were trophy ' winners from our school in these fields. Terry Simpson, NU’s candidate for a trophy . in the field of Science and . Mathematics received an . ! Honorable Mention certificate from the evaluation } committee. Candidates in each general field will participate in a round table discussion on an assigned topic related to their study field. Later in the discussion, questions will be asked by the judges. — Ballots will be tabulated (Continued on Page 6.) NOTICE PROPERTY STATEMENTS & EXEMPTION AFFIDAVITS SHOULD BE FILED AT THE COUNTY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE BEFORE THE FOLLOWING DATES: GVETERAN’S EXEMPTION BEFORE MAY 6, 1963} PROPERTY STATEMENTS BEFORE MAY 27, 1963 CHARLES R. KITTS Assessor > 0°0"070'0' 0°0°0'0'0'070'0.0'0.0.0'0 0 0701010010. 0_0" 6.0.0.0 0001000" 0000 o. ( ‘ ( wwe wwownwnuovwvuowoeueeseeeeseeeeewewewe att, : Easter Perfect / ; Teenagers Go For Clothes } From Novak's } Buy Entire Outfit Now For Only — Se WuFs POPP PEP IIFD ciel OEP FPA et Sportcoat.......513% White Shirf.......2% Tie eee ENTIRE OUTFIT....5234 $9495 * Sizes 10 & 12 --Sizes 14 thru 18 $3.00 higher NOVAK’S MEN'S WEAR 305 BROAD STREET, NEVADA CITY, PH, 265 -468 BANKAMERICARD . . UEhione heu Seat i ~~ ae ‘lomorrow 1 out of every 94 employees in California will head for work. on a telephone job Some 68,000 Californians, like Operator Vivian Coleman (below), now make their living from-Pacific Telephone jobs. And as this number has increased to meet California’s growing telephone needs, the payroll they put to work throughout the State has grown larger, too. (1962 total: $426 million.) Yet phone rates in California are among the lowest in the country. @ Pacific Telephone PART OF THE NATION-WIDE BELL SYSTEM