December 22, 1965 (20 pages)

BRASH HERE OEEIAE RH FHI AH Bee HET eRe oO The Red Colt tosend me on to Marysville High to continue my education, It couldn*t be managed but I know now she was looking far into the future for me. Teachers are great people. It was Al who should have conFREDERICK~S MILEY, Grace Himes. father of the author, Mrs. A telegrapher who lost his hear( cont'd. ) speaking there was a moment's pause and then a shouting, clapping and stamping that shook the building. For a little time those entertainment-starved country people who packed the school room that night lived the valorous ing, he was forced into a way of life that was "wrong for him." tinued his education. He was both intelligent and gifted. He had outstanding dramatic ability and was always the best speaker at our school entertainments, I can see him now as he came out on the rough homemade stage as calm as though he were attending a class. He would bow with great dignity and then begin speaking. Kerosenelamps turned low flickered yellowly in their nests of greenery at the sides of the stage and excited children behind the curtain rustled their starched finery. One Christmas he-recited "“Horatius at the Bridge, “ and all during that long poem there wasn't a sound but the winter wind whining around the old building and coyotes crying their hunger from some lonely hill, When he finished Gee KNIGHT $ Paint Store Complete Selection Of Fine Wallpapers AUTO PAINTS Phone 273-4856 146 Mill St. Grass Valley NUTUOUTTVOTOGRATTTTITV deeds of that lovely old poem. And Alwasa Christmas eve here, My recitation, after the ball, didn't go over so good. The audience just couldn't seem to visualize a lovely looking young girl in pensive meditation when they looked at me--skinny, long OVERLOAD Smooth, Safe LEVEL DRIVING even with Installed FREE $3495 Sierra Muffler And Parts 632 Nevada City Hwy. Phone 273 8869 (mz i hie ci i legged and sallow, my straight hair pulled back from a forehead much too high. Iwas proud of Al, but I couldn't lethim win all the honors for the family so I decided to become a writer. I began writing Personals for the Marysville Appeal. That went over big until I got too _ personal and the neighbors began raising cain. My literary efforts came to an abrupt end. We loved school but vacations were always welcome too, and they must have been doubly so to Mother for she carriedthe burden of ranch work alone during school. She had planned and managed until soon she had several cows to milk and cream to sell, along with hundreds of turkeys, many chickens, ducks and geese. Because she could buy them cheaply, her herd of cows was mostly wild range cows that had lost their calves. We shivered with fear as Mother, donning men's clothes, and armed with a pitch fork, drovethemtoa chute and milked them through the bars, She petted andtalkedtothem as she milked, andin time they followed her around as tame as our Newfoundland dog. Mother was a brave woman, Trampsslept in our barn and came to the door for food; serious illness in the family left her shaking and hollow eyed; but she some way carried on, and so gave us memories we've cherished all of our lives, None of us ever had any real money. Al had the most, and that was after Mr. George Summy of Sutter County leased the Trayner place nearby and brought his horses there to pasture, He hired Al to keep the gates closed, to count the horses each day and be sure they were all there. They were race horses and all pure bred stock, He paid Al extravagantly for this service which was not supposed to take much time. But Al, as all of us, liked Mr. Summy so much that he put in many hours of extra time seeing that they were all right every way. Mr. Summy was a big handsome man with a laugh that fitted his size, and itwas a sight indeed to see him coming up the county road in a rubber tired buggy behind the most beautiful horse we'd ever seen, Al would look on wistfully andsay, "Some day I'm going to own and drive a horse like that, " The first money Al earned he used to get Fred and himself pump guns, and they both became crack shots, The country abounded in game these years--cottontail, rabbit, quail: and doves in summer, and when the first rains came in the fall, wild ducks and geese came in by hundreds, The ducks came in thick at night, flying low over our house, talking softly as their whistling wings carried them to Nigger Jack Slough, food, and rest. I loved the wild lonely honk of geese far inthe sky, too, even though they were well hated by all the grain ranchers, In the summer the boys and I brought buckets of wild raspberries and blackberries from the river bottom for Mother to can and preserve. The neighbors warned us of rattlesnakes in the river bottom's jungle, but the only rattle snake we ever saw was under a box back of our barn, In the fall after the first hard rains mushrooms popped up all over our pasture, We picked buckets of themall fall, Mother taught us how to tell them from READY TO Invest? ct WHCeystone . ? oc” FUNDS Please send me Prospectus and descriptive material on the Keystone Funds. GET THE ImvVESTmenT secuRity GZ) Registered Representative Stocks Call 265-4107 M.T.R. Box 2 King Hiram Drive Nevade City Merry Christmas From HARRIET and FRANK JAKOBS 120 W. MAIN ST., GRASS VALLEY PH. 273-4288 “PURS, ; i) ye ‘Dw, Witin out the year. Christmas a aAt this season of the year it is our sincere wish that happiness and prosperity find their way into the homes of all our friends and remain with them through\ 141 MILL Greetings GRASS VALLEY SINCE 1933 Featuring Nationally Known Names in Fashions 273-7193 6 G9ET ,°2S Jequieseq** °1988nN Aquno5 epeAon’**

BRASH HERE OEEIAE RH FHI AH Bee HET eRe oO The Red Colt tosend me on to Marysville High to continue my education, It couldn*t be managed but I know now she was looking far into the future for me. Teachers are great people. It was Al who should have conFREDERICK~S MILEY, Grace Himes. father of the author, Mrs. A telegrapher who lost his hear( cont'd. ) speaking there was a moment's pause and then a shouting, clapping and stamping that shook the building. For a little time those entertainment-starved country people who packed the school room that night lived the valorous ing, he was forced into a way of life that was "wrong for him." tinued his education. He was both intelligent and gifted. He had outstanding dramatic ability and was always the best speaker at our school entertainments, I can see him now as he came out on the rough homemade stage as calm as though he were attending a class. He would bow with great dignity and then begin speaking. Kerosenelamps turned low flickered yellowly in their nests of greenery at the sides of the stage and excited children behind the curtain rustled their starched finery. One Christmas he-recited "“Horatius at the Bridge, “ and all during that long poem there wasn't a sound but the winter wind whining around the old building and coyotes crying their hunger from some lonely hill, When he finished Gee KNIGHT $ Paint Store Complete Selection Of Fine Wallpapers AUTO PAINTS Phone 273-4856 146 Mill St. Grass Valley NUTUOUTTVOTOGRATTTTITV deeds of that lovely old poem. And Alwasa Christmas eve here, My recitation, after the ball, didn't go over so good. The audience just couldn't seem to visualize a lovely looking young girl in pensive meditation when they looked at me--skinny, long OVERLOAD Smooth, Safe LEVEL DRIVING even with Installed FREE $3495 Sierra Muffler And Parts 632 Nevada City Hwy. Phone 273 8869 (mz i hie ci i legged and sallow, my straight hair pulled back from a forehead much too high. Iwas proud of Al, but I couldn't lethim win all the honors for the family so I decided to become a writer. I began writing Personals for the Marysville Appeal. That went over big until I got too _ personal and the neighbors began raising cain. My literary efforts came to an abrupt end. We loved school but vacations were always welcome too, and they must have been doubly so to Mother for she carriedthe burden of ranch work alone during school. She had planned and managed until soon she had several cows to milk and cream to sell, along with hundreds of turkeys, many chickens, ducks and geese. Because she could buy them cheaply, her herd of cows was mostly wild range cows that had lost their calves. We shivered with fear as Mother, donning men's clothes, and armed with a pitch fork, drovethemtoa chute and milked them through the bars, She petted andtalkedtothem as she milked,

andin time they followed her around as tame as our Newfoundland dog. Mother was a brave woman, Trampsslept in our barn and came to the door for food; serious illness in the family left her shaking and hollow eyed; but she some way carried on, and so gave us memories we've cherished all of our lives, None of us ever had any real money. Al had the most, and that was after Mr. George Summy of Sutter County leased the Trayner place nearby and brought his horses there to pasture, He hired Al to keep the gates closed, to count the horses each day and be sure they were all there. They were race horses and all pure bred stock, He paid Al extravagantly for this service which was not supposed to take much time. But Al, as all of us, liked Mr. Summy so much that he put in many hours of extra time seeing that they were all right every way. Mr. Summy was a big handsome man with a laugh that fitted his size, and itwas a sight indeed to see him coming up the county road in a rubber tired buggy behind the most beautiful horse we'd ever seen, Al would look on wistfully andsay, "Some day I'm going to own and drive a horse like that, " The first money Al earned he used to get Fred and himself pump guns, and they both became crack shots, The country abounded in game these years--cottontail, rabbit, quail: and doves in summer, and when the first rains came in the fall, wild ducks and geese came in by hundreds, The ducks came in thick at night, flying low over our house, talking softly as their whistling wings carried them to Nigger Jack Slough, food, and rest. I loved the wild lonely honk of geese far inthe sky, too, even though they were well hated by all the grain ranchers, In the summer the boys and I brought buckets of wild raspberries and blackberries from the river bottom for Mother to can and preserve. The neighbors warned us of rattlesnakes in the river bottom's jungle, but the only rattle snake we ever saw was under a box back of our barn, In the fall after the first hard rains mushrooms popped up all over our pasture, We picked buckets of themall fall, Mother taught us how to tell them from READY TO Invest? ct WHCeystone . ? oc” FUNDS Please send me Prospectus and descriptive material on the Keystone Funds. GET THE ImvVESTmenT secuRity GZ) Registered Representative Stocks Call 265-4107 M.T.R. Box 2 King Hiram Drive Nevade City Merry Christmas From HARRIET and FRANK JAKOBS 120 W. MAIN ST., GRASS VALLEY PH. 273-4288 “PURS, ; i) ye ‘Dw, Witin out the year. Christmas a aAt this season of the year it is our sincere wish that happiness and prosperity find their way into the homes of all our friends and remain with them through\ 141 MILL Greetings GRASS VALLEY SINCE 1933 Featuring Nationally Known Names in Fashions 273-7193 6 G9ET ,°2S Jequieseq** °1988nN Aquno5 epeAon’**