February 28, 1973 (12 pages)

5 Newsletter . 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed. Feb. 28, 1973 “Notes off By P. L. Got any raisins handy? Well, hang onto them . they will soon be worth their weight in gold. No kidding! Quoting verbatim no less from the California Farm ®ureau Federation Monthly ‘“‘Anyone fortunate enough to have raisins tc sell this year will become.a part of history. Thompson seedless raisins are bringing $500 per ton, highest price received in history, due to the low production caused by frosts and drought.’’ Let’s all join the ‘‘save the raisin league!” Another little gem of wisdom from the same publication, same issue, is this: The lemon is currently enjoying the limelight from oven cleaners to shaving ‘cream to floor wax to shampoos to detergents to bath oils to room fresheners.they pack store shelves with over 2,000 labelsall in promotion of the ‘‘natural’’ craze. In fact, the only people not praticularly enjoying this boom are those who grow lemons. According to spokesmen for the lemon industry, barely two percent of the lemony fragrances wafting out of the nation’s soapboxes and underarm deodorant cans comes from the real thing. The great bulk is synthesized in in chemical plants in New Jersey and New York, or culled from something known as ‘‘lemongrass’’ which is mowed, not plucked, in the West Indies. So, now you know. School was never this much fun when I was in high school . way backwhen. Up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, _there’s this “‘Bonnie Doon High School’’ where the kids are being taught some courses through their stomachs. It goes like’ this . instead of reading about the Elizabethan customs, 50 English and Social Studies pupils sat down to a real Elizabethan meal one day recently. The menu included such goodies as stuffed suckling 301 Broad Street 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court; June 3, 1960. ‘Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Years. $5.00 _. Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . Nevada City, Ca. fi the Cuff” Smith pig, roast goose, leg of lamb, venison stew, stuffed pike, steak and kidney pie, baby eel pie, steamed brown bread, fruit , puddings, plum dumplings, mince tarts, and honey meadall. concocted from recipes originating about the year 1550 _ A.D. Only knives and spoons were permitted because forks, of course, had not been invented yet; a five-piece combo played music typical of the age and there were a couple of lively “court jesters’”’ on hand to keep things moving. The only way to learn! Another victory . there are now six women who will soon be working beside men on the floor of the London Stock Exchange . for the first time since it opened its doors more than 300 years ago! In all those years, the floor work as jobbers, brokers, in-~ vestment advisers and researchers has been limited to men. But on March 25 the old order changeth with vigor, when the six women will formally become full-fledged members of the exchange and thus end one of Britain’s most obvious bastions of ‘‘male supremacy.” I’m going to take a real “breather” for a couple of weeks . gonna go on a vacation and relax, do a bit of sightseeing, see some friends around and about, and generally get some of the cobwebs out of the old noggin. So Notes Off The Cuff will be ‘‘out of print’’ for a short period, while I hunt for some new ideas to write about. Be seeing you’all soon. New manager for. industrial safety A veteran safety engineer has been appointed to manage the State’s industrial safety program in most of northern , California. ae George E. Harris, named February 19 to replace Paul C. Boettcher as the State’s top industrial safety man for the North Central Region, will ‘maintain his headquarters in Sacramento. Fhe North Central Region’s office of the Division of Industrial Safety, State Depart‘ ment of Industrial Relations, is located at 714 ‘‘P’’ Street, Sacramento; telephone: (916) 445-5818. : Harris ‘and his staff of 46 job safety experts serve the counfiés of Shasta, Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Alpine, Calaveras, Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Contra Costa, and Alameda. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Zou gs hh. 4A. m=. FZReady BT @ vw ss By Fay M. Dunbar Its name alone brings almost more fame to Rough and Ready than our quaint little town can handle. Yet since Mrs. Lisetta Scheave built her chapel here in 1958 it has been gaining world wide fame from this establishment also. The chapel has served brides from the Far East in Sari to the bride on horseback of the western world, and most of the areas in between, with equal beauty and dignity. Now the chapel has . added apother first to the fame of our town. The “equipment necessary to play Carillon Bell $ recordings from all over the world has been installed. Mrs. Scheave has been dreaming of Carillon Bells ever since her dream of building the chapel came true. The chapel was built for “meditation by the wayfarer’’ as well:as for the weddings which keep it so busy. Lisetta thinks of it as a memorial to her husband and family as well as a service to the traveler. The bells which she has long dreamed of were given to her by her brothers, Arthur Warsinske of Spokane, Washington and Norman Warsinske of Billings, Montana. Honoring the gift they are designing a small bronze plaque in memory of their parents. Mrs. Scheave says she feels that now the chapel is complete. She plans a formal dedication in the near future. The equipment which controls the Carillon Bells was installed by a firm from Seattle, Washington with factory and headquarters in Hoven, Ohio. The recordings which are scheduled at present were madé on a 63 bell Carillon in a church in northern Michigan from a manually played keyboard. The equipment is designed to play all types of bells including the sweet bell sounds which are electronically produced and are called harp bells. The nearest Carillon is in the Campanile at Berkeley. The largest Carillon in the world is at Riverside Church in New York City. It has 72 bells: The largest weighs 18 tons and sounds low C. My first experience with the Carillon bells was at Niagara Falls some 30 years ago: It was an unforgettable one. I was a tourist seeing the sights and heppend to be on the bridge watching the falls just at sunset when the Carillon Bells were played. The duck bumps still run up and down my spine just thinking about it. It was the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard. I don’t know the statistics, but the Niagara Falls Bells were played manually from a keyboard and the bell tower was a hundred or more feet tall. I heard the bells again the next morning from a tour bus which must have been at least five miles away. They were equally beautiful. The bells at the chapel are programmed to ring automatically at 9a.m., noon, 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily. Mrs. Scheave will also be able to programme them at any time desired“for the many weddings at the chapel. I am looking forward to hearing them when summer comes and the windows are open or I am outside. There is a mellow resonance to cast bronze bells which seems to drift with the air and even though we live almost half a mile away we nearly always heard the bronze wedding bell which still hangs in the chapel tower. Carillon bells seem to have a special quality. They are equally at home in the cosmopolitan sophistication of Rockefeller Plaza, where I have heard them played at evening and even the city seemed to still for a few seconds, to the bucolic atmosphere of the Belgium countryside which was more or less their birthplace. They were played throughout the low countries of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. The oldest society of bell ringers in the world traces back to 1574, St. Stephen’s of Bristol, in England. Thanks to Lyle White of our Nevada County Historical Library Staff we have found another Clue to the unsolved riddle of the exact date our old hall was built. Thompson and West states that the Sons of Temperance built halls 273-2934 throughout Nevada County pretty generously. Lyle finds that the lodges didn’t last long however. In-Rough and Ready they shared quarters with the Odd Fellows. So the 1854 date often associated with the old hall is probably correct. Equally correct is the information from the Odd Fellows themselves that they got their hall in 1857. Records indicate they did meet in 1854. Their Charter was granted in 1855. Lyle found written records indicating their State Grand Master visited here July 16, 1856. He commented ‘‘they have a fine hall.’’ Lyle also had a word about Sacramento Road. He has found it in written records. It crossed the hills to the southeast of us. Probably somewhere in the vicinity of Rex Reservoir, followed the line of least resistance which was up stream and crossed Squirrel Creek somewhere on the Beatie Ranch. From there it followed the least resistance line again and came down stream. It crossed Blue Creek somewhere on the Baer Ranch. Road travelers undoubtedly stopped at the Downey House and the old Barns which formerly adjoined the Blacksmith shop on the west. Somewhere between Mountain Rose Road and Slave Girl Lane, probably in the vicinity of Chapel Lane it crossed the already reasonably well established Marysville Road. In those days they partially skirted wet mountain meadows or they would surely have used Slave Girl Lane. After they crossed the main road they went up the hill and over the top toward Deer Creek. Near the Deer Creek crossing it was joined by another road probably from Anthony House and they both, least resistance again, reached Nevada City via Kentucky Flat. Thanks Lyle for helping our . town discover the old Sacramento Road and its in town crossing. Our supervisors, quite unaware ‘of its historical significance of course, recently condemned the Old Creamery in Penn Valley (formerly Rough and Ready) to an early grave. They voted to destroy two old building on the county park site there: One of these old buildings has been on the pages of history about a century. Malcolm Hammill thinks it s about 100 years old. We have not located its birth date yet. It was origianlly on the Montgomery Ranch. According to Thompson and West and the drawings of the ranch made prior to 1880 the ranch must have been a show place. In 1912 The Great West publiched an entire monthly issue dedicated to Nevada county. Since it was marked for destruction the vandalism has been a disgrace to the county, It can of course be restored and prove a real feature for the county’s future park there. This feature would be a national attraction. All it would need is money. Our supervisors were given the money, $175,000, for the park. True as they said a swimming pool and lawns would take maintenance money but this would only require a good fence. The significance of this old creamery and its impact on the fourist would make it economically a good investment anyway. anyway. Write your board and your own district supervisor. One incident about the old creamery I thought interesting was that while they were mostly famous for their butter they also made cheese. At one time financial difficulties made it necessary for them to sell all their aging cheeses. It pulled them out of the hole. We don’t have all the facts about the creamery yet but we have reams of interesting material about the people involved. You would know many of their descendents still living in the county. We have also located a few in the Bay Area and Sacramento.

5 Newsletter .. 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed. Feb. 28, 1973 “Notes off By P. L. Got any raisins handy? Well, hang onto them .. they will soon be worth their weight in gold. No kidding! Quoting verbatim no less from the California Farm ®ureau Federation Monthly ‘“‘Anyone fortunate enough to have raisins tc sell this year will become.a part of history. Thompson seedless raisins are bringing $500 per ton, highest price received in history, due to the low production caused by frosts and drought.’’ Let’s all join the ‘‘save the raisin league!” Another little gem of wisdom from the same publication, same issue, is this: The lemon is currently enjoying the limelight from oven cleaners to shaving ‘cream to floor wax to shampoos to detergents to bath oils to room fresheners..they pack store shelves with over 2,000 labelsall in promotion of the ‘‘natural’’ craze. In fact, the only people not praticularly enjoying this boom are those who grow lemons. According to spokesmen for the lemon industry, barely two percent of the lemony fragrances wafting out of the nation’s soapboxes and underarm deodorant cans comes from the real thing. The great bulk is synthesized in in chemical plants in New Jersey and New York, or culled from something known as ‘‘lemongrass’’ which is mowed, not plucked, in the West Indies. So, now you know. School was never this much fun when I was in high school .. way backwhen. Up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, _there’s this “‘Bonnie Doon High School’’ where the kids are being taught some courses through their stomachs. It goes like’ this .. instead of reading about the Elizabethan customs, 50 English and Social Studies pupils sat down to a real Elizabethan meal one day recently. The menu included such goodies as stuffed suckling 301 Broad Street 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court; June 3, 1960. ‘Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years.. $5.00 _. Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . Nevada City, Ca. fi the Cuff” Smith pig, roast goose, leg of lamb, venison stew, stuffed pike, steak and kidney pie, baby eel pie, steamed brown bread, fruit , puddings, plum dumplings, mince tarts, and honey meadall. concocted from recipes originating about the year 1550 _ A.D. Only knives and spoons were permitted because forks, of course, had not been invented yet; a five-piece combo played music typical of the age and there were a couple of lively “court jesters’”’ on hand to keep things moving. The only way to learn! Another victory .. there are now six women who will soon be working beside men on the floor of the London Stock Exchange .. for the first time since it opened its doors more than 300 years ago! In all those years, the floor work as jobbers, brokers, in-~ vestment advisers and researchers has been limited to men. But on March 25 the old order changeth with vigor, when the six women will formally become full-fledged members of the exchange and thus end one of Britain’s most obvious bastions of ‘‘male supremacy.” I’m going to take a real “breather” for a couple of weeks .. gonna go on a vacation and relax, do a bit of sightseeing, see some friends around and about, and generally get some of the cobwebs out of the old noggin. So Notes Off The Cuff will be ‘‘out of print’’ for a short period, while I hunt for some new ideas to write about. Be seeing you’all soon. New manager for. industrial safety A veteran safety engineer has been appointed to manage the State’s industrial safety program in most of northern , California. ae George E. Harris, named February 19 to replace Paul C. Boettcher as the State’s top industrial safety man for the North Central Region, will ‘maintain his headquarters in Sacramento. Fhe North Central Region’s office of the Division of Industrial Safety, State Depart‘ ment of Industrial Relations, is located at 714 ‘‘P’’ Street, Sacramento; telephone: (916) 445-5818. : Harris ‘and his staff of 46 job safety experts serve the counfiés of Shasta, Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Alpine, Calaveras, Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Contra Costa, and Alameda. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Zou gs hh. 4A. m=. FZReady BT @ vw ss By Fay M. Dunbar

Its name alone brings almost more fame to Rough and Ready than our quaint little town can handle. Yet since Mrs. Lisetta Scheave built her chapel here in 1958 it has been gaining world wide fame from this establishment also. The chapel has served brides from the Far East in Sari to the bride on horseback of the western world, and most of the areas in between, with equal beauty and dignity. Now the chapel has . added apother first to the fame of our town. The “equipment necessary to play Carillon Bell $ recordings from all over the world has been installed. Mrs. Scheave has been dreaming of Carillon Bells ever since her dream of building the chapel came true. The chapel was built for “meditation by the wayfarer’’ as well:as for the weddings which keep it so busy. Lisetta thinks of it as a memorial to her husband and family as well as a service to the traveler. The bells which she has long dreamed of were given to her by her brothers, Arthur Warsinske of Spokane, Washington and Norman Warsinske of Billings, Montana. Honoring the gift they are designing a small bronze plaque in memory of their parents. Mrs. Scheave says she feels that now the chapel is complete. She plans a formal dedication in the near future. The equipment which controls the Carillon Bells was installed by a firm from Seattle, Washington with factory and headquarters in Hoven, Ohio. The recordings which are scheduled at present were madé on a 63 bell Carillon in a church in northern Michigan from a manually played keyboard. The equipment is designed to play all types of bells including the sweet bell sounds which are electronically produced and are called harp bells. The nearest Carillon is in the Campanile at Berkeley. The largest Carillon in the world is at Riverside Church in New York City. It has 72 bells: The largest weighs 18 tons and sounds low C. My first experience with the Carillon bells was at Niagara Falls some 30 years ago: It was an unforgettable one. I was a tourist seeing the sights and heppend to be on the bridge watching the falls just at sunset when the Carillon Bells were played. The duck bumps still run up and down my spine just thinking about it. It was the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard. I don’t know the statistics, but the Niagara Falls Bells were played manually from a keyboard and the bell tower was a hundred or more feet tall. I heard the bells again the next morning from a tour bus which must have been at least five miles away. They were equally beautiful. The bells at the chapel are programmed to ring automatically at 9a.m., noon, 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily. Mrs. Scheave will also be able to programme them at any time desired“for the many weddings at the chapel. I am looking forward to hearing them when summer comes and the windows are open or I am outside. There is a mellow resonance to cast bronze bells which seems to drift with the air and even though we live almost half a mile away we nearly always heard the bronze wedding bell which still hangs in the chapel tower. Carillon bells seem to have a special quality. They are equally at home in the cosmopolitan sophistication of Rockefeller Plaza, where I have heard them played at evening and even the city seemed to still for a few seconds, to the bucolic atmosphere of the Belgium countryside which was more or less their birthplace. They were played throughout the low countries of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. The oldest society of bell ringers in the world traces back to 1574, St. Stephen’s of Bristol, in England. Thanks to Lyle White of our Nevada County Historical Library Staff we have found another Clue to the unsolved riddle of the exact date our old hall was built. Thompson and West states that the Sons of Temperance built halls 273-2934 throughout Nevada County pretty generously. Lyle finds that the lodges didn’t last long however. In-Rough and Ready they shared quarters with the Odd Fellows. So the 1854 date often associated with the old hall is probably correct. Equally correct is the information from the Odd Fellows themselves that they got their hall in 1857. Records indicate they did meet in 1854. Their Charter was granted in 1855. Lyle found written records indicating their State Grand Master visited here July 16, 1856. He commented ‘‘they have a fine hall.’’ Lyle also had a word about Sacramento Road. He has found it in written records. It crossed the hills to the southeast of us. Probably somewhere in the vicinity of Rex Reservoir, followed the line of least resistance which was up stream and crossed Squirrel Creek somewhere on the Beatie Ranch. From there it followed the least resistance line again and came down stream. It crossed Blue Creek somewhere on the Baer Ranch. Road travelers undoubtedly stopped at the Downey House and the old Barns which formerly adjoined the Blacksmith shop on the west. Somewhere between Mountain Rose Road and Slave Girl Lane, probably in the vicinity of Chapel Lane it crossed the already reasonably well established Marysville Road. In those days they partially skirted wet mountain meadows or they would surely have used Slave Girl Lane. After they crossed the main road they went up the hill and over the top toward Deer Creek. Near the Deer Creek crossing it was joined by another road probably from Anthony House and they both, least resistance again, reached Nevada City via Kentucky Flat. Thanks Lyle for helping our . town discover the old Sacramento Road and its in town crossing. Our supervisors, quite unaware ‘of its historical significance of course, recently condemned the Old Creamery in Penn Valley (formerly Rough and Ready) to an early grave. They voted to destroy two old building on the county park site there: One of these old buildings has been on the pages of history about a century. Malcolm Hammill thinks it s about 100 years old. We have not located its birth date yet. It was origianlly on the Montgomery Ranch. According to Thompson and West and the drawings of the ranch made prior to 1880 the ranch must have been a show place. In 1912 The Great West publiched an entire monthly issue dedicated to Nevada county. Since it was marked for destruction the vandalism has been a disgrace to the county, It can of course be restored and prove a real feature for the county’s future park there. This feature would be a national attraction. All it would need is money. Our supervisors were given the money, $175,000, for the park. True as they said a swimming pool and lawns would take maintenance money but this would only require a good fence. The significance of this old creamery and its impact on the fourist would make it economically a good investment anyway. anyway. Write your board and your own district supervisor. One incident about the old creamery I thought interesting was that while they were mostly famous for their butter they also made cheese. At one time financial difficulties made it necessary for them to sell all their aging cheeses. It pulled them out of the hole. We don’t have all the facts about the creamery yet but we have reams of interesting material about the people involved. You would know many of their descendents still living in the county. We have also located a few in the Bay Area and Sacramento.