January 14, 1970 (12 pages)

\ ,, Rough and Ready Grange Officers, Master Wm. Davis and wife Donnis, Secretary Marguerité Abbott, and Women's Activities Chairman Esther Bixler attended the Placer and Nevada county Grance officers' meeting at Loomis Grange last Sunday. Activities for 1970 were mapped out and coordinated, ~ Mmes. Marguerite Abbott, Clara Deardorf, Myrtle Hester -and Olyve Simmons with the help ‘of Jack Bixler and Elva Hester redecorated the Powder Rooms at the Grange Hall last week. A new floor had to be installed in a large area sa they put in new floor covéring there also, _ Take a look the next time you are in the building. It's a real improvement, Regular meeting of the Grange will be Friday, Jan, 16 beginning with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. After dinner speaker will -be Mrs, Ola Lee Hale who will give a rundown on insurance changes this year. The. ladies of the Grange will meet at 12 noon January 20 at the Grange Hall for a dessert luncheon, Mrs, Myrtle Hester and Mrs, LaNetta Hyatt are hostesses. A brief business sesSion will follow. ‘ EK The Rough and Ready 4-H Club will hold its regular meeting tonight at.7:30 p.m.-at the Grange Hall, Guest speaker will be Ray Hartung of the Nevada County Fire Prevention Association. Hartung, James Hawkeswood, and Mike Mickey will give a live demonstration of Fire Prevention in the home. Parents and friends are welcome and will find this a particularly interest~ ing demonstration, *k * Due to the heavy schedule at the Grange Hall the date ofthe Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Installation has been changed to January 28. The ladies of the Grange will serve their usual delicious old fashioned chicken dinner. Reservations may be made by contracting any chamber member. The Penn Valley Riders have changed their regular meeting date from the second to the third Wednesday of each month, Next meeting will be on January 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Penn Valley Fire House. The Community Christmas party sponsored by the riders was a real success, Santa's Helpers touredthe commun-ity in a pony and cart in the early afternoon and Santa arrived at the party with his Helpers at about 6:30 p.m. He distributed 160 Christmas stockings. There was music and dancing, community carol singing, and hot coffee andcookies for everyone. e*¥% The Rough and Ready Fire Department. will host the Nevada County Fire Prevention meeting on Wednesday January 21 at the Grange Hall. All Fire Departments of-Nevada County will partic: ¥ : *** é “¥ By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 The Fire Dept. Auxiliary adopted a tentative plan for 1970 activities at their meeting last Monday night. The Box Social which has been planned for some time was definitely set for June. Candidates to be presented at theFebruary meeting will be Mrs. Lolomae Tinsley, -president; Mrs. Mary Lee vice president; Mrs. Pat Litchfield, secretarytreasurer; Mrs, Loraine Long, . program chairman, and Mmes, Noreen Harwood, Althea Moniz, ane Davison, and Pat Litcheld, ways and means comm . Circle Monday, Feb, 2 on your calendar for selection of 1970 Auxiliary officers. * The Don Litchfields of Rough and Ready are happy to welcome a new family to Nevada county. Don's brother Ray and wife, Alameda and two sons, Michael and Jeffry, have decided to make this their future home, Mike will be a junior at NUHS and Jeffry will attend Ready Springs School, * Mrs. Guy Foell from Newberry Park in Southern California is spending a couple of weeks in Rough and Ready visiting her long time friend, Mrs. Bert (Marguerite) Spaite. The two ladies have been interspersing their visiting with short sight seeing trips. Last Sunday. they visited in nearby Chico. ¥kx The William Ettlemans celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary last Saturday. The celebration included dinner at the Dragon Seed Inn with aparty of friends. Mrs, Etta Ettleman is the retired Rough and Ready Postmaster. The Ettlemans make their retirement home in Penn Valley. *** The Parent Teachers Club of Ready Springs School will hold their next meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the schools multipurpose room. Boy Scout Troop . #299, who present the flag for each meeting, will be in charge of the entire program for the evening, — oS **x Mr. and Mrs, Wm. (Clara) Bursill and their foster daughter Debbie Nyce and son, Bob Bursill spent the holiday week following Christmas traveling together. Z : E g brother, the George Hodgson family of Oakland. Included in this visit was a most enjoyable trip to see the Wonderland on Ice at the Oakland Coliseum. Then they spent afew days visiting a. niece in Salinas and seeing the sights of the beautiful countryside between Oakland and Monterey including a stop at Pacific Grove. On their way home they saw. the fantasy, "Oliver", done in the round. They were impressed with the feeling that it creates of being in the midst of it all. Debbie had been looking forward to'this particularly and they had made their reservations early intheir holiday. . * Don't forget the Rough and Ready Square Dance Party atthe Hall on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Evelyn and Leonard Valdez.and Maureen and Harlan “Wood are serving as this months committee for refreshments and decorations, Leonard Valdez has been selected to lead the Square -Dance group through 1970. * * * We live in a little valley like bowl. . During Sundays rain, water hurried from all the hillsides around. us down to Squirrel Creek. It's a pretty. nice arrangement once you've learned to keep your runoff ditches clean, We enjoy the sound it makes, In southern California where water doesn't have a down hill place to go, rain is quite frightoun. **K* . In last weeks column I wrote my own comments about yesterday, today and tomorrow. I have just. finished reading a verse from.a Sanskrit. I don't know if my verse is extremely old or if it is more modern East Indian thinking. But Ido know it's REAL eA MOREL one 6 I EE Ths A AL ne meh BE ne ‘meeting scheduled for this week, the Nevada City Chamber of to begin operation of Tanner's = Wednesday, January 14, 1970. The Nevada County Nugget @ Chamber tidbits board of directors is waiting for permissic : from the. Public Utilities Com At the Commerce will begin earnest Trolley, a shuttle bus service y 4th between Grass Valley and Nethe county seat. Chris Schaaf We have been invited and p was ndmed generalchairman and to attend the installation cerewill be appointing committees monies and dinner of the Grass for various functions andevents, Valley Chamber of Commerce Theme for the event has not yet at Alta Sierra Country Club this been announced, _ Saturday night. At a recent special Mrs, Raymond Dalpez and her President George Brooks preBrownies have offered to plant sented awards to four persons bulbs in the planters about the or organizations whose concity, and in some of the empty tribution to Nevada City were spots around town, The cham. outstanding for the year 1969, ber is furnishing the bulbs, The Nevada City Soroptimists. which should be blooming early were honered for their continnext spring before the planting uous services to the citythrough of the petunias, the Fire Department and Nevada General Hospital. Each. uy Bonds. where you work. Christmas, the Club handles the downtown decorations with the help of the Chamber. Sunset Magazine of Menlo Park was also named for their invaluable . Buy publicity and stories aimed at bringing our city before the Bett er . general public, Margaret TriTh velpiece and Jon Engellenner, an of The Union and Sacramento Ever Bee, respectively, were commended for their outstanding news coverage of chamber and city activities, and for their kind e fe) and faithful cooperation throughout the year. Each honoree reU.S. Rand: ceived a plaque with special inU.S Savings cnane scription from the chamber, Ae ‘ Latest new member is Dan ‘ : Tanner, one of the partners who Take stock in America comment. The verse ends "Buth: © today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."" It began "Look to this day! For it is life, the very life ® of life." 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\ ,, Rough and Ready Grange Officers, Master Wm. Davis and wife Donnis, Secretary Marguerité Abbott, and Women's Activities Chairman Esther Bixler attended the Placer and Nevada county Grance officers' meeting at Loomis Grange last Sunday. Activities for 1970 were mapped out and coordinated, ~ Mmes. Marguerite Abbott, Clara Deardorf, Myrtle Hester -and Olyve Simmons with the help ‘of Jack Bixler and Elva Hester redecorated the Powder Rooms at the Grange Hall last week. A new floor had to be installed in a large area sa they put in new floor covéring there also, _ Take a look the next time you are in the building. It's a real improvement, Regular meeting of the Grange will be Friday, Jan, 16 beginning with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. After dinner speaker will -be Mrs, Ola Lee Hale who will give a rundown on insurance changes this year. The. ladies of the Grange will meet at 12 noon January 20 at the Grange Hall for a dessert luncheon, Mrs, Myrtle Hester and Mrs, LaNetta Hyatt are hostesses. A brief business sesSion will follow. ‘ EK The Rough and Ready 4-H Club will hold its regular meeting tonight at.7:30 p.m.-at the Grange Hall, Guest speaker will be Ray Hartung of the Nevada County Fire Prevention Association. Hartung, James Hawkeswood, and Mike Mickey will give a live demonstration of Fire Prevention in the home. Parents and friends are welcome and will find this a particularly interest~ ing demonstration, *k * Due to the heavy schedule at the Grange Hall the date ofthe Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Installation has been changed to January 28. The ladies of the Grange will serve their usual delicious old fashioned chicken dinner. Reservations may be made by contracting any chamber member. The Penn Valley Riders have changed their regular meeting date from the second to the third Wednesday of each month, Next meeting will be on January 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Penn Valley Fire House. The Community Christmas party sponsored by the riders was a real success, Santa's Helpers touredthe commun-ity in a pony and cart in the early afternoon and Santa arrived at the party with his Helpers at about 6:30 p.m. He distributed 160 Christmas stockings. There was music and dancing, community carol singing, and hot coffee andcookies for everyone. e*¥% The Rough and Ready Fire Department. will host the Nevada County Fire Prevention meeting on Wednesday January 21 at the Grange Hall. All Fire Departments of-Nevada County will partic: ¥ : *** é “¥ By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 The Fire Dept. Auxiliary adopted a tentative plan for 1970 activities at their meeting last Monday night. The Box Social which has been planned for some time was definitely set for June. Candidates to be presented at theFebruary meeting will be Mrs. Lolomae Tinsley, -president; Mrs. Mary Lee vice president; Mrs. Pat Litchfield, secretarytreasurer; Mrs, Loraine Long, . program chairman, and Mmes, Noreen Harwood, Althea Moniz, ane Davison, and Pat Litcheld, ways and means comm . Circle Monday, Feb, 2 on your calendar for selection of 1970 Auxiliary officers. * The Don Litchfields of Rough and Ready are happy to welcome a new family to Nevada county. Don's brother Ray and wife, Alameda and two sons, Michael and Jeffry, have decided to make this their future home, Mike will be a junior at NUHS and Jeffry will attend Ready Springs School, * Mrs. Guy Foell from Newberry Park in Southern California is spending a couple of weeks in Rough and Ready visiting her long time friend, Mrs. Bert (Marguerite) Spaite. The two ladies have been interspersing their visiting with short sight seeing trips. Last Sunday. they visited in nearby Chico. ¥kx The William Ettlemans celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary last Saturday. The celebration included dinner at the Dragon Seed Inn with aparty of friends. Mrs, Etta Ettleman is the retired Rough and Ready Postmaster. The Ettlemans make their retirement home in Penn Valley. *** The Parent Teachers Club of Ready Springs School will hold their next meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the schools multipurpose room. Boy Scout Troop . #299, who present the flag for each meeting, will be in charge of the entire program for the evening, — oS **x Mr. and Mrs, Wm. (Clara) Bursill and their foster daughter

Debbie Nyce and son, Bob Bursill spent the holiday week following Christmas traveling together. Z : E g brother, the George Hodgson family of Oakland. Included in this visit was a most enjoyable trip to see the Wonderland on Ice at the Oakland Coliseum. Then they spent afew days visiting a. niece in Salinas and seeing the sights of the beautiful countryside between Oakland and Monterey including a stop at Pacific Grove. On their way home they saw. the fantasy, "Oliver", done in the round. They were impressed with the feeling that it creates of being in the midst of it all. Debbie had been looking forward to'this particularly and they had made their reservations early intheir holiday. . * Don't forget the Rough and Ready Square Dance Party atthe Hall on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Evelyn and Leonard Valdez.and Maureen and Harlan “Wood are serving as this months committee for refreshments and decorations, Leonard Valdez has been selected to lead the Square -Dance group through 1970. * * * We live in a little valley like bowl. . During Sundays rain, water hurried from all the hillsides around. us down to Squirrel Creek. It's a pretty. nice arrangement once you've learned to keep your runoff ditches clean, We enjoy the sound it makes, In southern California where water doesn't have a down hill place to go, rain is quite frightoun. **K* . In last weeks column I wrote my own comments about yesterday, today and tomorrow. I have just. finished reading a verse from.a Sanskrit. I don't know if my verse is extremely old or if it is more modern East Indian thinking. But Ido know it's REAL eA MOREL one 6 I EE Ths A AL ne meh BE ne ‘meeting scheduled for this week, the Nevada City Chamber of to begin operation of Tanner's = Wednesday, January 14, 1970. The Nevada County Nugget @ Chamber tidbits board of directors is waiting for permissic : from the. Public Utilities Com At the Commerce will begin earnest Trolley, a shuttle bus service y 4th between Grass Valley and Nethe county seat. Chris Schaaf We have been invited and p was ndmed generalchairman and to attend the installation cerewill be appointing committees monies and dinner of the Grass for various functions andevents, Valley Chamber of Commerce Theme for the event has not yet at Alta Sierra Country Club this been announced, _ Saturday night. At a recent special Mrs, Raymond Dalpez and her President George Brooks preBrownies have offered to plant sented awards to four persons bulbs in the planters about the or organizations whose concity, and in some of the empty tribution to Nevada City were spots around town, The cham. outstanding for the year 1969, ber is furnishing the bulbs, The Nevada City Soroptimists. which should be blooming early were honered for their continnext spring before the planting uous services to the citythrough of the petunias, the Fire Department and Nevada General Hospital. Each. uy Bonds. where you work. Christmas, the Club handles the downtown decorations with the help of the Chamber. Sunset Magazine of Menlo Park was also named for their invaluable . Buy publicity and stories aimed at bringing our city before the Bett er . general public, Margaret TriTh velpiece and Jon Engellenner, an of The Union and Sacramento Ever Bee, respectively, were commended for their outstanding news coverage of chamber and city activities, and for their kind e fe) and faithful cooperation throughout the year. Each honoree reU.S. Rand: ceived a plaque with special inU.S Savings cnane scription from the chamber, Ae ‘ Latest new member is Dan ‘ : Tanner, one of the partners who Take stock in America comment. The verse ends "Buth: © today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."" It began "Look to this day! For it is life, the very life ® of life." Classified Ads, the little felows with the big pulling power.— An international image A good neighbor A good friend Welcome Wagon Hostess with The Most Famous Basket in the World® CALL Wel Wigon, 273-2561 FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP 111 W. MAIN P.O. BOX 1634 GRASS VALLEY, CALIF. 95945 WASHINGTON HOTEL ROOMS—COCKTAKS } Breakfast—Lunch—Dinner hington, Calif. GET RESULTS Gisnp WATER PROBLEMS Phone 273-8954 . Call’ 273-4493 © Pumps—Filters Pipe—Fittings . GEO. A. KING & SON. . a nr tp