July 28, 1971 (12 pages)

10 The Nevada County Nugget, From the files of The Nugget IN NEVADA COUNTY IN 1950 The Parent-Teachers Association carnival held at Nevada ° City elementary school Tuesday night was attended by an esti_ mated one thousand persons, _ These concessions were under direction of the following room mothers and teachers: Peanuts and popcorn-Miss Frances Mason, Mrs, James Curry, Mrs, Thomas Taylor. Doll roomMrs, Jean Smiollett, Mrs, Herschel Lotz, Mrs, Cecil Schiffner. Hot dogs and coffee-Miss Savory Ford, Mrs, Aldo Santinelli, Mrs, L, R,. Evans, Grab-bag-Mrs, Irma Atkins, Mrs, H. O. Howton, Mrs, Robert Wilson, * KOK * Guy N, Robinson, rancher of Indian Springs, will sit for the first time as a member of the Board of Supervisors tomorrow as the group meets to canvass the general election, **K* , Mayor Thomas H. Taylor asks for public reaction to the test of a portable device held Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Broad and Pine streets, , * * * OK Mrs, William J, Cassettari, on Lucas Lane, Grass Valley, had the officers and committee heads of the American Association of University Women meet at her home yesterday evening to set a date for the fall tea and plan the organizations fall program, * * KX "Tricky Dick" Penrose, who sparked the Nevada City High School Yellowjackets through the 1949 grid campaign was judged prep of the week by a San Francisco daily newspaper, has enrolled at Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon, * *K * * Joseph Day & Son, local real estate dealers and insurance, opened their newly remodeled office in the Masonic building on North Pine street this week. * * * * Dr, and Mrs, Walter J, Hawkins received a very interesting letter from their daughter Mary who is touring Europe. * * *K * Mrs, Haxel George of Grass Valley had a luncheon yesterday for members of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. * * OK * , Mr, and Mrs, Richard I, Goyne entertained very interesting friends from San Jose, Costa Rica, this past week. * * K * Mrs, E, L. Purssell and Mrs, Fay N, Stevenson left Monday to visit a week at Lake Tahoe, . x * * *K Miss Ruth Libbey is visiting in Nevada City with her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Carl Libbey. Miss Libbey was a member of the 1950 graduating class of the University of California, She received an A.B. degree in political science. * KOK * Mrs. John Sbaffi and daughter, Joanne, and mother, Mrs, Marie Thurston, spent several days in Oakland, visiting Mrs, Thurston's sister, Mrs, Kate Zadow. * * K * July was almost as popular as June for weddings in Nevada county, according to records in county clerk Ralph E, Deeble's office in the courthouse, * KOK * Mr, and Mrs, Lloyd Truman of Piedmont entertained Mrs, Cyrus Gillette of Hawaii and Mr, and Mrs, Lee Winetrout of Piedmont. Mr. and Mrs, Truman recently purchased acreage in the Willow Valley section and have built a charming summer home, * KOK OK Mrs, Hildred Branson, District Deptity Grand Pocahontas, was honored at a reception. * *O* Verle ''Puss’’ Gray announced yesterday that the girl who lost her falsies in the swimming pool may recover them at the pool. * * *K * Dr, and Mrs, Dwight Lang will be busily engaged directing the construction of their new home on the Ridge Road now that the foundation has. been laid. * OK OK Louis Hartman and family returned from an interesting trip to British Columbia, * eK * Wednesday was the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest explosion in the history of Nevada county, and also the anniversary .of. the worst conflagaration in the county's history. On the night of July 19, 1900, at 10:35 o'clock, the city was rocked’ by..two. terrific explosions of -six tons of powder, and every plate glass window in town was shattered, * * * Susan, daughter of-Mr, and Mrs, Alvin S, Trivelpiece, is j. ‘wisiting’her grandmother-in:Reno, Nev., this week, bs iy 4 . ae ‘ og Me a HIGIY GS Ss, gb PVCs VOD Se WES a WR A! ~* Wednesday, July 28 , 1971 Our neighbors to the flatland side of us are lovely people, Many of them consider themSelves members of our community since they live in what used to be part of Rough and Ready. I wish we could claim them all but progressive newcomers have split away the valley and now call themselves: Penn Valley, Maybe when the new highway goes through just over the hill and the access road into Rough and Ready is completed we can at least claim Indian Springs Road residents, I have never wanted to let any of them slip away but since everytime someone is in trouble or goes way out on a limb they call them Rough and Readyans and when they accomplish some successful operation they immediately become Penn Valleyans, I guess we must draw the line, Now seems to’be the time, "No Hokum with Slocum" is not Rough and Ready. He is Penn Valley. Will Slocum lives on Spenceville Roadout beyond the turnoff to Ready Springs School. He is Penn Valley's aspirant for President and if he wins they will surely claim him so he has no right to capitalize on honest Rough and Ready fame, The confusion is created by the fact that the mail route that goes out Spenceville Road and on up Indian Springs Road is called Rough and Ready Star Route, This problem is true conversely as the Rougli and Ready people who live up the hill from town are often called Grass Valley people because they live on the Grass Valley mail delivery route, The whole trouble seems to have started when the area outgrew the original Rough and Ready voting precinct which extended from the Yuba county line on the west to Grass Valley on the east and north to the Pleasant Valley Road ari south to the Indian Springs Road, They are still whittling away at us and each time a precinct is divided it seems to be lost to us, The first time I served on the board, I got to know just nearly everyone around and now our little precinct only goes from Bitney Springs Road west to the edge of Penn Valley south to the top of the ridge of hills and north to Deer Creek. If we must suffer this indignity then please don’ t saddle us with liabilities like No Hokum with Slocum."* * * ; I must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, That is certainly enough “tearing into" for one day. The trouble is that we have just lost some most delightful company. My sister, by marriage, and her husband Mr, and Mrs, Merle Garner of Baldwin Park, Ca., have been with us since last Thursday, They are marvelous guests, Only trouble is the loss when they must leave, They have gone on to Lake Almanor where they will spend a couple of days with one of my old Sorority sisters, also an in-law, the Glenn Varleys, They too are from Southern, Calif, but have a summer home at the Lake, It makes a grand weekend trip, I took guests up there. last summer, We went up the Yuba River canyon through Downieville (which I think outshines the Feather River Canyon for beauty) and returned via the Feather River canyon and the flatland, Actually it's almost too much beauty to absorb in one day. I would recommend you spend the night at Almanor or go on over to Susanville which has lots of overnight facilities, The Garners intend to go home via Susanville and Hwy, 395 with a stopover at Reno, I just drool over these possible trips and there are dozens of dreamy ones around here, My father was really French, but Mama always said he was part Gypsy and sometimes I think she must have been right. Where else could I have gotten this "itchy foot." * * As you already know from both our newspapers the Rough and Ready Grange obligated eight new members last meeting. Four of them are very special people to me, the Clarence Treadways, Mrs. Twyla Lemargie and Mrs, Mary Blankenship, Mr, and Mrs, George Catlin, Mrs, Flora Devieau, and Mr, Ray Blankenship were the other obligated, Mrs, Devieau is quite new to our neighborhood but she will be an interesting asset, She is a nurse and her son, Mr, Ralph, is a doctor, The Ralphs are still living in Sacramento but their young son and daugher are spending at least part of their summer with grandmother here in Rough and Ready, Unfortunately I know Mr. and Mrs, Catlin and Mr, Blankenship even less well (now there is a phrase) than Mrs, Devieau, There simply isn't enough time in the day to know all the interesting people in our little community, I have heard people say life is boring, How can this ever be ? I need 24 hours each day to just get the "have tos" done, From reports at the Grange ladies meeting last Tuesday you can be sure we will be having a wonderful bazaar this fall and our garden display booth is going to be a beauty, The hard working chairmen are Mrs, Margaret Brown and Mrs, Eleanor Binder, Last weeks hostesses were Mrs, Olyve Simmons and Mrs, Clara Deardorf, They served warm gingerbread made especially interesting with honey as a sweetener and ice cream, My diet is certainly a handicap at times like these, Everyone said it was as delicious as it looked, I had iced tea. * * * * History is facinating and when you get involved there is no place to stop. Not much of Rough and Ready's history has been written down, When some point arises it is often necessary to hunt until you find someone who has more or less first hand knowledge. Some time ago I came across an important former resident, Charles Nahl 1851, About all I have been able to find out about him is that he illustrated the Old Block" Delano book, One of my readers in Auburn wants a lot of information, Can any of you tell us anything about him? My Auburn reader sent a quote from a letter "We settled not far from Deer Creek at Rough and Ready. ..we took a nice roomy wooden house whose owner had disappeared for a long time and took at the same time in the valley, a piece of a mining claim." In another letter NahI’s mother writes of seeing Mt. Vesuvius from her house at Rough and Ready, Branson helped me identify two creeks I needed to locate some time ago but no one has been able to do anything with this Mt. Vesuvius thing, Help! : * * * * An interesting wedding took place at the Little Wedding Chapel recently, A very nice gentleman aged 90 years took for his bride a sweet young thing of 80 years, The young couple were from out of town, the bride from Grass Valley and their names don't really matter but the fact that the chapel was full of children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren ali wishing them well really does, When the bridegroom was asked about the honeymoon he said they were sorry they really didn't have time for one his job just couldn't wait, He is employed and did feel he was needed, He also admitted he hopes to retire in a couple of years, The newlyweds were introduced several years ago by one of the granddaughters, They will make their home in Yolo county. i * * : * Miss Cynthia Tinsley who spent a week in Washington, D.C, with her companion Dawn Wiegman is home, The two young ladies went as Nevada County 4-H representatives to the National 4-H Conference on Citizenship. They lived at the National 4-H Center while there, Congressman Harold Johnson showed his youthful constituents, and their 4-H group from all parts of the United 2 eye’ Senate and the House and discussed congressional. affairs and operations * apes ‘7 ret tr y t Sis -* i) t BAS ~~ AV OPL A 2 eterna oe ee Oe ee ee Nis SOEVSY gente asia > * ‘fis ; POY CET a { 5 ey ibs 9a! £ ras Aaa Sa fico IF Vk es SOF OPS mene oe

10 The Nevada County Nugget, From the files of The Nugget IN NEVADA COUNTY IN 1950 The Parent-Teachers Association carnival held at Nevada ° City elementary school Tuesday night was attended by an esti_ mated one thousand persons, _ These concessions were under direction of the following room mothers and teachers: Peanuts and popcorn-Miss Frances Mason, Mrs, James Curry, Mrs, Thomas Taylor. Doll roomMrs, Jean Smiollett, Mrs, Herschel Lotz, Mrs, Cecil Schiffner. Hot dogs and coffee-Miss Savory Ford, Mrs, Aldo Santinelli, Mrs, L, R,. Evans, Grab-bag-Mrs, Irma Atkins, Mrs, H. O. Howton, Mrs, Robert Wilson, * KOK * Guy N, Robinson, rancher of Indian Springs, will sit for the first time as a member of the Board of Supervisors tomorrow as the group meets to canvass the general election, **K* , Mayor Thomas H. Taylor asks for public reaction to the test of a portable device held Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Broad and Pine streets, , * * * OK Mrs, William J, Cassettari, on Lucas Lane, Grass Valley, had the officers and committee heads of the American Association of University Women meet at her home yesterday evening to set a date for the fall tea and plan the organizations fall program, * * KX "Tricky Dick" Penrose, who sparked the Nevada City High School Yellowjackets through the 1949 grid campaign was judged prep of the week by a San Francisco daily newspaper, has enrolled at Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon, * *K * * Joseph Day & Son, local real estate dealers and insurance, opened their newly remodeled office in the Masonic building on North Pine street this week. * * * * Dr, and Mrs, Walter J, Hawkins received a very interesting letter from their daughter Mary who is touring Europe. * * *K * Mrs, Haxel George of Grass Valley had a luncheon yesterday for members of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. * * OK * , Mr, and Mrs, Richard I, Goyne entertained very interesting friends from San Jose, Costa Rica, this past week. * * K * Mrs, E, L. Purssell and Mrs, Fay N, Stevenson left Monday to visit a week at Lake Tahoe, . x * * *K Miss Ruth Libbey is visiting in Nevada City with her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Carl Libbey. Miss Libbey was a member of the 1950 graduating class of the University of California, She received an A.B. degree in political science. * KOK * Mrs. John Sbaffi and daughter, Joanne, and mother, Mrs, Marie Thurston, spent several days in Oakland, visiting Mrs, Thurston's sister, Mrs, Kate Zadow. * * K * July was almost as popular as June for weddings in Nevada county, according to records in county clerk Ralph E, Deeble's office in the courthouse, * KOK * Mr, and Mrs, Lloyd Truman of Piedmont entertained Mrs, Cyrus Gillette of Hawaii and Mr, and Mrs, Lee Winetrout of Piedmont. Mr. and Mrs, Truman recently purchased acreage in the Willow Valley section and have built a charming summer home, * KOK OK Mrs, Hildred Branson, District Deptity Grand Pocahontas, was honored at a reception. * *O* Verle ''Puss’’ Gray announced yesterday that the girl who lost her falsies in the swimming pool may recover them at the pool. * * *K * Dr, and Mrs, Dwight Lang will be busily engaged directing the construction of their new home on the Ridge Road now that the foundation has. been laid. * OK OK Louis Hartman and family returned from an interesting trip to British Columbia, * eK * Wednesday was the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest explosion in the history of Nevada county, and also the anniversary .of. the worst conflagaration in the county's history. On the night of July 19, 1900, at 10:35 o'clock, the city was rocked’ by...two. terrific explosions of -six tons of powder, and every plate glass window in town was shattered, * * * Susan, daughter of-Mr, and Mrs, Alvin S, Trivelpiece, is j. ‘wisiting’her grandmother-in:Reno, Nev., this week, bs iy 4 . ae ‘ og Me a HIGIY GS Ss, gb PVCs VOD Se WES a WR A! ~* Wednesday, July 28 , 1971 Our neighbors to the flatland side of us are lovely people, Many of them consider themSelves members of our community since they live in what used to be part of Rough and Ready. I wish we could claim them all but progressive newcomers have split away the valley and now call themselves: Penn Valley, Maybe when the new highway goes through just over the hill and the access road into Rough and Ready is completed we can at least claim Indian Springs Road residents, I have never wanted to let any of them slip away but since everytime someone is in trouble or goes way out on a limb they call them Rough and Readyans and when they accomplish

some successful operation they immediately become Penn Valleyans, I guess we must draw the line, Now seems to’be the time, "No Hokum with Slocum" is not Rough and Ready. He is Penn Valley. Will Slocum lives on Spenceville Roadout beyond the turnoff to Ready Springs School. He is Penn Valley's aspirant for President and if he wins they will surely claim him so he has no right to capitalize on honest Rough and Ready fame, The confusion is created by the fact that the mail route that goes out Spenceville Road and on up Indian Springs Road is called Rough and Ready Star Route, This problem is true conversely as the Rougli and Ready people who live up the hill from town are often called Grass Valley people because they live on the Grass Valley mail delivery route, The whole trouble seems to have started when the area outgrew the original Rough and Ready voting precinct which extended from the Yuba county line on the west to Grass Valley on the east and north to the Pleasant Valley Road ari south to the Indian Springs Road, They are still whittling away at us and each time a precinct is divided it seems to be lost to us, The first time I served on the board, I got to know just nearly everyone around and now our little precinct only goes from Bitney Springs Road west to the edge of Penn Valley south to the top of the ridge of hills and north to Deer Creek. If we must suffer this indignity then please don’ t saddle us with liabilities like No Hokum with Slocum."* * * ; I must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, That is certainly enough “tearing into" for one day. The trouble is that we have just lost some most delightful company. My sister, by marriage, and her husband Mr, and Mrs, Merle Garner of Baldwin Park, Ca., have been with us since last Thursday, They are marvelous guests, Only trouble is the loss when they must leave, They have gone on to Lake Almanor where they will spend a couple of days with one of my old Sorority sisters, also an in-law, the Glenn Varleys, They too are from Southern, Calif, but have a summer home at the Lake, It makes a grand weekend trip, I took guests up there. last summer, We went up the Yuba River canyon through Downieville (which I think outshines the Feather River Canyon for beauty) and returned via the Feather River canyon and the flatland, Actually it's almost too much beauty to absorb in one day. I would recommend you spend the night at Almanor or go on over to Susanville which has lots of overnight facilities, The Garners intend to go home via Susanville and Hwy, 395 with a stopover at Reno, I just drool over these possible trips and there are dozens of dreamy ones around here, My father was really French, but Mama always said he was part Gypsy and sometimes I think she must have been right. Where else could I have gotten this "itchy foot." * * As you already know from both our newspapers the Rough and Ready Grange obligated eight new members last meeting. Four of them are very special people to me, the Clarence Treadways, Mrs. Twyla Lemargie and Mrs, Mary Blankenship, Mr, and Mrs, George Catlin, Mrs, Flora Devieau, and Mr, Ray Blankenship were the other obligated, Mrs, Devieau is quite new to our neighborhood but she will be an interesting asset, She is a nurse and her son, Mr, Ralph, is a doctor, The Ralphs are still living in Sacramento but their young son and daugher are spending at least part of their summer with grandmother here in Rough and Ready, Unfortunately I know Mr. and Mrs, Catlin and Mr, Blankenship even less well (now there is a phrase) than Mrs, Devieau, There simply isn't enough time in the day to know all the interesting people in our little community, I have heard people say life is boring, How can this ever be ? I need 24 hours each day to just get the "have tos" done, From reports at the Grange ladies meeting last Tuesday you can be sure we will be having a wonderful bazaar this fall and our garden display booth is going to be a beauty, The hard working chairmen are Mrs, Margaret Brown and Mrs, Eleanor Binder, Last weeks hostesses were Mrs, Olyve Simmons and Mrs, Clara Deardorf, They served warm gingerbread made especially interesting with honey as a sweetener and ice cream, My diet is certainly a handicap at times like these, Everyone said it was as delicious as it looked, I had iced tea. * * * * History is facinating and when you get involved there is no place to stop. Not much of Rough and Ready's history has been written down, When some point arises it is often necessary to hunt until you find someone who has more or less first hand knowledge. Some time ago I came across an important former resident, Charles Nahl 1851, About all I have been able to find out about him is that he illustrated the Old Block" Delano book, One of my readers in Auburn wants a lot of information, Can any of you tell us anything about him? My Auburn reader sent a quote from a letter "We settled not far from Deer Creek at Rough and Ready. ....we took a nice roomy wooden house whose owner had disappeared for a long time and took at the same time in the valley, a piece of a mining claim." In another letter NahI’s mother writes of seeing Mt. Vesuvius from her house at Rough and Ready, Branson helped me identify two creeks I needed to locate some time ago but no one has been able to do anything with this Mt. Vesuvius thing, Help! : * * * * An interesting wedding took place at the Little Wedding Chapel recently, A very nice gentleman aged 90 years took for his bride a sweet young thing of 80 years, The young couple were from out of town, the bride from Grass Valley and their names don't really matter but the fact that the chapel was full of children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren ali wishing them well really does, When the bridegroom was asked about the honeymoon he said they were sorry they really didn't have time for one his job just couldn't wait, He is employed and did feel he was needed, He also admitted he hopes to retire in a couple of years, The newlyweds were introduced several years ago by one of the granddaughters, They will make their home in Yolo county. i * * : * Miss Cynthia Tinsley who spent a week in Washington, D.C, with her companion Dawn Wiegman is home, The two young ladies went as Nevada County 4-H representatives to the National 4-H Conference on Citizenship. They lived at the National 4-H Center while there, Congressman Harold Johnson showed his youthful constituents, and their 4-H group from all parts of the United 2 eye’ Senate and the House and discussed congressional. affairs and operations * apes ‘7 ret tr y t Sis -* i) t BAS ~~ AV OPL A 2 eterna oe ee Oe ee ee Nis SOEVSY gente asia > * ‘fis ; POY CET a { 5 ey ibs 9a! £ ras Aaa Sa fico IF Vk es SOF OPS mene oe