March 1, 1961 (8 pages)

This columntakes exactly six minutes toread. This week we are going to be talking about E Clampus Vitus! two patron ."gaints -" William Morris Stewart and William Bull Meek, about Tommy Treverrow, Stanley Housel, Judge Niles Searles (Carrol's grandfather), Charlie Allert, and about one of NC's most notorious bootlegging joints during your and my roaring '20's. Now if this cast of characters doesn't interest you why not skip Fool's Goldthis week and take a chance on some entertainment in this space next Wednesday evening. , A$ we start to write about these people past and present and of their contributions to the passing parade we are stirred again by a paragraph in Bean’s Directory 1867 discussing this county seat: Nevada City, born amid wild excitements and fostered by men of every clime, who chose to ignore many of the customs and laws of civilized society; almost abandoned at times by the allurements of other and over-praised localities; destroyed by fire and her people ruined, depressed by the failure or exhaustion of mines---what scenes she has witnessed, what miseries undergone, what heroic struggles she has made, what triumpps she has gained! Tommy Treverrow Howard Penrose’s across. the street neighbor and a candidate forthe alltime list of anybody's unforgettable characters. Honest as the day was long, with tremendous pride in his profession of mine blacksmith, Tommy setthe town on edge most every time he left his forge in the mountain mines tocome to NC for a weekend of fun. He Learn to eA ean FREE!!! 6 LESSON COURSE WED. and THURS. 10:30 A.M. No Equipment Necessary Z r eeGOLD BOWLes 115 BANK STREET----GRASS VALLEY ph. 273-9901 the nifty nine-fifty A-HIt Hl! ON YOUR DIAL Istam was a true son of Cornwall and many was the time I greeted him on Broad Street: How are you to-day, Tommy? and the answer always the same Dam'e Bob, what's the use oftellin' uv’e? Soon forget! Tommy was short, stocky and a man of iron. These were NC lawless yearsthe bootlegging era inthe roaring twen© ties and your choice of drinks was limited totwo: jackass and bathtub gin. Tommy was not particular. By midnight Tommy was broke, and borrowing from friends. By one AM he had made the clink. Come Monday and his regualr appearance in court, tolerant Judge ordered modest fines. Tommy would brag he owned no property but paidmore "taxes"*than most whodid. On leaving court Tommy would head for the office of the local newspaper to insert a notice asking those who had lent him money the previous Sat. nite to please contact him for payment, 'cause in the flurry of things Tommy had forgot the loaners. No one ever took advantage of these ads the loaners wouldread contact Tommy and get repaid. After a long dry spell at the German Bar Mine Tommy came to town and found something new had been added in his absence a new bootlegging joint where Hal Almquist runs his Branding Iron restaurant. Operated outside the law by the son of an Assemblyman it was called HE'S INN. Tommy fortified himself elsewhere, then called at HE'S INN got inside and promptly announced that he could lick any maninthe’place. The owner, double the size and twice the weight of Tommy accepted the gauntlet, only tofindhimself soon in the middle of Broad, flat on his bruised dignity. Tommy remained in the sin spot demolishing the INNterior. The owner served a frightening concoction of bathtub gin and milk which he called the jersey bounce. I don’t know whether it did or not but it was enuf to make a holsteindothe big apple. But a word of peace to former bootleggers and highgraders of the late 1920's. Nomore items on these two involving subjects. Best that somerecent local history, like vintage wine, should be allowed to age and mellow before it is sipped and shared. The best numismatist rumor of the week: Of the stranger who made a small purchase at Art Cleghorn's North Columbia Hill store, paid for purchase with a $10 bill and got coins in change later believed to have collector value of $800. This shrinking world: Fresh peaches were on sale here this week flown in from Chile. _ hood, papa Meek tied a couple of gunny sacks together, threw the tied open sacks over the neck of the family mule, Loretta. In one sack he put in his young son Billy Bull Meek and counterbalanced him with a neighbor child in the other sack for the long trip with the patient mule, Loretta, to Camptonville where Billy Bull Meek was to make historical legend and fortune. On the reverse of the above card is William Bull Meek's private poem that Mrs. Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, wished togo to the theater that night to see the play "My American Cousin". Would Senator Stewart and Judge Searles be inconvienced if they could meet Mr. Lincoln _ the following morning, April 15? Searles _ One group of Nevada County Clampers (Tis sad there is more than one) chose ag theirnamesake one of the most colorful of the oldtime teamsters and grandfather of Judge Acton Cleveland of Camptonville: William Bull Meek. In an enevlope withnoreturn address Bull Meek's personal calling card was mailed to the Elks Camptonville, where there is no lodge forwarded to Gene Ricker, the NCElk, who turned it over to Bob Wyckoff, Grand Noble Humbug of William Morris Stewart Clampers. Fool's Gold reproduces the card: & Wee MEEK CAMPTONVILLE, CALIF. ' BaP. O.-E, Billy Bull Meek was born at Empire Ranch in the High Sierras, son ofa gold seeker John Meek. In early childeeA BIG THANK YOU week confined fire damage to our roof and saved our home. You earned our vote of thanks. GOLD FLAT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. Your speedy action on Election Day last MR. AND MRS. TOM YOST > GOLD FLAT ROAD “*USE YOUR CREDIT CARD *Finesr facilities for business or pleasure *Free TV & Coffee, phones * Heated Pool *12 min. from downtown San Francisco or Oakland “Restaurants, bowling, boating next door ** Ask about the Bay Bridge cruise *Right off U.S. 101 at U.§.17 865 Francisco Blvd., E. SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. eee FREE write fornew TRAVEL GUIDE listing fine motels from coast to coast, inspected and opproved by Congress of Motor Hotels. =F TexPERIENCED COUNSEL IN YOUR TIME OF NEED We offer you friendly, sympathetic help with attention to the details that mean so muchy We strive to give everyone the finest. .no matter how much or how little they spend. : CALL US DAY OR NIGHT WE ARE READY TO SERVE YOU BERGEMANN FUNERAL CHAPEL J. Paul Bergemann ( Formerly Holmes Funeral Home ) 246 Sacramento St., Nevada City Dial 265 24! 24-Hour Ambulance Service drips with the Golden Rule theme. Here are a couple of and Stewart spent the evening reministhe verses: cing about Nevada City. The hour is As the leaves fallin the autumn there’s yet always one 10:45 PM. There is arap onthe hotel to fall, x“ = It will cling unto its branches that was clung to them door. Senator Stewart opens it. There by them all, stands an army sergeant dressed in blue. wer In those shadow left by othersI am clinging to that tree Andthis land that gave me birthright is good enough for me. Would Senator Stewart please hurry to an emergency meeting in Congress? President Lincoln had just been shot by an When our life of téil is over and we've done all we unknown BBSASSITces oss vce eee could do, Did you treat the other fellow as you'd have him treat you? : If you did your life's a blessing for how often we forget To meet the other fellow as we'd wish to be met, William Bull Meek. Sorry we didn 't getto Charlie Allert and Stanley Housel, See you next week and Their stories, WilliamMorris Stewart: Washington, : : DC, Good Friday, April 14, 1865: Two Announcing friends from Nevada City, both former District Attorneys of Nevada County sat NICK THOMAS dejected on a couch in the Kirkwood . House in the nation’s capitol. One was : and , William Morris Stewart who had gone from his mansion on Piety Hill, to the silver state to become .a US Senator from:Nevada. The other was Judge Niles Searles, a visitor onleave from his Judicial Judge post for Nevada, Sierraand Plumas counties. The goldfrom the Empire mine had helpedwinthe CivilWar. President Lincoln had only recently given his memorable speech 'With malice toward none, with charity for all let us bind the nation's wounds’. The meeting had been } arranged by his old friend, Senator Ste\& wart.To discuss what part Nevada County, its goldandits loyal Union supporters could do to ‘bind the nation's wounds'. The meeting hadbenn arranged for 8 PM Good Friday Aprill4, 1865. Early inthe afternoon of that day Judge Searles rec'd a note of regret from Mr. Lincoln. DIAPER ~ DERBY Jones Memorial Feb. 11Son Mr. & Mrs. Ronald LeDuc, Grass Valley. Sy 16 Daughter-Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Milhone, Fair Oaks, 20 SonMr. and Mrs. Floyd Snavely, Grass Valley. 23 Daughter Mr. and Mrs. James Dill, Grass Valley. Introducing Push-Button Typing ion the new — smith-Corona 400 Ted Pennington ; NOTED SAN FRANCISCO HAIR STYLISTS . Will Be At ormas Feb. 27th. Cedar Ridge Building Materials "MERRILL BROS." ‘Ph. 273 4254 FP ;O. Box 248 Cedar Ridge TO Col FAX —Cedar Ridge Building Materials COLFAX HIGHWAY AT BRUNSWICK RD. 120 W Main St., Grass Valley. Dial 273-4288 Hobbyhouse OFFICE’ EQUIPMENT — ~~. Siert Feb. Jok Cle Pul Ba ST

This columntakes exactly six minutes toread. This week we are going to be talking about E Clampus Vitus! two patron ."gaints -" William Morris Stewart and William Bull Meek, about Tommy Treverrow, Stanley Housel, Judge Niles Searles (Carrol's grandfather), Charlie Allert, and about one of NC's most notorious bootlegging joints during your and my roaring '20's. Now if this cast of characters doesn't interest you why not skip Fool's Goldthis week and take a chance on some entertainment in this space next Wednesday evening. , A$ we start to write about these people past and present and of their contributions to the passing parade we are stirred again by a paragraph in Bean’s Directory 1867 discussing this county seat: Nevada City, born amid wild excitements and fostered by men of every clime, who chose to ignore many of the customs and laws of civilized society; almost abandoned at times by the allurements of other and over-praised localities; destroyed by fire and her people ruined, depressed by the failure or exhaustion of mines---what scenes she has witnessed, what miseries undergone, what heroic struggles she has made, what triumpps she has gained! Tommy Treverrow Howard Penrose’s across. the street neighbor and a candidate forthe alltime list of anybody's unforgettable characters. Honest as the day was long, with tremendous pride in his profession of mine blacksmith, Tommy setthe town on edge most every time he left his forge in the mountain mines tocome to NC for a weekend of fun. He Learn to eA ean FREE!!! 6 LESSON COURSE WED. and THURS. 10:30 A.M. No Equipment Necessary Z r eeGOLD BOWLes 115 BANK STREET----GRASS VALLEY ph. 273-9901 the nifty nine-fifty A-HIt Hl! ON YOUR DIAL Istam was a true son of Cornwall and many was the time I greeted him on Broad Street: How are you to-day, Tommy? and the answer always the same Dam'e Bob, what's the use oftellin' uv’e? Soon forget! Tommy was short, stocky and a man of iron. These were NC lawless yearsthe bootlegging era inthe roaring twen© ties and your choice of drinks was limited totwo: jackass and bathtub gin. Tommy was not particular. By midnight Tommy was broke, and borrowing from friends. By one AM he had made the clink. Come Monday and his regualr appearance in court, tolerant Judge ordered modest fines. Tommy would brag he owned no property but paidmore "taxes"*than most whodid. On leaving court Tommy would head for the office of the local newspaper to insert a notice asking those who had lent him money the previous Sat. nite to please contact him for payment, 'cause in the flurry of things Tommy had forgot the loaners. No one ever took advantage of these ads the loaners wouldread contact Tommy and get repaid. After a long dry spell at the German Bar Mine Tommy came to town and found something new had been added in his absence a new bootlegging joint where Hal Almquist runs his Branding Iron restaurant. Operated outside the law by the son of an Assemblyman it was called HE'S INN. Tommy fortified himself elsewhere, then called at HE'S INN got inside and promptly announced that he could lick any maninthe’place. The owner, double the size and twice the weight of Tommy accepted the gauntlet, only tofindhimself soon in the middle of Broad, flat on his bruised dignity. Tommy remained in the sin spot demolishing the INNterior. The owner served a frightening concoction of bathtub gin and milk which he called the jersey bounce. I don’t know whether it did or not but it was enuf to make a holsteindothe big apple. But a word of peace to former bootleggers and highgraders of the late 1920's. Nomore items on these two involving subjects. Best that somerecent local history, like vintage wine, should be allowed to age and mellow before it is sipped and shared. The best numismatist rumor of the week: Of the stranger who made a small purchase at Art Cleghorn's North Columbia Hill store, paid for purchase with a $10 bill and got coins in change later believed to have collector value of $800. This shrinking world: Fresh peaches were on sale here this week flown in from Chile. _ hood, papa Meek tied a couple of gunny sacks together, threw the tied open sacks over the neck of the family mule, Loretta. In one sack he put in his young son Billy Bull Meek and counterbalanced him with a neighbor child in the other sack for the long trip with the patient mule, Loretta, to Camptonville where Billy Bull Meek was to make historical legend and fortune. On the reverse of the above card is William Bull Meek's private poem that Mrs. Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, wished togo to the theater that night to see the play "My American Cousin". Would Senator Stewart and Judge Searles be inconvienced if they could meet Mr. Lincoln _ the following morning, April 15? Searles _ One group of Nevada County Clampers (Tis sad there is more than one) chose ag theirnamesake one of the most colorful of the oldtime teamsters and grandfather of Judge Acton Cleveland of Camptonville: William Bull Meek. In an enevlope withnoreturn address Bull Meek's personal calling card was mailed to the Elks Camptonville, where there is no lodge forwarded to Gene Ricker, the NCElk, who turned it over to Bob Wyckoff, Grand Noble Humbug of William Morris Stewart Clampers. Fool's Gold reproduces the card: & Wee MEEK CAMPTONVILLE, CALIF. ' BaP. O.-E, Billy Bull Meek was born at Empire Ranch in the High

Sierras, son ofa gold seeker John Meek. In early childeeA BIG THANK YOU week confined fire damage to our roof and saved our home. You earned our vote of thanks. GOLD FLAT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. Your speedy action on Election Day last MR. AND MRS. TOM YOST > GOLD FLAT ROAD “*USE YOUR CREDIT CARD *Finesr facilities for business or pleasure *Free TV & Coffee, phones * Heated Pool *12 min. from downtown San Francisco or Oakland “Restaurants, bowling, boating next door ** Ask about the Bay Bridge cruise *Right off U.S. 101 at U.§.17 865 Francisco Blvd., E. SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. eee FREE write fornew TRAVEL GUIDE listing fine motels from coast to coast, inspected and opproved by Congress of Motor Hotels. =F TexPERIENCED COUNSEL IN YOUR TIME OF NEED We offer you friendly, sympathetic help with attention to the details that mean so muchy We strive to give everyone the finest. .no matter how much or how little they spend. : CALL US DAY OR NIGHT WE ARE READY TO SERVE YOU BERGEMANN FUNERAL CHAPEL J. Paul Bergemann ( Formerly Holmes Funeral Home ) 246 Sacramento St., Nevada City Dial 265 24! 24-Hour Ambulance Service drips with the Golden Rule theme. Here are a couple of and Stewart spent the evening reministhe verses: cing about Nevada City. The hour is As the leaves fallin the autumn there’s yet always one 10:45 PM. There is arap onthe hotel to fall, x“ = It will cling unto its branches that was clung to them door. Senator Stewart opens it. There by them all, stands an army sergeant dressed in blue. wer In those shadow left by othersI am clinging to that tree Andthis land that gave me birthright is good enough for me. Would Senator Stewart please hurry to an emergency meeting in Congress? President Lincoln had just been shot by an When our life of téil is over and we've done all we unknown BBSASSITces oss vce eee could do, Did you treat the other fellow as you'd have him treat you? : If you did your life's a blessing for how often we forget To meet the other fellow as we'd wish to be met, William Bull Meek. Sorry we didn 't getto Charlie Allert and Stanley Housel, See you next week and Their stories, WilliamMorris Stewart: Washington, : : DC, Good Friday, April 14, 1865: Two Announcing friends from Nevada City, both former District Attorneys of Nevada County sat NICK THOMAS dejected on a couch in the Kirkwood . House in the nation’s capitol. One was : and , William Morris Stewart who had gone from his mansion on Piety Hill, to the silver state to become .a US Senator from:Nevada. The other was Judge Niles Searles, a visitor onleave from his Judicial Judge post for Nevada, Sierraand Plumas counties. The goldfrom the Empire mine had helpedwinthe CivilWar. President Lincoln had only recently given his memorable speech 'With malice toward none, with charity for all let us bind the nation's wounds’. The meeting had been } arranged by his old friend, Senator Ste\& wart.To discuss what part Nevada County, its goldandits loyal Union supporters could do to ‘bind the nation's wounds'. The meeting hadbenn arranged for 8 PM Good Friday Aprill4, 1865. Early inthe afternoon of that day Judge Searles rec'd a note of regret from Mr. Lincoln. DIAPER ~ DERBY Jones Memorial Feb. 11Son Mr. & Mrs. Ronald LeDuc, Grass Valley. Sy 16 Daughter-Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Milhone, Fair Oaks, 20 SonMr. and Mrs. Floyd Snavely, Grass Valley. 23 Daughter Mr. and Mrs. James Dill, Grass Valley. Introducing Push-Button Typing ion the new — smith-Corona 400 Ted Pennington ; NOTED SAN FRANCISCO HAIR STYLISTS . Will Be At ormas Feb. 27th. Cedar Ridge Building Materials "MERRILL BROS." ‘Ph. 273 4254 FP ;O. Box 248 Cedar Ridge TO Col FAX —Cedar Ridge Building Materials COLFAX HIGHWAY AT BRUNSWICK RD. 120 W Main St., Grass Valley. Dial 273-4288 Hobbyhouse OFFICE’ EQUIPMENT — ~~. Siert Feb. Jok Cle Pul Ba ST