October 1, 1975 (8 pages)

_ 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., October 1, 1975 California Country. } Rough and Ready News Kristi Steber ONE ROOM SCHOOL TEACHER She came from the city and when she first saw the isolated schoolhouse, she cried. But $125 a month was a higher salary than her college professor made and Gladys Beckley was determined to stick out her first year of teaching at the Virginia Valley school. The new teacher soon learned that her duties were not restricted to teaching reading, writing and arithmetic to twenty ranch children ranging in ages from six to fourteen. It was also her job to see that the school house was swept and kept tidy and that a warm fire greeted the students every morning. The city-reared schoolmarm also learned she was expected to ™ perform another task, saddling and bridling the horses for the first and second graders. ‘I had never saddled a horse before in my life, nor had I bridled one,”’ the school teacher admitted, but she managed to learn before the first week of school. It was also the teacher’s duty to pump a bucket of water from the well every morning and set it beside the dipper in the hallway. On the wall above the bucket, each child’s cup hung from a nail pounded below his name. “They were supposed to fill their cups from the dipper but once in a while I would catch one of the boys drinking from the dipper. Then I’d make him clean out the outhouse for punishment. That was my worse job.” Most of the kids rode to school on horses and Virginia Valley school was ‘‘up-to-date”’ because it had a barn. It wasn’t Gladys’ job to clean out the stables, though. That was up to the kids who brought horses. Virginia Valley school was a familiar landmark to the dozen ranchers in the area. They sent mail to school with their children and the letters were set on a window ledge in the hall. Anyone riding past the school during the day who might be heading to the post office would always stop to pick up the mail. The school house was also the center of most social life in the valley and the new schoolmistress found herself hostess for most occasions when the school was used. Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid program in GV Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid is located on Auburn and Race Street, Grass Valley, and was organized four years ago on October 11th, 1971 by 15 dedicated local women. The number has now grown poner jnto dollars. These funds are being used for the following to 23, all serving voluntarily without pay. Shortly after being founded, application was made to the State of California to be legally incorporated under state laws. This legal status was proudly achieved in March of 1972. This organization is strictly NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 elephone 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor . $3.00 Two Yeors . $5.00 Member of — . Herbert Durham, a local venture, by local women, for the benefit of local cancer patients, and is entirely unaffiliated with any other state or national society. Funds are earned by condonated discards of people of Nevada County , in order: of priority: No. 1. To render aid in any way possible to any person afflicted with cancer. ~ No. 2. To purchase earlycancer detection equipment and place same at the of any doctor or. any hospital in Nevada County, enabling them to make.early diagnosis and early control of cancer. No. 3. To channel some funds each year into a reputable cancer research center. 1925 reunion The Grass Valley High School class of 1925 will have their 50-year class reunion on Oct. 11. ‘ Festivities will begin at 2:30 . p.m. at the home of Lillian Roach Fitzgerald, Box 623, Allison Ranch Rd., Grass Valley. The following people have not been contacted and any information regarding them may be relayed by . calling 273-7019. Henry Andrews, Thomas Botting, Bernard Couch, Orlan Hansen, Evelyn James, Irene Juliff, Henry Jones, Elizabeth James, James’ Pagani, Winifred Rowe Cannon, and 44 4,4, 4, na’ re 4, @o By Fay Dunbar Wrong again! And I was told about it by several people. Jesse Fippin is not the oldest living member of an original pioneer family! Sadie Ennor Ryan is leading the list at the moment, Doris Trauner believes there may be another old timer around but had to check into it. I think I was justified in my error tho’. One doesn’t associate Sadie with age. She will be 93 years young on November 30 but her visit from the Bay area this time was to see the dentist. Yes, I did mean dentist. At the age of 92 she was here to have a tooth pulled. Sadie visits her niece Dorothy Niesen quite often. It gives her a chance also to see her old friends and her old home. She is one of the Ennor girls and was born in the old Ennor home that burned a few years back. The Niesons now live on the hill overlooking where the old Ranch house once stood. Sadie attended the old Rough and Ready School. She started there in 1887 at the age of five years. Her first teacher was Kate Brown Church. In the early days of the Chinese people in the United States they were treated as if they were less than human. It is amazing how we, the white race supposedly christian, can have been so unfeeling about God’s children of other colors. Hopefully those days are gone forever. I preface my story with this statement because it is a gruesome tale ‘today yet, in the light of its times hardly even unusual Doris Trauners father, Manuel Frank, told her the story as a child. She remembers it vividly because she is living now at the very spot where it-all happened. When the Portuguese Mining Company turned to sluice box lines for water from higher up to wash their gold there was often gold in the sluices during the night. In order to protect the three lines of sluices there was always someone at a vantage point with a shotgun. In this case it was a man named Jim Woods who lived on a knoll overlooking the lines on two sides. The Chinese were the worst offenders. Possibly because they were not allowed to own a mine. They were paid hardly enough to keep body and soul together and if they looked for gold it had to be in spots where the white man had completed his searching. So they took to prowling the sluices at night. They carried lanterns in their search. Woods shot the lanterns and if he also got a Chinese it didn’t matter. It just saved future trouble. Ususally they fell into the sluices and were carried away by the water. In later years these same men took up a collection and sent the only remainingChinese in the area home to China. He was called Macao because that was where he came from. When he became too old to work he wanted to go home to die. They took him to San Francisco and put him on the boat. Nothing was heard from him again so they hoped he did get home. The Chinese of this area lived in caves. Possibly that would account for some of the holes around in the hills which mostly have been assumed to be mining test holes. They’ gathered in groups to smoke their opium. One den is reported to have been just over the hill on the old John Black place and another was in the rocks back of the Grange Hall. Maybe it _ was the opium that gave them the courage to face Jim Woods’ shotgun. The Frank family really made the news this week. Hepsi and Bill Frank sent three of their small herd of cows to the Pomona Fair with the BJ Herd. The Pomona Fair is probably the biggest one in the nation. I don’t know how the selection is made but a different breed is featured at Pomona each year. This was the. Shorthorns. Competition states as well as all year for Milking comes from of California. The breed featured gets extra, a prize money and selects what is called a State is herd has eight animals with no three from any one exhibitor. that_raises bea' calves. Her registered name is Mary Jean. Her fourth calf born January 1975 won First Place Junior Calf at Pomona. She won over 15 entries. She was also selected as one of eight animals to compete for best State Herd. Her name is Mary Bea. Last year the first one of Mary Jeans calves, a bull named Prince, won Reserve Champion Bull at the State Fair in Sacramento. Mary Jean and her progeny have all won numerous awards. I have saved the best for last. Mary Bea’s group went on to win State Herd award for California. She came home on Monday but will remain with the Ellsworth’s BJ herd until the end of October. They are being prepared for the show at the Cow Palace. The Ellsworths are as proud of her as if she were one of their own. In a sense she is because she if from the Ellsworth line. Brad Ellsworth went to Pomona to show their cows including the Frank’s three. Jean Ellsworth spent her time overseeing the care of the cows while they were at Pomona. The Ellsworths did not come home empty handed. Their Yearling Bull BJ Ned won First Place in Lillian Blakley says she can tell by the weather the rains are not far away. She is pre) to start next year’s Secession Day quilt for the Rough and Ready Fire Dept. Auxiliary. This year the design is called Clam Shell. She can use pieces as small as three inches. They can be any color and especially prints. You may leave or mail any pieces you have to the Rough and Ready Country Store or to Lillian or I will see that they reach her. This year the pieces are to be cotton. For additional information call 273-5486. Sweet William has some visitors. This ram really is Sweet Wialliam Jr. or Bill X. I don’t registration but he is our purebred Hampshire Ram. This is his first year at work and he is sure an organizer. He had Priscilla and her friend minding his instructions perfectly before they had hardly settled down in his pasture. He stayed back a bit last night, when I brought them up to the barn, to bring Priscilla in properly. She had half a mind to stay in the pasture. Animals are remarkable creatures. He is little more than a baby himself-2 yearsbut he knows exactly what he must do for his flock. It bothers him teriffically that I keep three yearling ewes shut in a pasture away from him. I recently separated my herd of cows-eightinto three parts for better utilization of my pastures. The first separation resulted in much unrest. I had last year’s babies in another pasture from their mothers. Their mothers had this year’s babies to take care of . and that seemed enough to me. They didn’t like it a bit until I put the families back together. Now each mother has this year’s and last year’s calf with her. Roanie only has one. She is only four years old and this was her first calf. In a couple of months now Blackie will be a yearling. It seems most animals have very social instincts. ~ wis The Abbots next door butchered one of their steers about three weeks ago and have been surprised at how much the. remaining one mopes about. He just doesn’t like such a lonely life. My .husband’s flower, the golden Helenium, is in bloom. It’s that gorgeous yellow fire burning in our garden just now. He didn’t get to see it his last year with us. It blooms late in September and he died on the fourth. be. LE VEGAS

_ 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., October 1, 1975 California Country. } Rough and Ready News Kristi Steber ONE ROOM SCHOOL TEACHER She came from the city and when she first saw the isolated schoolhouse, she cried. But $125 a month was a higher salary than her college professor made and Gladys Beckley was determined to stick out her first year of teaching at the Virginia Valley school. The new teacher soon learned that her duties were not restricted to teaching reading, writing and arithmetic to twenty ranch children ranging in ages from six to fourteen. It was also her job to see that the school house was swept and kept tidy and that a warm fire greeted the students every morning. The city-reared schoolmarm also learned she was expected to ™ perform another task, saddling and bridling the horses for the first and second graders. ‘I had never saddled a horse before in my life, nor had I bridled one,”’ the school teacher admitted, but she managed to learn before the first week of school. It was also the teacher’s duty to pump a bucket of water from the well every morning and set it beside the dipper in the hallway. On the wall above the bucket, each child’s cup hung from a nail pounded below his name. “They were supposed to fill their cups from the dipper but once in a while I would catch one of the boys drinking from the dipper. Then I’d make him clean out the outhouse for punishment. That was my worse job.” Most of the kids rode to school on horses and Virginia Valley school was ‘‘up-to-date”’ because it had a barn. It wasn’t Gladys’ job to clean out the stables, though. That was up to the kids who brought horses. Virginia Valley school was a familiar landmark to the dozen ranchers in the area. They sent mail to school with their children and the letters were set on a window ledge in the hall. Anyone riding past the school during the day who might be heading to the post office would always stop to pick up the mail. The school house was also the center of most social life in the valley and the new schoolmistress found herself hostess for most occasions when the school was used. Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid program in GV Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid is located on Auburn and Race Street, Grass Valley, and was organized four years ago on October 11th, 1971 by 15 dedicated local women. The number has now grown poner jnto dollars. These funds are being used for the following to 23, all serving voluntarily without pay. Shortly after being founded, application was made to the State of California to be legally incorporated under state laws. This legal status was proudly achieved in March of 1972. This organization is strictly NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 elephone 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor .. $3.00 Two Yeors .. $5.00 Member of — . Herbert Durham, a local venture, by local women, for the benefit of local cancer patients, and is entirely unaffiliated with any other state or national society. Funds are earned by condonated discards of people of Nevada County , in order: of priority: No. 1. To render aid in any way possible to any person afflicted with cancer. ~ No. 2. To purchase earlycancer detection equipment and place same at the of any doctor or. any hospital in Nevada County, enabling them to make.early diagnosis and early control of cancer. No. 3. To channel some funds each year into a reputable cancer research center. 1925 reunion The Grass Valley High School class of 1925 will have their 50-year class reunion on Oct. 11. ‘ Festivities will begin at 2:30 . p.m. at the home of Lillian Roach Fitzgerald, Box 623, Allison Ranch Rd., Grass Valley. The following people have not been contacted and any information regarding them may be relayed by . calling 273-7019. Henry Andrews, Thomas Botting, Bernard Couch, Orlan Hansen, Evelyn James, Irene Juliff, Henry Jones, Elizabeth James, James’ Pagani, Winifred Rowe Cannon, and 44 4,4, 4, na’ re 4, @o By Fay Dunbar Wrong again! And I was told about it by several people. Jesse Fippin is not the oldest living member of an original pioneer family! Sadie Ennor Ryan is leading the list at the moment, Doris Trauner believes there may be

another old timer around but had to check into it. I think I was justified in my error tho’. One doesn’t associate Sadie with age. She will be 93 years young on November 30 but her visit from the Bay area this time was to see the dentist. Yes, I did mean dentist. At the age of 92 she was here to have a tooth pulled. Sadie visits her niece Dorothy Niesen quite often. It gives her a chance also to see her old friends and her old home. She is one of the Ennor girls and was born in the old Ennor home that burned a few years back. The Niesons now live on the hill overlooking where the old Ranch house once stood. Sadie attended the old Rough and Ready School. She started there in 1887 at the age of five years. Her first teacher was Kate Brown Church. In the early days of the Chinese people in the United States they were treated as if they were less than human. It is amazing how we, the white race supposedly christian, can have been so unfeeling about God’s children of other colors. Hopefully those days are gone forever. I preface my story with this statement because it is a gruesome tale ‘today yet, in the light of its times hardly even unusual Doris Trauners father, Manuel Frank, told her the story as a child. She remembers it vividly because she is living now at the very spot where it-all happened. When the Portuguese Mining Company turned to sluice box lines for water from higher up to wash their gold there was often gold in the sluices during the night. In order to protect the three lines of sluices there was always someone at a vantage point with a shotgun. In this case it was a man named Jim Woods who lived on a knoll overlooking the lines on two sides. The Chinese were the worst offenders. Possibly because they were not allowed to own a mine. They were paid hardly enough to keep body and soul together and if they looked for gold it had to be in spots where the white man had completed his searching. So they took to prowling the sluices at night. They carried lanterns in their search. Woods shot the lanterns and if he also got a Chinese it didn’t matter. It just saved future trouble. Ususally they fell into the sluices and were carried away by the water. In later years these same men took up a collection and sent the only remainingChinese in the area home to China. He was called Macao because that was where he came from. When he became too old to work he wanted to go home to die. They took him to San Francisco and put him on the boat. Nothing was heard from him again so they hoped he did get home. The Chinese of this area lived in caves. Possibly that would account for some of the holes around in the hills which mostly have been assumed to be mining test holes. They’ gathered in groups to smoke their opium. One den is reported to have been just over the hill on the old John Black place and another was in the rocks back of the Grange Hall. Maybe it _ was the opium that gave them the courage to face Jim Woods’ shotgun. The Frank family really made the news this week. Hepsi and Bill Frank sent three of their small herd of cows to the Pomona Fair with the BJ Herd. The Pomona Fair is probably the biggest one in the nation. I don’t know how the selection is made but a different breed is featured at Pomona each year. This was the. Shorthorns. Competition states as well as all year for Milking comes from of California. The breed featured gets extra, a prize money and selects what is called a State is herd has eight animals with no three from any one exhibitor. that_raises bea' calves. Her registered name is Mary Jean. Her fourth calf born January 1975 won First Place Junior Calf at Pomona. She won over 15 entries. She was also selected as one of eight animals to compete for best State Herd. Her name is Mary Bea. Last year the first one of Mary Jeans calves, a bull named Prince, won Reserve Champion Bull at the State Fair in Sacramento. Mary Jean and her progeny have all won numerous awards. I have saved the best for last. Mary Bea’s group went on to win State Herd award for California. She came home on Monday but will remain with the Ellsworth’s BJ herd until the end of October. They are being prepared for the show at the Cow Palace. The Ellsworths are as proud of her as if she were one of their own. In a sense she is because she if from the Ellsworth line. Brad Ellsworth went to Pomona to show their cows including the Frank’s three. Jean Ellsworth spent her time overseeing the care of the cows while they were at Pomona. The Ellsworths did not come home empty handed. Their Yearling Bull BJ Ned won First Place in Lillian Blakley says she can tell by the weather the rains are not far away. She is pre) to start next year’s Secession Day quilt for the Rough and Ready Fire Dept. Auxiliary. This year the design is called Clam Shell. She can use pieces as small as three inches. They can be any color and especially prints. You may leave or mail any pieces you have to the Rough and Ready Country Store or to Lillian or I will see that they reach her. This year the pieces are to be cotton. For additional information call 273-5486. Sweet William has some visitors. This ram really is Sweet Wialliam Jr. or Bill X. I don’t registration but he is our purebred Hampshire Ram. This is his first year at work and he is sure an organizer. He had Priscilla and her friend minding his instructions perfectly before they had hardly settled down in his pasture. He stayed back a bit last night, when I brought them up to the barn, to bring Priscilla in properly. She had half a mind to stay in the pasture. Animals are remarkable creatures. He is little more than a baby himself-2 yearsbut he knows exactly what he must do for his flock. It bothers him teriffically that I keep three yearling ewes shut in a pasture away from him. I recently separated my herd of cows-eightinto three parts for better utilization of my pastures. The first separation resulted in much unrest. I had last year’s babies in another pasture from their mothers. Their mothers had this year’s babies to take care of . and that seemed enough to me. They didn’t like it a bit until I put the families back together. Now each mother has this year’s and last year’s calf with her. Roanie only has one. She is only four years old and this was her first calf. In a couple of months now Blackie will be a yearling. It seems most animals have very social instincts. ~ wis The Abbots next door butchered one of their steers about three weeks ago and have been surprised at how much the. remaining one mopes about. He just doesn’t like such a lonely life. My .husband’s flower, the golden Helenium, is in bloom. It’s that gorgeous yellow fire burning in our garden just now. He didn’t get to see it his last year with us. It blooms late in September and he died on the fourth. be. LE VEGAS