October 8, 1975 (8 pages)

MARRIAGE CONTRACT . Although she .was_ tempermental and a bit unconventional, Sarah Althea Hill was beautiful and intelligent and she. managed to capture the attentions of many a man. In 1880 Senator William Sharon met Sarah at the San Francisco Stock Exchange and fell under her spell. He first offered his assistance, then dinner, and finally a suite at the Grand Hotel which was con-. veniently joined to the Palace Hotel where the senator lived. . The couple was together almost constantly for nearly a year when the fickle senator suddenly broke it off. “Your services are no longer desired, my dear,’”’ he coldly told a crying and pleading Sarah, and refused to see her or to answer “her pathetic letters. Sarah even tried gypsy love potions and charms but Senator Sharon responded by having her trunks packed and moved out of her suite at the Grand. The scorned lover was not one to let him forget her so easily. When Sharon took up with another young lady Sarah sued him for adultery. To an astonished world she explained that he had signed a secret } 7 : rr ae) oO ian Ft F e School of Nursing, inc Morna Mary Prince, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Prince of Grass Valley. During the next year, new students will spend the major portion of their time in the classrooms of Merritt Hospital and at the California State University of Hayward for NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET ~ 301 Broad Street Nevada City,. Ca. 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . . $3.00 Two Years . $5.00 . Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERay PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, See Wire he: & Oe Ge Sew Or OOe Rok Say Bel suk © we eee o Zee aoe 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., October 8, 1975 California Country}; Rough an Kristi Steber marriage contract with her. The politician angrily denied it, but he could do nothing to stop the impending divorce trial or the scandalous rumors being printed in the newspapers. The courtoom was filled with spectators, newspapermen, and gossip mongers the first day of court, November. 1, 1883. The opposing attorneys yelled insults at each other and Sharon was removed from the courroom. The trial dragged on for over a ‘year and on Christmas. Eve 1884, the judge granted Sarah A. Sharon a divorce decree and awarded her $2,500 a month in alimony. Senator Sharon filed an appeal un the grounds that the marriage contract was a fake and another round of courtroom appearances was scheduled to begin, much to the delight of a titillated public and a thriving newspaper business. It was nearly another year before the date of the federal appeals court decision. The day the decision was to be delivered, November 15, 1885, Senator Sharon died. When the court finally convened three weeks later it declared the marriage contract a forgery. F 2 e fp] LOMO prehensive education in stetrical nursing with clinica! experiénce at Merritt Hospital as well as other. hospitals, for specialized study in pediatrics and the care of psychiatric patients. Samuel Merritt Hospital’s School of Nursing is presently one of only two hospitals, for specialized study in pediatrics and the care of psychiatric patients. ‘Tom Coleman elected real estate leader Tom Coleman is the newly elected president of the Nevada County Board of Realtors. Thirza Scheimer will be the new vice president; Ted Beck, secretary-treasurer; and new directors are Ward Shinn, John Morgan and Russ Garland. A business meeting will .be held Tuesday and new Union Publisher Jack Moorhead will be on hand to meet Realtors in the area. In other activities current board president John Morgan is attending the 71st. annual convention of the California Association of Realtors at By , Fay Dunbar There is no doubt about it this morning, summer is gone! The pitter patter of raindrops on the awning over my bedroom window served as this morning’s alarm clock. Some more of that beautiful Indian Summer a little later would be nice, Maybe we could all get our fall chores done. I like winter weather but the farmand-I are never quite ready for it. I have two groups of company scheduled for October but it won’t take much of this wet cloudiness to scare them away. R&R The big news in Rough and Ready this week is the Grange Bazaar. The Grange Ladies have worked months preparing for this event. Romaine McCrum is this year’s chairperson. The Bazaar is scheduled for next Saturday, October 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Snacks will be available so you can come early and stay as long as you like. Do your Christmas shopping early and in comfort! There will be a Country Kitchen section with plenty of fresh baked goodies, jams and jellies, and other types‘of home cooked foods. If the rain doesn’t ruin it there may even be some fresh garden produce. The handwork group specialized in household linens of all kinds for this year. Their other contribution is stuffed toys and dolls for the children. As usual there will be lots of interesting items in the Green Thumb corner. Best of all the winners of the handmade quilt and two afghans will be drawn. R&R Another exciting event this week is Maciel rwers ¢ awmills for the county was ver) incomplete. There were 42 sawmills in the county in 1858. 26 of them were run by steam and 16 by water. Rough and Ready had 6 of these. The Holt sawmill went into operation in 1849. It was the first. After its destruction by Indians another was built nearby by a man named Ellsworth. It began cutting in 1851. Their list for Rough and Ready should have been 7. This place was originally part of the Portuguese Mining Company property. Eventually Doris’ grandfather John Frank acquired all of the mining company property. There is a knoll down beyond our barn. There were still parts of an old building there when we first came here 20 years ago. There were signs of a small cellar and of the foundation for a building over it. Manuel mefely told us that it had been a bootleggers’ hangout during prohibition. Doris says its history goes way back. When her grandfather built the home for his new bride he hauled the logs, with a team of oxen, and built and used a mill there to mill them into the structural boards and the foot wide boards and battens for the home. The mill was also used to build the long sluice lines that provided water for placer mining before and again after the Sawyer act in 1884. I expect that the amazing old boards that we found when we remodeled this house came from that mill. They were not made of second growth timber. They were almost 13 inches wide and a good inch and a quarter thick. They were as good as new and as hard as cement. This house will never fall down. The flood water the Road Dept. turns down my roadway may wash it away some day but I venture to say it will go in one piece. R&R Hjalmer Berg depends upon Ani. LiSt OL . Morrison and Retha Downey for help with the d Ready News Bicentennial Commission work. They are both in the hospital which doesn’t simplify things a bit for Hjalmer. Anita was hurt in an auto accident here in Grass Valley and you probably read about it. She hopes and expects to be, home by the time you read this so you can send your good wishes there. Sa Retha was hurt in Sacramento. She is at the American River Hospital, 4747 Engle RoadCarmichael, CA-95621. She has a broken hip ahd may possibly be there for some time. I have not spoken to Retha but reports are that she is doing fine. The Bicentennial Commission includes Rough and Ready so Anita is helping us too. In my mind I always claim Retha for Rough and Ready. Her grandmother-or was it great grandmother—was so influential in the life of early days in Rough and Ready. The old Downey House made the San Francisco papers, several times, as early as 1853. R&R Hjalmer cleared up a point for me that you may be interested in, also. The other day I was approached, to sign a petition, by a group calling itself the Bicentennial Liberty Committee. I could not sign the petition in good faith. The idea is excellent, but it’s not what’s in the fine print, it’s what is left out of it that I objected to. My real annoyance however was with their tise of the name. It seemed ‘sneaky’ Hjalmer says it’s being done a lot Sut the only proper use Bicenténnial .for a project in & Their approach was clever. They used a big U.S. which seemed to stand for patriotism and all that important stuff, out when you read the fine print you found it indicated Understand or United Stand. I just automaticaily resent anything that tries to fool me. R&R Next Sunday, October 12, is Columbus Day. No, I see by my calendar, it is October 13 this year. Be that as it may, and hopefully it isn’t going to continue to ‘be,’ Columbus is still credited with discovering us on October 12, 1492. The old childhood rhyme that helped me remember the date is still with me. It said in part ‘‘.in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” The credit belongs to Columbus, tho’ he is thought actually to have landed on Watling Island in the Bahamas. Leif Ericksson is probably the first to have touched the continental Americas in 1003. He called the land Vinlind. I found that Bjarni Heriulfsson probably followed. our coastline for several hundred miles in 986 but he did not make a landing. Thorvald Ericksson, Leif’s son, landed in 1005. Other Norsemen made landings also before the idea of colonization was given up. By the time Columbus came he deserved the credit. On his third voyage he did reach the continental Americas, Aug. 1, 1498. He landed at a.point probably on the northern coast of South America. By this time, in the summer of 1497, John Cabot had reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1498 Cabot sailed ‘‘perhaps as far south as South Carolina.” R&R October 12 is also important in Rough and Ready for another reason. It’s Jack Bixler’s birthday. Many happy returns Jack. ——_—__ R&R : ot ' Pn a ae ee a tt

MARRIAGE CONTRACT . Although she .was_ tempermental and a bit unconventional, Sarah Althea Hill was beautiful and intelligent and she. managed to capture the attentions of many a man. In 1880 Senator William Sharon met Sarah at the San Francisco Stock Exchange and fell under her spell. He first offered his assistance, then dinner, and finally a suite at the Grand Hotel which was con-. veniently joined to the Palace Hotel where the senator lived. . The couple was together almost constantly for nearly a year when the fickle senator suddenly broke it off. “Your services are no longer desired, my dear,’”’ he coldly told a crying and pleading Sarah, and refused to see her or to answer “her pathetic letters. Sarah even tried gypsy love potions and charms but Senator Sharon responded by having her trunks packed and moved out of her suite at the Grand. The scorned lover was not one to let him forget her so easily. When Sharon took up with another young lady Sarah sued him for adultery. To an astonished world she explained that he had signed a secret } 7 : rr ae) oO ian Ft F e School of Nursing, inc Morna Mary Prince, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Prince of Grass Valley. During the next year, new students will spend the major portion of their time in the classrooms of Merritt Hospital and at the California State University of Hayward for NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET ~ 301 Broad Street Nevada City,. Ca. 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. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . . $3.00 Two Years .. $5.00 . Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERay PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, See Wire he: & Oe Ge Sew Or OOe Rok Say Bel suk © we eee o Zee aoe 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., October 8, 1975 California Country}; Rough an Kristi Steber marriage contract with her. The politician angrily denied it, but he could do nothing to stop the impending divorce trial or the scandalous rumors being printed in the newspapers. The courtoom was filled with spectators, newspapermen, and gossip mongers the first day of court, November. 1, 1883. The opposing attorneys yelled insults at each other and Sharon was removed from the courroom. The trial dragged on for over a ‘year and on Christmas. Eve 1884, the judge granted Sarah A. Sharon a divorce decree and awarded her $2,500 a month in alimony. Senator Sharon filed an appeal un the grounds that the marriage contract was a fake and another round of courtroom appearances was scheduled to begin, much to the delight of a titillated public and a thriving newspaper business. It was nearly another year before the date of the federal appeals court decision. The day the decision was to be delivered, November 15, 1885, Senator Sharon died. When the court finally convened three weeks later it declared the marriage contract a forgery. F 2 e fp] LOMO prehensive education in stetrical nursing with clinica! experiénce at Merritt Hospital as well as other. hospitals, for specialized study in pediatrics and the care of psychiatric patients. Samuel Merritt Hospital’s School of Nursing is presently one of only two hospitals, for specialized study in pediatrics and the care of psychiatric patients. ‘Tom Coleman elected real estate leader Tom Coleman is the newly elected president of the Nevada County Board of Realtors. Thirza Scheimer will be the new vice president; Ted Beck, secretary-treasurer; and new directors are Ward Shinn, John Morgan and Russ Garland. A business meeting will .be held Tuesday and new Union Publisher Jack Moorhead will be on hand to meet Realtors in the area. In other activities current board president John Morgan is attending the 71st. annual convention of the California Association of Realtors at By , Fay Dunbar There is no doubt about it this morning,

summer is gone! The pitter patter of raindrops on the awning over my bedroom window served as this morning’s alarm clock. Some more of that beautiful Indian Summer a little later would be nice, Maybe we could all get our fall chores done. I like winter weather but the farmand-I are never quite ready for it. I have two groups of company scheduled for October but it won’t take much of this wet cloudiness to scare them away. R&R The big news in Rough and Ready this week is the Grange Bazaar. The Grange Ladies have worked months preparing for this event. Romaine McCrum is this year’s chairperson. The Bazaar is scheduled for next Saturday, October 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Snacks will be available so you can come early and stay as long as you like. Do your Christmas shopping early and in comfort! There will be a Country Kitchen section with plenty of fresh baked goodies, jams and jellies, and other types‘of home cooked foods. If the rain doesn’t ruin it there may even be some fresh garden produce. The handwork group specialized in household linens of all kinds for this year. Their other contribution is stuffed toys and dolls for the children. As usual there will be lots of interesting items in the Green Thumb corner. Best of all the winners of the handmade quilt and two afghans will be drawn. R&R Another exciting event this week is Maciel rwers ¢ awmills for the county was ver) incomplete. There were 42 sawmills in the county in 1858. 26 of them were run by steam and 16 by water. Rough and Ready had 6 of these. The Holt sawmill went into operation in 1849. It was the first. After its destruction by Indians another was built nearby by a man named Ellsworth. It began cutting in 1851. Their list for Rough and Ready should have been 7. This place was originally part of the Portuguese Mining Company property. Eventually Doris’ grandfather John Frank acquired all of the mining company property. There is a knoll down beyond our barn. There were still parts of an old building there when we first came here 20 years ago. There were signs of a small cellar and of the foundation for a building over it. Manuel mefely told us that it had been a bootleggers’ hangout during prohibition. Doris says its history goes way back. When her grandfather built the home for his new bride he hauled the logs, with a team of oxen, and built and used a mill there to mill them into the structural boards and the foot wide boards and battens for the home. The mill was also used to build the long sluice lines that provided water for placer mining before and again after the Sawyer act in 1884. I expect that the amazing old boards that we found when we remodeled this house came from that mill. They were not made of second growth timber. They were almost 13 inches wide and a good inch and a quarter thick. They were as good as new and as hard as cement. This house will never fall down. The flood water the Road Dept. turns down my roadway may wash it away some day but I venture to say it will go in one piece. R&R Hjalmer Berg depends upon Ani. LiSt OL . Morrison and Retha Downey for help with the d Ready News Bicentennial Commission work. They are both in the hospital which doesn’t simplify things a bit for Hjalmer. Anita was hurt in an auto accident here in Grass Valley and you probably read about it. She hopes and expects to be, home by the time you read this so you can send your good wishes there. Sa Retha was hurt in Sacramento. She is at the American River Hospital, 4747 Engle RoadCarmichael, CA-95621. She has a broken hip ahd may possibly be there for some time. I have not spoken to Retha but reports are that she is doing fine. The Bicentennial Commission includes Rough and Ready so Anita is helping us too. In my mind I always claim Retha for Rough and Ready. Her grandmother-or was it great grandmother—was so influential in the life of early days in Rough and Ready. The old Downey House made the San Francisco papers, several times, as early as 1853. R&R Hjalmer cleared up a point for me that you may be interested in, also. The other day I was approached, to sign a petition, by a group calling itself the Bicentennial Liberty Committee. I could not sign the petition in good faith. The idea is excellent, but it’s not what’s in the fine print, it’s what is left out of it that I objected to. My real annoyance however was with their tise of the name. It seemed ‘sneaky’ Hjalmer says it’s being done a lot Sut the only proper use Bicenténnial .for a project in & Their approach was clever. They used a big U.S. which seemed to stand for patriotism and all that important stuff, out when you read the fine print you found it indicated Understand or United Stand. I just automaticaily resent anything that tries to fool me. R&R Next Sunday, October 12, is Columbus Day. No, I see by my calendar, it is October 13 this year. Be that as it may, and hopefully it isn’t going to continue to ‘be,’ Columbus is still credited with discovering us on October 12, 1492. The old childhood rhyme that helped me remember the date is still with me. It said in part ‘‘..in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue..” The credit belongs to Columbus, tho’ he is thought actually to have landed on Watling Island in the Bahamas. Leif Ericksson is probably the first to have touched the continental Americas in 1003. He called the land Vinlind. I found that Bjarni Heriulfsson probably followed. our coastline for several hundred miles in 986 but he did not make a landing. Thorvald Ericksson, Leif’s son, landed in 1005. Other Norsemen made landings also before the idea of colonization was given up. By the time Columbus came he deserved the credit. On his third voyage he did reach the continental Americas, Aug. 1, 1498. He landed at a.point probably on the northern coast of South America. By this time, in the summer of 1497, John Cabot had reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1498 Cabot sailed ‘‘perhaps as far south as South Carolina.” R&R October 12 is also important in Rough and Ready for another reason. It’s Jack Bixler’s birthday. Many happy returns Jack. ——_—__ R&R : ot ' Pn a ae ee a tt