September 17, 1975 (8 pages)

= 2-The' Nevada County Nugget Wed., September 47, V. } Rough and Ready News Charles de Young was discouraged. The 19-year-old’s first venture in the publishing business was not going well. The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, which he and his 17-year-old brother had established, was read avidly, but only by a handfull of readers. The paper specialized in theater news and was distributed between acts in San Francisco’s downtown theaters. All who read it agreed that it was informing and enlightening, but subscribers were few and advertisers were even more scarce. Early one April morning, as Charles headed for his cubbyhole office, he stopped to visit with his friend, General H.W. Carpenter. General Carpenter was manager of the San Francisco telegraph office and the two men’s visits were often punctuated by the tapping of telegraph keys. Charles had learned to ignore the.click-clickCalifornia Countr ~ Kristi Steber” click as they talked, but this morning something on the wire caught his attention. Stopping in mid-sentence he turned his fullconcentration on the message being tapped out. At the close of the communication he hurriedly said “goodbye and rushed for his office. Although he had not taken a note, he remembered every word of the fateful dispatch and quickly set it into type. That afternoon the Daily Dramatic Chronicle scooped every other paper in town on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and on the following local riots by Southern sympathizers. Circulation started growing the next day and within a few months the San Francisco Chronicle, as it came to be called, was the city’s leading newspaper. Only one thing marred their journalistic coupthey had printed the news of the assassination on page two. AAUVW sets silver tea in Nevada City on Sept. 20 The historic Marsh house at 254 Boulder Street, Nevada City, will be the setting of a tea to be held by the American Association of University Women on Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. Mrs. Kenneth O’Connell will be hostess. She will be assisted by Mrs. Carl Merchant, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, Mrs. Joseph Figueira, Mrs. Madelyn Helling, Mrs. H. V. Agar, Mrs. Kenneth Dark, Mrs. Joseph Hinman, Mrs. Edward Frantz and Mrs. Tyler Micoleau. Vada Carlson Rodriguez, author and poetess of Winslow, 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 NEWSPAPER ‘LPUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . the Canyon” is a story for young people about John Wesley Powell’s exploratory trip through the Grand Canyon. é She is probably best known for her book, “No Turning Back” which tells -of the _ struggles of a Hopi Indian girl attempting to live in two worlds. Her book of poetry, “High Country Canvas”, with drawings by her artistillustrator husband, Joe, was reviewed last spring at the AAUW book section by June merly of this area, now residing in Reno, will play several selections during the afternoon. Mrs. L. West is in charge of program arrangements. College women who are not members are invited to attend this first meeting of the fall season to becomie acquainted with the AAUW, a national organization which is concerned with mobilizing women for volunteer service in the community, working to improve education by providing fellowships for graduate study and scholarships to local high school graduates, supporting legislation in keeping with AAUW interests, and furthering the cultural life of its members. CLASSIFIED ADS pur WaNll ads TO WORK FOR YOU 1Yio By Fay Dunbar The big event in our little town this week is the Chuckwagon type breakfast being served, by our Fire Dept. Auxiliary and the Firemen, next Sunday morning from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Breakfast will be served, as it was on Secession Day, in front of the Post Office and the area will be shaded. It will consist of ham, eggs, and hotcakes, with milk for the children. Donation will be $2. for adults and $1. for children. There is no particular history connected with this breakfast except that the first one, in 1966, was served by the Chamber of Commerce as a part of Secession Days. Guests from Nevada City were transported down to Rough and Ready by the Cable Car that was on loan from San Francisco for Nevada City’s 4th of July Celebration. The breakfast was served, not exactly from the tailgate of a covered wagon, but almost. It was shaded by trees. Now the Mobile Homes Park has all that tree shaded space filled with homes. Hotcakes served at that time were true Sourdough pancakes, pale tasting in my opinion but even lighter than the proverbial feather. The outdoor breakfast has been a Secession Day feature since that time. This year it was handled, most successfully, by the Auxiliary and Fire Dept. They need money and hope everyone will enjoy a second breakfast as well as the first one. Also part of this Sunday’s celebration will be a Flea Market. It will open at 9:00 a.m. and show until 4:00 p.m. Tables will be $4 for singles and $7 for doubles. The ladies tell me anyone © wishing to open their table before 9:00 is free to do so. For further information please call 2739341, 273-1537, or 273-5383. —R&R Outside my window this morning is an absolutely beautiful scene. The grass is shining with dew, the cows are contentedly munching away in the pasture, and every once in a while a bird or butterfly flits across my view. There is a rose bush barely outside the window. In fact it must be moved because it has grown against the screen and tension screens just won't take that kind of treatment. The rose blossom itself is small and comes in clusters of four (mostlv). The bud is perfection in miniature! It’s about an inch long, delicate apricot in color, and is slightly lighter on the inside of the petals. As the blossom opens it light and not too beautiful. The bush is covered with buds and blossoms from snow to snow. The bush is very large and sturdy and just grows and grows. It was here when we came, 20 years Bruener. Can you help? The other parts of the scene are beautiful but not so beautiful in the things they portend. The clouds look like fluffy whipped cream. They also look like rain. The Snowball bush is turning quite red on the side that faces the morning sun, the white phlox and rosie stokesia blossoms are turning brown. The Buckeye on the hill is yellow. You all know what that means. Of course, nature could sneak in a nice long Indian Summer. I hope you were all out last night in that gorgeous moonlight. There is something special about an autumn moon. June moons are supposed to be the most wonderful but even when I was in the June of my life it was the autumn moon that fascinated me. Here goes the romantic bubble-I was married in March. I always get out on moonlight nights-dark nights, too, for the strangest reason. Its because people with dogs don’t really take care of them. Yes, there is a connection! After dark, when my sheep are quietly settled for.the night, I have to see that they are shut away from danger. I have many friends who have gone out in the morning to find their little flock torn to bits. I love dogs but most people wouldn’t believe that to see the unkind way I drive them even out of my roadway. Trouble is if one dog is allowed all wilt follow, the smell, ee a : eo? ago, consequently we don’t know what it is. It is definitely not a Cecil . 14th century. ——R&R: Mr. Alvin Bixler of Turlock spent a few days of his vacation here last week visiting . his brother Jack. Alvin is in the dairy business and spends a few days here whenever he can get away. Esther says he needs to rest up from the long hours and long days caring for cows and milk. Jack did that for many years and so they all know the twice a day 7 days a week routine. —R&R: The Gold Quartz Tuesday Program featuring NID and its spokesperson Gene Walter proved most interesting. Gold Quartz plans a continuing program of information on Agencies and Services of Nevada county. Arthur Richards of Area 4 commission on Aging will provide the October 2ist program. He will discuss plans concerning a Center for Community Services such as Child Day Care, Youth Self Help programs, Nevada County Band practice rooms, Community Workshop Activities other than work, more Golden Meals . and Telecare services, and Senior Citizens Activities. Mr. Richards will also discuss the funding of such programs and what appears to be overlapping Agencies covering them. Other Services may be added in a Community Center if people need them. I personally am trying to add health advice and figure control for us fatties.Gene Hatton, Chairman of Western Gateway Parks and Recreation District, has promised a program for Gold Quartz as soon as dates can be coordinated. ~ R&R Another evening of fun is in the works for Nevada county’s ‘Seniors’. Scheduled for November 15 it will resemble the Senior’s Ball of Last May. The music and live entertainment will be new. This one is a Harvest Festival. Proceeds from -these activities have been earmarked for a Senior Citizens Center. —R&R I have been trying to work up a history of early day ranches for Rough and Ready for the County Society. If you have information that should be included please let me know. These ranches are to go way back into the 1860s. After ‘the U.S. Homestead Act was approved May 20, 1862, there was a great movement in this area to establish permanent homes in the Public Domain. I have a surprisingly long list of Ranches but dates are more difficult. My list includes Arborgast-thte Bunker Hill, George Balch, George Beck, John and Herb Blackseparate ranches, Howard Black-not of same family, Dart, John Flippin Sr., John FranciscoFrank, Grande, George Howe, Luther DuBois, Daniel Morrison, Penna, Tapero, Francis Torpie, Walters-Ed I think, Gene Richlin, John Weyel, John Single, and Ed Weeks. Please help me supply dates and other ranches. Rough and Ready in the old days was Rough and Ready Township. It reached from Grass Valley west to the Yuba County line, North to the San Juan Ridge and South to the Bear River. Some of the ranchers of the valleys were and still are more familiar and I won’t list them here. Ranching in the flatter areas had proven more profitable. I still need all the information you might have of them also. —RE&R Yesterday Mr.and Mrs. Dumas of Citrus Heights stopped by. They were hunting information about the Dart family. Thanks to Martina Paull I was able to tell them just a few things. Mrs! Dumas is trying to trace her family tree. Dart and it was possibly Robert Dart. since the great grandson that Martina knows is Robert may be her great grandfather. They came to Rough and Ready because of the recent TV program which unfortunately I did not see. It showed a ‘‘Dart” headstone. in our cemetery. I have just received a copy of the Flippin family genealogy from Mrs. Glenn Michelson, one of Asa Fippins daughters. She has traced the Fippin family back to England and to the R&R

= 2-The' Nevada County Nugget Wed., September 47, V. } Rough and Ready News Charles de Young was discouraged. The 19-year-old’s first venture in the publishing business was not going well. The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, which he and his 17-year-old brother had established, was read avidly, but only by a handfull of readers. The paper specialized in theater news and was distributed between acts in San Francisco’s downtown theaters. All who read it agreed that it was informing and enlightening, but subscribers were few and advertisers were even more scarce. Early one April morning, as Charles headed for his cubbyhole office, he stopped to visit with his friend, General H.W. Carpenter. General Carpenter was manager of the San Francisco telegraph office and the two men’s visits were often punctuated by the tapping of telegraph keys. Charles had learned to ignore the.click-clickCalifornia Countr ~ Kristi Steber” click as they talked, but this morning something on the wire caught his attention. Stopping in mid-sentence he turned his fullconcentration on the message being tapped out. At the close of the communication he hurriedly said “goodbye and rushed for his office. Although he had not taken a note, he remembered every word of the fateful dispatch and quickly set it into type. That afternoon the Daily Dramatic Chronicle scooped every other paper in town on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and on the following local riots by Southern sympathizers. Circulation started growing the next day and within a few months the San Francisco Chronicle, as it came to be called, was the city’s leading newspaper. Only one thing marred their journalistic coupthey had printed the news of the assassination on page two. AAUVW sets silver tea in Nevada City on Sept. 20 The historic Marsh house at 254 Boulder Street, Nevada City, will be the setting of a tea to be held by the American Association of University Women on Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. Mrs. Kenneth O’Connell will be hostess. She will be assisted by Mrs. Carl Merchant, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, Mrs. Joseph Figueira, Mrs. Madelyn Helling, Mrs. H. V. Agar, Mrs. Kenneth Dark, Mrs. Joseph Hinman, Mrs. Edward Frantz and Mrs. Tyler Micoleau. Vada Carlson Rodriguez, author and poetess of Winslow, 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 NEWSPAPER ‘LPUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . the Canyon” is a story for young people about John Wesley Powell’s exploratory trip through the Grand Canyon. é She is probably best known for her book, “No Turning Back” which tells -of the _ struggles of a Hopi Indian girl attempting to live in two worlds. Her book of poetry, “High Country Canvas”, with drawings by her artistillustrator husband, Joe, was reviewed last spring at the AAUW book section by June merly of this area, now residing in Reno, will play several selections during the afternoon. Mrs. L. West is in charge of program arrangements. College women who are not members are invited to attend this first meeting of the fall season to becomie acquainted with the AAUW, a national organization which is concerned with mobilizing women for volunteer service in the community, working to improve education by providing fellowships for graduate study and scholarships to local high school graduates, supporting legislation in keeping with AAUW interests, and furthering the cultural life of its members. CLASSIFIED ADS pur WaNll ads TO WORK FOR YOU 1Yio By Fay Dunbar The big event in our little town this week is the Chuckwagon type breakfast being served, by our Fire Dept. Auxiliary and the Firemen, next Sunday morning from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Breakfast will be served, as it was on Secession Day, in front of the Post Office and the area will be shaded. It will consist of ham, eggs, and hotcakes, with milk for the children. Donation will be $2. for adults and $1. for children. There is no particular history connected with this breakfast except that the first one, in 1966, was served by the Chamber of Commerce as a part of Secession Days. Guests from Nevada City were transported down to Rough and Ready by the Cable Car that was on loan from San Francisco for Nevada City’s 4th of July Celebration. The breakfast was served, not

exactly from the tailgate of a covered wagon, but almost. It was shaded by trees. Now the Mobile Homes Park has all that tree shaded space filled with homes. Hotcakes served at that time were true Sourdough pancakes, pale tasting in my opinion but even lighter than the proverbial feather. The outdoor breakfast has been a Secession Day feature since that time. This year it was handled, most successfully, by the Auxiliary and Fire Dept. They need money and hope everyone will enjoy a second breakfast as well as the first one. Also part of this Sunday’s celebration will be a Flea Market. It will open at 9:00 a.m. and show until 4:00 p.m. Tables will be $4 for singles and $7 for doubles. The ladies tell me anyone © wishing to open their table before 9:00 is free to do so. For further information please call 2739341, 273-1537, or 273-5383. —R&R Outside my window this morning is an absolutely beautiful scene. The grass is shining with dew, the cows are contentedly munching away in the pasture, and every once in a while a bird or butterfly flits across my view. There is a rose bush barely outside the window. In fact it must be moved because it has grown against the screen and tension screens just won't take that kind of treatment. The rose blossom itself is small and comes in clusters of four (mostlv). The bud is perfection in miniature! It’s about an inch long, delicate apricot in color, and is slightly lighter on the inside of the petals. As the blossom opens it light and not too beautiful. The bush is covered with buds and blossoms from snow to snow. The bush is very large and sturdy and just grows and grows. It was here when we came, 20 years Bruener. Can you help? The other parts of the scene are beautiful but not so beautiful in the things they portend. The clouds look like fluffy whipped cream. They also look like rain. The Snowball bush is turning quite red on the side that faces the morning sun, the white phlox and rosie stokesia blossoms are turning brown. The Buckeye on the hill is yellow. You all know what that means. Of course, nature could sneak in a nice long Indian Summer. I hope you were all out last night in that gorgeous moonlight. There is something special about an autumn moon. June moons are supposed to be the most wonderful but even when I was in the June of my life it was the autumn moon that fascinated me. Here goes the romantic bubble-I was married in March. I always get out on moonlight nights-dark nights, too, for the strangest reason. Its because people with dogs don’t really take care of them. Yes, there is a connection! After dark, when my sheep are quietly settled for.the night, I have to see that they are shut away from danger. I have many friends who have gone out in the morning to find their little flock torn to bits. I love dogs but most people wouldn’t believe that to see the unkind way I drive them even out of my roadway. Trouble is if one dog is allowed all wilt follow, the smell, ee a : eo? ago, consequently we don’t know what it is. It is definitely not a Cecil . 14th century. ——R&R: Mr. Alvin Bixler of Turlock spent a few days of his vacation here last week visiting . his brother Jack. Alvin is in the dairy business and spends a few days here whenever he can get away. Esther says he needs to rest up from the long hours and long days caring for cows and milk. Jack did that for many years and so they all know the twice a day 7 days a week routine. —R&R: The Gold Quartz Tuesday Program featuring NID and its spokesperson Gene Walter proved most interesting. Gold Quartz plans a continuing program of information on Agencies and Services of Nevada county. Arthur Richards of Area 4 commission on Aging will provide the October 2ist program. He will discuss plans concerning a Center for Community Services such as Child Day Care, Youth Self Help programs, Nevada County Band practice rooms, Community Workshop Activities other than work, more Golden Meals . and Telecare services, and Senior Citizens Activities. Mr. Richards will also discuss the funding of such programs and what appears to be overlapping Agencies covering them. Other Services may be added in a Community Center if people need them. I personally am trying to add health advice and figure control for us fatties.Gene Hatton, Chairman of Western Gateway Parks and Recreation District, has promised a program for Gold Quartz as soon as dates can be coordinated. ~ R&R Another evening of fun is in the works for Nevada county’s ‘Seniors’. Scheduled for November 15 it will resemble the Senior’s Ball of Last May. The music and live entertainment will be new. This one is a Harvest Festival. Proceeds from -these activities have been earmarked for a Senior Citizens Center. —R&R I have been trying to work up a history of early day ranches for Rough and Ready for the County Society. If you have information that should be included please let me know. These ranches are to go way back into the 1860s. After ‘the U.S. Homestead Act was approved May 20, 1862, there was a great movement in this area to establish permanent homes in the Public Domain. I have a surprisingly long list of Ranches but dates are more difficult. My list includes Arborgast-thte Bunker Hill, George Balch, George Beck, John and Herb Blackseparate ranches, Howard Black-not of same family, Dart, John Flippin Sr., John FranciscoFrank, Grande, George Howe, Luther DuBois, Daniel Morrison, Penna, Tapero, Francis Torpie, Walters-Ed I think, Gene Richlin, John Weyel, John Single, and Ed Weeks. Please help me supply dates and other ranches. Rough and Ready in the old days was Rough and Ready Township. It reached from Grass Valley west to the Yuba County line, North to the San Juan Ridge and South to the Bear River. Some of the ranchers of the valleys were and still are more familiar and I won’t list them here. Ranching in the flatter areas had proven more profitable. I still need all the information you might have of them also. —RE&R Yesterday Mr.and Mrs. Dumas of Citrus Heights stopped by. They were hunting information about the Dart family. Thanks to Martina Paull I was able to tell them just a few things. Mrs! Dumas is trying to trace her family tree. Dart and it was possibly Robert Dart. since the great grandson that Martina knows is Robert may be her great grandfather. They came to Rough and Ready because of the recent TV program which unfortunately I did not see. It showed a ‘‘Dart” headstone. in our cemetery. I have just received a copy of the Flippin family genealogy from Mrs. Glenn Michelson, one of Asa Fippins daughters. She has traced the Fippin family back to England and to the R&R