SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD – CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1927
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Beeson left last week for a few days visit to the
Sacramento Valley. They went by auto and made the trip to Woodland in one
day.
Oliver Cramton was down last Monday from Lake City and reported that J. R.
Polander, who has been quite ill for sometime, is slightly improved at this
time.
J. U. Gentry last week disposed of his barber shop here to Pete Laxague and
he and his family departed Monday for New Pine Creek, where they expect to
reside in the future.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927
Mrs. Emma Addington is able to be out again after a long siege of the flu.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Sweeney, of Bidwell, reported
seriously ill with tuberculosis.
Mr. and Mrs. Cressler Robinson came in from their Warner Valley home last
week on a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Robinson.
While Orrin Addington, who was driving horses yesterday, the horse he was
riding fell and rolled over on him, badly bruising him, but not injuring him
seriously.
Lauren Adams received word last evening that he was to be transferred to the
Standard Oil Co.’s plant at Yerington, Nevada and left this morning for that
place.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927
WILLIAMS HOME BURNED
The dwelling house on the Sam Williams place, between her and Alturas, was
burned last Saturday, together with all the contents. It seems that Mrs.
Williams returned home Saturday morning and built a fire in the kitchen
stove and observing what she supposed to be a bucket of water sitting beside
the stove, she picked up a dipper and started to pour some of the liquid
into the teakettle and spilled a little on the stove and in a moment the
room was in flames. It seems that the bucket contained coal oil and how it
came there, no one seems able to account for. Mrs. Williams narrowly escaped
being burned.
Miss Georgia Flournoy died at Alturas suddenly last Sunday. It seems that
she had been in usual health until just a few minutes before her death, when
she complained of pain in her head and died almost immediately. Her many
friends were shocked to hear of her death. We are informed that her death
was caused from the after effects of measles. (8:1)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1927
FRANK PAGE ARRESTED
Last Saturday evening Sheriff Sharp wired the Sheriff of Oakland to arrest
Frank P. Page and yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Frank Van Horn left
Alturas to bring back the prisoner and will probably arrive with him at
Alturas tomorrow night.
It will be remembered that Page was suspected of murdering Mrs. Pearl
Connell here, July 6th last year, but it was deemed that the evidence at the
time was insufficient to convict and he was liberated. District Attorney
Gibbons has been working in the case and he and Sheriff Sharp have been in
Cedarville during the past week gathering evidence, the nature of which has
not been revealed.
John Henry, veteran of the Indian Wars, is reported quite ill at his home
here.
Rufus Ward and daughter, Miss Hope, left this week on a visit to relatives
in Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Strief, of Lake City, returned last week from a several
months’ visit in Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Powers left last Sunday for Sacramento, where Harold
will hold down the job of minute clerk in the Senate for the next couple of
months.
Roy Spangler died at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spalding, near
Cedarville yesterday afternoon. He had been ill for sometime. (8:1)
Harry Hawkins and wife returned last week from San Francisco, where he had
been for medical treatment. His health is about the same, with the exception
that he is suffering with a bad case of jaundice.
Owing to a couple of cases of cerebral spinal meningitis at Alturas, the
public school has been closed for ten days and public gatherings cancelled.
It is earnestly hoped that this dreaded disease will be stamped out at once.
One death at Alturas, Miss Georgia Flournoy was caused from it and another
case is reported.
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Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds
Modoc County, California
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