Elliot Vernon and wife, of Alameda, and Theo Laughter and wife of San
Francisco, spent several days here last week being the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Stanley of this place. Mr. Vernon is one of the pioneer settlers
of Modoc and notes many changes since the seventies. Mr. Laughter is and has
been for the past several years connected with the San Francisco Call in the
advertising department and left last Friday to resume his duties on that
paper.
Born – Saturday, July 13, to the wife of Darvin Cloud, a babe girl, Jean
Marie.
Mrs. Haas of Eagleville is here receiving medical treatment from Dr.
Kennedy.
Albert Leffet and wife (nee Elsa Eachus) of Willows are here visiting the
Stimers family.
LILIES COVER WEST SLOPE OF MOUNT SHASTA
MT. SHASTA (Siskiyou Co.), July 13 – For the first time in the history of
Mt. Shasta, the western slope is covered with hundreds of acres of Shasta
lilies.
The lilies are in full bloom now and are plainly visible from Mt. Shasta.
The lilies this year have grown higher than the brush and from here it looks
as if the brush is covered with large patches of snow.
The Shasta lily grows only on the high, dry slopes of the mountain. It is
vary fragrant, pure white in color and speckled with brown spots. It grows
from three to four feet high and every stalk has from six to a dozen
flowers.
Tourists ship thousands of these flowers to all parts of the state every
year.
Mrs. Sallie Turner and granddaughter, Toodles Conard, returned from Woodland
last Sunday. They have been at that place for about a year with Herman
Conard, who purchased an auto campground at that place.
Mrs. Leo Weilmunster is in from Nevada visiting her parents here.
Dave Baty is down from Fort Bidwell visiting his son, Alfred Baty, of this
place.
Pete Dollarhide is having a siege of blood poison in his hand this week.
Guess Pete doesn’t like the idea of using a hay fork this time of year.
Bob Strief, former Surprise Valley boy, was issued a transport license in
aviation on July 11. This makes Bob a full-fledged pilot now, good as the
best of them.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Felger and daughter, Beatrice, who have been residing on
the Terry ranch north of Cedarville for several months, departed Monday for
Vallejo, where they expect to reside in the future.
George Warrens and family left for Ashland last Monday. While away, Florence
will have her tonsils removed.
LAKE CITY, July 15 – Mrs. Nannie Daniels announces the marriage of her
daughter, Mildred Hays, to Dr. Edwin Dwight Barnett on Monday, July 1, at
Santa Rosa, Calif. Mildred Hays is one of our popular young girls. She is
head nurse in St. Luke’s Hospital of San Francisco, while Dr. Barnett is
also of the same hospital. The entire community join in wishing them joy and
happiness as they go hand-in-hand relieving the sick and suffering through
life. Their lives will be of great service.
Mrs. Mae Seyferth has just returned from San Francisco, where she was called
to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, who died at that place. She
brought her sister, Mrs. Bentley, home with her for a short stay. The
sympathy of the entire community goes out to these girls in their sad
bereavement.
George Carter, who has been in the hospital at San Francisco, has returned
home greatly improved in health.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929
PASSING OF ANOTHER EARLY PIONEER RESIDENT
Mrs. Amanda Bray Beebe was born in Maine and died in Lakeview, Oregon, July
17, 1929 of old age, being around ninety years old.
The deceased came to Iowa with her folks, later marrying Burr Beebe and
crossing the plains in the early 60’s being one of the early settlers in
Cedarville.
The rest of her life was spent in Cedarville, excepting the last few, which
were with her daughter, Mrs. G. Arthur, at Lakeview, where she passed away.
Eleven children were raised, but two daughters passed away several years
ago. The living are Mrs. Emma Crowley, Cedarville, Mrs. Rena Arthur,
Lakeview, Oregon, Mrs. Eva McGregor, San Francisco, Mrs. Rosie Jewett,
Whitebird, Idaho, Frank Beebe, Susanville, Burr and Ed Beebe, of this place.
Besides the nine surviving children, she leaves several grandchildren,
several Great Grandchildren.
In life, the deceased was a devoted wife and mother and an exemplary
Christian. (1:1)
DELINQUENT GIRL IS PAROLED TO PARENTS CUSTODY
Valoma Fields, 16, taken into custody – the charge of delinquency last week
together with Frank Howard after spending a two day stay in a deserted house
in Cedarville, was paroled into the custody of her parents following a
hearing before Superior Judge F. M. Jamison.
Howard was sentenced to two years in the county jail on charges of
contributing to the delinquency of a minor, growing out of the same
circumstances.
Parole of the girl was granted by Judge Jamison on recommendation of
District Attorney Oscar Gibbons. – Plaindealer
Dr. C. M. Tinsman, of Adin, was over in Nevada last week, the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. William Rinehart. The doctor has a tooth for sage hens and he
usually comes up into this part of the country once a year to satisfy it. He
reports times quiet in the southern part of the county and he says that
there is always a calm before the storm and that the storm will represent
the coming of the Great Northern, in which even that part of the county will
be greatly improved and instead of them being 106 farms, there will soon be
more than double that number.
John Ballard, of Alturas was in Adin Sunday and closed a deal for late E. W.
Groves. He informs us that he expects to move his family to this place as
soon as he can find a suitable residence and will engage in carpenter work
in connection with the undertaking business. – Adin Argus
Last Sunday a number of Indian boy’s broke into the supply room at the Fort
Bidwell Indian School where they keep the dynamite and took several sticks
of the high explosives and touched it off with a match. No one was seriously
hurt, but there is a number of Indian lads going around all skinned and
bruised up.
Jim Conlan of Fort Bidwell had a serious runway with a mower during the
later part of last week. He was shaken up and bruised pretty badly, we have
no particulars of how the accident happened at this writing.
"Grandpa" Wimer is reported quite ill at the home of Guy Wimer.
T. W. Pratt and wife have returned from Reno, where they took their son,
Roy, for medical treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cockrell were treated to a real old-fashioned charivari
on the evening of July 13th. After the usual tin-canning and yelling the
guests were invited in and treated cordially to candy and nuts, ice cream
and cake and cigarettes. About forty people were present.
Born at Eagleville, Cal., July 20, 1929, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cook, a
daughter.
Mrs. George Woods of Long Valley is here this week with her infant daughter,
who is seriously ill with the intestinal flu.
Clyde Gooch returned Monday from Reno, where he has been for the past three
weeks undergoing treatment for his eye that was seriously injured in a
baseball game at Eagleville.
Mrs. Haas of Eagleville, aged about 70 years, passed away last Thursday and
her funeral was held Sunday, the services being conducted by Rev. Vinyard;
the remains were laid to rest in Eagleville cemetery.
Dr. Kennedy has been very busy during the past week, having performed five
operations for appendicitis, at the Wilson Sanitarium at Alturas. Following
is the list of those undergoing the operations: J. H. Hutchinson, Lake City,
Mrs. Monroe Dorton and Homer Beeson, of Eagleville and two others whose
names we did not hear. Dr. Kennedy is one of the most skillful surgeons in
the State and his operations are always successful.
Mrs. Fred Ash and daughters were down from Bidwell Tuesday; her youngest
daughter, Jane, who had her finger mashed in the door of the car received
treatment.
A. L. Phillips and wife, of Sacramento were here last week, visiting Mr.
Phillips father, A. J. Phillips, of this place.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 1929
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express out thanks and appreciation for the assistance and
sympathy extended to us at the time of the death of our little baby.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, Vya, Nevada (1:1)
PASSING OF MRS. FRANCES DORTON
Frances Allen Dorton was born near Redding, Cal., May 23, 1909 and died at
Alturas, Cal., July 23, 1929; following an operation for appendicitis.
On September 27, 1926, she was married to Monroe Dorton, of Eagleville, Cal.
She leaves to mourn her death a grief stricken husband, her father, R. G.
Allen of Redding, Cal., two sisters, Mabel Allen of Burney and Elsie Taylor
of Redding, Cal., and two brothers, Frank Allen of Cedarville and M. Allen
of Millville, Calif., and a host of friends.
Her untimely passing has cast a shadow of sadness over our community for she
was loved and admired by all who knew her, as a beautiful type of pure sweet
womanhood and memories of her will always hold to all who knew her an image
of sweetness. (1:5)
DEATH OF DONA WOODS
Died – In Cedarville, Cal., July 27th, 1929, Dona, the little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, of Long Valley, Nevada, aged two years. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon, from the M. E. Church. Rev. E. R.
Johnston of Fall River Mills, conducted the services and burial took place
in the Cedarville cemetery. (1:5)
The relatives of the late Mrs. Frances Allen Dorton (Dorten) desire to
express their sincere thanks to their friends and neighbors for their kindly
assistance and sympathy extended to them at the time of their recent sad
bereavement in the death of their loved one.
Sommer Beeson is over from Davis Creek this week attending to business
matters pertaining to his sheep.
Mrs. Albert Kimble and Mrs. Lawrence Herrin were in from Long Valley Sunday
attending the funeral of little Dona Wood.
Nina Hanks and Fern Jones were operated on for appendicitis at the Wilson
Sanitarium in Alturas last weekend by Dr. Kennedy of this place.
Miss Theresa Perry and Joe Ugalde were married at Reno, July 6th. They are
taking their honeymoon trip to the Yellowstone Park. They will go to Salem
and bring Theresa’s mother home with them.
LAKE CITY NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Strief returned from Ashland, Oregon. While there James
and John Stephens underwent two operations each for tonsils and adenoids,
both children are improved in health.
Joshua Hutchinson of this place, who was recently operated on for
appendicitis just came home this week from Alturas and is able to drive
around in his car, although he is still very weak.
Sam Painter, formerly a businessman of this place but for several – a
resident of Lincoln, California arrived here with a truckload of household
goods and has moved into the place known as they Radcliffe house. We welcome
him home again and acts as though Lake City looks good to him.
Mr. Roy Hobbs and family arrived here Friday to visit Roys’ father, Mr. H.
Hobbs. On account of his father’s failing health, he thought it advisable to
take his father and mother back to Ashland with him, hoping the change of
climate benefit them. They are returning home Sunday.
Our community was saddened by the sad news of the death of "Uncle Will
Wimer." He was an old pioneer resident of this place. He passed away at the
home of his son, Guy Wimer, who has so kindly taken care of his father, who
has been paralyzed for about two weeks. His remains will be laid beside his
two daughters here in the Lake City cemetery Tuesday at 11 o’clock. Our love
and sympathy is extended to the bereaved family in their sad hour. (8:2)
EAGLEVILLE NOTES
Walter Cambron had the misfortune of falling from a haystack last week,
spraining his ankle badly.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Post arrived here Monday evening for a visit with Mrs.
Post’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taylor of this place. The Posts reside in
San Jose.
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