Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the October 12, 2006 issue. Looking Back 116 Years Ago – 1890 UNCLE JIMMY Roberts is soliciting orders for his trees. He was also showing some cabbages that weighed over 3.0 pounds per head…. Doc Berry claims that 30,000 bushels of grain will be harvested in the Davis Creek area this year…. An exchange says a new pill has been patented that will keep a man alive a whole week without eating. All we country editors need now is a liver syrup that will make one’s suit of clothes last 75 years…. The signs show that this will be a real stinkereroo of a wet winter and all had better get their wood in before the roads are too wet to travel. … C.C. Mathews was the boss fisherman on Pit River above town this week when after an afternoon’s angling he returned with 87 speckled beauties. 92 Years Ago – 1914 PROFESSOR TOM Godfrey, the famed acrobat, is closing out his season here with a performance at Likely Sunday with his daughter, Trilma. They plan to book in the city fro the winter season…. Reports that our newspaper was purchased this week and we are no longer the owners is only partly true. It is true that we are no longer the owners. It is true that several people purchased our paper this week after putting up two cents…. A crew of 13 men is currently working the Hess stamp mill at the mines. Mr. R. Woodward, the superintendent, says the mill will soon be producing bullion on a paying basis. 72 Years Ago – 1934 MR. AND Mrs. Ivan Banister have won a trip to Miami and the American Legion Convention…. New Jersey grand jury has indicted Bruno Hauptman on a charge of murdering the kidnapped Lindbergh baby…. Four thousand and (sic) Modoc sheep will either be destroyed or sold under government purchase of $2 per head…. The vacant lot behind the Niles Hotel will be converted into a city ice skating rink…. Deer are becoming a real hazard to drivers. The other night a motorist plowed into a whole herd right at Canby and killed several of the animals. 52 Years Ago – 1954 MODOC HIGH hasn’t been beaten in football in 12 starts. Game number 13 this weekend is against the powerful Yreka 49’ers….Modoc has 4,584 registered voters for the November election…. Ninety Modoc teachers will tour the Lava Beds as a finale to teachers institute…. The arrival of fall storms has brought an end the fire season…. Thirty five Modoc footballers are now playing for the Shasta K nights and include: Nurlie Jamain, John Derner, Howard Wells and Ernie Hess. 32 Years Ago – 1974 TOTAL TAGS returned to Sacramento as of Tuesday of this week from Modoc wwere 235. That’s only five deer off the total report for Modoc during the same period of hunting last year – 235 to 240 last year. Deer kill declines are much more apparent in the neighboring counties. A decade or so ago, the county had an annual kill of 2,000 bucks or more. Last year the total was a n all-time low of 560. Earlier today, I transcribed the October 19, 2006 Looking Back column. At noon today I received the October 12, 2006 issue. As I said, the delivery of my Modoc County Record is intermittent and screwy. See you all again when the next issue arrives. Ron Morgan