I cannot help but comment about the Court Reporter, May Yates. She was a true enigma in Alturas. She was an entrepreneur and was probably the best court reporter in northern California. However, her house and her person were slovenly. She usually wore an old, worn house dress and her appearance would remind you of a "bag lady". Yet her copies of court proceedings were all typed by herself, in her house, and they were the cleanest copies any one could imagine. She cared for her own family and had several kin that lived in her house at odd times. One was Jimmie Cantrall, with whom that I attended school. He was one of the nicest dressed and clean persons that you could meet. Her son in law, Dal Dodge lost several toes while repairing our electrical service lines in the mid-winter. still he was a dandy dresser and a wonderful ballroom dancer. As I said, the family was an enigma. However that was not too strange in Modoc County because there were many "odd families" and many, many, many "odd people" that inhabited my wonderful Modoc County. Ron Morgan THURSDAY JANUARY 30, 1936 COURT REPORTER IS QUARANTINED There can be no court in Modoc for a while. The home of Mrs. May Yates, court reporter is under quarantine. Her daughter, Mrs. Dalles Dodge has scarlet fever. David, the five-year old son of the Dodges was operated on last week for appendicitis. While still at the hospital, he broke out with scarlet fever. It is assumed his mother contracted the disease from him. And his grandmother’s home, where the Dodges reside, is quarantined.