May Yates was the proprietor of the New Era. Later she joined in partnership with Colonel Thompson from the Alturas Plaindealer. This paper was later published by the French family until Marcie (Gop) Sloss purchased both the Surprise Valley Record and the Plaindealer and combined them into the Modoc County Record. Ron Morgan ----- Original Message ---- From: Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds <r3346@sunset.net> To: Ca-Modoc <camodoc-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:12:45 AM Subject: [CAMODOC] Fw: New Era Maybe one of you more "experienced" Modocians can help Gard with is question. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gard Meddaugh" <gardm@pacbell.net> To: "Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds" <r3346@sunset.net> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:23 PM Subject: New Era > Hi Bill, > > Good to see you are transcribing the "New Era". However, I'm a bit > confused > [not your fault, I came that way], as I had figgered that Ransom Heenan > Stanley > ran the New Era but I find in my notes [probably from your postings] that, > speaking of Ransom: > > "He learned the printers' trade early in life and at times had charge of > different papers in Northern California and in 1892 established the > Surprise > Valley Record, which he published continuously for 38 years, without any > change > in management and of which he was owner at the time of his death." > > The reason for my confusion is that my g'pa, Otha Stanley, started a > paper > called the New Era in Lake Co., Calif. in 1890. My notes on Otha are at: > http://home.pacbell.net/gardm/ol_m.htm Seems Otha was employed by the New > Era > in Iowa also. > > Specifically, who ran the New Era in Modoc?? Do you know of other papers > he > worked for?? Any other info would be appreciated also. > > cheers, > > Gard > > > Now there sits a man with an open mind. You can feel > the draft from here. > Groucho Marx > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAMODOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message