June 8, 2005 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County Record, a weekly newspaper, published in Alturas, CA. The following is transcribed from the May 26 2005 issue. Looking Back 91 Years Ago � 1914 THE STATE Railway Commission has ordered, on petition from people in Alturas, that a depot for passengers be established on both sides of Modoc Street where the railroad intersects�. James T. Negle (should be Negley) has resigned as manager of the Alturas Tigers and R.R. Rice has taken on the job. Last Sunday the team journeyed to Canby in the Rice and Crisler Hotel bus where they won over Canby 8 to 4. The Board of Supervisors has at last awarded a bid for the construction of the new courthouse in Alturas. It will go to the S.N. Concano (sic) Co. of San Francisco for a general bid of $81,444. The contractor promises completion before the snow flies. The style will be reinforced concrete with marble pillars�. Renshaw has delivered new Overlands in Cedarville this week to Frank Steward, Roy Baker, and William Heard. 71 Years Ago � 1934 THE GRAMMAR school board has named the following teachers for hiring this fall: Leon Johnson, Principal; Catherine Gloster, Dorothy Gloster, Mary Mullins, Evelyn Milligan, Ella Gloster, Edith Armor, Harold Want, Edson Caldwell, and Leon B. Lewis, music instructor�. Hart�s Five and Ten Cent Store has opened for business in Alturas�. In 7th grade elections this week, John Weber was elected class president, John Kelly, hall monitor and Robert Ehrmann class reporter�. Temperatures soared close t the 90 mark all week in Alturas I had all but Ella Gloster, as teachers in the Alturas Grammar School. My Grandmother ran a board and room house in Alturas and Hal Want was one of her guests. Edson Caldwell left Alturas shortly after that year. 30 years later I was in a graduate class, at Sacramento State College, on counseling, and the professor talked about his first teaching job and how he had an Indian girl in class that he caught tattooing herself with pen and ink. I just blurted out that this was Enid Peedy. He looked at me very carefully and then responded, yes, and you are Ronnie Morgan from Alturas and I lived across the street from you. Edson and I collaborated on a publication several years later, and we remained in close contact until his death. Also, Leon Johnson and Evelyn (Dolly) Milligan later married. I believe that she still lives in Alturas. Bob Ehrman (correct spelling) moved to Sacramento to attend high school. In 1950 he was the assistant track coach at C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento. We had been friends in Alturas and we resumed our friendship in Sacramento at that time. Bob returned to Alturas late in the 1970�s as their new Probation Officer. He only stayed a year and when he returned he told me that the old saying, �You can never go home again� was true, as his experience in returning to Modoc to work, proved. He loved Modoc County, but was never accepted back when he returned. See you all again next week. Ron Morgan