SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD - CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18TH, 1934 VISITING STANDISH Mr. and Mrs. George Heard of Lake City, left early Sunday morning for Standish, where they went to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Heard, who are now residing there. They returned home on Monday; they made the trip from Standish in two and three-quarters hours. He reports crops very short in the Honey Lake Valley. FORT BIDWELL HIGHLIGHTS Miss Esther Peterson left for Grimes, California, where she will visit with her sister the following month. Percy Kafader who was seriously injured in an automobile accident the 5th, is gradually weakening and his condition is reported as very grave. NEWSY NOTES FROM LAKE CITY Marvel Largent has been having a case of measles. All cases are reported improving. Mr. Quimby has many friends here who regret to see him leave, but all wish him success where ever the future may take him. Miss Lorraine Yribarren of Chico is visiting her cousin, Miss Bernice Painter, this week Mrs. Wilma Fulcher and children of Fort Bidwell was visiting with her mother, Mrs. M. W. Jones, this week. W. S. Painter left here last week for Watsonville, where he went for medical treatment. Mr. Painter has not been well for sometime and thought it best to go to a hospital and see what was wrong. EAGLEVILLE SNAPS VISITING – Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson and son OUT OF TOWN – Mr. and Mrs. Bob Young WHAT A GAME – young boys play town DANCE – don’t forget the dance at Eagleville, Saturday, July 28th MODOC FORESTERS BATTLE WITH TWO UNUSUAL BLAZES Alturas, Cal., July 18 – Two unusual forest fires were handled by officers of the forest service here this week. Acting Forest Supervisor P. D. Hanson lodged a complaint against Elmer Vogt, a farmer near here, whose fire started yesterday from a carelessly dropped cigarette, burned over four acres. Vogt was gathering his cows for milking. He was given a suspended sentence by Justice W. E. Armstrong. Emil Johnson of Davis Creek struck a rock with his new car, bending the exhaust pipe downwards. Spark from the exhaust started a fire in dry grass, which spread to a surrounding forest area. BREEZY NEWS NOTES FROM ALTURAS Mrs. Clarence Hamlin of Reno is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Josephine Slippy and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Hazzie Scott is enjoying a visit from her daughters, Ardina and Geneva of Portland, Oregon. They arrived here last Saturday. Marion Rinehart and Vancel Beebe of Cedarville were callers in Alturas yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Fitzpatrick returned home Monday evening after spending a few days on a honeymoon trip to Lake Tahoe and Bay region. ALTURAS MAN FINDS FOOT OF GOLD RAINBOW Merrick B. (Major) Cooley who has lived in Alturas for a number of years, has found the foot of the rainbow. It is on Mumbo Creek, high in the mountains of Trinity County. Mr. Cooley was in Alturas last Friday with a jar of flake gold and several large nuggets, the largest of which contains 27-penny weight and is worth at present gold prices $46. Mumbo Creek was formerly known as the North Fork of the east fork of the Trinity River. Cooley’s two boys are making from $8 to 10 per day working the surface gold, while Cooley has been working in the quartz. An engineer who recently visited Cooley’s holding’s estimated that the quartz there comprised enough material to work a big outfit ten years. He has received several offers for his holdings, but has turned them all down. Altogether, he has taken out in the neighborhood of $500 in gold there in a short time. – Modoc County Times LASSEN MAN STABBED; PUT IN COUNTY JAIL Susanville, Cal., July 12 – Jean Le Valle Loyalton, lumber worker, was lodged in the county jail following a fight Tuesday night, in which he received minor stabs in his back. Officers took La Valle to the hospital for first aid treatment before taking him to jail. La Valle refuses to give the name of his assailant. His condition is not serious. Bing Crosby and his wife, the former Dixie Lee, screen actress, today, July 13, became the parents of twin boys. SON ARRIVES TO TESTIFY FOR DAD Susanville, Lassen County, July __, - Phillip Alsoi, 27, musician, son of Peter Alsoi, 45, confessed slayer of five persons, will arrive here Saturday to testify in defense of his father, when the latter goes on trial Monday for the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Facio, their children, John and Sarah and Mrs. Lena Amistani, a friend. Alsoi’s son was brought from Cambridge, Mass., where he resides with his mother and seven brothers and sister, by Attorney Harden Barry, appointed by the court to defend Alsoi. He is expected to testify his father was mentally deranged at times and to tell the story of events leading up to the slaying. Alsoi was arrested June 10th after the killings. He accused Facio of breaking up his home. Two days after his arrest he admitted the slayings, telling Sheriff James B. Leavitt and District Attorney Grover Julian he intended killing Facio and Sarah, but did not mean to kill the others. A jury venire of 100 persons from all parts of the county has been summoned by Superior Judge H. D. Burroughs, in whose court the cases will be tried. FINAL DECREE ISSUED FOR TWO DELLA FEE PARKER vs. C. B. PARKER AND WILBUR GOLDSBERRY vs. Josephine GRANTED FINAL DECREE’S Della Fee Parker and Chester B. Parker were issued a final decree of divorce by Presiding Judge E. C. Bonner Tuesday of last week in the Superior Court. Another final decree was issued to Wilbur Goldsberry and Josephine Goldsberry. Plaindealer: - Kenneth Roby, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roby met with a painful accident Friday. Kenneth and another boy were playing with an emery wheel when it came off the shaft and struck Kenneth on the head inflicting an injury. NEWSY NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK Mrs. Tillie Graham has been on the sick list and for a time was reported very ill; we are glad to hear that she is on the mend at this writing. NEWSY SURPRISE VALLEY ITEMS Delbert Fitzpatrick, publisher of the Modoc County Times and Miss Lillian Barbour were married at the XL Ranch, east of Alturas, last Thursday at high noon. They left immediately for Lake Tahoe, where they spent a short honeymoon. – Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tandy, newlyweds, spent several days in Cedarville last weekend, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey. They motored on to Woodland. Davie Grove, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Davie Grove, Sr., of Eagleville, had the misfortune of being badly scratched and bruised last Thursday, when the team he was driving on a rake ran away and threw him off. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Orser left last Sunday evening for San Francisco, where Ed will undergo medical attention, due to a recent injury sustained while working for the C. P. S. Company. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by avast! AntiVirus. Avast! Is Free To Home Users.