SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD, CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 1934 EAGLEVILLE SNAPS DRY – Eagleville goes dry Sunday RETURNED – Maxine Doss returned home from trip LEFT – The Pratt girls returned to their home in Alturas Sunday DANCE – The dance was a very fine success VISITING – Mrs. Page and Mrs. Rice and family from Oregon VISITING IN VALLEY – Miss Marian Hansen and Miss Dorothy Slippy ARRIVED – Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Minto, a ten-pound girl ACCIDENT – Warren Slinkard runs into cow coming home from the show Saturday LONELY BOYS - Adrian Murphy, Delwin Barber and Harold Warren spinning North VISITING – Margaret Powers in Redding NEWSY NEWS NOTES FROM LAKE CITY W. S. Painter returned last week from Watsonville, where he went for medical treatment. He returned much improved in health. Several of our locals have been fighting fires in the Lassen Creek vicinity. Mrs. Tom Painter and daughter, Bernice, were almost trapped at the Sugar Loaf Lookout, as roads away from Lookout were closed by fire. This is the second time in eight days this has happened. The Toney-Heard combined harvester has been busy in this section the past ten-days. Most everyone is through haying here excepting second crop alfalfa. The Charles Vaughn family returned recently from a visit to their son, Clifford and family in Idaho. The Vaughn's are quite enthused over the Idaho section. Miss Violet remained in Boise to visit for sometime. Miss Harriet Vaughn spent Sunday and Monday with Miss Lois Muzzy. She had been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Olney Vaughn in the Owl Creek section and was on her way home. One of the large shade trees in front of the Dick Jacobs residence was blown over into the road last Sunday morning. Several of the people here have been suffering from an attack of dysentery, the past week. FIRE AT CANTRALL MILL Some careless smoker tossed a burning cigarette away – shortly after the lazy banks of smoke rolled up and a spot fire was started in the Cantrall sawdust pile. Rangers and fireguards were immediately upon the scene and the fire was corralled before it had burned over an acre. However, since it is utterly impossible to completely stamp out a fire of this kind, the Forest Service will have to go to the added expense of keeping one or two men in this vicinity until Fall rains commences. Smoking in the forest is now a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine and a prison sentence, so all should heed the warning, "No Smoking in the Forest Reserve" or else take the consequences. LOCAL JOTS Returning joke for joke, Robert Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hill, caught his two tormentors, Ray Hill and Dan Hill off their guard. On coming down from the stack via the nets and Robert trips the net and the two come tumbling down from their elevation. Tit for tat, says Robert. Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Gostlen of Sacramento arrived here last Sunday morning to spend several days visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Penland of this place. Mrs. Gostlen was formerly Miss Roma Penland. MANY FOREST FIRES ARE NOW BURNING Forest fires are reported in the vicinity of Hayden Hill this week. A large grass fire on the Madeline Plains; the town of Dorris in Siskiyou County was burned to the ground Monday with an estimated loss of $550,000. A large timber fire is reported in the Warner Valley district, six miles north of Dismal Swamp. Several spot fires in the Sugar Loaf Hill vicinity are still burning. Remember the warning, "Be careful with fire in the forests at this time." Mrs. Jennie Simson went to Bidwell Sunday to remain a couple of weeks visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sid Harris. FORT BIDWELL HIGHLIGHTS Relatives from Berkeley and New York are visiting the Henry Kober home this week. Mrs. Mary Manning, who is in the hospital at Lakeview, is improving slowly. Her condition was reported very serious at first. MUCH IMPROVED We are informed that Miss Louise Cramton, who was taken ill while in training for nurse at the Highland Hospital in Oakland and is now confined to a sanitarium, is improving and as soon as she is able will return to her home here to remain while recuperating. Her many friends will be very glad to hear this cheerful news. DIVORCE GIVEN An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted A. K. Wylie from Eleanor Wylie in Superior Court July 18, on the grounds of extreme cruelty. The couple were married in Reno July 1933. Property settlements were made out of court. NEWS NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK The many friends of our beloved citizen, J. F. Sharrard, were shocked one day last week to hear of him falling from a haystack and receiving head injuries and a badly sprained back. We hope that his injuries are not as bad as first reported. Harve Ported, one of our husky young farmers slipped away quietly sometime ago and just recently returned a married man. He was married to Gladys Cloud, of Cheney, Washington, who is a sister of our successful farmer, Delbert Cloud. The newly weds were charivaried last Saturday. The writer joins friends of the happy young couple in extending congratulations. The Hamersley family reunion will take place this year at Yahola, Oregon and several relatives here are planning to leave for the reunion on Wednesday of this week. Mike Wallace was taken very ill with appendicitis on Sunday morning about four o’clock and was rushed to the Lakeview hospital where Dr. Leithead performed the operation and at this writing he is reported getting along nicely. H. M. Fleming and his nephew, Albert Fleming, son of Dr. F. P. Fleming, of Sanger, California made a trip to Yellowstone Park. Last Friday evening some one reported a fire in the High School which was about eight o’clock in the evening, several people in cars rushed to the schoolhouse and found that a chemical that was left in the building at the close of school last spring had ignited. There was no damage done to the building only breaking the side, in the rush to reach the blaze. Forest fires are raging in several places throughout the country. The Fandango fire, which broke out a new last Friday evening, is again under control. A bad fire broke out Sunday across the Lake. A call for men was received, but as most of the loose men here were at the Fandango fire, there were but few to go to the Oregon side fire from here. Mrs. George Martin and daughter, Archie Martin are visiting relatives at the State Line town from LaMonte, Missouri. Mrs. George Martin is a sister of Mrs. Bessie Martin and Mrs. J. W. Horr; they had not met for 25 years. A family reunion was celebrated last Sunday up our beautiful Pine Creek canyon. Those present were Mrs. George Martin, Miss Anna Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Martin, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Horr, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Alexander and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Alexander and family, Mr. and Mrs. Caroll Mulkey, Mrs. Irene Riggs, Mrs. Bessie Martin and Mrs. J. M. Alexander. NEWSY SURPRISE VALLEY ITEMS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Addington, of Alturas, a baby girl, Friday, July 20, 1934 The stork made a flight to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minto, of Eagleville, July 27, 1934 and left a ten-pound daughter. The other five children are boys so the little miss should be popular with her brothers. Mrs. Hattie Adams of Sacramento, spent last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Forest Adams, of this place. She then journeyed to Klamath Falls, where she will visit with her sister, Mrs. Post, for a time. Rev. Vinyard was called to Bieber last Saturday and was accompanied by Mrs. Vinyard, to conduct a funeral of Mrs. Nancy Jones Shipp, who used to live at the old Hillside Station, west of Bieber. (4:4) Miss Dorothy Jones returned from Reno last Friday where she had been visiting with friends for a few weeks. Her father, Thomas D. Jones met her at the train in Alturas. ~~~~~~ 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.