SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD - CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1934 NEWSY NOTES FROM LAKE CITY Minard Hanks was reported quite ill Monday evening. Orville Hotchkiss returned from a business trip to Sacramento recently. Mr. and Mrs. William Heard and Cecil Heard were Alturas visitors Friday. Clendon Franklin had the misfortune to lose his fine milch cow last Wednesday. V. L. Jacobs has been very busy, the past week digging his ranch up trying to find stock water. Alden Weilmunster, while putting on a Wild West Show here last week, landed either one jump behind or one jump ahead. A sister of Minard Hanks that he has not seen for years, has been visiting with him and other relatives the past few weeks. Mr. Fred Wimer and Mrs. Carrie Garrett and daughters, Marie and Wilma, returned from a trip to Ashland Sunday, where they went to have Wilma’s eyes treated. Miss Ida Streig and Mr. Dave Bennett of Watsonville, California have been visiting with relatives here. While here they were the house-guests of Mrs. Thomas Painter. Drs. Kennedy and Smith examined the school children of Soldier Creek and Lake City, at Lake City Monday. Several cases of tonsils and adenoids were found and a great many have very bad teeth. Mrs. Josephine Toney and family left here last week for the southern part of the State, where they will make their future home. Their many friends here wish them much success in their new home. W. H. Hussa, of the Surprise Valley Meat Market, returned last Wednesday morning from Kansas City, where he went to attend the funeral of his father, who passed away at that place. The black widow or better named the "black murderess" which was captured over two weeks ago by James Strief and Lester Hanks has been returned to its former place on Mr. Steele’s desk. She is still alive and very lively. She is only about half as big as when captured. To our knowledge she has only had two flies which Mr. Steele captured for her. EIGHT INJURED IN WRECK TWO WOMEN NEAR DEATH AT HOSPITAL IN ALTURAS MACHINES HAVE HEADON COLLISION NEAR ADIN Eight persons are being treated in the Alturas hospital as a result of an automobile head-on collision this side of Adin last Sunday morning. Possibilities are that death may result to two of the victims. The women near dead are Mrs. Elda Beal and her sister, Miss Lila Watters, both of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Mrs. Beal suffered a fractured leg and a fractured skull and Miss Watters a broken wrist and a skull injury. Investigators say the automobiles driven by Marian J. Barnes of Klamath Falls and Oren B. Smith crashed head-on. They say the Barnes car cut in on a curve and when the driver saw the Smith machine, he attempted to swerve to the right, but as he did so, Smith attempted to turn to the left. Barnes suffered three broken ribs and severe bruises. Mrs. Barnes suffered a broken nose and a deep cut, which may cause the loss of her right eye. Mrs. Clara McIntyre suffered cuts on the face and a fractured right ankle. Lloyd F. Carter was severely bruised and shaken up. O. F. Smith and Oren B. Smith both of Paso Robles and Ernest Faucett of San Miguel occupants of the Smith machine were cut and bruised. Dr. H. Hartman and a San Francisco physician were the first motorists to arrive on the scene and they gave the injured first aid and took them to the hospital in Alturas. ADIN MAN SUCCUMBS IN OAKLAND HOSPITAL A. M. Traugh, pioneer merchant of Adin, passed away at an Oakland Hospital Sunday afternoon. He had been critically ill for the past few weeks suffering from a heart ailment, and has been under a physician’s care. His body was shipped to Adin for burial. (1:4) Hawkins TO MAKE FUTURE HOME AT MODESTO, CAL Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins and children left this morning for Modesto, where they expect to make their future home. John recently sold out his interest in the Hawkins Garage to Milo L. Kennedy. He has a position with an aviation company in Modesto, where he will do the mechanical work on planes. MRS. MANWEILER DIES Word was received here last weekend that Mrs. Victor Manweiler, former proprietor of the Hotel Surprise restaurant and who has been in a McCloud Hospital for the past two months, passed away last Friday at that place. Mrs. Manweiler has recently underwent two serious operations. (1:4) LOCAL BRIEFS Jack Wheeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Wheeler of this place, underwent an appendicitis operation last Thursday at the Stockton Hospital. He is reported doing well. Mrs. Fred E. Bush is in Susanville spending a short time visiting her daughter, Mrs. Johnnie Spalding. Mrs. SABRA POWERS OF EAGLEVILLE BREAKS HIP Last week Mrs. Sabra Powers, post-mistress of Eagleville met with an accident in which she suffered a broken hip. She was taken to the Alturas hospital, where she received treatment. She is now at her home and is doing as well as could be expected. Mrs. Powers is 86 years of age; she has a host of warm friends who sympathize deeply in her misfortune. She is the mother of Ex-senator Powers and grandmother of Senator Harold J. Powers. YOUNG NEWSPAPER MAN MARRIES AT Reno P. Alan Cumiskey, 26 and Leona Martin, 24, were united in marriage in a simple ceremony performed by Rev. Brewster Adams of the First Baptist Church in Reno, Nevada, Sunday, September 2nd, 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pearson and Mr. Lincoln Morris, all of Seattle served as witnesses. The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bushnell, is a graduate of the Fall River Joint Union High School and is now employed at the Robert Summers & Company. The groom, who is the son of Mr. Phillip Cumiskey, publisher of the Fall River Tidings, is a former student of the Medford High School, in Medford, Oregon and is now associated with his father in the publishing of the Tidings. The Record wishes the newlyweds the best of luck over the sea of matrimony. For a time P. Alan Cumiskey acted in the capacity of editor of the Record and while here made many staunch friends. GLEN TELLER RIDES IN RODEO AT Susanville Glen Teller, who for the past year has made his home in Cedarville has been taking in the round ups throughout the State. He has ridden at the rodeos at Salinas, McArthur, Mohave Desert, Santa Barbara and is this week riding at the Rodeo at Susanville. At the Lakeview Round-up, he qualified in the finals, but on account of an injured hand, he was forced to ride bare-back with only one hand in use, which handicapped him somewhat. Nevertheless, he made several good rides, much to the pleasure of the people of Surprise Valley. SHASTA RANCHER IS INJURED BY MILK COW Fall River Mills, (Shasta Co.) Sept. 5 – Phil Reynolds, a Glenburn rancher, is in the McCloud Hospital from injuries suffered when a cow he was milking kicked him on an old rupture and the pain sent him backward on to a pitchfork, inflicting serious lacerations. Bonner MEMORIAL PARK IS DEDICATED Beautiful and impressive services marked the dedication of the small City Park next to the pump house, to the memory of John R. Bonner, member of the Alturas Volunteer Fire Department, whose death resulted from injuries received while responding to an alarm of fire. He was a young man of great promise, courageous, ambitious, honorable and held the high respect of all who knew him, and for these fine qualities and others he was befittingly eulogized in the talk by C. E. Ebbe and Willis Mapes, of the Fire Department, Mayor J. R. Laird, L. J. Austin of the American Legion and Judge of the Superior Court, F. M. Jamison, Leon B. Lewis led the Alturas Band with appropriate music. City Clerk, E. E. Elliott and Al Taylor with other city officials and members of the Fire Department have spared no effort in making this spot a real beauty place and one worthy the tribute of love they are paying a departed comrade. Friends have brought many gifts of shrubs and rocks from all parts of the country and the memorial stone is a beautiful piece of native rugged rock. John R. Bonner was the only son of Judge and Mrs. E. C. Bonner of this place and was a graduate of the University of Nevada. both Mr. and Mrs. Bonner and their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Brown of Reno, were present at the dedication. CEDARVILLE BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Harris are the proud parents of a 9-lb. daughter, who arrived at the Harris home in Cedarville, California Sunday September 16, 1934. Tom Sweeney of Lake City underwent an appendicitis operation at the General Hospital at Alturas last weekend. Dr. Kennedy performed the operation. Miss Wilma Rea, who accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rea to San Francisco last week remained in the city and will attend Armstrong’s Business College. ALTURAS BRIEFS Little Janeiel Boyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn Boyd was operated on Saturday afternoon for appendicitis at the hospital. C. L. Shue’s father passed away suddenly Monday morning at the Shue home in Alturas. He had been suffering from heart trouble. Funeral arrangements have not been made at this writing. He came here a short time ago to visiti with the Shue family. (4:3) A. M. Traughs’ remains were brought in on yesterday’s train. He will be buried tomorrow afternoon at Adin. EALGEVILLE SNAPS Mrs. Lyle Barber and Jewel Winnop returned Saturday from a two weeks visit with their folks at Vale, Oregon. Mrs. Sabra Powers is getting along as well as could be expected following her accident. She is reported as being a model patient. Charles Nolan met with an accident Friday morning, when the horse he was riding left him on the ground, head first. His glasses were broken, and his face cut severely and all recollections of what took place are blank to Charlie. He is recovering quite rapidly. NEWSY NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK Mrs. J. G. Maxwell who arrived here the last week in July to visit her sister, Mrs. M. Collins and family at Fairport started for her home at Atascadero, San Luis Obispo County, California on Friday of last week. George Deter returned from Portland last week. Mr. Deter it will be remembered was very ill for a time and underwent several operations at the Portland hospitals in the last few years. On his last trip, the doctors told him that he was getting along good and we hope that he will soon be his usual self again. FORT BIDWELL HIGHLIGHTS Mr. Fulton Heard who has been seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joe Conlan is somewhat improved at this writing. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Dees of Eagleville last Sunday. Mrs. Dees was formerly Miss Leila Sweeney of Fort Bidwell. Clarence Decious left Saturday for Pullman, Washington, where he will enter college. He was accompanied by his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Peterson. A large number of the young people charivaried Mr. and Mrs. Bartram last Friday evening and had a very pleasant time. The newlyweds left Saturday for their home in Susanville. George Fawcett, young man of Bidwell was suddenly stricken with appendicitis last Friday. He was rushed to Alturas Saturday and it was found that an operation was necessary. He is reported as improving rapidly. Mr. Lester, father-in-law of Sid Street is here from Orland visiting his many friends in Surprise Valley. Born in Eagleville, Cal., Sept. 16, 1934, to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Dees, a 7-pound daughter. ~~~~~~ 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.