Saturday, January 20, 2007 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the January 11, 2007 issue. Looking Back 113 Years Ago – 1894 THE FIRST goodly snows olf the season arrived this week allowing the switch from buggies to sleighs. Oliver McDowell informs us that there is good sleighing all the way from Alturas to Fall River. Also, the ice is eight inches thick at the Adin mill…. Dr. Gibson was riding around yesterday in about the knobbiest cutter we have seen in many a day…. Henry Weigert’s sleigh bells make enough noise to hear even with your eyes closed. 93 Years Ago – 1914 WHOOPING COUGH has caused the grammar school to close…. Postmaster Wilson is arranging the room north of the drug store for a post office in Cedarville….The Empress Theatre had its Grand Opening highlighted by a free dance. On the following day the floor was given over to roller skating….About two tons of mail was brought into Alturas when the train finally reached Alturas last Friday. It was great to have contact with the outside world again….College students who were home for the holidays have finally been able to return to the southland classes with the running of the trains again. 73 Years Ago – 1934 THE PICKERING Lumber Company receiver will get a refund of $5,332,592. Creditors who invested heavily in the mill in Alturas, have since lost everything, may realize some return from the decision in San Francisco. Maybe all is not lost …. It is a warm January with temperatures in the 50’s in Alturas….Bob Stevens, Phil Goulden, Cecil Baldwin and Ralph Lightner will head the annual Firemen’s Ball committee….Young Paul McKenney will take over his brother’s practice while Dr. Phillip and his family are in Illinois where Dr. Phil is completing some post graduate work….Fred Huffman reports he received 41/2 cents for beef sold in Fallon, Nevada. 53 Years Ago – 1954 GAME WARDEN Delmor Baxter made a single-handed capture of an escapee from the Davis Creek Honor Camp. Baxter and Uel Marr tracked the man to the summit of Fandango Pass, where Baxter continued on through the second day to make the arrest….Six persons died in auto mishaps in Alturas last year…. Vic Sorenson has purchased the Union Oil plant here from jay Noviack….Judge Katie Doolittle is a no-nonsense judge. Drunk drivers are receiving automatic $250 fines and their driver’s licenses (sic) Dude came through her surgery in pretty fair style. They had to make bone grafts, implant a steel rod, and place bone around the rod. Every screw in her hip was broken and a new artificial hip was re-planted. This is the third implant for that particular hip in the last 20 years. The last was just 3 years ago. She is now in a convalescent hospital for a couple of weeks before returning home. Blondie, (our Chiwawa) and I miss her and try to do the best we can. This is the longest that we have been separated in 58 years of marriage, even when I was working in the Suisun area buying fruit for Libby McNeil and Libby. At that time I always came home, if for just overnight about every three days. See you all again soon. Ron Morgan

I am looking for stories and information on Matney people ( any ) Matney people before 1900 relating anything in the Gold or any thing in Modoc Co. no matter how small. Any thing. private please to dmatney@wvi.com only thanks a million Dan M