Wednesday, March 07, 2007 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the March 1, 2007 issue. Looking Back 113 Years Ago 1894 DR. KOBER, who has been the physician at Fort Bidwell for many years, has been assigned to Washington D.C. now that the Fort is gone . Bob Isigkeit who is driving stage between Alturas and Van Loans says the snow on the divide between South Fork and Madeline Plains is very deep and when the wind blows the snow drifts and fills up the road. They have set high stakes on either side of the trail and are thus enabled to keep in the broken track and there is no danger of getting lost .Rev. L. Wallace will preach next Sunday and his topic is Worse than an Infidel; the Drunkard. 99 Years Ago 1908 A LARGE lan d subdivision is being planned on the Madeline Plains and many eatern folks wee in this town last week to inspect the site .Ella McGrath was the Best Dressed Lady and Pete Ivory the Best Dressed Man at the Canby Mask Ball Saturday .The Schafer Mountains in Modoc County were added to the Modoc Forest Reserve this week .Work has begun in fine style on the foundation for the new county high school building in Alturas .John Wistos, the enterprising tailor, has his nephew, Percy Hunt, learning the trade in his shop .Its estimated that the dairy product worth of Big valley is now approaching $10,000 annually. 93 Years Ago 1914 THE ALTURAS Fire Department has taken over the job of promoting the 4th of July celebration in Alturas. The firemen say, and we agree, that a lot of the zip has gone out of the occasion and they intend to restore it. Good luck fire lads .Modoc Supervisors are seeing to it that Modoc will have an exhibit in the 1915 Exposition in San Francisco .Rev. J.H. Adams has moved to Los Angeles where he is now the pastor of a church that pays him a handsome $1500 per year .The wet and dry election in the 2nd supervisor District resulted in an over whelming victory for the drys: 264 to 121. 73 Years Ago 1934 BEEF HAS been declared a basic commodity under the AAA. Cattlemen are claiming they need a Modoc Cattlemens Association to fight such things as a proposed permit system when public domain land is turned over to the department of the Interior under a new bill that is now proposed .P.A. Woodward has leased the Hoy and Christensen slaughterhouse to supply his grocery store .An overpass on the Canby-Malin highway near Perez will be built this summer at a cost of $10,898. 53 Years Ago 1954 A PLAN is afoot to lower the voting age to 18. It is estimated that 407 names would be added to the register in Modoc if the bill is passed .Principal L.J. Austin has ordered the MUHS basketball season to come to and end and he will not allow the Braves to play in the Fall River tournament. That action came when Bieber High School wrote the principal a letter telling of the deplorable conduct of MUHS student following the game in Bieber last week . M.W. Jones, Rex Riley and Neal Phillips are the three candidates for two positions on the Alturas City Council .Temperatures have been a balmy 60 in Alturas all week. As a retired high school principal I cheer my old principal for standing up for good citizenship from his school teams. Teams represent the entire community when they are on the road, and certainly need to be brought to attention when they act in any way that can be criticized. I had two principals in high school, Mr. Wandling and Mr. Austin. Mr. Wandling was not particularly strong, but Mr. Austin was a take charge man. Both had served in WW I, and both leaned over backwards for the boys that left school early for the armed services. I know I appreciated my diploma after I was discharged. Hope to see you all next week. Ron Morgan