Thursday, March 22, 2007 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the March 15, 2007 issue. Looking Back 113 Years Ago 1894 THE PIT River in Alturas is rising steadily. Yesterday a chicken house owned by J.T Laird was washed away from its foundation and floated down to rest under the bridge .D.C. Berry of Davis Creek has returned to Modoc from Marysville and says if folks here think that times are bad, thy should go abroad and see the condition of the people in other places .Arthur Lauer has been appointed postmaster at Likely .Creameries are the talk of the county these days with one going up at Alturas and another at Adin. It is said that when the creameries are completed, cream can be separated from milk in three minutes .Five new members have joined the church in Likely bringing the total to 17, according to Rev. Wallace. 99 Years Ago 1908 ARMY OFFICERS will be in Alturas to buy cavalry horses this week and any mare or gelding is said desirable except grays. The price paid will range $115 and up .Charles Toreson is asking that every prohibitionist send him their name. Toreson believes something is in the wind legislative wise this year and true prohibitionists should organize their movement .a strange new sight in Alturas is the erection of telephone poles that will be used by the franchised phone system of F.A. Yates and O.R. Finch .The county High School building will be laid May 9, 1908. The event will be an auspicious one, marking the beginning of a new era in the educational progress of the county and a daylong program is planned .Assessor Ed Mulkey is covering the south end of the county these days. Ed is a good man that everyone likes; doing a job that has to be done. But he does it fairly. 93 Years Ago 1914 SPRING HAS arrived in Modoc, the grass is growing and horses and cattle have all now been turned out to pasture .A shoe tying contest will be held at the Orpheum for boys under 14 and all contestants will be admitted free to the moving picture. The winner will receive a shiny dollar .The Wakefield passenger auto made a trip from Alturas to Cedarville and will continue to take regular passenger trips unless prevented by storms . Ralph Ingraham and L.F. Bunker had to swim for their lives this week while cat fishing on Pit River. It seems the fishing was so good they didnt pay attention to their boat and it drifted over the Godfrey Dam and capsized. Fortunately, the men were good swimmers. 73 Years Ago 1934 THE GLOSTER Dam above Alturas broke today and water came within one foot of flooding the town . Spring flowers are in bloom throughout the county but nowhere are they in more fragrant abundance that at the Wm. Flournoy residence at Likely where the violets cover the ground .Little Sam Justis has established a C class high jump record at the grammar school with a leap of 48 .Leon Estes is the first to announce for a county office. He will run for the job of Sheriff of Modoc .P.A. Sample, Principal of the New Pine Creek high school is currently leading his students on field trips throughout the county. Just a word a bout P.A. Sample: the Principal at New Pine Creek: the high school there was closed and the students were bussed into Alturas to attend high school. Mr. Sample taught journalism, drafting and whatever else he was asked to do. He was jolly round little fellow and he wore a hearing aid. He owned a 1934 Chrysler airflow model auto and it was the talk of the town. Unfortunately just before the war broke out he ran off the bridge just north of Likely into the Pit River and ruined the auto. Mr. Sample loved photography and owned a huge old camera mounted on a tripod. He took ail of the pictures for the Modoc Warhoop, which was the annual issued each year until the 1942 year. He was great teacher and I have never met another that liked students as well ad he. Many fond remembrances of him still exist for me. See you all again next week. Ron Morgan