SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD, CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935 ONE OF THE OLDEST RECORD SUBSCRIBERS RENEWS Here’s my subscription money; and you’d better stop my paper was the startling announcement that came from W. E. Rinehart last Monday morning. Ye Ed. gladly took his subscription money, but queried to Rinehart, if he really wanted his paper stopped. Nope, he says, I have taken the Record for the past 43 years, ever since it was started publication and it’s just a part of my weekly routine, to sit down and read the Valley Record. We might state here that Mr. Rinehart is one of the oldest of the record subscribers. FORT BIDWELL HIGH LIGHTS Billie Crow has been nursing a sprained knee the past week, thus necessitating a pair of crutches. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rolly Allen, former residents of Fort Bidwell, a daughter at the general hospital in Alturas, November 1st. MUMMIFIED MAN IS FOUND BY WARDEN The mummified body of a man found in the Lava Beds Sunday, has been identified as that of Cecil A. Mowrer, Klamath Falls tractor salesman. The gruesome find was made by Game Warden, A. A. Jordan, while on patrol duty five miles west of Timbered Mountain. Noticing a 1935 tan Chevrolet Coupe secreted in a thicket, Jordan investigated, only to find the appalling sight of a man, apparently a suicide sitting upright in the right hand side of the car, with the entire top of his head blown off. Jordan after ascertaining that the car was locked from the inside hastened to the nearby Shaw-Bertram lumber mill from where he notified the Sheriff and coroner, who left immediately for the scene of the tragedy. It was necessary for the officers to force the door in order to make their investigation. It was found the Mowrer had placed the weapon on the floor of the car, removed his shoes and used his feet to discharge the gun. The bullet from the lethal weapon, a 30-06 Springfield rifle, entered the left side of the victims’ head emerging and ranging up through the top of the car. Contents of a grip and operator’s license identification, Mowrer, a man 42 years of age, brown hair, blue eyes, weight 180 pounds and height of 6 feet. Letters found in the grip dated prior to Septembers 15th, combined with the badly decomposed remains, fixed the date of suicide at about that date. Further lending evidence to his theory was the fact that a rat’s nest had been built beneath the hood of the car and the exploded shell in the rifle was badly corroded. While no money or other valuables were found on the person of Mowrer, deposit slips on a Klamath Falls bank revealed him as a man of moderate means. The victim resided at 2135 Lacey Street in the Oregon City. Mowrer’s wife and the Klamath County Coroner were notified at once and the remains were removed to that city Monday. Coroner Kerr’s official findings were to the effect that death was due to a gun shot wound self-inflicted. Jordan, who has been stationed at the main office in San Francisco, for the past two months, had resumed his local patrol for the first time Sunday, following his return from the bay city recently. (1:4) ALTURAS NOTES Mrs. Robert Wade of Lakeview spent last Sunday in Alturas visiting with friends. Born in Alturas, November 1, 1935, to the wife of John Drown, a 7 and a half-pound baby girl. Both mother and daughter are doing nicely. BREAKS ANKLE John Davis, Jr., Forest Ranger at the Buck Ranger Station was taken to an Alturas hospital last week with a broken ankle and several broken ribs and minor bruises, resulting from an auto accident in Cedar Canyon. The accident happened near the Forest Service Camp ground and was caused by a bent radius rod on the small pickup he was driving; he could not make the turn in the highway and his car went over the embankment, rolling over several times. LAKE CITY NEWS NOTES Cold, well yes! 7 degrees below zero Saturday night and 9 degrees below Sunday night by the government thermometer at Grover Wimers place. Pat Campbell is quite ill. Dr. Coppedge at Alturas is attending him. Mr. and Mrs. Ethelbert Harris left this week for the lower country, where they will take over the management of Mrs. Harris’ mother’s farm at Los Molinas. NEWS NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK Some people go to Reno to get a divorce but nothing like this for New Pine Creek folks. They go there to get married. We mentioned last week about Verna Cook and Murle Chappell getting married there recently and this wee, we have the pleasure of announcing about another couple from her getting married at that city. They are Thomas Elliott and Burnie Gordon, who were wed there on Monday of last week. The happy young couple returned to the state line town on Tuesday and have taken up their residence in Mrs. Nellie Sniders home. The writer joins with others in wishing all happiness and success to the young couple. Another New Pine Creek couple were married November 30, (this should be possibly October 30) they were Leola Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettys and William Smith, son of Mrs. Della Smith. The young couple had first decided to be married on November 9th, but suddenly went to Lakeview, looked up Judge Fred Reynolds, who tied the knot, so that is the wedding lost to the Nevada City. The Pettys arrived here from The State of Nebraska, Mr. Petty being in charge of the E. W. Follett stock farm. Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Thompson of Central Point are visiting relatives and friends here. Mrs. Thompson is a daughter of Mrs. Lydia Smith. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier" Modoc County, California --- Our outgoing mail is checked by ZoneAlarm AntiVirus.