SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD – CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Homer Beeson left last week for a few days visit to the Sacramento Valley. They went by auto and made the trip to Woodland in one day. Oliver Cramton was down last Monday from Lake City and reported that J. R. Polander, who has been quite ill for sometime, is slightly improved at this time. J. U. Gentry last week disposed of his barber shop here to Pete Laxague and he and his family departed Monday for New Pine Creek, where they expect to reside in the future. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927 Mrs. Emma Addington is able to be out again after a long siege of the flu. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Sweeney, of Bidwell, reported seriously ill with tuberculosis. Mr. and Mrs. Cressler Robinson came in from their Warner Valley home last week on a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Robinson. While Orrin Addington, who was driving horses yesterday, the horse he was riding fell and rolled over on him, badly bruising him, but not injuring him seriously. Lauren Adams received word last evening that he was to be transferred to the Standard Oil Co.’s plant at Yerington, Nevada and left this morning for that place. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927 WILLIAMS HOME BURNED The dwelling house on the Sam Williams place, between her and Alturas, was burned last Saturday, together with all the contents. It seems that Mrs. Williams returned home Saturday morning and built a fire in the kitchen stove and observing what she supposed to be a bucket of water sitting beside the stove, she picked up a dipper and started to pour some of the liquid into the teakettle and spilled a little on the stove and in a moment the room was in flames. It seems that the bucket contained coal oil and how it came there, no one seems able to account for. Mrs. Williams narrowly escaped being burned. Miss Georgia Flournoy died at Alturas suddenly last Sunday. It seems that she had been in usual health until just a few minutes before her death, when she complained of pain in her head and died almost immediately. Her many friends were shocked to hear of her death. We are informed that her death was caused from the after effects of measles. (8:1) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1927 FRANK PAGE ARRESTED Last Saturday evening Sheriff Sharp wired the Sheriff of Oakland to arrest Frank P. Page and yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Frank Van Horn left Alturas to bring back the prisoner and will probably arrive with him at Alturas tomorrow night. It will be remembered that Page was suspected of murdering Mrs. Pearl Connell here, July 6th last year, but it was deemed that the evidence at the time was insufficient to convict and he was liberated. District Attorney Gibbons has been working in the case and he and Sheriff Sharp have been in Cedarville during the past week gathering evidence, the nature of which has not been revealed. John Henry, veteran of the Indian Wars, is reported quite ill at his home here. Rufus Ward and daughter, Miss Hope, left this week on a visit to relatives in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Strief, of Lake City, returned last week from a several months’ visit in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Powers left last Sunday for Sacramento, where Harold will hold down the job of minute clerk in the Senate for the next couple of months. Roy Spangler died at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spalding, near Cedarville yesterday afternoon. He had been ill for sometime. (8:1) Harry Hawkins and wife returned last week from San Francisco, where he had been for medical treatment. His health is about the same, with the exception that he is suffering with a bad case of jaundice. Owing to a couple of cases of cerebral spinal meningitis at Alturas, the public school has been closed for ten days and public gatherings cancelled. It is earnestly hoped that this dreaded disease will be stamped out at once. One death at Alturas, Miss Georgia Flournoy was caused from it and another case is reported. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by Norton AntiVirus.