SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD – CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1921 CASE SETTLED With the payment to her, of her salary the Overton School muddle has been settled with the teacher, Miss Jessie Reynolds, exonerated and her position sustained by the Court. It seems that the Trustees for some reason took a notion that they did not wasn’t Miss Reynolds to teach, so they locked the schoolhouse door on her, but she persisted in appearing at the school each morning for work and later on she was allowed to go into the schoolhouse, but some of the children was withdrawn from the school and the absurd spectacle of two schools being taught in a small district was presented, one at the schoolhouse and one in a private residence. The Clerk of the Board refused to draw a warrant for Miss Reynolds' salary and she resorted to the court, which upheld her position and ordered the warrant drawn. As a result of the controversy, the school district has lapsed and there has been no appropriation of funds to maintain it during the coming term. This will work a hardship on some of the families, as they will have to send their children elsewhere to school this winter. It is to be regretted that the trustees pursued the course they did, as the children did not receive the benefits they should have done, and the district lapsed, for which result the teacher was in no way to blame. Harold “Bud” Coffee, who was pilot of the airplane here at the fair last Fall was killed at Modesto last Wednesday. Something went wrong with the machinery and the plane crashed to the earth burning him and three passengers to death. We understand that Harry W. Stephens has severed his connections with the Surprise Valley Bank. E. M. Wilson, of Medford, Oregon, accompanied by his wife and his sister, Mrs. Nettie B. Harris, made us a short visit last Friday. Mr. Wilson is an expert accountant and is now experting the books of the county officials at Alturas. Louie Valardi arrived here from Stockton last week. He says it is some hot down in that part of the country. Chas Page sold out his stage line contract from here to Eagleville to Warren Slinkard, who is now running it. Mr. E. P. Strief and sister, Mrs. G. Sweeney, returned home last week from Illinois, where Mr. Strief went to bring back his sister, Mrs. Annie Hoarth and son Grover. They intend making their home here with Mr. Strief. Mr. S says we have warm weather here, but nothing compared to that of the East. While there, they visited their old home at Watson. Mrs. Sweeney says that there were many changes to be noticed there since she left, over forty years ago. Sacramento, July 12 – The associated Press – “Frightful conditions” exist among the Indians of Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta and Lassen counties, California to the “disgrace of our American civilization,” it was declared in a report submitted today to the State Board of Health by Dr. Allen F. Gillihan, district health officer of the board, who recently concluded a two months’ investigation of conditions along the Indians of the north eastern part of the State. About six o’clock this morning the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hobbs, about four miles above town, was destroyed by fire, together with all its contents. It seems as though the family had arisen and were absent from the house performing various duties when the building was seen to be in flames. One of the strange things about it was that no fire had been built in the house, and its origin is a mystery. The entire community deeply regrets to hear of brother Hobb’s misfortune. ________________________________ Please reply to: Billie Reynolds r3346@dcsi.net Kicked off Roots Web Again!!! ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!