>From the News Back Then column. 150 yrs. ago. 26,May 1860. Saterday. 1] We are requested to cal a meeting of the citizens of Wwvle, at FLAGG's Hall, on Monday evening to organize a Hook and Ladder Co. <Fire fighters>. JNO MARTIN,esq. has succeeded in raising suffecent funds to pay for the necessare number of hooks and ladders axes, etc. . We hope our citizens will organize a company at once, and thus protect our town from conflagration again...It can be eaisly done. 2] "JACINTO"<person name> wrote from "Pucker City", 19, May 1860; "My whilsom friend, THEODORE JONES, has I think, the best located claim <gold> i ever saw. A boarding house bounds it on one side, a blacksmith shop on another(no excuse for dull licks,) a large Pine tree (whose wide-spreading branches cast a shadow over his entire claim about noon), then a country road runs directly throught the middle of it, where he can see his friends at all hours of the day. What a location for a politician! Best of all, a "house" stands at the foot of his claim, immediately on the road to where his sluices "Jam" the worst, with good reasonable brandy. I should like to own an interest in that claim with Theodore; I think we might combine business and pleasure so thoroughtly that neither would strike in on us." Note: THEODORE ELDON JONES was in Douglas City in 1860..He later was Judge of the Superior Court of Trinity County. He was best known as "Judge T. E. Jones." 125 yrs ago. 23, May 1885 Saterday. 1] Now the skating is over, the bos stand around and suck their thumbs for amusement...What do the girls do? 2] Stage to Deadwood - Mr. M.R.NEWMAN, the enterprising proprietor of the Lewiston Hotel, has put on a daily stage line between Lewiston and Deadwood to accommodate the large and increaseing passenger travel between these points. Fare has been placed at $1 for the up trip and fifty cents down trip. 3] FROST - it been cold and windy for several days past - regular March weather. There was a frost Thrusday night which destroyed tender vegetables. It begins to look like Summer all Winter! and Winter all Summer. 100 yrs. ago. 28, May 1910. Saterday. 1] A lucky find was made on the old JOHNSON place, and it is supposed that the money found, was buried by some employee many years ago, the date of the latest silver piece being 1864.<no amount was given>. 2] The GANS-NELSON fight at the Pasime theater Saterday night, was the 1st fistic encounter witnessed in the town. There were 7 films and it was almost as exciting as the real thing. 3] According to the last official postal guide, HELENA, in this county, has been made a money order post office. 4] CHARLES HEATH, the lucky young prospector of Minersville, spent several days in town this week, exibiting some beautiful specimens from his mine. Mr. HEATH says his mine is fabulously rich, there being thousands of tons of ore in sight, which will mill out<crush> to $10 a ton. The young man made his strike on the 13th, May 1910, and suceeded in 6 days, taking out $6,000, one pan alone yeiding $400. Mr. HEATH, who is a Trinity boy, is naturally gifted in the mining business, considered an expert in the finding of quartz ledges and pockets, etc. . ~ end ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.