SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD – CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1921 We understand that Lauren Adams is quite ill and was taken to Alturas yesterday. Mrs. May Larsen arrived here last week on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hayes. Charles Page, wife and daughter, Lucile left last Monday for Marysville, where they expect to locate. O. S. Gooch was thrown out of a wagon last week and pretty badly bruised up, but is now able to be around. Eldred martin, son of F. M. Martin, of Ft. Bidwell, has been quite ill and was taken to San Francisco last week for treatment. Rev. Beach, wife and baby arrived here last Saturday. Mr. Beach is the newly appointed pastor of the M. E. Church at this place and will be with us for the ensuing year. We trust their stay here may be pleasant. CARD OF THANKS – We wish to express to our many friends, appreciation for many acts of kindness at the time of our bereavement in the loss of our son and brother, Kesner E. Miller. Mrs. Fred Hill and Family WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1921 WANT TO BE IN MODOC The Lassen mail says that Homer Jack, of Bieber, informed it that there was a strong sentiment in Bieber and Big Valley to have that valley secede from Lassen and annexed to Modoc. The reason for this is the long distance to Susanville, the county seat, and the extremely bad roads to be traveled over in getting there, especially in the winter time. It is 100 miles from Bieber to Susanville, with two ranges of mountains to cross. From Bieber to Alturas, it is 58 miles, and a State Highway to be traveled over. Of course, there will be opposition from Lassen County, and it is not easy to change boundary lines, and the laws are such that changes are sometimes obtained with difficulty. We can remember when it was a dream of N. Bieber, pioneer merchant of Bieber, that a new county be created, taking territory from Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou and Shasta Counties but under the laws its establishment was impossible. However, if that part of Big Valley that lies in Lassen is annexed to Modoc County, the people of that valley will be largely benefited and we would be glad to see them come into one of the best counties in the State. A. L. Page leaves this week for Marysville where he will join his son, Charley and will spend the winter there. Born – At Big Pine, Inyo Co., Cal., September 8, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. Leland Jacobsen, (nee Edna Drouillard), a daughter. We learn that Mrs. Neasham, who sometime ago suffered an attack of infantile paralysis, is improving slowly. If you want to known how the earth feels when there’s a comet shimmying around it, ask a Cedarville man who has tried to milk a cow in fly time. Mrs. E. C. Coffman was reported critically ill at Ludwig, Nevada, last week and was taken to Sacrament for medical treatment, by her daughter, Mrs. Roy Bolt. Mrs. Dora Drouillard arrived here last week from the north, where she had been on an extended trip, going as far as Vancouver, B. C. and will remain here a few days visiting. Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fulton, of Bidwell was brought here last Saturday and operated on for appendicitis at the Sanitarium by Drs. Kennedy and Coates and she is now getting along nicely. T. A. Wall made a visit this week to the Hayden Hill mines. He says the Juniper is cleaning up from seven to none hundred dollars per day of eight hours. Other properties, he says, are looking good and hopes for the old time prosperity of the company is promising. Last Wednesday evening, while Wib Spalding’s team was standing near the Mill, a little boy threw a rock and hit one of the horses and the team started to run, colliding with the corner of the Whittier residence, occupied by Pete Sansinena, breaking thru the wall and smashing the window, and one horse got part way into the room. No damage was done to the team. Stressley Evans and George Gillette, who attempted to bring Modoc within the pale of civilization a couple of months ago by holding up and robbing, Pete Silverson of $90, were tried in the Superior court before Judge Jamison last week and sentenced to indeterminate terms at San Quentin for not less than one year. While returning from Lakeview last Sunday night, the lights on the machine driven by Mrs. Wheeler went out, coming down the grade, and the party, consisting of Misses Nellie Strief, Viola O’Leary, Geraldine Ward, Lavelle Wheeler, and Mrs. Wheeler, and Amandus Wheeler, had a pleasant hike of several miles into town, which was real nice, as the atmosphere was somewhat frigid. While unloading his truck at Gerlach, one day last week, Frank Hansen pulled off his new fur-lined vest and laid it down and a few minutes afterwards when he went to get it, it was gone. A train was just pulling out and Frank had a hunch that it was carrying his property, so he wired to Winnemucca and when the train pulled in, an officer was on hand and found the missing property and arrested the man, who had it and brought him back to Gerlach, where he will find that the way of the transgressor is exceedingly hard. ________________________________ Please reply to: Billie Reynolds r3346@dcsi.net ________________________________________________________________ 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!