Thursday, November.3, 1938. SANDY GULCH NEWS ·.. s·sunday Doings Boom jBusiness Was Good Monday's ,Business ·Right At Home IN .lE W Mrs. Dell Sweet of the Empire Mr. and Mrs. George Adams . Cafe 1\mch counter says she can of Durham went to Auburn on . ------·tell about how many Durham Tuesday on a business trip, Here's One Big One Fire And No'Sale Now Rats Go To Town men are "in the dog house'.' by whi~h seemed to be an uncane.d • 1 . • · 1 I · ' the ring up on the cash reg1ster, for as they had plenty .of busJ- Thot D1dn t Get Away All Fue Sale Days So Do The Customers and notes that Monday's trade ness at the Club while they from married customers is the were gone . . M.rs. Joe DeRosa· of Durham Ma and Pop Mischke of the Residents of Durham and best of the week. . · ~:::;;:::::;;;::::;;;:;::::;;;;;;:::::;;;;:;;;;;;:;;;;;:::;;;=J likes to fish but got more than Durham Economy Store think Ineighboring farms have been she fished for Monday in the that an earthquake or fire or plagued with mice and rats the . THE Feather River. While angling for some sort of disaster oftentimes ,Past two weeks as the rodents Gulch Oil Salesman trout with an ordinary 18 pound does a lot of good. They strug- seem to be migrating from the · CHOCOLATE pull trout .line she got a b.ite, and gled along for over· four years ;ranches to the homes by the Develops Eye Trouble .A what a btte! A man's s1ze sal- with a little variety. store at thousands. . . · · mon, a 36 pounder, was putting Durham and at the end of that Ma Mischke of the Durham Alvin Bullock, manager for SHOP up a battle. Two or three plays time still had-a little variety Economy store is the only resi- the Standard Oil Co. at Willows·, and Mrs. Joe hollered: atore. · Glent who hasn't complained and has been under the care of Dr. Lunches, Sandwiches "You take it, Daddy", and Joe Then along came the big Dur- Ma says she isn't going to kick, J. 0. Cqiapella for an infection put in 20 minutes before the big ham fire and the little variety not when she can sell rat traps o.f his eye for the past week. CHILI BEAN'S boy was gaffed. The DeRosas ex- store got right square in the by the dozen every day. Dr. Chiapella reported Tuesday Candy- Ice Cream hibited the catch at the Empire way. Now they have a bigger and __.____._._-- that the infection was practically Cafe before going on a fish diet. better store and while they do L •ttle D A d cured and Bullock has returned 318 Broadway Chico keep a stock of variety and I amage n to Willows. 11111.. 1 d household notions just to please Some Good By Fire AJvin made hts start with the S ome H Un t ers 1~ee their old customers, the store is Standard Oil Co. in Sandy Gulch Various Ammunition now primarily a dry goods store A hot stove pioe in the home ~bout 15 yea:s ag_o and h~s vis- with a large assortment of ladies of Mrs.· E. B. Decker Saturday JOD was ummpa1red in those Lee Grissom, star pitcher for and gents' ready to wear goods, afternoon set fire to the wall and days. In fact, his eyesight was the Cincinnati Reds spent the boots; shoes and other items gave the fire department a prac- so good he could see .a Zerolene week end in Durham' and vicinity principally of nationally adver~ tice run. Slight damage was done prospect four miles away. doing a little duck hunting. · tised brands. to the . house but a little good •-- Lee stocked up on ammunition 41 That sure was a nice fire," was done when some fire engine Hank Ford Big Help at Buck Sitton's and the Empire stated Ma, celt shook us out of chasers were socked $2.50 each T J. F I Cafe???? a bum business' and .into a good for getting too close to a fire. 0 1m ar ey --=:::;;;;;;;;;;:;;::::;;;;:;;;;;=:::;;;;;;:::,-;:;;;;;--;;;-;:; one, although it hurt for a --- · ~ 1 while" Harry Pahl, local Ford dealer, . es · Wild Life Shows Up called attention to the tremen-, Buy Genera I T•r I --· dous amount of llter~ture being· on the Budget Plan M. • • D II I . On Broadway sent through the mail ·by the 111 1on o ars s EASY INSTALLMENTS IA L Of S . A stranger mi.,ht have thought Ford Motor Co. as well as the Sand Gulch Garage ot ugar that. the wnd life was taking newspaper advertising .. Y over the town Monday ni~ht One cut sent by a1r mail to 11th and Esplanade Ph. '7'74 The ~oily Sugar Co. at Ham- had he seen where someone park- Chico had $19.~0 postag': and ~======;llton C1ty closed down Wednes- ed a deceased jack-rabbit on the over 5,000,000 pteces of llterat------~---: day after a t~vo months run. sidewalk at Price's Confectionery ure went through the mail. HAMILTON J. A. Ratekm reported that the and at the same time a man wa~ If Henry ~eeps that up he will i~llliii..'G· HOUSE beets we:e of good quality a_nd kicking a mouse to death on thP s?on have J1m Farley's post of- BOAR.., •..,. Ithat the tmproved machin~ry m- opposite side of the street f1ce out of the •tred". Dayton Boa.d and Putne7 St. stalled enabled the handling of - · I over 80,000 tons of beets whicn M h' -DURHAM I Rates, Board a.Dd Boom: produced 210,000 bags of sugar. rs. Ellswort s I '25.00 per Month This had a value of approxi- "Twin Sister Dies . Ea" L. ' . Board $20.09 per HoDtl& mately $1,000,000 and that is a l: FUNSTON Boom. Separate $10.00 lot . of "sugar". Mrs. G. D. Ellsworth received ------word Monday that ·her twin sis- steel head Fl'shl·ng· ter, Mrs. Parley H.ancock, died ,Drink SWEATERS. Sunday at Ogden, Utah. ':t:...--~~..,-~ • .,...... _ - ·Seasorf*Storts:~=~·~~--:~-:·· - :. Mrs: Ellsworth was ·unable •to ·~,. -. ~· .~ DURHAM··:c·:--"· attend her -sister's funeral as · :and be ·1· 00% Smart Styles. From Tuesd~y · ·November 1 she is under the doctor's care tor . 0 Virgin Wool until February : 2s, the fishing a serious infection in her hand. ~ ~lflUTY···SALON fanatics can have some real :tun --- · ZEPHYRS PLAIN DUART WAVE $2.50 fighting ·the. steelhead and sal- Hat Expert Added Sociable COLOR-BRIGHT OIL DUART WAVE ...... $3.50 mon after practicing on the ...0 a•.•• Johns' Staff FINGER WAVE, S peef a I .... 25 e smaller trout all season. Steel- I ' at the head fishing iS pennissible in the . Ladies' Twin Sets Haircutting and Neck Trim Sacramento and . five . miles ltp .A. G. McKim, an expert hatt:r All s-izes, $1.69 to $3.98 Phone for Appointment each tributarY and as far north With ~even years factory experl as Middle Creek in Shasta county. ence m the east, has been added Infants' and Children's Telephone 39Y5 The limit is five fish, any size, to th~ staff of the w. H. Johns Pt·iees 49c to $2.49 AL and A. Barth, local sporting goods Cleanu~g Works. CLUB ;...___ D_UR_H_AM_,_c __ • __ _. dealer recommends spinners and McKim can clean, block and -;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;-. salmo~ eggs for the best results. shap.e men's and ~omen's hats, DURHAM ... makmg them look hke new, and, if GEORGE ADAMS E C o·N 0 MY IT'S NOT A CLOSED SHOP necessary, build new hats to Last Remnant Of order. ·The Good Old Days ----- Proprietor Drygoods and Variety "The story of Bancroft's poli . GENE RAY'S What is claimed to be the last tical background is that of a Durham, Calif. DURHAM, CALIF. campaign cigar in captivity is on Progressive battling for Progres- ':;::::;:=:;:::;:::;=:=:;:;;:;=:;~~=~=;;;:=;:=;;;:::;::;=:;=:;~ display in the window of the sive ideas in government, despite ; BARBERSHOP Owens' Chico Garage. the rocks that are now being HAIR CUT ...... SOc Owens claims this is the only thrown at him by the radical SHAVES ...... 25c only campaign ccstogie" he has leadership in the Democratic Market. Street seen in the last two campaigns party in their attempt to tag him COMPLETE STOCK and the cigar. has Tom' Kelly's as a reactionary."-Oakland Tri Durham Iad hanging to it in lieu of an bune. Dr. Hess Stock and Poult~y Remedies Next to the Drug Store affidavit. Owens took no chances --·---- on smoking the El Ropo. Bunte's Chocolates, lb. boxes ...... 60c r~~~~~~~~;;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ seekers"Whatever they· hecan promises cash. Bancroftpension promises are not of the doubtful Look For The Neon Sign value . attached to stamp-backed DURHAM PHARMACY scrip. . . . All in all, which man, Downey or Bancroft, would Sen CUT PRICE Dl:tUGS ator Carter Glass, Senator Harry DURHAM,. CALIF. Byrd, or the late President Wil- son, consider the most depend- I able Democrat on basic issues." IIi~~~~~~~~~~iii~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .'EMPIRE CAFE' 1-Santa Barbara News-Press. . NOW IS THE·TIME ·;-o· APPLY DURHAM, CALIF. Spending four bits a year on· a Boy Scout is cheap~r than $400 a year on a boy in the reform GAVIOTA BRAND BESt CALIFORNIA WINES school. LOCAL AND IMPORTED LIQU.ORS Off- and On-Sale IAcense GOOD.FOOD FERTILIZER Breakfast - Lunch LET US QUOTE YOU PRIC·ES Dinner CHICKEN DINNERS 50c Fountain Service WE BUY ALMONDS Fine Candies AND BLACK WALNUTS STEAK DINNERS - PLATE DINNERS THE WHITE LIGHT LUNCHES ELEPHANT. SCHOOLING'S WARE.HOUSE A. J.. (Slim) Bathurst Durham, Calif. Phone 240-W l TRY OUR SERVICE 122 W. 3rd St. Chico Thursday, November 17, 1938. = SANDY GULCH NEWS , . ======- ---.. _ ~age Five ~w. ' § Wes Sitton Bags j g!:'l~h~A~ · Cut - D~wn Biggest Pheasant 1 11 · _HI$ · F,eed Bill N IE Wf'!!. Sitton appeared to hav~ fe~i Durham man ~ho has been ------~------·------~-~--~--~-- ~ WOT)~~rn th e ~fupriz e ~~~~Qffercd .!Jv ~~Cl ensu~," ·-~ "Phc~~~asnts Wit~"h hish e~ chick,nL ' J A , • l . est heasant on opening day, ton .a . Pheasant smcc Buck Sit- Bill Coon Tokes Durham Couple Treed 1White pron Man I :;~••• ," mm·o " "" '" w»o ,,. ,,e ~un that ammunttion •• '" Prixe At Fashion Show In Own House Now Hos White Wings "'''"'". >od raHod !o "'"'· ~ndy Guloh News. I ' llack by nightfall. . _ The Women of the Durham Ma Mischke had to apologize Tt J <'ink~ li ~~> l"d M"Donald will I Wcs played in rnre luck ~n G· E~•.... R 'S ;:rom~ Department staged a novel to her customers for being an rR"e to keeP his job as head of grcbbintt the big bird. A sa1 e ; I"''JJ£ AY !""'•on show" at ' theic meo•tng houc late opening the •tore ''"- Ouch run S• rMt n-;ioctm~nt ., m•n stop••• ot th~ Sltton ;~;,';. BARB" R 5 HOp Fri~y night in the High School. 1Tue sday. No, Ma didn't go pheas- , .. h!~ h he toOk over on Election and reported serm~ a ile ~ Without V1.'8rning the ludies 1 ant hunting but a lot of other DRv Ma Mi. hke who has been pheasant about one mh. Expert· Tons orl"llst swoop d d · ' · qurtrl~d rin 1s l)U . e own on the men in the people did. Ma and Pa Mischke head of thr department lor the from town. Wes J~rno~ nl. HIL:\ ;\[, CALIF. and turned them into Uve about a mile and a half out :vear. tobk one look at the car, lorn ted the bud 11 .:1n ' - e Dru; Store ~~~:hence I T"n~t 1 Ne~ t~ .p lin~g . models, all decked out in in the suburbs of Durham and !Paves aftrr the Friday night mond orchard and was back in - _ 1 !ernmme. finery and made them 1 the hunters were so thick about frP"?.C' sent t~ e rn down. and re- 6 minutes. The bird mea.,ured 37 - - --- strut the1r stuff on the st.age. j the place that Ma was afraid to fu~l'd tn take the job back. inr-he<; from tip of bill to end ~C No on e was Sl.lrprised when step out of doors until the hunt- Practi,..allv a ll of the leaves tail accordinl! to Dell Sweets Jack Johnson of the D urham Nul ers thinned out. were dropnrd from the trees by yard stick (How long is a yard House paraded but most folks - ·- • - the early !rO!'t. Iin Durham?} BOViMAN'S thought that Bill Coon, Rusty Open Car Door Leads --- -- James Browen was a cl?se I ~ _,., .. ·: ,:· Meier, Chas. Ricks and · Cecil T E . second with a bird measu rm ~ P.el.icions Franklin should know better. Bill 0 Dog House P. G. & . Br1ngs o/. inches. Walter ~urton was Coon was crowned "Miss Durham'' Natural Gas 36third1 with a sa as a result of his " m odeling". Buck Sitton has to sleep in and J ack Houcks' budi~ ch wasphe:~ 35lf.!sant ICE( CREAM · -· - · the "dog house" these days as he T Chico inches. Ted Gates landed filth Patronize our Advertisers. Ican't sleep in the car or the 0 and house. Buck forgot to close the with 35. Natural gas reach Chico -- ._.• ... - car door when he backed up this week, it 'flac;"''ill flnnounced by HAMILTON while Ph~asant hunting. That's J . H . Faag, J:6le r al manaeer of Dannerous To Be Alive ·BEVERAGES BOARDING Hou why he's m the "d og house'' . the De Sabl11 · division of the !"'f • D SE - ·-· - P acific Gas and Electrjc company. 0 n 0 p en1ng ay You r Ut>i,...."bborhood dralcr Dayton Road and Putney St. ! Dell Has A Sweet This m~>:ms that Chico con- . . b ,. ha it. W 0 sumers will be s upplied with a Sandy Sanders, Junction ar- -DURHAM- ay f Telling You mixture or ma nufactured and ber, :Jaimed Mond~y that he was Rates, Board and Room: natural gas which will burn in so stili !rom piclong up -walnuts $25.08 per Month Mrs. Ike Crurn tried walking appliances as adjus ted at present. that be thought he would. use a Board $.20.00 per 1\fonth out on the Empire Cafe without A crew of rnen are now bow a nd arrow and pm tbe . . . . 92 BOWMAN'S Room, Separate $10.00 paying Saturda y. We could have at work adjustin~ appliances on p~ea sa n ts to a tree so h_e would- Ch1co-Orovll lc·Qu mer told her better than to try that nil equipment between Yuba n t have to stoop to p1ck them I1 ____ as we tried it the week before. Citv and the Chico city limits up. --- .,...... ,. ------· ' a nd wlll complete wor k in this Sandy gave up the idea when PRO-TECT YOUR If Not French- territory on November 19. someone _Pointe? out tbat ~other • I·· Good American Maybe Then the area 0 f Chico north archer m1ght pm one on htm. I . of Chico creek will be cut over 1 E:A L J H Mex-American to straight naturitl gas on Mon- I D f WITD' WINTER ' Drinks d ay November 21 and the crew lt s Pleasure ,ue ore evidentlyThe Durham doing a rushingLaundry busin wasess immedJiJtely,will ~tart adjustin~rompletmg . applianc:s theu- Business With Gene.. FOOTWEAR Saturday when they were observ- work there on the afternoon o! Gene Ray, Durham tonsodalist, Good ed drying the clothes by hanging Wednesday, November 23. doesn't like to be disturbed until them on the stock corrals opposite On that date natural gas will he gets the newspaper read so Fellowship George Adams' Club. be turned into the mains in the he just turns the lock on the Patronize our AdvertJsem. area south_ of Little Chico and door. the adjustmg crew of 9_2 m~n This being Pheasant Week, : at -J will start at OriC.: ,>r.!parmg_ all Gene will probably leave the J .. ' ,. appliances in tlint distTict for Hear the World's the ·u se of straight natural gas. do~r open so the customers can This work is expected to be wrut on themselves. completed on the aftemoop of '"''~~~~ FINEST MUSIC November 28. ; D J 0 c· h" II · ~ THE CLUB,I Newly franchised dealer Then on Monday, November 28, 1 r. • . Ia pe a i'- the straight natural gas will be : SPECIALIST · ~ for turned into the main in Chico ' ~ Victor Phonograph proper, the area between the two -~ l!:y~ar-Nos e.--Throo' : Buck-Beet GEORGE ADAMJ,, I creeks. The adjusting cr ew is ' Eyes Examinee'! for Glasses I fiELD ·BOOT-$9.95 and Records exp~ted to finish their work ~~~~~~{ 16" Heavy duty Lace Boot $9.95 Proprietor ,t/ here on Thursday, December 1. 14" Leather sole and The company has a two- ton heel lxlot ...... $6.50 GRAYES ELECTRIC 8" OU Tan Leather sole Durham, Calif. .VUck loaded with au sor ts ot JUNCTION ROOMS 142 Broadway Ph9De 9 parts for all types of appliances and heel ...... $5.'75 . I BlJY BUCK- HECT BOOTS with which to make necessary ;::~===~==;:::==:;d~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cha n ~es which are bein~ done at Recently Renovated for COmf()rt and durability, ~ AJI Fully Guaranteed no cost to consumers whose bills Clean - Quiet OF THANKSGIVING • • • ;~e t~x~~c~ee~ ~~n~ reduced from Rates Reasonable I U 0 R S Fagg urges that consumers S3.00 per week and up P A C K AGE. L Q read carefully the ads they are •d WHISKEY ts 69¢ in-;ertin" in local Papers and re- fernSI e I p • ··-·-······-······ tain th; letters bein~ mailed to 81 0 Broadway ALL STA~DARD BRANDS consumers tor reference in the Sold 'at J1 inimum Prices use or gas appliances while the change is being made from the GOOD FOOD 54 1\IEN'S OXFORDS DURHAM PHARMACV ~~~ ~~a~~e is ot great eco- Breakfast - Lunch $2.98 a nd $3.98 D R U G S nomic value to the consumers," Dinner C U T R A T .E Fagg added, "fi r st because ot the : STORM RUBBERS I D U R BA M, CAL IF· thousa nds of do~ Iars that will be Fountain Service and GALOSHES 1 ·F ine Candies for the whole family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~;;;;~~.-. - ~§~~ ' cantilethus divert channels."ed 1nto other mer- I1 Ail tnade by U. S. Rubber Co. ~ We Carry j Fagg said the change is cost THE WHITE Nattonany Advertised Brands ing the compa~y he represents 1 approximately a halt million dol ELEPHANT HEADQUARTERS • • • lars. A. . J. · (Slim) B ath1J1·st DURHAM for FUN FROLIC and 122 W. 3rd St. Chico E c·o N 0 MY I 'And Don't Call Him DURIIAI\t · · · CALIF. Pheasant Hun~ers Too Late To Eat II W. L . (Bill) Irwin, who bas LET US QUOTE YOU 0~ recently moved to Chico, has - opened Irwin's Candy Shop nt YOUR FAVORITE DRINK 132 W. Second Street where be Served to Suit You is !eaturing horne made candies, ay with special attention to !u~ges, ard·Sp caramels, creams and tatfy. -All Kinds- STEAKS- CHOPS- DINNERS j Irwin has bad years o! experi -- ence candy m aking· and has spe • Served Eorly and Late cial idens ol h.is own on how to ' make it. He is cranky about just two things-cleanliness in his GAVIOTA BRAND FERTILIZER 1candy kitchen and the way they -- spell his last name. He'd rather everybody called him "Bill" WE BUY ALMONDS anyhow.-·-·-- 1 Wile--"Here you are, just home ~!E alter EM PI CAFE doing two years !or arson, SCHOOliNG'S WAREHOUSE DUR~.4M, CALIF. and now you can't even make Durham, Calif. Phone Show.the kitchen fire draw!"-Passlng ·,ll••••••••••••• ... ••••••••• 'f ~ I ~~a=y='=N=o=ve=m~b=e=r~2~4~,=19=3=8~·==~~~~SA~N~D~Y~GULCH==N~E=W=S~======~======~Pa~g~e~F~iv~e Lots Of N·uts Arid· ~ ~:;sT::e~~n~~:unts Lots Of· Money u IHI AM· N IE W S I · The hunters have been thi~ker Gll!>ert Schooling of Schooling's ~-----~--~------~------~~~~~-~~~~~~00~~-~~~~~~ ~rtrude E .. Jordan of' 1111...1 G H Th I week so )t i~n~t unusual to see what he can to get rid of all the cisco is vi 'ti.. . in n·. ,.~ew OS· as e Durham Dinner· . f:l-,e pheac:ants come. into town nuts in the Durham district. Last sr ng . ur-, · ~ her d.aughter, Ada Home Folks Worried Th E for protectjon. Quite a number of week "Gib" shipped six carloads a·agger an ver the birds left the .. battle field" of almonds. ,ray. Mrs. Jordan is 80\ The P. G . & E tractor and last year and moved inside the I Sara Philyaw says this isn't ung and looks younger • • • • The_ Dttr~am ~u!!tnPss M~"n'~ city limits of · Chico and many news; its 'ust a lot of hard work. .t. 1, gradmg equipment was domg a Assoctation 1'> ~ettm~ all steamed more moved to a quieter neigh- Sara is ~e bookkeeper --\- --·~-- little landscaping around Dur- up over their annual banr,uet borhood where the hunters ·were. . ·ft>- • • ize our ~dvertlsers. ham Saturalay which had the which they will hold in the Odd not so thick. · I T k 8 · 1 th h d ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;.; folks pretty well mystified. Fellow's Hall, December 6. The Saturday a crippled pheasant, Th a e ~ ance . roug our a s. ; · rt di t 1 ill b · · : ey are mterestmg. Wes Sitton was. afraicl they P~ y, accor ng o P. ans, w e tried to barge into the. Empire 1 were preparing the foundation bigg:-r and better this year with Cafe at Durham but changed his I ---~-.------iENE RAY~S for another grocery. Ed MeDon- special guests from all sections mind when Harvey Gerholdt took: HAM 1L TON ~RBE'R SHO.P ald thought that a new dance of the county. . after him. Harvey and Jack Me- hall was going up. Doris Town- The Durham men can be the1r Connell finally "treed., the bird BOARDING HOUSE !xpert To~rlallst . send, the beauty doctor, thought own guest for· $1.50 per ticket in Wes Sitton's warehouse and . Dayton Road and Putney St. JRB;AM, CALI~. · maybe they were going to bury and the reservations must be in it was soon turned into 4fried ~DURHAM- a -to th~.-Drng Store the Bidwell Utility, ·but WilSon by Saturday night, December 3, chicken." · ·Rates, Board and Room: · Hoffman said that they had al- or they get no turkey or. refresh- . $25.00 per Month ready buried that, and were just ments. . Ben Shaved· But Boara $2~.00 per Month trying to settle · up · the estate Mrs. Dell Sweet will serve the · · Room, Separate $10~00 · THIS IS Ma Mischke wouldn't say what banquet with the assistance oi Whiskers Haunt Him she thought. . a flock of the best looking wait- · . · Buck Sitton newl elected res- resses in Durham. Mrs. Sweet has Judge McAnarlin of Durham fdent of the bilsine;s men's ~sso- been k~ping __in practice by. serv- was displaying an ancient picture·. )LD S·EASON ciation made inquiries and learn- !ng special. banquets and dinners of Ben Hudspeth Saturday, one. THANKSGIVING E PREPARED! ed that the . work was just m the J?rivate dining room at taken back about 1908. 1 prelimina to the bringin on of her Emp.•re Cafe. It was a. good thinJ; the Judge . natural . ~as to Durha! and Ma Mischke is the only lady, told who It was hid_den behind HOSIERY SALE • Chico so tar, who refuses to join the a huge handle bar mustache as 1 ~ · • _ • apron brirtade and serve . at the at ~irst glance most peOple s Bromo Quinine 27 c · banauet. Ma says she has tried thought· it was a walrus. VapoRub, lge. _59c Might Get The feeding that mob before and i.f -- • --· • · - 1gent Gargl~ ___ 23c she 'goes she will dress up. in Probably Too Late .. ~ ybark Agency For Gadgets men'~ togs and tell the doorkeeper ugh .Drops ______39c I . she IS a guest. Now To _Get 'Either 1 Gladys Semrau, while on a . The new . officers who will be . trine nose drops 29c shopping trip to Durham recom- n~stalled at the banauet are, Bu"k Clark Hunger, Durham . drug- mended that Durham 'farmers Sitton, president: Ed McDonald, gist, says that if Wes Sitton does whQ have deep wells get them- vice-president; Bill McEnespy, n't come through with half t~e • selves one of those new gadgets secretary. Clark Hunger as treac;- pheasant or half of the· prize he called "water softeners" so the ure~ i~ not a new officer, but will won with the biggest bird, he is DURHAM housewives can save on the be InStalled just as a matter of going to .sue him for poaching laundry bill. All they have to do fo~ to remind him that he can't in his private pheasant preserve. is hook the· doomisary on the resi~. The boys refused to audit Wes shot the pheasant right in faucet and it makes the "hard" Clark's books so he can't quit. Clark's back yard. HARMACY :water "soft." ut Rcite .Drugs : . Wes Sitton is opposed to the FACE-THE FACTS ••• ·idea as it might ruin· his sal soda (Continued from Page One). liD Calif. business if the ·water. softeners =::::==::::=::=====~~~~~c~om~e~in~t~o~g~en~e~r~~~u~s~e~.~==~. tinued· to rend the air, echoed aPld re-echoed into the wee small = hour<>. One· of the outstandin~ .. t COMPLETE displays in the bay region for Solve your 6tocking prob the game exclusively was a win lem for months· ahead by dow done by Roos Brothers store ·. a short distance from the campus: laying in a supply of Sitting in an area entitled 11 ·DUART. "Stub Allison's Trophy Room" was MOJUD" HOSE a wax figure dressed in slacks Advertised in Good House Your Turn Next . ' and sweat shirt. On the wall keeping for $1.00 PERMANENT were the various "kills" of the IF YOU WANT A •.. Plain - $2:50 Oil - $3.50 current season. They ran some Tom and Jerry Special Thanksgiving offer thing like this: St. Marys Gael. 89¢ DORIS TOWNSEND'S bar!~ed September 24: Wac;hin~ton 7~Up. Highball DURHAM BEAUTY SALON St.ate Cougar, bagged October 1; or Complete Stock UCLA Bruin, bagged October 15; Tom Collins Cocktail Hour Brassieres JRHAIYI Telephone 39Y5 CAJ.A!F. Washin~ton Huskie; ba~gpd Oc- · 25¢ to 50¢ =-~~;;;;~~=-======;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~: tober 22; Oregon Sta•e Webfoot, • ba~_e;ed October 29; USC Trojan Torlay's fashion REFOR)f Horse, MISSED November 5: KE ADVANTAGE of the ••• Oregon Beaver, bagged November THE- CLUB GIH.DI.~ES $1.00 and $2.95 12: and in his handc; was a trophy of a Stanford Indian, not 'I George Adams DURHAM as yet hung up on the wall. Lac;t ·Prop. NEW NATURAL GAS but not least on thic; rie;skin EC·ON·OMY Durham Calif. DURHAM CALIF. SAVE ON FUEL EXPENSE parad~ ic; an item whi"h I sup- ~~~o~d~~M~d~B~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~gRipley, but I'm selfish enou~h " to want it for mvself and Riplr->v SEE US-FOR has enough written up for the next five years anyway. Several ROAST· TURKEY GAS HEATERS students, a couple of whom werf:' acquaintances of mine were in and all and the California rootine; section dnr ' The Trimmings fng the Bil! Game. Naturallv thf>rP. GAS RANGES was a public address svstem (by Associated) in use, but tlie~., SOc students were interested in getting Served by the scores of other games, etc. BUC.K SITTON and among other thine;s tuned in Don and Del DURHAM CALIF. the Oregon-Washine;ton gamE' with a small portable radio in their laos. No ground, no ·aerial. •~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'etc. BUT this takes the crocheted bathtub: They finally tuned in . US QUOTE YOU ON ••• on their own game .in prone~ .. right there before ttieir eyes AND E-MPIRE- CAFE actually heard the plays called over the radio before they camf' DURHAM, CALIF. ~rc~ard· Spray in over the public address system in the stadium. That is nearly -All Kinds- . as bad as the event which hap oened in Marysville some time ·LET ED back, went by radio to London • • • and thence back to Chico (50 miles away from Marysvile) be MIX YOUR ;A VI OJA BRAND FERTiliZER fore it was known here by word from Marysville. Judging by some of the outbursts of the fans in I WE BUY ALMONDS the stands every time the huddle FAVORITES broke, one might be led to be lieve that they were being called AS YOU- SCHOOLING'S- WAREHOUSE BEFORE they happened. Prognostication: UCLA to whip LIKE THEM ham, Calif. Phone 240-W the Trojan Horse in a rough and j ...... ~ rumble g~. ~.... ~ ...... • • .... , :.uoy, ~ec.emcer I.~ 19~8. SAN£:)V·GULCH NEWS P.qge· Three JNf JEW §l~:ds5~nmb::~am · · · · Clyde Compton of Cohasset LAY-A-WAY .:7.:--"'::::"· -~~------_..;.-·------. ____....; __ claimed as his bride Mrs. Dorothy We Thot Their' . Quail Hunter Buck Will Furnish Ellen Sumpter at a ceremony Ch k W AI • h W ld L•k T 0 . · · performed at the· home of the AGIFT. AD.A Y!' uc . as r•g t I ou I e 0 Part f Entertainment bride's sister Mrs. William Me- Don and Dell Sweet, managers Bag A Skunk j. . · • , Anarlin of Durham. William Me- · SELECT NOW of the Empire Cafe restaurant at • · ·The Jumor Women s Club -~f Anarlin, justice of the peace, per- WHILE STOCKS D h t t : . . . Durham are sponsoring a benefit formed the marriage in the pres- ARE COMPLJ~~TE! ur am, wen ou to eat Satur-:. Harry See, of ~44 Pacific Bull~- dance for . Saturday night at ence of relatives and friends .. day evening. ' mg, San Franc1sco, parked h1s Hicks Hall to raise money to buy 24 · ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ car in the river section west of "school girl" traffic signs to Attendant~ were Mr. and Mrs. PUT A. CHECK Durham while he tiied to locate place on the streets near the James Gatlin of Cohasset. ON TIIESE ITEMS GENE RAY'S a few quail last week.. · Durham schools. These signs do ·The bride, da!Jghter of Mrs. BARBER .-SHOP ' When he returned to the car have a tendency to drop the Ella Ricketts ~f · Durham, . wore 0 Luncheon Cloth he found that some sneak thie.f· speed of racing maniacs down a dark . blue s~ dre~s Wlth a .0 Table Cloth Expert TollS()rialJst had eloped with his hunting coat so that the kids have a fair corsage. A w~ddmg dmner was DURHAM, · CALIF. and 9 boxes of shells. The thief chance of dodging· them. served followmg the ceremony 0 Stationery NeXt to the Drug Store left a gun and Harry's boots, so The committee in charge is and the ·couple returned .to Co- Cannon Towels ~~~~~~~~~~~ . Harry proceeded to Durham headed by Mrs. Clark Hunger h.asset, where the groom had o :------, :where he spent some time look- and Mrs. D. A. Locey-at least p;repared their home. 0 Toys HAMILTON ing for a man wearing ·a new they seemed to be selling the .------• coat with old boots and carrying most tickets. 0 Esmond Blankets ··BOARDING HOUSE 9 boxes of ammunition. I The women offered Buck Sit- D ·Men's. Shirts · Dayton Road and Putney St. Ed McDonald informed Harry ton a free ticket as they felt that -DURHAM- that even the poorest thief in his yelling would be worth at 0 Box H·cindkechiefs Rates, Board and Room: Durham wore more clothes than least the price of a ticket, but 0 Hosie·ry $25.00 per Month that so Harry cashed a check Buck bought the ticket and said Board $20.00 per Month and stocked up on shotgun shells he'd probably make just as much D Gloves ·· Room, Separate $10.00 at Buek Sitton's so he could con- . noise as usual. D Shoes tinue to hunt quail-and skunks. I ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~Du~amihs Dance D Sweaters For Athletic Fund D Ladiesi Wear D Fiesta Pottery A benefit dance for the ath D Hats MANICURE letic fund of the Durham Union QUALITY High School will be the first 0 Men's Hose New REVITA wave rinse social event to be held in the new gymnasium. It will follow LIQUORS D Billfolds gives life and lustre. ' the regular meeting of the Par ent-Teachers Association to be We are 0 Pajamas MACHINELESS PERMANENTS held in the auditorium December 0 Neckties 9th. Proud to Serve DORIS TOWNSEND'S D ~edspreads DURHAM BEAUTY SALON Mrs. G. W.. Sitton, representing (Chenille) the P.-T. A., is actin~ as general TH E cL 0 B DURHAM Telephone 39Y5 CALIF. chairman; William McEnespy, the &m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bu~M~~ La~ell. the ~~ high a~oci~nn;school trustees, Durham Calif. "~~·... ·. DUB HAM and Princioal R. W. Guilford, the high school. Plans were discussed George Adams at a committee meeting held at ECONOMY SELECT SOMETHING a •. a the home of Mrs. Sitton Friday Prop. DURHAM CALIF. ~ghl. n w~ decided ~ uk all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the local organizations to co- ~eec.tei~!Ciifi:I(CICI«!«IIIii~t«liii'«~I«ICt«11it~liiiC:(IlGIC~tCICICII~~IC~tgr' That the whole family will enjoy! operate. -·---,.___ ~ COME IN NOW • • • ~ RADIOS GAS HEATERS Boy Scouts And Bus j . and select your I REFRIGERATORS FLOOR LAMPS RANGES TOASTERS S::. :~=ps~::;::r:~~,sur- i CI-IRISTMAS CARDS ~ WASHERS MIXERS prised his friends Tuesday when i LARGE STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM ~ he announced that he had put i ~ IRONERS ROASTERS OIL STOVES ~~~s~ee~~ a restricted diet for ~ Du R H A M pH A R M A ( y i Now Bus is a healthy looking 'N C U T RATE D R U G S ~ brute and when Roy Ford asked I ~ him if he was sick Bu8 answered: W DURHAM __ CAT.~IF ~ BUCK SITTON "N~b~I.~~t~aft~th~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ph·one 14Wl Durham ifDu~am I don't Buru~~ get prepared:" M~~ b~~~ P··~--~~~~-~~~-~-~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---·~· Holstein, Durham, Guernsey And Jersey IF IT'S •. ·• Harry Compton, Tex McVea, and Fat Murphy, purham stock QUALITY DRINKS men, held a long discussion at the Empire Cafe Saturday even YOU WANT ••. ing on their favorite subject, but it sounded like a lot of "bull" We Have Them! to the bystanders. BULK ON-SALE and Coons Don't Like. or OFF-SALE Licenses Hunter's Appetite WINES AI Carey, caretaker in Bid BOTTLE well Park, more familiarly known as Tarzan of the Trees, WHY NOT BUY THE BEST .•. we sell has practically exterminated the coon population on Big Chico EMPIRE CAFE and is now doing likewise on Italian Swiss Colony! [[Bulk Wines Mud Creek and other nearby (bring container) DURHAM, CALIF. streams.
~'~~~~~iiii~iii~ii~~~~~~~~~~~~ RussellAl, together Holmes, with bagged Frank fourand more coons Saturday night, which FINEST Guaranteed Pure brings the total up to more than GAVIOTA BRAND FERTILIZER 30 of the ringtalls. AI has eaten 100 °/o Pennsylvania so many of them now that he WESTERN OIL AND ALL KINDS OF prefers them to pork, chicken or 10¢ per qt. turkey.. MOTOR··OIL 2 gal. seale·d cans WE PAY CASH 30c PER GAL. Orchard _Spray gal. lots) for (5 $)25 -SEE US FOR PRICE~ SAE 30-4-0-50-60 .BlACK WALNUTS Bring container Mohawk WE BUY BLACK WALNUTS Green, Dry or Wet FARMERS! . Golden Arrow SMITH SEE US FOR A GASOLI-NE SHELLING PLANT REAL BARGAIN IN PER GIB SCHOOLING'S WAREHOUSE \ 161l .C West 8th Ave. Chico GASOLINE 1~2 GAL. Durham, Calif. Phone 240.;.W Call any day, or Phone 640 DUB.BAM.. CALD'. PRONE 15J5 Page Six SANQY GULCH NE~S Thursday, December 15, 1. 938. Nelson Should Have Small Radio Has Durham's Traffic Cop Great D'rawing Power Etta Mae Burns, . diminutive George Adams of The Club at schoolma'am of Nelson, can drive 1 Durham h~s one of th~se vest Nelson Mayor Pays a car just as fast as anyone if • pocket r ad10s about as b1g as· an ··Durham Tractor '.Verne Taylor Comes she takes a notion to put her alarm clock, which puts out al Visit To Durham Smokes .Cigarettes Home From Hospital foot down. most as much volume as a full Etta Mae was leaving the card grown radio. Jack Mullens, mayor of Ne~ Tex McVee, reformed "cow- Verne Taylor, popular Durham party at Nelson Friday and as !t George ·says he can get any son, combined a little business poke" of Durham, finds that his man and a World War Vet, re was foggy and dark she asked thing on his radio except Charley with pleasure while on a good tobacco. expense is much greater turned from Letterman General if it was all clear behind her as Keplinger and Charley is genet· will trip to Durham Saturday. now that he is driving tractors, Hospital Tuesday where he has she started to back from the ally 'there anyway, or at least Jack has been a canal cowboy at than it was when he galloped his successfully undergone two major curb. Someone said "0. K.", not once a day. Nelson for the past 25 years. At horse after cattle down in the operations and is now on the road thinking that Etta Mae was go least he has been riding herd Texas Panhandle country. to recovery .. ing to do a lot of backing. on the irrigation company ditch When Tex has to repair his As a testimonial, 120 men at about that long. A Ford pick-up was bumped tractor he often has three or four the Durham Business Men's an across the road, landing in a ditch ROOM· and BOARD lighted cigarettes scatter ed about nual Stag Party autographed the but little damage was done as $20.00 PER MONTH on the machine so he doesn't have programs, three of them, and the bumpers on each car took GENE RAY'S lo reach far for one. they were turned over to Bill most of the shock. Etta Mae took HAMILTON BARBER SHOP "If I can just reach out and McEnespy to mail to Verne. the rest of the shock herself. Ig rab one," says Tex, "instead of Bill handed them to Ed Mr- BOARDING HOUSE Expert Tonsorialist · running all about the machine Donald and forgot where he put Dayton Road and Putney St. DURHAM:, CALIF. \looking for it, then I can get them, and spent the next half Starts Move To DURHAM, CALIF. Ne::o..-t to the. Drug Store somewhere." day looking for them. Hearin~ Save. Durham Nuts •~~===~~=~===~ Maybe if Tex had laid three this, "Ed" jumped "Bill' 'and Wes Sitton has started a move ;.:: lighted cigarettes on the old asked if he had mailed those horse's rumps down in Texas he names. to exterminate all the old crows around Durham, claiming that would have got somewhere, too. "No, I h;IVen't." ~aid Bill, "I've they do a lot of damage to the lost them. I 've written down about nuts. Tends To Business and half of them and I guess you'll Wes claims the best time to do have to help me guess the rest.'' this exterminating is at night. No Monkey Business "Whv, that will be eaw." ~':aid Ed. and named a few at random. Ma Mischke, 51% boss of the "You sure got a good memory," More Dog Houses Durham Economy Store, is a said Bill, as he jotted thPm down. Needed For Next Year Christmas Special! trusting soul but you can't put "Sure I have," a n swPr~>d Ed. • over an ything on her, as one "I can remember them all. Read It is reported on go'od author- i MACHINElESS 1Durhamite tried to do Tuesday over these here and see," and ity that dog houses were at a 1 when he said: handed over the originals. premium in Durham the past 1, PERMANENT "I saw Pa Mischke in Chico to- --·-·- .. -· week, after the annual stag di~- 1 QUALITY Regular $6.50 day window shopping with a Lonq-Arm Of The LflW ner given by the Durham Bus1- ~ Durham lady." · ness Men's Association. I "Trying to make something out Reaches Seven Miles LIQUORS $500 'I of it, are ya? Well, I knew that," - . I Special Price· answered Ma. "I knew he was Another examnle of how the his own card as easily as the j We are This is a ·new Ithere and knew the lady. Why, "long arm of the law" re;v-:hes G-:eanls now headed back for Proud to Serve I'd trust any woman with Pa. out and grabs a man was illus- years more at Leavenworth,! 12 PERMANENT ·And· just to prove it I'll tell you trated Satudrdayb whenU ad G-hm~~f· unless the parole board wants for all types of hait·. what he was doing: He was com- accomoanie v n ers Pn . . d't f t ·n, paring prices and he says we are Herb ,Forward and Deputy Tom to glv~ .111m c~e 1 to~ s ayl g 1 Phone 39Y5 selling a number of things cheap- Reeves reached seven miles down out of Ja 1.~~or t f~· pas y~r~. THE CLUB 1 er here than they are up there a trail in the canvon near Pulga ~h e ~al mgt 0 ~~ers w: e but ! Durham Calif. DURHAM· in the big city of Chico. He was and grabbed William Hanle:v. a rnl es own °k e hca tm t of tending to business. See? Now parole violator from Leaven- were ~b l e to ta e a s or. cu 1 BEAUTY SALON " • th one mtle to get out, wh1ch rna- George Adams 1aug h tha t o ff . wor . t . 11 d d th "Charley · Prop. Durham, Q~Jif, Hanley had changed his name ena Y re uce e - . Patronize our advertiser s. and lost himself in the mountain hor~se::s:·"~------~' ~======~ ranyon for 8 years when the ~~!414ttCICICI4~~1CtC~141414141CICICI
Page Four SANDY GULCH NEWS Thursday, January 12, 1939. ----~======- -======~======~======~======It Was A Good · Gag Patronize our Advertisers. While It Lasted Clarence Fimple, Durham stock JOHN T. RILEY ------·------buyer, often has to guess weights when buying. cattle i.f no scales When patronizing our adver Two Old Buddies How Fire Prevention are handy. His ability to guess FARMERS' tisers, mention the News. Again Work Together Started In Paradise weight within a pound or so on INSURANCE a "cow critter" was the sub- 514 Dl'oadway Chico George Adams, former prop- Roy Ford, of Ford and Wage- ject of conversation at Durham BRING IN YOUR riP.tor of The Club, has :.v::cept<>d man, paint specialists, told the this week and soon Clarence was a position as representative of boys at the Empire Cafe Monday offering to guess weights on liu the Commercia l Fertilizer Com- how he happened to go into th~ mans, providing they let him pany of California and will make spray business. lift them. WR E C .K S his headquarters in Durham while "It's a good safe business," Clarence made some very ac- MAX'S CAFE working the Northern California said Roy. "You see, I used to curate guesses but his fun came \'\·e f ix them like new. territory. be in the fire extinguisher busi- to an end when several of tl1e Severa l years a go George help- ness but I gave that up as it older ladies called attention to THE BEST PLACE TO EAT Bl LL METZGER ed J . L. (Jack) Flebut of Durham was too dangerous-and too ex- the fact that Clarence only of get a job and worked with him. pensive. fered to guess the weight of the Fender antl Body Works Now the tables are turned. J ack " I just had fair success a t ladies, and the young good look 1G6 E. 4th St. Pllone 21 went to San Francisco and in first so I started out to do a ing ones at that. 317 Broadway the past six years h as worked his little demonstrating, and scared --.-.-- Chico way to the head of the Cammer- up some new business. Yessir! Chico ~======: cial Fertilizer Co. and is now I sure scared 'em! My favorite He May Dance To .- working with George in educat- method was to spill a pint of ing the farmers to the idea that coal oil or gasoline on the porch Another Tune Now QUALITY there is big dividends for them at a prospect's home, light a cig- . . • I in fertilizer. a rette and accidentally (on pur- R1chard S ~l11 th was arrested by CLEANING George is no "green pea" pose) drop the match on the Deputy Shenff Estes at the Moon AND DYEING when it comes to this farming porch. light Garden~ Saturday night and business as he knows farms and, "When the horrified house- was charged with pilfering cars. at Popular Prices CANDY what is more important, he k nows wife would yell, 'Fire!' I would Bail was set a t $50 and the HATS farmers. That is why he got the nonchalantly put the fire ex- case was set over to January 12. CLEANED & BLOCKED job- that and old time friendship tinguisher to work, subdue the w ith J ack. blaze and make a sale all in one We Call and Deliver George was influenced in mak- motion. BUYS ing the change in his business re- "Well, sir, business was going W. H. JOHNS cently when he heard several good and I began to expend. PELZER Our own Whip Creme Fudge lb. 20c F ourth and Wall Chico: farmers tell of their phenomenal ! I started to work surrounding success with this Commercial F er- . towns and finally landed up a t Peanut Brittle, lb. ___ 20c tilizer. One was a rice farmer who Paradise where I was well and raised 32 sacks of r ice per acre favorably known-up to then. I SHEETS Chocolate Dip on new ground. Several years lat- spilled some gas on a rough board Peanut Clusters, lb. __ 25c Watch for er the yield was down to about 1 porch at a mountain cabin and An exceptional Special on 23 or 24 sacks. Then he ,heaved j the demonstration went off as per value 1n sheets D U R H. AM on a few . gobs of. this fertilizer schedule, only the fire didn't go Chocolates, lb. 25¢ ECONO. MY and the following fall harvested' out! The gas had run down for January 62 sacks per acre. through the cracks and was doing Another farmer was getting 20 a good job of burning under the 72xflfl ______GDt Special Plate Lunches 25c to 30 tons of almonds from his porch where I couldn't reach it Slx99 ______79c Hamburgers ______.. lOc orchard; then gave it a college with the pyrene. SlxlOS _____ SOc education in chemicals and has "Neighbors came to the rescue Ch ili Beans ___ _.. ____ lOc 5 *=h since been getting from 40 to 70 and the fire was brought under Pillow Cases l!)c I:Iot Dog ______lO c tons. control with only about $40 dam- ANNIVERSARY Mrs. George likes hubby's new age to the house. That ended Hl'iug this ad in antl we Barbecue Sandwic.:hes 15c job as she doesn't have to stop the fire extinguisher business and SAL~ . ! will give 1 pillow case readipg her True · Detective or it kept me out of the city of FREE with bill of ~======;::;:::=: Sandy Gulch News to fry some-· Paradise for several years until ,;;; .body a hamb~rger or make 'em the natives forgot•·about·· Jt. ~-· -. sheets •. sold .__ a sandwich. "Yessir! I'm sticking to the ·· ·p Rf Cf 'S - - -- spray business from now on. One Hot House Was Might put out a fire but I T. J. KEL.l YCO. Second and Broadway THE CLIUB won't start one with the spray Paula Knight, 12 ·Enough For Him machine." THE FAIR DURHAM ¢ALIF. Zl 'wn.l:) JnttPV 'SJW Phone 1G4 __,; ~ob Onstett, one of Nelson's I____ Merrick Luther : many mayors, told some ol his 15 Pigs Must Have Durham . friends . Saturday night Been At The Party). Evans .S ·ummers he expects to move into his new ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Propriet6i's . home in about a week but in- That long expected surprise LIFE, FffiE, AUTO, BURGLARY; ACCIDENT, BLINDNESS, formed them that he didn't ex- party for Lottie Colm which was COMPENSATION, LIABILITY. pect any liousewa'rming as the a nnounced ab out three weeks ago -- Specializing in Farm Insurance -·- 'old home was plent y warm enough in the Sandy Gulch News was R. S. WISER QUALITY w-;;h;;;en;;;;;;;i;;;t;;;b;;;u;;;'rn;;;;;;;e ;;;d;;;;;;;la;;;s;;;t;;;N;;;;;;;ov;;; e;;;;m;;;;b;;;;e;,;;r;;. • held at Lottie's home last Friday 6th and Broadway Phone 1334 Chico ~ GENE RAY 1 S anto dL ottie.proved Not to thebe apar bigty , suasrpri shese ·~~======~!· LIQUORS is a subscriber to the Sandy Gulch ~ BARBER SHOP News and had read all about it, served to .snit but what did surprise her was Expert Tonsorlallst the way· the 14 guests could eat. Coni:raci: Spraying DURHAM, CALIF. The "piece de resistance" was YOU! Next to the :Qrug Store a barbecued pig which measured ALL TYPES I~=:;=:;=:;=:;=:;=:;=:;=:;;:;=:;=:;~~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~~ three feet in length when cooked := Ibut didn't measure up at all . after the dinner as there was ORCHARD SPRAYING FO.OD DRINK --- ~ ~t:in~::~· ~::::ys AND DUSTING FRIENDLY. SERVICE -Just Wash Days Let Us Furnish Estimates. William J .. (Buster) Thompson, Durham service station man, has had to build a n addition on his The Empire Cafe home since the stork brought a FORD & WAGEMAN young lady to board with the Spray Specialists Lottie Colm1 Prop. ; Ed McDonald, Mgr. Thompsons. The young lady h ap pens to be named Thompson, too, Phone 2Jll Durh~m, Calif. DURHAM CALIF. and she arrived during the holi- days. The carpenter work is being done by Wm. McAnarlin·, loca l Justice of the Peace, and should - comply w ith the law as well as ORTHO BRAND ANNOUNCING a • II the blueprints. More DURHAM NEWS wUl b e GEORG·E ADAMS found on PAGE THREE Orchard Spray as REPRESENTATIVE of MAIN THE COMMERCIALFERTILIZER CO. I MEAT MARKET Kleenup A Oil \ ..of Cahfor m a 11 .. FOR GREATER SAFETY IDGHEST QUALITY COMPLETE LINE OF FERTILIZER Meats, Fruits1 Wholesale and Retail i=O.R ALL PURPOSES Vegetables G E' 0 R G E . A .D A· M S at Lowest Prices 201 Main St. Chico SCHOOLING'S WAREHOUSE DURHAM ~ ... ; . CALIF. DTTRHAM PhnnP ?..tOW C1A T. TTt'. ------~======~~ ~· ------~------~1r jD1 w ~ It Was A Good Ga Patronize our Adve1·t1sers. JD)U ~lHIAM ll \J ~ rQ} ~:~:,.'!~~=.~ t:~ham :,k ;::=J=O=H=N==T=.=R=I=L=E=Y::::: buyer , oit~n has to guess weights when buymg catue i1 no scales fARMERS' When patronizing our adver- Two Old Buddi~s How Fire Prevention are handy. His ability to guess weight within a pound or so on INSURANCE tisers, mention the News. Again Work Together Started In Parad ise a "cow critter" was the sub- 514 Broadway Chico George Adams, f.ormer prop- Roy Ford, of Ford and Wage- je~ t of conver sation at Durham ~;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;~~;;;;;;;;;;;;~ rietor o[ The Club, has accepted man, paint specyalists, told the thJs }veek and soon <;larence was ~ BRING IN YOUR a position as representative of boys at the Emp1re Cafe Monday offeung to ~u.ess we1ghts on hu the Commercial Fertilizer Com- how . he happened to go into the ~ans, prov1dmg they let him pany or California and will make spray business. lift them, MAX'S CAFE WRECKS his h eadquarters in Durham while "It's a good safe business," Clarence made some very ac- working the Northern California said Roy. "You s.ee, .1 used ~o curate guesse:;; bu t his iun came \\"c fix them like new. territory. be in the fire extingwsber bus~- to an end when several of the Several years. ago George help- ness but I gave that up as lt older ladies called attention to THE BEST PLAOE TO EAT Bl LL METZGER ed J. L . (Jack) Flebut of Durham was too dangerous-and too ex- the fact that Clarence only of get a job and worked with him. pensive. . fer~d to guess the weight of the Fendel' and Dod.y ·works Now the tables are turned. J ack "I just had fan· success at ladies, and the young good look went to San Francisco and in first so I started out to do a ing ones at that. 3 17 Broadway lGG E . 4th St. P hone 21 the past six years h as worked his little demonstrating, and scared --.-.- -- Chico way to the head of the Commer- up some new business. Yessir! Chico cial Fertilizer <;::o. and is now I sure scared 'em! My favorite He May Dance To working with George in educat- method was to spill a pint of A h ing the farmers to the idea that coal ou or gasoline on the porch not er Tune Now there is big dividends for them a t a prospect's home, light a cig - . . \ QUALITY. in fertilizer. arette and accidentally (on pur- Richard S':mth was a rrested by CLEANI NG George is no "green pea" pose) drop the match on th e ~ep uty Sheriff Estes at th~ Moon when it comes to this farming porch. h ght Gardens S~turd~y 11:1ght and AND DYEING business as he kn ows farms and, "When the horrified h ou se- wa~ charged With p1lfermg cars. CANDY at P opular Prices what is more important, he knows wife would yell, 'Fire!' ~ would Ball was set at $50 and the farmers. That is why he got the nonchalantly put the fire ex- case was set over to January 12. HATS CLEANED & BLOCKED job-that and old time friendship tinguisher to work, subdue th e with J ack. blaze and make a sale all in one B.UYS We Call and Deliver Geor ge was influenced in mak- motion. ing the change in his business re- "Well, sir, business was going PELZER Our own W. H. JOHNS cently when be heard several good and I began to expend . Whip Creme F udge lb. 20c farmers tell of their phenomenal I started to work surrounding Fourth and Wall Chico success with this Commercial Fer- towns and finally landed up at Peanut Brittle, lb. ___ 20c '.::======~ tilizer. One was a r ice farmer who Paradise where I was well and SHEE ·S ;. raised 32 sacks of rice per acre favorably known-up to then . I Chocolate Dip jon new ground. Several years lat- spilled some gas on a rough board An exceptional Peanut Cluster·s, l b. __25c Watch for er the yield was down to about, porch at a mountain cabin and Special on 23 or 24 sacks. Then he heaved the demonstration went off as per value in sheets DURHAM on a few gobs of this fertilizer schedule, only the fire didn't go Chocolates, lb. 25¢ a nd the following fall · harvested out! The gas had run down for January E C ON OMY 62 sack s per acre. through the cracks and was doing Another farmer was getting 20 a good job of burning under the 72x99 ______69c Special P late Lnnc!Jes 25c to 30 tons of almonds from his p orch where I couldn't reach it lx99 ______79c Hamburgers ______.. lOc orchard ; then gave it a college with the pyrene. SlxlOS _____ 89c C!J ili Beans __ __ . ____ lOc education in chemicals and has "Neighbors came to the r escue 5*=h since been getting from 40 to 70 and the fir e was brought urtder Pillow Cases 19c Hot Dog ______lO c tons. control with only about $40 dam ANNIVERSARY Mrs. George likes hubby's new age to the house. That ended H1·ing t!J is nd iu and ·we Barbecue Sand wiches 15c job as she doesn't have to stop the fire extinguisher business and '"ill give 1 piJlow case SALE! reading her True Detective or it kept me out of the city of FREE with bill of ~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. Sandy Gulch News to fry some- PaTadise for several years until ~ body a h amb urger or make 'em the natives torgot about it. sheets so1d a sand'l-vicb. "Yesslrl rm stlckJng to the spray business from now on. PRICE'S ) ---·-·--- a '[ I OE ne Hhot House Was ~~~~tt s f;~ ~~! ,!ithfirt~e b~;ra~ 1. J. KEllY CO Second and Broadway 1lE CLUB THE FAIR I Pa ula Knight, 12 CALIF . noug For Him mach ine._"_ ____ - Phone 1 6~ DURHAM 1:1 'wn.r:J .rmn.rv ·s.rw Bob Onstett, one of Nelson's I Merrick Luther many mayors, told some of his 15 Pigs Must Have Durham friends Saturday night Evans & Summers he expects to move into his n ew Been At The Party? ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Proprietors hom e in about a week but in That lon g expected surprise LIFE, FIRE, AUTO, BURGLARY, ACCIDENT, BLINDNESS formed them that he didn't ex party for L ottie Colm which was COMPENSATION, LIABU.ITY. ' pect any housewarming as the announced ab out three weeks ago -- Specializing in Farm Insurance -- old home was plenty warm enough in th e Sandy Gulch News was R. S. WISER when it burned last Novemb er. QUALITY held at L ottie's home last Friday 6th and Broadway Phone 1334 and pr oved to be a big surprise '~~::;~::;::;::;::;~::;::;;::::;~~~~~::;::;::;~C~hi~· c~o~~ GENE RAY'S to L ottie. N ot the party, as she ..,. LlQUORS is a subscriber to th e Sandy Gulch c· News and had read all about· it, e served to suit BARBER SHOP t: t: s Expert Tonsorialist but w h at did surprise . her was the way the 14 guests could eat. 0 n rae prayIn 9 DURHAM, CALIF. The "piece de r esistance" was YOU! Next to the Dru&' Store a barbecued pig which m easured ~ ALL TYPES ~;;;;;;;;;;;;~J ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;~~ I~~ ee ~~e;'tin ~:~;tt!e w~'; ~~ok=~ ORCHARD SPR after the di nner as there was .AY ING 00 F FR~N~;Y-SE~~~NK . ~::~::eto ~~:::ys AND DUSTING . r -Just Wash Days Let Us Furnish Estimates. I P William J. (Buster ) Thompson , i Durham service station m an, has had to build an addition on his The Empire Cafe home since the stork brought a FORD & WAGEMAN young lady to board with the Spray Specialists Lottie Colm, Prop. Ed McDonald, Mgr. Thompsons. T he young lady hap p ens to be n a m ed Thompson, too, Phone 2Jll Durham, Calif. DURHAM CALIF. and sh e a rrived during th e h oli-
- days.The carpenter work is being ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ done by W m. McAnar lin , local ~ Justice of the Peace, a nd should ORTHO BRAND comply with the law as well as ANNOUNCING... the blueprints.------More DURH.AM NEWS wiJI be Orc:hard Spray G EORGE ADAMS found on PAGE THREE as REPRESENTATIVE of MAIN THE COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER CO. Kleenup A·Oi l of California I MEAT MARKEl FOR GREATER SAFETY mGJJEST QUALITY COMPLETE LIN E OF FERTILIZER I Meats, Fruits, Wholesale and Retail FOR ALL PURPOSES I Vegetables GEORGE ADAMS I at Lowest Prices SCHOOLING'S WAREHOUSE 201 Main St. Chico DURHAM Phone 11W4: CALIF. DURHAM P hone UOW CALIF . I Phone 1188 I Page Four · · SANDY GULCH NEWS Thursday, February 9, 1939.
~TI ~ w ~ Durham Dept. Faster GENE RAY'S 11 \J ~ Dd) Than Electricity BARBER SHOP The Durham Fire Department Expert Tonsorlallst . must have expected the Chico Entomologist Shows that the vapo-dust spray with- Jack Gets No More Fire Department to horn in on DURHAM, CALIF. How T K•ll B out the use of water was much • their fun again Tuesday when Next to the Drug Store 0 I ugs more effective and economical, M1lk From Fresh Cow they received a phone call that _ . . but required special equipment L . w. Pray had his house afire W . P. ~.ark~r, entomologist "\'Ith for application. Parker was able Buck Sitton, Durham's one and out in the Land Colony section. the Califorma Spray Chemic~l to make 'some satisfactory dem- only household appliance dealer, The Durham boys made tl e Company of Ber~tel ey, . was m Ionstrations as Ford and Wageman doesn't miss a chance to trade mile run and had th f 1 t the Durham section this week had recently added $3 000 of anytime. If the weather is too b f th . t" e I~e ot~ SPECIAL conferring with Ford and Wage-. modern equipment to their spray cold to sell refrigerators he will ~fore e I~su1 af 10n \~a~ ur~e Listerine man, commercial ~pr ayers, on the outfit trade something else and he will o l . Ia l coduphe to d e 1etc nc Wires t 1. t· r v d t · . ' . w 11c 1 1a s or e ou . TOOTH PASTE correc app 1ca Ion o apo- us Richard Auer district salesman trade most anythmg. Durham1tes Th t t d . spray . . ' . 1 · h h . t t e o a 1 amage consisted of Double Size . for this terntory was m strument- c mm e as never ge come ou 15 th f . . d 'ld With Pro-phy-lac-tic Parker's experimen.ts proved al in bringing 'Parker to Dur- on the short end of a trade. tic ~or f h o t ~rm~ a~ a prru Tooth Brush, both for 59c ::======~ ham where the Schooling Ware- Some time ago they thought a h~c,· 0 ys encstl 0 1~5[ traby, house is headquarters for spray Buck was slipping when a Dust- 'tvh 1 ~ 1 was morte. 'tahn. 0ff~e. Y DURHAM · · · b 1 t d d h. h. .. t e 1mprovemen m e e JCiency and ferhhzer matenals. ow er ra e Im IS s ore f th D h f. . d tm t teeth" for an old stove. Buck 0 e ur am . Ire epar en PHARMACY UNION SERVICE --·-·-- fooled them when he immediately due to the practice run. CUT RATE DRUGS · When patronizing advertisers traded the secondhand molars for' Phoue 15Wl Durham t" th N a Jersey cow. Buck is always ~wo extra for the fingerprint wreck------STATION p 1ease men Ion e ews. trades ahead like that and prob- age. --- - - ably had the cow deal all figured The Judge put the police de Ignition Sup'plies with a toothless neighbor before partment on a paying basis, tern LET US he got the stove. porarily at least, as he cpllected WE HAVE I I I Carburetor and Now this cow was a good milker $100 more from E. W. Stone who put after a few months Buck was pinched Sunday on a drunk Fuel Pump · Se .~vi .ce REBUILD turned her out to dry up. He driving charge. never did like to mill< in the ·;;;;;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:;;;=:=::::=, ASSOCIATED YOUR MATTRESS, first place. -· Aviation Ethyl Gas CHAIRS AND After the Jersey had cleaned Recap and Retread up the feed in the pasture Buck Pincst gal. ' . CHESTERFIELD negotiated a sale to a butcher MAIN but when he went to show her, Western Oil ____ 30¢ SETS discovered that she was still [n 5 gal. lots-bring container T I R'E S EXPERT UPHOLSTERY fresh....:very much so. MEAT MARKET We Carry a Full Line of A little investigation showed a HIGHEST QUALITY Gasoline ------16 Vz ¢ NEW AND REBUILT well beaten trail to his neighbor's W. E. FURNITURE house, Jack Houk's home to be Meats, Fruits, 6 'aznos UUJN ·siw Vegetables i ·'!i • veexplicitrified Buck'and s a suspicions.little watching There 01 at Lowest Prices I THOMPSON'S SnuARE~ DEAL came Jack across the field with (BILl) M(~NES~Y · MATTRESS a milk pail and the bovine mooed 201 Main St. Chico a welcome. Phone 1188 f DUTIHA::Il CALIF. Durham - Calif. FACTORY When Buck began to holler, , Cleadys Poole, 9 132 W. 4th Phone G4-! "Sook, Bossy! Sook, Bossy!" Jacl< ~:=:;:::;:::;:::;:::;:::;:::;::::==:~~======~. ,~~~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~~;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;~~ remembered some unfinished ~--. business at home and it was noticed that a case of canned QUAliTY ClEANING AND DYEING milk and a pound of butter were AT RIGHT PRICES. amon~ his purchases at the gro FOOD DRINK cery the next day. HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED --- Buck cancelled his cow sale WE CALL AND DELIVER F.RIENDLY SERVICE·· and is now getting Jersey milk and butter again at home. W. H. JOHNS-Fourth ru1d Wall-l'bonc 530 The. Empire Cafe Harry ThinJ
SANDY GULCH NEWS M ayor PL·nLIStum ~V E~ KLY 01" TttuusD.\\"R AT ll S.\:'\DY G ULCH (VIA Cul<'O) C.\L IF OH~l.\ bDlTOR ...... : ...... PAUL L. ROBERTS Roberts Uy MYEQU.\ BUSlNESS MANAGER ...... P. L. ROBERTS ~~SJSTANT ADV. AND CIRCULATION MGR ...... w. E. ROBERTS I se:z:: In our Mind there is a Mill PORTERS ...... P. LESTER and MR. PEEYAR 'l'hat grinds out Thots that warm or chill. POLITICAL ADVISOR ...... MAYOR PAULL. ROBERTS Then every Thot you feed those stone Subscription Rates: - ··· ---' Is a Cause that found its home. Per Year, One Dollar News Stand, 5c per copy r RK A V~ PRtP R~S FOR BUS tN'<~o;; ROOM To That Old Mill a fellow took I never did believe nny of A Thot and ground into a Book. EDITORIAL I Another man, while reading it, this Park Avenue hooey about Run thru That Mill a Thot that fit GEORG E WASHING10N boostin~ ar.d progressive busi A scheme he had to make a light r.ess, etc., etc., such as M11yor . That would shine thru out the night. Hale is always dir-;i1ing out a:; 'l'hr ''dl'hnnking" of uaJional lwro< · ~ is qnit<' a facl iu the facts don't support his con Tho many Thots are ground, each day, this rea l i. tit age. H e~t-~ell ing l>iogtaph ir~ di~p<'l th<• fll'PCy tention, put I just no t i~ed some Thru That Old Mill but, do they pay? But any man, who has a Mind, t·l(ltHl~ of icl<'nlism in which w P. wrap our hiRtork i
Next time try the INVESTIGATIONS SMUDGE OIL of all kinds THEFT, FRI\UD, nnrl t h<' equipm<'nt to g-in! .ron ACCIDENTS, DOMESTIC, CASH CLEANERS RECORDS SEARCHED, PROMPT DELIVERY PERSONS LOCATED { ·sltrTtrotul & I ·" rlttfwt! it lit Moderate Rates-No Publicity 14 .' ·c•n t•r-; !lc•pc>tl(lnhll' Hc•nic·c· Chico Detective CHICO ICE &COLD STORAGE CO. ·231 Main St. AGENCY Day a.)l(l Night Service ]3th n.nd Park Avenne Celeste Nelson, 16Phone 102 Phone 11117 1538 Oakdale Phone 534 Page Four~ SANDY GULCH . NEWS Thursday, March 2, 1939.
, at cards when she was stricken BATT. L~R with a heart attack and ·died just as Drs. N. T. · Enloe and J. H. White, who were summoned, en tered the house. Mrs. Richardson had been in good health and except for a few Wants WPA Project Durham Town May Here's A Man .That gas pains had "no indication of For Durham Be Boom Town, Too Doesn't Want Rain the seriousness of her ailment. Survivors include the husband, After finding that weeds grow The Shasta Dam may bring a Buck Sitton, Durham horse and two sons, Ned and Robert. five feet tall overnight in her boom to Durham if the plans of trader and electric appliance Lee Richardson had left for flower garden, Doris Townsend the contractors are carried out. dealer, is h aving a hard time the bay district shortly befo~·e w ants a WPA project for weed It was learned about two weeks getting even with his neighbor, control. She states that there are ago that tests were being made of Jack Houk. . his wife· was stricken and an plenty of idle men there who the sand and gravel in Northern Last mon th Buck discovered effort was made to head him off would qualify .for WPA California to see if they came up that Jack had been milking Buck's on the highway. to standard for the . 4,000,000 Jersey cow for quite some time When pati·onizing · advertisers yards needed at the dam. and stopped that by moving the The thr~e. places ~hat came cow to a pasture five miles away. FROST please mention the News. 0 ' closest to flll mg the bill were at This week ·Buck tried to sell TH ERM()METERS Cottonwood,. Los Molinos ·and the Jack a span of mules, a . white Watch those Almonds! . SOME- ITEMS J Cherokee s l-Ic~ens on Clear Cr.eek and a black. Jack's sales-resist DURHAM PHA~MACY . between Chico · and Oroville. ance was too high on the white - Cut 'Rate Drugs· Recently Stocked Tests by the engineers showed mule but after the thermometer Durham '· ..: ·. Phon'e· 15Wl the Cherokee gravel the best as dropped to 25 in the almond belt e Putman Dyes it had· more "fine stuff" in it Buck thinks he can make a sale • Cro ~b et 'l'hreall which is needed in making a now if he catches up with J ack solid pack watertight concrete. . Jbefore that formerly white mule GENE RAYlS • . Embroideev F loss I Preliminary plans call for gets caught out in the rain. BARBER SHOP e Bhs Fold. Tape ' hauling the· Clear Creek gravel ~·-·-- · Expert Tonsorialist • Flower Seeus in small gravel trucks to Durham Clerk Concentrates where a loader will dump if on DURFlA.M, CALIF. e Light Globes cars or on large super trucks for On Milk Depar.tment Next to tJ~e Drug Store e Hot \iV;:tter Bottles the long . run to the dam site. Paul M u r d o c k , popular County Engineer J esse Bumgar- Harry Spalding of the Durham wrestler who battled here last e Kodaks J ner stated last week that the Red and White announced last Thursday evening, .winning his e Filn1s contractors had made inquiries week that the firm of Spalding mix-up with Frankie Schroll in e Typew1;i £ers and were ready to post . a bond and Pyper, Durh~m and Portola ·the American Legion· bouts. to- insure that the Class B county merchants, have added a new BLACK WALNUTS . TRY US "FIRST road would be left in as good vice- president to their firm . . WANTED STILES' . condition as when the hauling J ack Pyper, the Portola end of Mrs. Lee Richardson started. the firm, was presented with a Dies Tuesday CON:fECTIONERY ,.. The job may last -for· several young grocery clerk by Mrs. Py- Esplanade· nr. 3rd Ave. Ph. ·817 years and a small payroll will per . on Saturday. Harry sta.tes Mrs. Jean Richardson, wife of WE PAY CASH Lee Richardson, owner of Rich ~:::;:::======~ be built up in Durham whether t~ a t mother and son ,Clr~ do~ng a~ the Cherokee gravel and sand is mcelydan~ hthat J ack wasn t domg ardson Springs, died suddenly a t SCHOOLING'S hauled by truck or a spur track so ba. eit er. her home at the Springs shortly is built out to the huge deposit Jumor will yrobably concen before 3:30 Tuesday afternoon. WAREHOUSE Union of hydraulic slickens that accum- trate o~ the milk department for Mrs. Richardson was at her Durham, Cal. P hone 240\V ulated behind the levee in early some hm:.:_·- ·-·- -- home entertaining some friends ~~~~"SSS mining days. A group of Durham business May Be Headed Service men headde by Buck Sitton and Around The World Ed McDonald· recently made a MAIN. trip to Boomtown to offer asist A colored man answering m SANDY GULCH Sl:ai:ion ance and cooperation if the en part the description of Manu.el gineers see fit to use the local Raymand, alleged slayer of Otis GARAGE ~1EAT MARKET gravel. . Fields, also colored, in Oroville Under new management. last week, was in -Durham late GENE BOWEN, ·Prop. HIGHES T QUALITY TIRE:SERVICE the following Sunday night, ac Meats, Fruits, Patronize our advertisers. cording to Ed · McDonald of the ~~~~~-::;-~. ~;;;;;;~;;;;:;;~~;;;;;;~~91 Empire Caf~. HANCOCK Vegetables LUBRICATION McDonald had heard nothing GAS ·AND OIL at Lowest Prices about the Oroville murder, but EXPERT REPAIR SERVICE 201 :\Iain St. CJ1 i('O the colored stranger stated that Specializing on Chcvrolets BATTERY ·sERVICE WESTFALL he came from Oroville and was 11th and Esplanade Ph. 774-J Fhone 11 88 headed for Marysville but had FUNERAL HOME got on the wrong road. McDonald pointed south and W. E. stated that Marysville was "42 AMBULANCE SERVICE miles that way", and was sur pr ised when the man headed SPRAYING north when h e left. (BILl) McENESPY Phone 104 VAPOSPRAYING AND DUSTING Durham Calif. Chico California Garden Furniture And Pottery Shop Opens We Have the Equipment for Alone; with shrubbery and orn CORRECT V APODUSTI NG. amental trees, Chico people will We recomend vapospraying for mite and ·wHEN WERE YOUR now be able to secure, locally, twig borer control. Greater efficiency and anything in the way of garden greater economy. z 'sMalj1BW apor.xew ornaments and furniture that th'!y CLOTHES ClEANED! desire, according to Mrs. Floyd Hahn who opened the Garden ???? ???? ?'?'?? F urniture and Ornament Co. at FORD & ·WAGEMAN 1610 Park Avenue this week. An office and show room has been Commercial Spraying and Dusting Next time try the prepa red and a large lot facing Phone 2Jll Durham, Calif. Park Avenue w ill be used to dis ~ play the stock of ornamental pot CASH CLEANERS tery, fi sh pond and rock garden furniture, sun dials, bird baths, Usherwood & Va1·tabedian birds, animals, frogs, and what 14 years dependable se1·vicl' have you that folks like to :lee orate their yard with. 231 Main St. Mrs. Hahn has recently returned Ortho Coposil Spray Phone 1167 from San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego where she put·- Replaces Home-Made Bordeaux ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~-~~m chasedpottery aan ldarge Mexican stock ofpottery. novelties The, ~ larger and heavier pieces such with GREATER EFFICIENCY-LESS COST THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Ias bird baths, heavy pottery, and TIME of Preparation. benches, ·stepping stones, etc., w i.1l be made to order here. FOR ATTENTION ORCHARDISTS! GAVIOTA BRAND Two Burned When Gasoline Explode~ Add Arsenate of Lead NOW to your Gene Thompson, 33, and his Spray Mixture. One borer alive now FERTILIZER 10 year old son, George, were increases 100 fold in May! painfully burned Monday at their home in the Sandy Gulch district ASK US FOR P AR'riCUijARS 17 Years Experience With when a gasoline stove exploded while the father was attempting Local Soil Conditions to light it. Both were treated at the Chico SCHOOLING'S WAREHOUSE Hospital by Dr . J. G. Hepple white. ( 15 Years Experience) Schooling's Warehouse Durham, Calif. Phone 240-W DURHAM, Calif. Phone 240-W When patronizing advertisers please mention the News. Page Four ··.: SANDY GULCH NEWS Thursday, March 9; :1939 ;: ======;:======·~ Comfort Of Empire··: Former Du-rham :Man "Say y0u saw It In the_Sandy You May Grow· Wings Mark Wood Makes Gulch News'. Theatre Patrons · · Dies In · ·Alturas If You Fty Kites Mark With Metal · Is Assured Frank C. Dibble, -pioneer of Boys and girls are flying kites This garden novelty, pottery, GENE RAY'S Four main feafures are nee- the Durham section, passed away these days. Recent strong winds metal work and other outside cessary for the complete com- in an Altur as hospital last week. have brought out the urge to ornamental ware has developed BARBER SHOP fort of the theatre patron- the He had visited friends and rela- make and fly a kite. Already, into quite a business and many Expert Tonsoriallst best in comfortable seats the tives here about a month ago. also, the annual harvest of acci- local people are dolling up their best in projection equipment the Dibble had been in the school dents from k ite flying has be- gardens with these ornaments DURHAM, CALIF. best in sound equipment and the business at New Pine Creek, gun. Electric lines have been which are so easily secured at Next to the Drug Store best in theatre ventilation. southern Oregon for the past burned down and serious prop- local shops. The Empire Theatre is equipped few years. erty damage occasioned by en- One of the pioneers in this line He is survived by four nieces, tangled kites. -and at present, one of the larg- J. Q. Colm, Mrs. Ella Franklin, The P. G. and E. Company est stocks, is the Mark Woods JUNCTION ROOMS FROST Mrs. Jessie Howard and Mrs. Lela is cooperating with police and stores, one store and the manu THERMOMETERS Tyler, all of Durham. Two grand- school departments in a kite facturing shop being located at Recently Renovated children also survive. flying safety drive. Pamphlets ·Nord Avenue near First and an- Clean - Quiet Watch those Almonds! and posters are being distribu- other display room at the Dun- DUR~t~afeH~=CY with comfortably upholstered ted in all schools giving a few woody Flower Shop, 223 Main St. Rates Reasonable Durham Phone 15Wl velour seats throughout the main simple rules by which children Mark has built up the business $3.00 per weelt and up ':;::::;;:::;:;::;::;::;::;::;::;::;::==; floor, with an additional mez- may fly kites with safety to from a modest start several years ;;. zanine loge section equipped with themselves and others. ago, by handling almost exclus 810 Broadway the best in loge seats. All seats But the police and school de- ively, high grade American made are being furnished b y the Amer- partments cannot supervise the pottery and novelties, which are ....,~~~~~~~~~~~ POTTERY ican Seating Co., the recognized flying of every kite. That is a superior in quality and are now ~ NEW STYLES-NEW COLORS leader in the seating field. job for parents. Parents are almost as low in price as the 20-piece Starting. Set Projection booth equipment in- cautioned as well as their child- foreign ware, which for the most eludes Super-Simplex deluxe rna- ren to see that these rules are part are defective and only sin 1 BLACK WALNUTS chines which are equipped with carried out. In the old days of gle baked. The American pottery CARMELO Peerless high intensity lamps, vacant spaces inside cities, kite is perfect in pattern, design and WANTED POTTERY the same _as used in the . Warfield flying was a safe pastime. But color a~d is ~ouble baked which Theatre m San FranCISCO and today with electric or trolley makes It POSSible for them to be WE PAY cArH other large. cities, thus assuring wires following every street, dan:- ~se~ .~s cooking u!en si~s, such as J $4.80 a perfect picture on the best ob- ger or bodily harm and property mdividual meat pie dishes, bean tainable screen which is of large damage is present always when pots, etc. · G'S GRA YES ELECTRIC proportions. kites fly into the electric lines. Woods has added much to the SCHOOLI N 142 Broadway Phone 9 _Sound equipment is the latest See that the following rules display of the pottery, vases, jar- WAREHOUSE ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;~~~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ Simplex Four Star Sound System for safe kite flying are observed: dinieres by his own handicraft, ~ 1 embodying the best principles of Never fly a kite near electric being quite expert and artistic Durllan1, Cal. P hone 240W I ?oth .western Electric ax:d RCA or trolley wires. in shaping metal hanging baskets,~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~-- ~' ·Icome You ,m thiS one system, the mstalla- Never climb poles or yank on flower pot stands, wall brackets ~~ We We 1tion in the ~mpi_re Theatre bei~g the. string to untangle a kite. If and vase holders. A l ar~e stock t\fter all, they do read the ad~ ' one of the first m northern Cali- a lnte should fly into the electric of these manufactured articles are in the Sandy Gulch News. to join our fornia. Similar equipment is being lines, call the nearest P. G. and.E. used in the show rooms in dis- scheduled for early installation office and a lineman, properly playing the pottery and novelty in the larger Fox West Coast equipped, will remove the kite. stock, and metal work is also done MEMBERSHIP houses in San Francisco, Sacra- Never build or fly a kite with to order. mento and elsewhere. metal or wire in the frame or Woods and his staff are ex- INDIVIDUAL CLUB T~e effic~ency_ of this sound tail. perienced in flower, garden and eqmpment IS bemg used to the Never run across highways plumbing work and their advice • It costs ;you nothi ng fullest as the theatre is being while flying kites. in garden planning is often asked. .Up -trend and ? ? ? . scientifically treated from an Never use tinsel string, wire, ·acoustical standpoint with special or any kind of twine that has ha ir st,vlci'i ~~w.J~~ r buiiding materials and drapes any metallic substance in it. Use You Are'Invi•ted \lt to secure the u tmost in perfect only plain cotton or linen cord. • ~. RED sound. Never fly a kite during a rain ' To suit your rroRE The ventilation system Is being storm. A wet string of whatever to try the merit of our PERSONALITY WHITE J · constructed along the latest lines material is as good as metal for herbs for Arthritis, Rheu- Harry Spaldin .o ) PrOJJ. and will give constant temper- conducting electricity. matism,_ Abdominal Ail- Bob ~dmiston, 9 '/ ature control every day of the Durham Phone 1-vV-5 year thus assuring th_e comfort kept them in high gear for the ments of a ll kinds and im- Clarence Burton, 9 of the patron .:!_:l~~mes. first half of the night. Desk Ser- purities of the blood. Free DURHAM geant Tom J ones had his help consultation. Police Capture running in all directions and even BEAUTY SALON A Short Circuit made four trips outside himself. GAN H0 NG C0 . Dori::; 'l'ownseud) Qpemtor He not only worked his regular Durham Phone 3!JYG The Chico police department policemen, but called on both -~:g and a flock of assistants had a Constables ~en and Barton, three ,~6~2~7~M~a~in~S~t~r~ee~t~·~C~h~i~c~o,~C~a~II~f.~~======~=;::;:::=;;i_ ::E busy time Monday night. Human deputy ~henffs, a park patr~lJ:?~n, <11 relations drunks and mysteries a. substitute cop and a VISiting ~ ' ' fireman from Sandy Gulch. The t) -· calls just came too fast for the . boys to handle . SPRAY ING ~ All the cries for help were of little importance but they had VAPOSPRAYINGAND DUSTING SCHOOL KIDS WESTFALL to be answered, and promptly LAUNDRY at that. The most amusing, ex FUNERAL HOME cept for the one where a guy dis We Have the Equipment for IS NO PROBLEM turbed the neighbors by giving CORRECT VAPODUSTING. when you send it to his wife a cold bath to sober her AMBULANCE SERVICE The up, was a call that said someone We recomend vapospraying for mite and was prowling around the Richard twig borer control. Greater efficiency and French-American Phone 104 son building with a flashlight. greater economy. · This sounded interesting. The . Laundry constables volunteered and Tom 1 920 Main St. Phone 155 Chico CallforDI& had no one else handy so he went along. The deputies and other FORD & WAGEMAN officers converged on the Rich ardson building as fast as they Commercial Sp~aying and Dusting Fl NEST WESTERN 01 L reported in. Cops drove up from Phone 2Jll Durham; Calif. all directions, as fast as they ~ Special 30 gal. - 5 gal. lots finished the job on hand. & Price . . . C (Bring Container) Sure enough, there was some one inside flickering a light, bu t =~-~~~-~~~-~. ~=: 100% Pure Pennsylv. Oil, 2 gal. can $J .25 . when they got the doors open it proved to be a short circuit that caused a light to flash whenever ~ THOMPSON'S SERVICE STATION the wind blew. Ortlto Coposil Spray DURHAM, CALIF. PHONE 15-J-5 Tom was a busy man and has been putting in his spare time sneezing lately. These night Replaces Home-Made Bordeaux , prowls in the frosty air didn't help with GREATER EFFICIENCY -LESS COST THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE and he landed in bed with the flu the next day. and TIME of Preparation. FOR When patronizing our adver GAVIOTA BRAND tisers, mention the News. ATTENTION ORCHARDISTS! Add Arsenate of Lead NOW to your SANDY GULCH Spray Mixture. One borer alive now FERTILIZER increases 100 fold in May! GARAGE 17 Years Experience With Under new management. ASK US FOR P AR'l'ICULARS Local Soil Conditions GENE BOWEN, Prop. HANCOCK SCHOOLING'S WAREHOUSE' ( 15 Years Experience) 1 Schooling's Warehouse ·~~:~~:fn;;'a,:;~~~· Durham, Calif. Phone 240-W DURHAM, Calif. Phone 240-W j ,_I _It_h_a_n_d_E_s_p_Ia_n_a_de_P_h_._,_,_4_-J_, Thursday, March 16, 1939. SANDY GULCH NEWS Page Seven Spun glass insulation on L & Quality Milk :Baseball Benefit Show1 Millinery Designer , oLDER WALKERS HIT H gas r anges. See at Hanson's C II · I Three out of every four of the Radio. 1 ompany lnsta s To Be Staged At !Opens Chico Shop 299 pedestrians killed in traffic · I A • Th accidents in Los Angeles last year ,------.: New Equ1pment mer1can eatre Mrs. A. Sutton, with over 20 were more than 45 years old. year's experience in rriillinery,'j' · . I The Quality Milk Company, The Baseball Benef.lt Show wtll. has opened a new shop at l3o! ~~~ FLYING A RED !38 W~ s t F irth street, due to an be held at the :"-mencan Thea~re West Fourth Street under the 1 ~ 1 ~ncreas.mg. de~an~. ~or pasteur- under the ausp1ces of the Ch~co firm name of Park Milliner I THE N EV/ I 1zed m1lk m th1s v1c1mty, h as add- Softball League and the Ch1co Shop Th f . ff' . Y ~ 1; d th 1 t t · t · · f th h . e ormcr o ICe 10oms r, SAYS: e . e a es . m P.as eunzmg Colts. Proceeds r o~ . e s ow have been remodeled and taste- ' o ~ equ1pment to g1ve their cu~tom- will go towards .maln.nt! Improve- fully decorated with ample win- ~ . El!l E ~ "If the speed limit is ers a better an d more consistent ments at Memonal F1eld. dow display. ~ D1 1 25 miles, slow down to 55; product. ! The boys for the las.t number Mrs. Sutton has had 10 year's ~ ~ courtesy makes safety, ·and I The new vat is co n ~ tru cted ~f of years have. . bee~. tak m ~ sh ow- experience in some of the larger ~ uorniT AI ~ the traffic officer may be stamless steel, for w h1 ch· heat IS ers at Memollal Fteld wtlh col.d shops in San Francisco and ha ~ 'I D-1 Jr" HA!f. 1 busy writing citations for supplied by water at a correct water. As we all know there IS spent 9 years as a designer ·in ~ 1 overtime parking." temperature, being sprayed on the nothing like a nice warm shower Chicago, New York and several I. : sides of the vat, insuring an even after a hard game of baseball, other eastern cities. She specializes ~ 0 th E 1 d 1 pasteurization, consistent flavor whether softball. or hardball. The in distinctive hat designing, to 1. n e Sp ana e :
e~nt~~~nh~ clubsv~ othroughout~l::n ~~! Yf~;t~ the·~ · vad~!lle~=~=y. Elaine Cooper and Stan Young TH E A- TR E QUALITY CLEANING AND DYEING will show how the Jitter Bug . G placed in a Class ·c sman· bore ~ ~Amateur Painters match held at:· Orovillt> · ·Friday Q) Paint Ev.er.ythin.g . night. Sergeant' Souza fook' first 'place NIEW · Gib ~chooling's ~ffice was sub with· a score of 179; Dr. S. G. jected to a severe attack of paint Salzman of Oroville was second this week, .tlie woodwork being ·:say you saw it in the Sandy with 177 an d ·Sergeant. Stavas They Should Charge. Rodeo Plans Are a bright green and the walls and was third with 166. Gulch :News·. To See The Rehearsal Goi~g At. High Speed ceiling a sort of dirty blonde color. There were marksmen from When the Durham folks are The plans and preparations for There were two painters work- Gridley, Live Oak, Marysville, Oroville and Chico, who competed not working at the Rodeo business the Durham Rodeo are taking ing on the job: Slim Johnson was GENE RAY'S they put in their spare time shape rapidly as everybody in recognizable by his profile, and in the match. rehearsing for their amateur play Durham and vicinity is doing their when the paint de-dabbed lady BARBER SHOP which will be perpetrated on a part to put it over. in slacks with the variegated Expert Tonsorialist large audience-they hope-the This is no small Rodeo the green and brown hair spoke she DURHAM, CALIF,. latter part of next month. The Durham boys are putting on. was recognized as Sara Philyaw, proceeds, money, dinero, or what They mean to make it an annual tl1e _bookkeeper. FLYING A RED Next to the Drug Store have . you, ":'ill finish paying for event and they are "shooting ~1b was smart enou~h to h<~:ve the fire equipment that the Dur- the works." "It has got to be good ?usmess e.ls~where unhl the pamt SAYS: ham gall:g bought some time ago. and there must be something do- JOb was fmtshed. They patd over $5?0 for the fire ing every minute," says Buck ------"Spring "rever: is liable hose, etc., and shU need about Sitton, one of the chief workers. UNFAVORABLE to get you down if you QUILTER'S :$100 more. The lumber is arriving on the AD N don't get in your car · and The play, a screaming comedy, ground for the grandstand which YERTISI G ramble up in the hills. Before gping bring It In entitled ";;e. Village Sl~ewl of will seat 1,000 people when built. Lester M. Hale was cited Sat- LUNCH Long Ago, ts such a not that The arena is over 1,000 feet . for a lubrication job and UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT the cast had to take two months around, there being 200 posts urday ev~mmg at Seventh be check-up." Specia.lizip.g in for rehearsals so they could get needed for this alone. The Rodeo tween Mam and Bro~d:Vay on a over laughing at each other be- grounds are shaped so that 2500 charge of reckless dnvmg. Merchants' Plates fore they tried it on the cash people can watch the show from . customers. th . .f th d 't t Paul E. Fry was ctted Saturday RAY .O'BRIEN .and Light Lunches . etr. O\~n cars 1 ey on wan evening for speeding at Fourth GLADYS BEAL, Mgr. There are 26 characters m the to g~t m the grandstand. Ample A venue and the Esplanade. Assoc iated S e r·~, i ~e 'sta!tlon play and at least half of them parkmg space for 2000 other cars 6th nod Bdwy. Chico 229 Broadw ay Chico are ex'?e~ienced troupers, five of is set. aside. Lloyd s. Gray of Arlington, them oemg schoolteachers and A telegram from Idaho reciev- Oregon, deposited $10 cash bail Phone 1574 oth~rs ~ave had plenty of dra- ed Tuesday stated that the 32 Saturday after he had been cited •------~ matlcs m one school or another. trained b!Jckers were being load- for speeding north of town. There is only one member of ed on the cars and will land 5 ~nd 10 gallo~ the cast who sees no humor in in Durham Friday or Saturday. the play, that one being Doris There are about 15 outlaws in Gulchite Wins Townsend who plays the part of this string which have never been Oroville Match INDIVIDUAL RODEO HATS Belinda Bassett. Clark Hunger, rode or who have dumped the 25c to 50c who is Patrick Von Pelt in the rider 9 qut of 10 times during Sergeant Dan Souza and Ser- play, jerks a chair out from last year's rodeos. geant Louis Stavas of Company • Co"·boy ~eckerc lli efs UP· treucl I under Doris, allowing her to sit A number of local horses and ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;~ hnir st~· l es 25c to 75c on the floor. After. rehearsing this other novelty entertainment is ~ 1 par~ of t~e act for th;ee we.eks being added and valuable prizes CHICO MAl D Get 'Em Early ! Darts can t see anythmg funny are being given for these events • 'r.o suit your DURHAM to laugh about. Clark does. as well as the big prize money ICE .CREAM for the r egular rodeo riders. PERSONALITY PHARMACY I "Say yru saw it. ln the Sand7 Durham stores are stocking a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~G~u~lc~h~N~e~w~s~·- ~~~~~~~ andvariety other o! rodeo5 and novelties 10 gallon, and hats the anti ~MiiRslial COMPLETE· LINE OF ,.. , . ·· · · ·~ · · · · · -· GARDENS . . :,EASTER NOVELTIES 'FR.EE1r · SCHOOLING'S. WAREHOUSE .... ' 'J ' \ t·ol.· • l'?. \" .-, \ •· )\ ~ CANDY, 'BASKETS and .EASTER TOYS Sandwi~b:cs ~ and Coffee , at -12:00 o'clock Northern .. B~u tte . ·c·o_ Spra¥i l~i'~a"dquarters to Wj.ncers .and partners DURBAlW ... ECON.OMY 3lh .~ mfr~s otft Ceriterville Rd. I, Du~hanir Calif:;;, ... ~ : -:.. -.. ~. t • •.: ..., rp.JlOxtel :'..MO·W ,•q ' fnURBAM : ': ",'f' ...!..!'lr.' ~ f /~ft~ ll, if CALIF. C¢. S. 1Plant Garden Lane) . . \ .... ·'· ' ' . , . . --. . Sec. 562, P . L.&R. U. S. P'Ostage -...... PAID Chico, Calif. Permit ~o. 122 ~ulr Nrmn .,.- per y~::ar Published Volume 2, Number 42. s1.oo5c per copy Sandy Gulch (Via Chico) Cal ifoniia Weeltly Thursday, March 30, 1939.0-.. ======~~======First Fifty Years RODEO PERFORMERS ' ACE Is The Toughest DURHAM SPEEDS For Smith the T his country has bl"!e n over-run RODEO PLANS with Smiths ever since Colon!al ACTS nays, in spite of the slight handi Business Men, ·cap when John Smith made Jove Farmers, Friends Philo~ophi c- al Incense to the Indian princess by re- Rush Building P sy<.:holop;ical ~onsense mote control and Miles S tandish played proxy too fervently. TICKETS SELLING FAST by Last Sunday there was a small IN NEIGHBORING TOWNS gathering of the Smith cla n Winston E. Roberts only four generations of them The Durham Business Men's who met at the W. B. Smith Association, sponsors of the Dur SCENE INTERNATIONAL- home on West Sixth Ave. to hLJm Rodeo, friends and Rodeo Each time Hitler makes a new heip Grandpa and Granny Smith fans are all putting in . every move in Europe, those most thor- celebrate their Golden Weddinq spare moment helping to com oughly concerned stop and won- Day. plete preparations for their first der just what will take place Grand-daddy Smith-William annual Durham Rodeo to be held next. It is just a bit difficult to B. Smith on election day-was April 8 and 9. conceive of these moves coming born in Kent County, England, This Rodeo is no small affair, from the brain of man. He has and came to California before especially for a small commun been compared to Caesar , Napo- mo~t · of us were born. In the ity, but the advance work is leon, and varied other exponents early eighties he lived on a going ahead with all the speed of "conquer-the-worldism" from ranch west of Chico and r.p;~r of a veteran rodeo association in time to time, but because of the the old Chico Landing. a much larger town. This is made great difference in time and Mrs. Smith. who \vas nnmE'd possible because there are eight method such a coml?arison is Lutisha J osephine Thomas before or ten experienced rodeo men on nea rly ou.t of the question. Some- WillJ'am d c·d d t h ·t the committee and the board of . . , e 1 e o c an~e 1 , was hm~s I . wonder If people aren t , born in Los Angeles, we won't 'I directors. Added to this the uni- so mfunated a t ea.ch latest coup , say how long ago as the.:;e wo fied effort of the Durham com that they forget. JUSt '~hat has 1 men are sensitive about their munity and the willingness of tak7n . place enhrely smce the a~e . but it is safe to say that ' everyone to help and the con begmnm~ of the present up?eav- 1sh e is now old enough to vote. Istruction work and advance pre- 1 parations at this stage indicates a l. On March 6, 1936, H1tler's 1 • troops occupied the Rhineland; I Th~ ~nde and groom werf' I that everything . will be ready for two vears and one week later marned m Sacramento March 25. the show at least 48 hours ahead A:ustr'ia was swallowed up in cone ar1:d W. B. took ?HI. his 1 1~~9, of time. of the greatest history-making, CJ.hzensh!p papers on the1!· wed I The 1000 foot arena is practi- bloodless revolutions on record;· dmg day. This is Lee and Christy LeRoy, man and wife, who will cally completed, the corrals are on the first of October of last He figured he might 'as well be two of the star performers at the Durham Rodeo. Both nre 1 finished with the exception of year, der fuhrer's troops compla- be a good citizen as well as a experts at roping a nd riding and have been rodeo attractions 1 the "catch" corral and the grand- cently "took care of" the annexa- good provider. Mrs. Smith says In many states. stand well along, orly· . waiting tion of the Sudetenland region; he certainly has been a good !or the rest of the lumber to and fifteen short days ago he provider, as he has furnished B"II K • H. S • 1· C • C1 b invaded Czechoslovalda · with her· plenty of.· dishes to. wash. I .,: IM9: as t1r tng ·. tty U •. (Continued ' on •Page T'wo) _tropps~ tanks,;;_ etc., and . ,P.,!.!11s - o9~ Fi~~t!_lree~lates · ~ . day~or . e)_aJ:.-~ !"· Hospit.al ..u -... · G~ts~toq:::sucks.; ., :t•· , ...... -~... !; · r: -~ .. ~...... :...... ;.,__ . ,.." tnl'!" v'"sto~f~~ ni?"""f ...'fi~res ~ ...• ~1l'e--~asnt'as- 5 Those real flowers and imita ~'HE GRASS IS .GROWING! tions, tastefully arranged in the TRUSTWORTHY SpN:ial :uacbioe for Lawn Mower grinding Park Millinery. You can't tell which is which. EFFICIENT PROGRESSIVE Ralph Watkins going to great pains to loan some College girls BARTH'S a truck. Must be a parade coming YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED up. SPORTSMEN'S HEADQUARTERS Election April 10, 1939 128 Broadway Chico Phone 359 Mailbox corner or Price's Can- Page Two SANDY GULCH NEWS ~~~::~~:=::::::::~~~~~~~~~~~~~======~T~h~u~rs~d~a!y,~M~a~rc~h~30~,~· 1~9~3~9. DURHAM SPEE DS· ·- -- ·--- RODEO PLANS (Continued from Page One) _ , I arrive. With 75 to 100 volunteers ' working, the lumber is being used up faster than delivery. Wes Sitton, Buck Sitton, Billie lVIcEnespy and Ed McDonald are handling most of the advance preparations, getting - material, advertising, publicity, a rranging caravans, etc., a nd Claude Wil liams, R. 1\IIcEnespy, Hugh Baber , Clark Hunger, Bill Coon and others are all taking care of their respective details. W. A. Rile-y and his 32 trained bucking broncos arrivelf Saturday and a number of well known rodeo riders and ropers have either arrived already or sent word that they were coming. The business section is beina dressed up in rodeo a ttire and a wide variety of loud shirts ten gallon hats, colored necker~ chiefs and other cowb oy regalia is being worn by the Durham ites. Some of these wearers of cowboy attire never rode a horse but there is a sprinkling of real cowboys and cowgirls on the scene now in addition to the local cowpokes who can sit a saddle. · Lee and Christy LeRoy, man and wife, are two of these rodeo I stars who have m ade a big hit STARTS whenever they put on their rid ing a nd roping act. AT 2:00 P.Ma Then there are Riley's own kids, Gertrude, a girl of 14, who can almost hold her own in the fastest cowgirl company. Miles REAL BIG TIME ATTRACTIONS Riley, 5 year old son of the rodeo man, is in a class by him • self. His is simply " tops" in any EXTRA SPECIAL TIES body's r odeo. He has handled the ropes for three years, which ought to make him a professional. • Many a cowhand would like to SOMETHING DOING EVERY MINUTE do what this pint sized cowboy 0 does. · Irvy Westlake, 30 . No r odeo is complete without i ts comedy, and the Durham b oys went the limit to get the best. They don't care if they do lose money, they want. the best show B.UCKING ~P.N,-ES,-, (:.IJL. HIGH GLOSS VELOX PRINTS SATU RDAY NIGH T Made at Admission $1.00 Wright's Studio Music by Nine Si:ar Orchesi:ra ·.:.______-----.------April 8 and 9 --- DURHAM RODEO --- April 8 and ·9 Thursday, March 30, 1939. SANDY GULCH NEWS Page Three ======~======··====~======~======I May Be A "Break" Cowboy Keefer Rides §· For The Ladies, Too Herd On Cook N IE· W I The men of the Chico Grange Leo Smith, who cooks at the ------·------'are getting tired of being "hen- unemployed men's camp at Mill Practice Makes \ Gib Has Help , Nelson Still Has pecked" so they have organiz~d Valley when not employed on 1 a permanent Men's Club, that 1s, personal celebrations, was held at Perfect, Or Does It? In Getting Tired License Troubles they hope it is permanent, and bay by Skinny Keefer Saturday they plan to have at least one night until Officer Russell North- While talking Rodeo at Dur- L. D. Wallace, District Man- Woodrow Nelson, manufacturer; meeting per month without the rup arrived. Leo had almost sur- ham this week, Clarence Fimple, I ager of the Pacific Guano Co., 'of a home made motorized scoot- i ladies. rounded Second Street a1:1d prom local bull buyer, stated that he 1 spent last week working this ter- 1 er, was trying it out on the' The :farm men are just st rt- ised to annex more territory un would do his part to help the 1 ritory with Gib Schooling, loc~l~ streets this week, having just re-I ing timidly to get organfzed til Skinny took command. show along-he'~ throw the bull. :distributor. Gib stated that he ceived a license .to operate what I for' greater freedom, .. and plan a Northrup p.ut Leo in the. tank Don Sweet said that act ought threw the bull and L. D. told 1 the Motor Vehicle Department i good old fashioned smoker with and locked h1s false teeth m the to go over big, as Clarence had the farmers what Pacific Guano 'I facetiously calls a "Motor Glide." · plenty of strong pipes and' black safe so he couldn't bite himself been practicing for 54 years. would do, so the local far~ers Woodrow's . animated castors 1 ciq:ars, which should discourage during a delirium tremens seance. sh~uld have plenty of fertilizer were ta~ed higher than a cheap the ladies from coming within a ___ ADDITIONAL DURHAM NEWS this year. automobile and. there ~as barely city block of the hall. April 15th will be found on PAGE TWO Wallace headed back for San room for the license shp on the is the tentative date for the first ·-- ·- ---- Francisco Saturday and hoped! sea~. T'-~e numbe: plates have not smoker and if they put this onE' GENE RAY'S I he got that far, as he was plenty i arnved yet, but If and when they ove1· on the ladies they plan big BARBER SHOP 5 and 10 gallon tired. Gib wished him luck and do, W~odr~w may have to carry ger and better smokers later on, hoped he got at least that far,! ~hem m his hat band, as there about once a month. Expert Tonsorlalist as he was tired, too, and wanted IS no room on the scooter. D URHA.M, CALIF. to re~~ up for the Durham Rodeo., Norval Jessee has been selected Next to the Drug Store RO·DEO HATS as temporary chairman. 25c to 50c . · . 1 Steam Gang Has A Cowboy Neckerchiefs Durham Bull poes A lliot Time In Bath 25c to 75c THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Little Advertising I Andy Popoff, local Russian Get 'Em Early . steam bath artist, completely re- FOR Constable Eric Wills, the Dur- built his steam room and furnace DURHAM ham bull, was in Chico Saturday, this week and had 11 white In apparently with no business in dians yelling like Comanches PHARMACY mind except to advert~se the Friday night. The new steam GAVIOTA BRAND Durham Rodeo by wear~ng t~e room was plenty hot and will loudest cowboy neckerchlef th1s put hair on your chest-or take side of Arizona. it off. FERTILIZER --~-- INDIVIDUAL ·Mimms Almost Got The Wrecked Car 17 Years Experience With 0 The Hot Seat Was Pulled, Too Local Soil Conditions Up-trend .J. C. Mimms, Junction welder, hair styles A car driven by Mildred Macy faced everybody one day this of Orland lost a front wheel week, and didn't go home until Saturday near Eighth Ave. and after dark. J. C. backed into the Schooling's Warehouse To• suit your Nord, and the car banged into welding flame and burned his . a parked car. Miss Macy and a overalls off to half-mast· up the DURHAM, Calif. Phone 240-W PERSONALITY ! passenger, June Rhodes, escap- . ed with bruises and strained rbb~acgk~b~ef~o~re~h~e.~g~o~t~t~h~e~f~ir~e~ou~t~. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- . ligaments in their legs, and a 1third girl was uninjured. DURHAM We~tfall's ambulance respo~aed Iand . took the injured girls to a local osteopath where it is pre- BE-AUTY SAlON sumed they had their leg pulled, Dor-is Townsend, Operatof' Headq-uarters· after which they proceeded to the Durham Phone 3DY5 Older Girls Conference at Rich ardson Springs. Office SPRAYING VAPOSPRAYING AND DUSTING r (, of the We Have the Equipment for CORRECT VAPODUSTING. We recomend vapospraying for mite and twig borer control. Greater efficiency and DU-RHAM .RODEO greater economy. FORD WAGEMAN Mee~ Here, for Business or Pleasure. & Plenty to eat and drink and plenty of help to serve you. Commercial Spraying and Dusting Phone 2Jll Durham, Calif. Cool Beer -- Mixed Drinks-- Choice Wines We have WE RECOMMEND 60 FEET OF BAR to rest your elbow on,. and Ortho Brand Lead Arsenate 60 FEET OF PROPERLY APPLIED WITH LUNCH COUNTER in our cafe. Mrs. ORTHO· SUMMER Oil Sandwiches to take out, or a real meal served Prevents Worms in ALMONDS, APPLES, CHICKEN DINNER, SUNDAY P~ACHES and OTHER FRUITS. . Add ARSENATE OF LEAD NOW Don't Forget the .Rodeo Dance, Saturday Night to your Spray Mixture. One borer alive now INCREASES 100-FOLD jn May! We are just around the corner from the dance hall. SCHOOLI"G'S WAREHOUSE Northern Butte Co. Spray Headquarters EMPIRE CAFE Phone 240-W Lottie Colm, Prop.· DURHAM Ed McDonald, Mgr•. ~ Durham, Calif. ~ Page Six SANDY GULCH NEWS Thursday, May 25, 1939. NOTED ANGLER Patronize our advertisers. FAYTAL Fly Spray .?9¢ ·qt. Durham Pharmacy JAZZING DA~lE JUSTICE Durham Pccnic Trustee Gene Saves CUT RATE DRUGS Neighbor-"Why is your car Durham Calif. painted blue on one side and red A Huge Success . .Parents Home Work on the other?" Speedy-"Oh, it's a fine idea. A crowd of at least 1500 After listening ·to the impor- You should just hear the witnes Durhamites and their friends en- tunities of his ma ny ft•iends, fel ses contradicting one another!" joyed the Durham Community low townsmen and constituents, P icnic in the Community Park including the Democrats, Gene PERMANENTS Saturday. Ray, Durham tonsorialist has re .'-lltatw.s for up-trend. Patron1ze our Advertisers. Festivities started with a par- luctantly consented to make an ade up Market Street and then \ active campaign for re-election to Specials on the rest of the day was devoted the office of school trustee (gram Boys' Permanents Truck Drivers! to games, contests, races and mar school) of the Durham dist We are open at 5:30 a.m . eaUng, the latter being a com- rict. $3.50 for $1.95 GET YOUR. MEALS AT binaUon of all three. Gene's friends say he made a DURHAM THE BARK The Rebekah Lodl!e won $10 good. tr,us!ee the ·J?ast term as Hazel Colburn, Prop. for having . the best float in the he di~n ~ l:llterfere ~f the teacher BEAUTY SALON DURHAM CALIF; parade and the Home Department saw, ftt _to spank hts ~r _anybody P hone 39Y5 won the best comic entry prize. el~e s k~ds, Gene clatmmg that The P-T A had the best decor- thts pohcy saved the parents a ated car and Ivan Kazich had lo.t of ?orne work. . GENE RAY'S the best decorated bike Thre Genes supporters pomt out perfect strangers , Ray Plerce ~ ~hat th~ elementary grades have BARBER SHOP Chico, LeRoy Rollins of Par a0- JUSt enJoyed a successful term. Expert Tonsorialist dise a nd Judge H . S . Clewett ---.-.::,.....-· DURHA.l\1, CA LIF. who commutes between both Next to the Drug Store places, wer e the judges and evi Durham Hi Champs dently did a good job as all are Of Both Leagues still enjoying good l)ealth. SPECIAL! Mrs. Christine Davis, 25 Velma Glenn , who won the The Durham High baseball R.oy L. "Doc" Haslett, the Queen contest whPn a house full team, champions of Class B in "G.ypsy Angler," coming to of votes fell on her all at once the northern section, bowled over S1 TRADE-IN S1 Chico !\by 31. wa<; crowned Queen out in th~ the Pierce Union High team on ou an~· qld iron WHEN••• ! Park. Then the day was spent in the Durham diamond Tuesday by I r acing and games, the usual pic a srore of 6 to 3 which makes FACE 'THE FACTS ... \\'hen you ~uy a new you step up to ! n ic style of games, all but a the Durham boys champs of about (Continued from Page One) baseball game between the Dur all the medium- sized high school Westinghouse I ron. the Counter ham girls softball team and a teams north of Sacramento. This I Pierce team was champs of the and other instruments of modern I team of D urham business men. warfare, the attack would go on GRAVES The girls all wore slacks and the Arbuckle section and the south just as though there was no ASK FOR l men, just to play safe, insisted ern division , that is, they were ELECTRIC u ntil they met Durham. country there. on wearing dresses so they would 142 Broadway Phone !) · ttave an alibi when they lost. One writer says the old maxim BOWM4N'S The men showed good judgment "Charity begins at home", at" ~~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;~ as Doris Townsend's team would Bill Coon Crabs At least as he understands it, means D~LICIOUS have probably beaten them any that we take care of our own . way·. The final score didn't mat Heavy Sandwiches people at home first and those ter b ut the antics of the ·men m ICE CREAM ~ The Durham . folk enjoyed a in far distant · places af!!!rwards, . mother nubbards w~s worth the 11ice dance Saturday night and IF necessary. It seems that the 1 price of admissio!f. and BEVERAGES•. a nice midnight supper, too, but present adminjstration is under '-----:-----....;...;.._..J Although the girls claim that the · impression that Argentine they yJOn the ball game s"ome of Bill Coon h<1d to find fault with the chicken· sandwiches. bPef will put·. muscles on the · ··· .--=~ --""" -'-- . th~ rpen scored twice. in the first · George Jones,_after .eating a biceps .of .the lpds. of the_ United ~~ "innii}g.and tl1~ sc9.rekeeper.. l!!ugh- sandwich, picked aB1rd shot.,out States '.; Nav;(::: ~\\ch ~ qu\cker ~ and, . ~d so pard she couldn't keep of his _store teeth and showed it more efficienfly \han that· of our score, so j~st announ ped the girls to J udge' McAnarlin who had Amerlqm packing· "houses, which the winner. The men didn't ob just done the same. R. M. Mc are, incidentally, supplied "by Men's ~~d Boys' ject and the audien ce is willing AMERICAN farmers. I . know of En~spy produced a battered bird Crepe Sole for them to play it off any time, shot but we forgot to note what a· few American farmers whom score or no score, it will still kind of teeth Me wears. None of you would have considerable dif b e good. these men complained, you un ficulty in convincing that the derstand, they just compared shot. pampas- fed var iety of the bovine OXFORDS Bill Coon butted into the tri species is superior to our own $2.59 to $3.95 JOHN T. RILEY . whether it be "corned wooly" or I' a ngular circle and held out four All Colors shot but stopped complaining some other for m! And don't for APPETIZING . when the b oys accused him of get that that Argentine fresh · FAR.MERS' eating four times. meat is what infected this coun- I MERCHANT'S INSURANCE The chairman of the feed com try with anthrax, causing untold KARL'S LlfNCH ____ 35¢ 514 Broadwa y Chico mittee claims he always shoots millions loss to American stock I his chickens as it is lots quicker and dairymen. · Complete with Soun, - and surer- than a hatchet. SHOE STORE Salad, Dessert, Drink ENVY I S THE LIFE OF TRADE Smith-Sometimes a luxury ·be- 232 Main Street Regular Dinners comes a necessity. · and QUALITY Customers Eat And Smart- Yes, immediately, if WHERE YOUR DOLLAR a Ia Carte Service RECAPS The Flowers Drink ~y~ou~r~n~e~ig~h~b~o~r ~h~a~s ~i~t.======~~~~~H~· A~S ~~~~~O~R~E~V~AL~~U~E~.~~ OLLIE'S Some of the natives wondered I" · ANY SIZE! what Harold Smithson was going CLEANING AND CHICKEN HOUSE Save Your Smooth Tires! to do with an army of 22 employ Now under personal ees in his new restaurant, The rru~rna.gement of Southern. That was because they . EMPiREhEANERs didn't try to barge in the first ONE HOUR· · 120 Bclwy. Phone 184 Olive Michaud THORP TIRE CO. day when 488 of the elite of the "The P ostoffice is 1224 P ar it A vc. town enjoyed a Southern dinner across from us". Phone 1224 with southern hospitality, inr;lud- ~~ ing hot biscuits and honey. Um mh! We know one guy from Sandy Gulch who never found a vacant Past:eurized Milk table until late the second day. Well, the charcoal broiled steak STAMP COLLECTORS was worth waiting for. AT THE STORE OR YOUR DOOR. And speaking of service, Harold Old and Yourg, and those has one man hired just to tote wa~r to those 32 different color ed geraniums in vari-painted Who Wish to Start a Collection flower pots he has parked all THE QUALITY MILK to~ , around the side ot the ho~s~ in Paul Barker, 25 those n ifty metal hangers that 738 W. 5th St. Phone 1265 Should call pt our store and learn how Mark Wood made for him. they may secure a I· Yes sir! Even the pot plants get ser vice. --··---- · ..sP ·a·a·YIN·o Stamp AlbUIJl and 50 StamPS NATURE'S VEIL E xplor er-~d in Africa, many Qt the n atives w~ar practically potning. VAPOSPRAYING AND DUSTING ~iss P rood-Mercy! Isn't it Sl}I-P.I1UR a"4 9t~er DUSTING . for funate that Africa Is the Dark FREEI HULL'S ~ llAVE THE t":QUIPMENT FOR Continent? ~ Kl~~ ~F SPRAYING 41'rn DVSTING NOTE-\f~ ~ve ~def to OUf ~ Unes: BIG CHIEF, MANY SCALPS Sta,mps, Ca~Qguei, l\,.lbu~s and Su.ppl j~s AdmJrer-"What a ch anning . FORD & WAGEMAN necklace!" PP~JtC~~ ~f ~~'fiNG AND DUSTING Film Star-"Yes, isn 't it ador Ph<_>ne 2., 11 Durham, Calif. 1152 Park 4:f.e. 20 Yrs. at Same Lo~ ation . able? Made entirely ot my wed- . . . 1 '""..,. •rnct11!