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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1915
Page
5
Eureka people and visitors arrive on Friday trains and visit with locals while auto licenses for 1915 loom. Nevada University officials discuss accrediting Eureka High School as storms promise more moisture and cattle and sheep industries face feed shortages and lambing delays.
The Eureka County Board of Commissioners met April 5 with Otis Fulton Edgar Sadler and J M Requa present along with the District Attorney Clerk and Auditor. They approved minutes and accounts, issued liquor licenses for the April to June quarter after sheriff verification, and updated the Auditor Treasurer report with improved format. They appointed H B Menardi as County Surveyor after bond and set salaries for township officers. Delinquent mines were struck from tax rolls. the General fund levy increased to 48 cents plus 7 mills to cover license-law deficits. Isaac DeArmond to audit books. N A Whitmore named Deputy Health Officer. A N Voss granted an engineers license. Requa authorized Pine Creek bridge work and jail painting at Palisade and Beowawe.
Taking School Census Will Swick serves as census marshal and conducts the Eureka district 1 census during the week.
Elmer E. Rosevear and Grace M. Clark wed at the bride’s mother’s home on Spring street Eureka. Judge L W Cramer officiated before relatives and friends. The bride wore ivory satin de luxe with oriental lace, bridesmaid donned white chiffon with blue forget me nots embroidery. The couple will reside on Ruby Hill and were feted by the Ruby Hill Band and friends with a serenade.
A Palisade letter from April 3, 1915, declares the town’s upstart ball squad ready to host Eureka County rivals Elko next month. The note notes a recent win over Carlin, scarce players, and uniforms on order as Palisade aims to stir local enthusiasm and test themselves against Elko.
H. Jones superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission in Nevada arrived in Eureka by Friday's train. He will hold religious services at the Presbyterian Church in Eureka on Sunday evening, April 1, at 7 30 o'clock. All are cordially invited to attend.
Viola Rosa Smith was granted a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony with her husband Jack Smith and restored to her maiden name Viola Rosa Fennel in yesterday’s District Court ruling.
State Printer Farnsworth says advance sheets of laws passed by the last Legislature will be ready by April 15 for distribution. Bound copies of the 1915 session laws will take longer. Eureka County officials received advanced copies by Thursday’s mail.
August Hintze of Eureka, visiting San Francisco, denies grafting at the exposition. He says hotels have only modest rent increases and that the fair offers full value. He notes initial organizational hiccups were quickly corrected and urges fair play.
Notes show former Eureka residents Will May and wife leaving Reno for the East and visiting Hughesville Missouri. Mrs Walter J Tonkin, once of Eureka, moved around Nevada and California, returns to Nevada to reside and works at the State Hospital in Reno. Also announced is the San Jose Normal School March class graduation held March 26, with Norma La Verne Green, daughter of Mrs O D Green, among the graduates.
James and Tony Romano returned home Thursday from a business trip to Elko. Tony came back with a 1915 Ford automobile. The new model reportedly changes body appearance and mirrors high priced cars with a cow dash stylish fenders a speedometer and an electric lighting system.
In Bureks Nevada on March 12 1915 a daughter was born to the wife of Charlee Extella of Hamilton White Pine County.
The latest metal quotations list silver at 50 vents per ounce in New York copper at 16 dollars per ounce lead at 4.20 dollars per 100 pounds in New York market.
Elizabeth Romano and Eugene C Johnson wed at noon on Wednesday April 7 in the home of Mr and Mrs Prank Romano Diamond Valley Eureka County Judge Peter Breen officiated in a parlor adorned with pink and white crepe paper Attendants were Albino Romano and Mary Romano The bride wore white crepe de chine with shadow lace and pearl trimming A wedding dinner followed The couple both well known have moved to the Bailey ranch Diamond Valley where Johnson will manage stock raising and run the ranch with his bride
The Elko Independent notes the 30th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Griffin of Carlin Nevada celebrated Easter Sunday. The couple, frequent visitors to Eureka, has lived in Elko County most of their marriage and built a substantial fortune. A large family gathering and friends attended a lengthy repast and social evening, with wishes for many more years of happiness.
Buckhorn mine in Eureka County mills 350 tons daily and refines ore to bullion on site. About 120 men are employed, and the outlook remains favorable for extended operations. W. A. McCrea, visiting Austin, doubts Buckhorn will grow into a sizable town beyond mine and plant staff.
The Tonopah Bonanza reports more than 400 idle men in Tonopah and warns miners to avoid southern Nevada. Although some work exists, many idle workers cannot be placed. seven applicants compete for each vacancy. Similar flooding of jobseekers is noted at Goldfield Round Mountain Manhattan and other southern camps.
Eureka records the death of William Henry Sweeney 70 a longtime pioneer and ex state senator after a year long illness. He leaves a widow and siblings in Texas California Springfield and a funeral is set for Nob Hill Eureka on Monday April 12 at 2 pm.
Senator L. R. Thatcher reports Union Mines Company will begin shipping ore from Eureka County Nevada, 35 miles south of Palisade, around April 15. About 3000 tons have been broken and stored since the war began, with net values of 15.29 to 27.69 per ton depending on level, and plans to expand operations as prices justify.
Nevedan Champion Howard Browne of the University of Nevada defeated all challengers at the exposition grounds to win the Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic Association featherweight title. He will wrestle for the United States championship on April 16 and 17 in San Francisco against the country’s top men.
The pioneer who made the first mineral location at Eureka in this state has been seriously ill for months at his Ruby Valley ranch home, as reported by his son William visiting relatives in Ely.
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