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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
3
Eureka community members and visitors travel from Duckwater Cedar Station Mineral Hill and other places to spend Christmas and New Year holidays. Teachers officers and families arrive for vacations while a divorce suit and a capital operation at Mayo Clinic mark events in the town.
Miles McKinnon, longtime Eureka County resident and elected Commissioner from the Third District, died after hydrophobia complications in Palisade. He contracted rabies from a dog in Canada, received Pasteur treatment, and returned home before his illness worsened. Funeral services were held in Palisade. body sent to Seaforth, Canada. His death creates a vacancy on the Eureka County Board of Commissioners to be filled by the governor.
At the December 8 meeting the Board of County Commissioners resolved to adjourn to December 41 1914 at 9 o'clock in the morning to allow all bills contracted by the Board and to approve bonds filed on that date and to transact other legal business before the Board.
The lady's prize a vanity purse for best sustained character at the Nob Hill Fire Company masquerade ball is shown at A. T. Taylors novelty store. The gentleman's prize a shaving set is exhibited at Otte idaus store. Subscribe for the Sentinel.
Santa Claus visited Episcopal and Presbyterian Sunday schools on Christmas Eve giving gifts and candy. Churches lit bright trees and hosted exercises watched by many parents and friends. Christmas day was clear and mild with families gathering, cars cruising, and the season bringing peace and goodwill to Eureka.
Nob Hill Fire Company hosts a New Year masquerade ball at the Eureka Opera House on Thursday evening December 31. Committees have arranged an evening of social pleasure and invite the public to attend. Prizes will go to the two best sustained characters, one for a lady and one for a gentleman. Masquers enter at Buel street and should present a card with name and character.
The Eureka Cash Store received twenty 50-pound sacks of granulated sugar by parcel post from Fallon Nevada. The load overloaded the stage, broke a hind axle near the Scott ranch about 40 miles north of Eureka, delaying delivery until another wagon arrived. Fallon refinery shifts shipments to parcel post to bypass higher rates from San Francisco to Palisade, Nevada.
A private Eureka letter reveals H. A. McKim and family, former Eureka residents, now reside in Palo Alto. Mrs. McKim has been ill but is improving, Horton McKim attends Stanford University in mechanical engineering, and Mr. McKim has disposed of Tonopah business while retaining property interests there.
The SENTINEL and other stations carried Christmas Eve carols sung by Thomas Cardew, William Eathorne and Edward Moyle at J. H. Rogers headquarters on Ruby Hill. The performance echoed the Christmas spirit and recalled childhood celebrations in English homes.
County Treasurer R. McCharles says the first installment delinquent tax list will be small this year. Most livestock and large land owners have paid under protest, with only a few smaller taxpayers failing to pay.
The San Francisco Chronicle reprints a Fallon Standard account praising the Lincoln Highway as a future national road. W H Todd and wife describe a 2614 mile auto trip from Denver to Los Angeles in a Hudson six forty with a full camping outfit, criticizing the north Nevada route for harsh heat dust mud and sand and urging the official Salt Lake City Ely Fallon Reno path.
School closes Wednesday afternoon for holiday vacation. Students present teachers with small keepsakes. Next Wednesday the High School faculty hosts a family gathering at Principal G W Hann's home and hopes all students attend. Do not forget the February 19 1915 entertainment by Exsig Hoover.
The Eureka Cash Store offers a 1915 calendar this week featuring a color image titled Good Morning by Arthur J. Besley showing friendship and canine fidelity. France orders 2000 Ford motor cars to serve as ambulances for military use.
Documents record proof of labor on multiple mines including Ruby Hill Nos 1 and 2 and Monarch Nos 1 and 2 in the Eureka mining district by L W Hope for Adams Hill Corporation. Also listed are proofs of labor for Auto and West Cyanide group by J B McNaughton for Charles Wittenberg, a deed Mor marteletti to McNaughton, and a location certificate for Gladstone Extension Mine No 1 by J G Fulton, with dates in December 1914.
Matthew Kyle of Reno former United States Surveyor General and Republican candidate for Surveyor General of Nevada was elected superintendent of the Boys' Industrial School in Elko. The State Board, meeting to review progress and furnishing readiness, chose Kyle over three other candidates. he will assume office at the start of the year.
The Metal Market lists silver at 488 cents per ounce in New York and paper at 913.124 in New York. Load priced at 3.80 dollars per 100 pounds in New York.
The Carson valley cattle illness drew Dr. K. F. Meyer from the University of California to Reno to consult with Dr. W. B. Mack of the University of Nevada. They inspected the valley site and discussed a possible California Nevada link to the ailment affecting ranchers.
John D. Holliday president of the National Wool Warehouse and Storage Company visited Winnemucca during a Nevada tour. The Humboldt Star quotes him stating Nevada wool now weighs in at 16 to 19 cents a pound and may rise if the European war continues.
Chief of Police Hillhouse orders detention of Lee Lun a Chinese national from Free no with 24 year old American girl May Swetham pending federal investigation in San Francisco. They were registered as a hotel couple and Lun’s marriage license request was denied.
The Eureka Nevada Railway placed in service this week a handsome and comfortable new combination passenger express and baggage coach on the Palisade to Eureka run for the convenience of travelers.
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