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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
5
Eureka readers catch a wide array of social and business notices as residents arrive from Elko and Monitor Valley for visits, and others depart to San Francisco, Sacramento, or San Jose for family time and expositions. The column also notes school staff changes, mining interests, and a penny swallow removal without surgery.
The June meeting of the Eureka County Board of Commissioners approved minutes and accounts, accepted T R Weber’s resignation as Game Warden, and appointed Charles De Armond to audit county books for six months. The board investigated Reynolds Creek flood damage on the Lincoln Highway, ordered sheriff action, and required immediate road repairs to prevent further damage and arrests for delaying repairs.
RB R officials including secretary L H Clar and attorney W W McNair of the Nevada Railway Company, with general manager J E Sexton, visited Eureka from Palisade for the annual property inspection and to review future prospects. They note increased road business and higher lead prices suggest more tonnage this summer. The company recently bought the Palisade Eureka telegraph line from Western Union and will possess it July 1.
Lead is prompting Hamilton mine owners to rush ore shipments to smelters. In addition to five six-horse teams, a 10 and a 12 animal outfit joined this week. The teams recently hauled pipe from Austin to Round Mountain and then delivered Hamilton ore from Eureka on their first loads this Wednesday.
Eureka plans a four day Fourth of July festival starting noon July 2 with a baseball game Eureka vs Austin, hose company ball, parade, Buckhorn rival, barge races, melodrama The Bank Cashier, clay pigeon shoots, dances, and various minor events. Excursion trains arrive mid day July 2 and again after events on July 4, with a closing program Sunday.
Eureka County Normal School held closing exercises for the class of June 10 in the High School building. Members Miss Alice Dees Miss Anna Lucey George Dees and Raymond Swick were honored with a program including instrumental pieces and a diploma presentation. Refreshments followed as families and faculty joined in celebration.
The latest metal quotations show silver at New York 49 cents per ounce copper at New York 20.00 lead at New York 6.80 per 100 pounds.
Elizabeth Koontz former Eureka County Normal School teacher married George F. Willis cashier of Lyon County Bank in a Yerington Methodist Episcopal Church ceremony led by Rev. Frank Summers. Koontz had been a Lyon County Normal School director and teacher, with local friends remarking on her move to married life and wishes for happiness.
In Eureka Nevada on May 31 1218 a note records a marriage proposal or ceremony involving the wife of Angelo Fornarciari with a daughter named.
Eureka County High School closed Friday afternoon with no graduation ceremony. Principal G. W. Hann and assistants presented diplomas to Vincent Merialdo and Angelo Frank after a farewell address. Evening socials followed at the Opera House with music by Miss Noko Burdick and Raymond Swick. teachers plan summer departures to Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Rev Father W. H. Corcoran led Catholic Church services in Eureka on Sunday May 30 and early Saturday and Monday mornings. At Sunday Mass Alvesa Gibellini Jenni e Gibellini daughters of Louis and Mrs Gibellini Prospect and Pythina Damele daughter of Stephen Damele Tonkin received first communion and renewed baptismal vows. Saturday afternoon Alfred Victor Biale Catharine Marie Biale children of G B Biale Eureka and Mary Patrina Boitano daughter of M Boitano Eureka were baptized. Monday morning Leo John Damele son of Stephen and Maria Damele Eureka was baptized.
Ore shipments to Salt Lake smelters were sent by train this week from Eureka. J H Jury from Phoenix mine on Ruby Hill delivered one carload, Rosevear and Faull from Jackson mine on Ruby Hill delivered one carload, Kelly and Rebaleati from California mine on Prospect Mountain delivered one carload, and William Harwood from the McEllin mine at Hamilton delivered one carload.
The Rescue Hose Company selects four top contenders for Goddess of Liberty in the Fourth of July parade. Rose Tognoni leads with 1660 votes, Dorothy Goss follows with 500, Florence Morrison and Rose Curto tie at 150 each.
Under the heading Probably Beats the Record the Tonopah Bonanza reports an unusually large newborn in Tonopah on May 18 weighing 12 and a half pounds to the wife of Gent Marteletti of Hot Creek Nye County. The mining location blanks are offered for sale at the Barowiat Moe.
Bareks public school ends a ten month term with pupils celebrating promotion cards. Teachers Mildred De Sautels Sarah Im Obersteg and Isabel Mernaldo reengaged for fall. De Sautels plans to visit Ely Nevada. Im Obersteg to Newark Valley. Mernaldo to San Francisco. Teachers entertain pupils with a home party a Brewery Canyon outing and a Bartlett Hall dancing party. Frank Bosko arrives on Friday.
Train services announce discounted round trip fares on July 3 from Palisade, Blackburn, and other stations to Eureka. Train No 3 July 8 schedule canceled. Train No 1 departs Palisade July 2 at 8 00 am arriving Eureka 1 00 pm. Extra train July 4 at 1 00 pm Palisade to Eureka and return 2 50. Tickets non transferable. return by July 4. No baggage checked. W R Reynolds agent.
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