Local Brevities Highlight Eureka News May 1917
Eureka residents attend from Duckwater and Tonopah. A benefit dance for St Brendans church is planned for May 16 at the Opera House. Court grants letters of summary administration in the Isaac Marlow estate and notices creditors. Tennis court progress and early play noted. Shearing crew works near Eureka. road and bridge repairs ordered after county inspection. New county commissioner W S Raine arrives to assume duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Hylton
Hylton
Elko County
Eureka
William Mendes, Jr
Irene
Duckwater
Charley Roden
Silverado
John Clifford
Richard Martin
Tonopah
Martin
Ruby Hill
Ladies’ Altar Society
St. Brendans’s
Eureka Opera House
Sentinel
District Court
Daniel Morrison
Isaac Marlow
Bidart & Florio
W. S. Raine
Board of County Commissioners
Pine Valley
Clarence Johnson
Nix
W. R. Gilkey
Postals
the Sentinel
J. W. Ebert
Eureka County
Palisade
Richfield
Lincoln County
Idaho
Salt Lake City
Grand Worthy Matron Bridges Visits Eureka Chapters
Grand Worthy Matron Anna V. Bridges of Nevada visited Eureka chapter activities after arriving by train Monday. The event featured an exemplification of the Order of Eastern Star work, social time, a banquet, and music, with Miss Irene Mendes, her brother William Mendes Jr, and Mrs. James Griffin among out of town attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna V. Bridges
Reno
Order ‘of Eastern Star of Nevada
Eureka
Iphigenia
Irene Mendes
William Mendes, Jr
Duckwater
James Griffin
Carlin
Eureka’s First Volunteers Head to San Francisco
Sergeant E C Freeman U S recruiting officer arrived from Ely to Eureka to take four volunteers but only two left Eureka with him Friday morning for San Francisco. Theodore Johnson joins the Signal corps and Frank F Nostrosa enters the auto service. Both youths were warmly bid farewell by their friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Freeman
United States
Ely
Eureka
Theodore Johnson
Clarence Johnson
Frank F. Nostrosa
D. E. Nostrosa
San Francisco
Young Johnson
Signal Corps
Nostrosa
Baseball to Miss 1918 Season If Peace Fails
Ban Johnson, president of the American League, predicts no baseball in 1918 unless peace comes before next December. The remark highlights wartime disruption affecting major league play and scheduling amid World War I.
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Ban Johnson
American League
Eureka Nevada Railway ceases all train service
The Eureka Nevada Railway halted operations on April 30 1917 leaving Eureka and nearby areas without rail service. Local merchants and residents urged the Nevada Railroad Commission to intervene as food supplies and shipping were disrupted. Letters from J E Sexton the railway’s vice president and general manager outline demands for a mail carrying contract and threaten dismissal of employees unless relief is obtained.
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Nevada Transportation Company
Eureka- Nevada Railway
Sentinel
Palisade
Eureka
Ruby Hill
State Railroad Commission
Nevada
Railroad Commission of Nevada
Carson City
Eureka-Nevada Railway
Ruby
J. E. Sexton
Post Office Department
Washington
Railroad Commission
Sexton
San Francisco
San
Nev
Congress
Sam
J. &. Sexton
John E. Sexton
United States
Palace
Nevada State Railroad Commission
William J. Carr
Railway Mail Service
Eureka Nevada Railway to resume operation by August
Eureka Nevada Railway informs the Commission that the lessee will commence operations by the eighth. The Commission asks for a good and sufficient reason to delay. The official response from Eureka, Nevada, dated May 4, urges immediate start and directs Carson City to insist on immediate commencement.
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Carson City
Nevada
Eureka
Railroad Commission of Nevada
Eureka Nevada Railway
Justice Court Dismisses Eureka Bond Case. Eureka Teacher Reengaged
In Eureka Township the Justice Court dismissed proceedings begun by Antonio Tognoni to compel Pete Edera to post a bond to keep the peace. District Attorney Morgan waived prosecution after argument over whether a crime was charged. Miss Eileen Breen of Eureka is reengaged to teach in Carlin public school for the coming year.
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Justice’s Court
Eureka Township
Antonio Tognoni
Pete Edera
Justice of the Peace
L. W. Cromer
N. P. Morgan
W. R. Reynolds
Eileen Breen
Eureka
Carlin
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Eureka Sentinel
James V. Comerford
Comerford
Lander
Austin
Edgar Sadler
R. J. Reid
H. G. Catlin
Elko
Connolly
Prospect Mountain
J. R. Young
Department of Education
University of Nevada
Young
D. E. Sayre
Eureka Power & Light Company
Frank Nostrosa
Trans
Eureka-Nevada
Carson
W. H. Russell
Eureka Nevada
Commission 1
Palace Hotel
a@ stage company
the Mills and Whittell Estates
Justice Court
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