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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1916
Page
3
Eureka residents feature a busy week with departures and arrivals. Henry Wedekind returns from Elko, and many locals like Dan Morrison learn of relatives' deaths in Joliet. Prospective officials, mining shipments, and land deals add regional activity amid visits to Reno, Oakland, and Salt Lake.
Mining report from Eureka district California notes engine and hoist in place at Connolly Gulch to sink shaft to 1000 level under Major Catlin and associates. Ground covers about fourteen claims with lime shale contacts and rhyolite. shipments from surface workings continue with several operations delivering ore. Potential for larger mining development noted with adit potential 800 feet and 250 feet depth, and possible ore milling improvements in the district.
A Eureka Opera House crowd heard James T. Boyd of Reno discuss Democratic views. He praised President Wilson’s policies, including the Child Labor Law, and urged support for Senator Key Pittman. The talk endorsed woman suffrage with caveats, urged state legislative reform, and promoted recalls for self serving officials. Dancing and music followed until midnight.
Former Eurekans Mr and Mrs M Scheeline of Reno visiting Eureka this week were hosted by Mrs Louise Zadow at the Hotel Zadow on Wednesday evening. They renewed old friendships as they shared cards conversation and stories and enjoyed the refreshments prepared by the hostess.
Friday metal quotations list New York prices for silver at 60 cents per ounce, copper at 28.80, and lead at 67.00.
Zeno Barnes of McGill was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias grand lodge of the Nevada domain at the recent grand lodge session. Other officers elected include John G. Huntington Rochester vice chancellor Rev. T. L. Bellam Sparks grand prelate 3 H Rosenthal grand keeper of records and seal A S Phippa Yerlington grand master at arms C P Johnson Goldfield grand inner guard H Olmstead Wells grand outer guard Will A Mackay Carson supreme representative. In the Pythian Sisters grand lodge Annie Smith Eureka grand chief Miss Ella Allen Verdi grand senior Mrs Mary Dewar Elko grand junior Mrs Anna Powers Yerington grand manager Mrs Sallie Blackwell Carson grand mistress of records and correspondence Mrs Florence Swasey Tonopah grand mistress of finance Mrs Lilly Stirn McGill grand protector Mrs Alice Johnson Goldfield grand guard Mrs Catherine Marsh Minden grand trustee.
The Eureka high school reports subject pass rates such as English 83.33 and History 70.83, with Algebra 62.5 and Geography 20.83. Robert Laird returned from Independence California and enrolled in the Sophomore class. The 10th 11th and 12th grades boast perfect attendance for the first month. boys are 33 1-3 percent and girls 66 2-3. Freida Simonsen visited grades seven and eight. Mrs. Rore Davis and Miss Mary Kane visited on September 19. Most books and supplies have been received and report cards for the elementary school will be sent to parents once ready.
Eureka D States returned Monday from Salt Lake City and San Francisco with a mov ing picture outfit and full up to date equipment for a moving picture show in Eureka. He began repairing the Opera House interior to be calumed and painted. Stage scenes chairs and furniture will be repaired. Work will take several weeks and he hopes to show moving pictures by mid October with notices to follow in the Sentinel.
Senator Key Pittman leads a group of wealthy Nevada cattlemen in buying Lanai island for over 1 million dollars. Nevada cattle will stock the island as a development venture announced by H L Lorentzen after his Honolulu to San Francisco arrival.Meanwhile Bishop California prepares for the first Indian race baby show with Sprereny backing prizes and sponsorships in a few days.
W. A. Richards died in a San Francisco hospital last Saturday after a long battle with burns from a gasoline explosion at Palisade while on duty as watchman for the Eureka Nevada Railway. His extensive injuries led to a transfer from Elko to Boling Hospital and then San Francisco. Richards leaves a wife and two daughters with no means of support. under Nevada Industrial Compensation law, his widow may receive $5000 in monthly installments.
Rev Father J J McNally arrives by Friday's train and will conduct Mass and sermon at 10 a m Litany at 7 30 p m in the Catholic Church Eureka. Mr and Mrs M Scheeline of Reno visited Eureka to oversee the Hintze estate administration with Aggie Hall a former Eureka child. Scheeline's attorney Mr James T Boyd accompanied them. Silver demand rises as bullion dealers cite wartime coinage needs by England France Italy and Russia boosting futures.
An elderly refined woman, Myra Brown of 84 Sherman Street, Denver, seeks male correspondence from a past forty widower or bachelor of clean mind and body, Mason preferred but not required, for platonic friendship. Advt. notes mail delivery in Eurepe at 4 15 p m Wednesday, allowing reading of newspapers 24 hours earlier where mail is distributed that evening.
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