Glance at the Past
107 Years Ago Dec. 10, 1913
• A consignment of 500,000 feet of rough clear redwood lumber was shipped by the Union Lumber Company from this port during the week to Fields Landing, Humboldt County, and loaded on the tramp steamer “Christian Bros.” scheduled to sail for Japan. The lumber was taken to the northern port by the steamers National City and Noyo, sailing respectively last Wednesday and Thursday. William Morris and O. R. Johnson went up on the boats and attended the necessary business. The National City returned this port Sunday and reported a successful trip. Messrs. Johnson and Morris came back on her.
• A masked highwayman made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the evening train from Willits on the CWR&N Co.’s line two miles east of town Monday morning. A short distance west of the tunnel on the Pudding Creek side, the train stopped to let off a number of bridge hands who live up on the hill. It was just getting underway again when a masked man suddenly made his appearance on the track a short distance ahead of the locomotive. He first leveled a double-barreled shot gun on engineer Fred Gorensen later shifting his aim to Fireman Johnny Doyle. Neither of the two train hands made any attempt to check the speed of the train, however, and as this act became evident to Mr. Highwayman, he evidently got cold feet for he took to the brush. Sheriff Byrnes was immediately notified, arriving in town on quick time, he, accompanied by Constable Bert Johnson and Deputy Sheriff Ward Ries, have been scrounging the country since that time but as yet no arrests have been made.
77 Years Ago Dec. 8, 1943
• Grave fears are held for the safety of Charles Richards and son, Tex Richards, and Harry Glover, crew of the fishing boat the “Ray
G.” The boat and crew left Noyo port on Saturday last and no word has been heard since that time. According to the fishermen at Noyo there is little or no chance that the “Ray G” is still afloat unless the crew has in some manner found shelter in some out of the way spot. On Saturday last, the Ray G with other boats, left Noyo for fishing grounds. A heavy northwester came up and the other boats took shelter at various places up and down the coast. The Ray G was last seen trying to make Bodega Bay but was going with the storm and was taking quite a buffeting. The other seven boats have returned to Noyo. Richards has been fishing for a considerable time and his boy is also experienced. Glover owned the Ray G. and is from Eureka.
• Miss Shirley Nohling spent the Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nohling. Miss Nohling is a student nurse at the Franklin Hospital in San Francisco and has enlisted in the Nurses Cadet Corps.
55 Years Ago Dec. 16, 1965
• The body of a 64-yearold Noyo fisherman, who apparently had drowned, was found floating in the surf at Pudding Creek
Beach last Thursday afternoon by a Pudding Creek father and his son who had been strolling along the beach. The victim was identified as Victor Nikkila, of Noyo, who had gone fishing from his Noyo home earlier