Old Time Notes fromThe Beacon
130 Years Ago Oct. 11, 1890
• Born — At Manchester, Sept. 28, to the wife of Frank Fairbanks, a son. At Mendocino, Oct. 6, to Mr. and Mrs. McQuinn, a daughter.
• It is estimated that the Great Register of this county, which is now being printed, will contain 5,500 names.
• The population of California has increased 339,303 the past ten years, it now being 1,204,007.
• The schooner Electra arrived here Monday, loaded lumber and sailed Wednesday morning. A heavy sea was running when she departed and the little vessel looked as if she would be engulfed in the waves.
• F. A. Carlson, who for nearly two years has held the position of bookkeeper at the Whitesboro Store, is about to sever his connection with that business. He will enter the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian church in San Francisco and prepare himself for the ministry.
• The Coos Bay arrived here Tuesday afternoon and remained all night, the sea being too rough to make her usual trip to Fort Bragg. She went up early Wednesday morning, but was unable to enter the harbor on account of the sea that was running.
105 Years Ago Oct. 9, 1915
• In the lastweek, forest fires have been raging in different parts of the coast section. At Melbourne and on Navarro Ridge, the fires were especially bad. At the present time, however, the fires are all under control. No great damage has been reported.
• T. L. Johnson has sold his interest in the Union Lumber Company to Edward Lowe, a timberman who also has extensive pine holdings in Oregon and Washington. The sale includes all Mr. Johnson’s interests in the timberlands and mills of the Union Lumber Company, and his holdings in the California Western Railroad and National Steamship Company.
• Miss Lucille Anderson, who is attending the local grammar school, left yesterday to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Anderson of Comptche.
• W. J. Boyle received Sunday his new 1916 Buick Six. It is a handsome car and up-to-date in every particular.
• A son was born to the wife of Dorville Brochier of Caspar Tuesday morning. A son was born to Mrs. Amelia Barozzi, October 7th. Dr. Preston reports both mother and child to be getting along nicely. A son was born to the wife of Manuel Silva on September 23rd.
75 Years Ago Oct. 6, 1945
• C. Mathisen, who purchased the Odd Fellows hall some time ago in Mendocino, and has a collection of historical automobiles and other articles which he is arranging for display, recently added to his collection the early day hearse which was used for so many years by the late J. D. Johnson in his undertaking business. This vehicle is a horse-drawn affair and is surely a relic of days gone by. It has large glass windows with drapes inside and plumes on top.
• Ted Campbell, formerly of Fort Bragg, and who has been a prisoner of war since the fall of Bataan, is back in San Francisco again. He was recently liberated by the Allied Forces, and after three years of prison life, is lucky to be alive.
• Miss Lois Doolittle, who is employed in Oakland, is home for a vacation of two weeks.
• One of Mendocino’s young couples stole a march on their friends the first of theweek and drove to Ukiah, where they were married. The contracting parties were Betty Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown of this place, and Harold Simpson, who has been a resident of this place for about two years.
55 Years Ago Oct. 8, 1965
• Lars Ellison, who would have been 77 on October 22, died at a Fort Bragg hospital, Tuesday evening. Mr. Ellison was born at the family home in the Kaisen district on the Ukiah Comptche road. As a youngman he was for a time with his father, the late Thomas Ellison, in road building and logging work in the Big River section. He was a lifetime resident of this place and Fort Bragg, where he served the California Western Railroad for 25 years until retirement. The family home is at 112 Harold Street, Fort Bragg.
• Art Center Rapport: The movie this weekend is a revival — Rudolph Valentino in “The Sheik.” Along with it will be a program of Charlie Chaplin shorts. Charles Stevenson will precede the movie with a short introduction to the week’s work in painting. Ruth Carlson and Winona Tomanoczy spent Wednesday re-hanging the sales gallery.
• A plant and flower sale following a demonstration talk on the potential uses of odds and ends, what-have-yous, and et cetera, will be the presentation at the Gallery Fair October 8, sponsored by the Mendocino Study Club.
30 Years Ago Oct. 11, 1990
• Mendocino resident Richard Falkenrath received the Daniel Stewart Hammack Award as the outstanding male member of the junior class for 1989-90 at convocation ceremonies opening Occidental College’s 104th year. A combined economics and diplomacy and world affairs major, Falkenrath has amassed a 3.98 GPA and has made the dean’s list every term. Falkenrath is the son of local attorney Margaret Mary O’Rourke.
• Jeanette Fraser Mendosa, 57, a Mendocino resident, passed away Oct. 9 at her home following a long
illness. Shewas a native of
Oakland, Calif. At age 12, she moved to Mendocino with her late parents. She was a graduate of Mendocino High School.
In her adult life, she worked in the retail sales business, being a co-owner with her husband for the past nine years of Mendocino Market. She was a charter member of the
Mendocino Soroptimist Club.
• Pulitzer prize winner Alice Walker, along with other writers and interested people in Mendocino and adjacent counties, have endorsed last week’s call for an end to censorship of timber issues in Mendocino County.