Old Time Notes from The Beacon

130 Years Ago April 4, 1891

• In backing out from the wharf at Fort Bragg on Thursday of last week, the steamer Emily ran into a line fastening the steamer Protection and upset a boat containing two sailors, who received a thorough ducking. They were rescued by the Protection boat.

• Quite an excitement was caused Wednesday afternoon when J. S. Neto’s team took in the block on their own responsibility. They started from the lane west of Neto’s Hotel and successfully cleared the corners at a lively gait without doing any damage and brought up at the owner’s barn.

• The mill owned by Ware and Lockhart at Inglenook is to be fitted up with a double circular saw, which will increase its facilities for making lumber.

• A hog weighing five pounds was butchered by S. D. Nolan, of Caspar, last week.

• Born at Mendocino, April 2, to the wife of John N. Hammerlund, a daughter.

• The steamer Emily will call at Little River instead of at Mendocino as heretofore, on her way to San Francisco from Coos Bay and returning Passage to San Francisco. $8 cabin and $6 steerage; freight $2 per ton.

• The Kibesillah school was opened Monday by Miss Maggie Donohoe.

103 Years Ago March 30, 1918

• J. E. Triguerio received this week on the Sea Foam an orchestral piano which he is now installing to provide music at his moving picture entertainments which commence Sunday.

• The sale of thrift stamps and War-Savings Certificates at the local postoffice this week passed the five-thousanddollar mark, and are going steadily forward.

• John Matson, proprietor of the Elk blacksmith shop, was here from that place Thursday on a business trip.

• The Noyo Apple Company filed articles of incorporation with the County Clerk at Ukiah this week. The amount of capital stock is placed at $50,000 with shares of $100 each. The five directors of the company are A. B. Southard, L. J. Scoofy, Charles J. Strong, Clarence G. Atwood and L. O. Van Brundt, all of San Francisco. The company’s holdings are located near Northspur, where they have several hundred acres of cut-over land planted to apples.

• George Lemmon has disposed of his ranch south of Noyo to T. and M. Hundley through George Berryhill.

• Frank Buchanan is doing the honors on the northbound stage in place of Ed Stoddard.

75 Years Ago March 30, 1946

• Flora and May Buchanan of Elk, owners for many years of the “Sugar Loaf Dairy,” about 3 miles south of Elk on the Mendocino coast, have disposed this week of this fine dairy to Elmer L. Walker of Manchester. This ranch was originally taken up and improved by A. W. Hall, who came to California in 1850 from the State of Maine. He moved to Point Arena in 1870, where he established the first store. He left Point Arena to settle on his ranch in 1873 and continued to reside there until his death. The ranch was owned and farmed by his son, John Hall, for many years.

• Mr. and Mrs. Riccardo Checchi of this place were agreeably surprised last Friday evening when a call on their telephone found their son, Sgt. Peter Cecchi, talking to them from New York. Pete had just arrived from overseas where he had been for some 28 months, having served in the Belgian Bulge mix-up, and in other engagements. He expected to be home in about ten days.

• Mr. and Mrs. June S. Huskinen of Minneapolis, Minn., arrived on Wednesday for a visit with Mrs. Huskinen’s brother, J. O. Dearing, and his family of Greenwood.

51 Years Ago March 27, 1970

• Again — cars crash on Mendocino’s calamity corner. Mrs. Harriet Bye of Albion driving a 1965 VW, attempted a left turn from Highway 1 into Main Street in front of a southbound 1956 Ford Station Wagon. The crash caught the VW on the passenger side. No one was injured.

• Public-private meetings fail to solve sewer need. A final meeting is slated for April 2 where alternatives will be discussed including the forming of a County Service District.

• The Pyewacket … a new eating place has just opened on Kasten street, by owners Larry and Maeve Zolotor and Sue Putnam.

• Swallows return to Mendocino too. On March 19th when the swallows returned to Capistrano naturalist Jacques Helfer noted the first violet-green swallow on the Mendocino coast.

• Mendocino Lions will celebrate their 15th anniversary on March 28th at the Coast Hotel.

• On April 1, the rooms and gift shop of the Mendocino Hotel will be under the management of Jim and Barbara McCutcheon who have recently moved

here from Alameda. Rex and Carmel Gomes will continue to operate the tavern and restaurant.

• Beva Empe, Fort Bragg, daughter of Frank Hyman, filed as the first coastal woman to run for Supervisor of the 5th District.

• From Don Burleson’s column “Mendo-Scene-O” — The former Music Box on Main Street (45052 Main Street), is open as a studio and workshop for Phillip Kramer’s “Geometric Constructions.”

30 Years Ago March 28, 1991

• Charlene McAllister, Helen Herbert, and Betty Stavely of the Mendocino Coast League of Women Voters will be traveling to San Pedro for the opening of the 54th Convention of the League of Women Voters of California in April. McAllister, 1990-91 president of the local league, has been asked to serve on the State Board of League of Women Voters of California. This is an honor for McAllister and for the Mendocino Coast league as well.

• The second concert of the Opus 3 series featured eight musicians in a variety of solos, duos, and larger ensembles. The major work was the Schumann “Dichterliebe,” presented by baritone Danny Ross and pianist Barbara Faulkner.

• Mendocino High School’s top seed, senior Scott Wells, led the Cardinals to a 4-1 win over Fort Bragg. Wells went on to beat the Timberwolves’ Kevin Riley 6-1, 6-0.

• Erica Fielder has a show right now at the Chevron Gallery in San Francisco. The paintings are nature-oriented, and the artistic focus lies in pushing the limits of pigment by intensifying light colors with contrasts and relations, without the weakening effects of white.