Old Time Notes from The Beacon

128 Years Ago Aug. 5, 1893

• The Ukiah and Mendocino Stage Company have reduced the round trip fare to Orr’s Hot Springs. A dance is given at this popular resort every Thursday evening and round-trip tickets are sold for $5, good to return either Friday or Saturday following. The balance of the week these tickets are sold for $6 — good to return any time during the summer season.

• Mr. Mccarthy has moved his stock of goods from Fort Bragg to Caspar, where he will open a store in one of George Heldt’s buildings.

• We have been authoritatively informed that work will soon commence on the proposed railroad from Fort Bragg to Willits. This surely means better times for this county.

• Tomorrow afternoon the Mendocino and Fort Bragg baseball clubs will play the third game of the season in Hanson’s field, known as the old Carlson ranch, near Caspar. A close and interesting game is looked for.

• The Pudding Creek Lumber Co. shut their mill down and closed the store Saturday last. The woods is still running, however.

103 Years Ago Aug. 3, 1918

• The Mendocino high school will open its doors for the fall term and enter on its twenty-seventh year on Monday, August 19th. The school is expected to start with a good attendance, but will not equal that of last year, which ran up to 100 students at the beginning of the term, and averaged 81 for the school year.

• There is a decided shortage in the world’s supply for sugar and the sugar ration has been fixedattwopoundsto the person per month, which ruling went into effect the first of August. The amount was formerly fixedatthreepoundsto the person but such inroads were made into the stock that the ration had to be reduced.

• The Fort Bragg Board of City Trustees have purchased a Studebaker chemical auto truck at a cost of $2750.

• The steamer Sea Foam sailed Tuesday for San Francisco with 224,000 feet of lumber. She is expected to return here today with a cargo of freight.

• The steamer Arctic took on a cargo of 300,000 feet of lumber this week and sailed Thursday. First Mate Prindle brought the vessel up this trip, the captain being absent on a vacation.

78 Years Ago Aug. 7, 1943

• Word was received from Raymond Nicholson, F, 2-c U.S. Navy, that he is on the Pacific somewhere, assigned to a battleship. To his surprise, the first person he met was a Caspar boy, Seaman Loop, F, 2-c also. They are in the same compartment and get a chance to talk of “the old coast,” in their spare moments. Ray has been lucky in coming across someone from near home, wherever he has been.

• At State Theatre, Fort Bragg: “Casablanca” starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul