150 Years Ago — Cultivate Eucalyptus
Here are some newspaper stories published this week in years past.
Nudity banned in bars Supervisors: Voted to tighten restrictions
nudity at all adult businesses, he said, but past court devisions give counties precedent to ban full nudity at bars that serve alcohol.
The First Amendment Gentleman's Club, which opened under a storm of media attention in October, holds permits to operate as a juice bar “with adult entertainment,” said co-owner George Mull.
The bar began serving alcohol as a test, Mull said.
“We wanted to serve beer and wine for the New Year's celebrations,” Mull said. “But in hindsight, it wasn't a good idea for the safety of our customers. We stopped voluntarily.”
“Even without serving alcohol, that place is dangerous,” Davis said. “There's no stopping guys in Chico from having a few beers at home and then driving all the way out there to see the girls. It's already on a bad stretch of highway. It's just a bad idea.”
Mull didn't tell the county that he was trying to have the alcohol license reinstated, he said Tuesday. At the Board of Supervisors meeting, he apologized for that.
“I do apologize to the extend that I did not explain it,” Mull said. “We are in fact a juice bar which was our intent from the beginning.” …
— Paradise Post,
Jan. 14, 1999
Stricken Glenn Faces More Rain
— Enterprise-Record, Jan. 18, 1974
New Butte City Bridge Is Opened Monday
Traffic today crossed the Sacramento River at Butte City under its own power and at its own choice of speeds for the first time in eight years.
The ferry which had plied back and forth across the stream an average of 300 times a day since the flood damaged old bridge was condemned in 1940, carrying lighter vehicles, was moored for the last time on the river's east bank.
More than 400 people of the Butte City area, state highway officials, mayors of nearby cities and chamber of commerce delegations, watched yesterday afternoon as Mayor Robert Boyd of Willows scissored a ribbon in ceremonies which officially opened the new swinging bridge to traffic.
Across the bridge rolled first two state highway patrol cars, followed by the Willows High School band in new uniforms and a bridge-wide parade of pedestrians. After them came a mile-long string of automobiles bearing occupants who sought the experience of being among the first to cross the new $100,000 steel and concrete structure.
High enough above the river to permit passage of any small craft now on the river, the bridge is designed and constructed to pivot in the center to yield way for larger boats when such river traffic demands.
A long list of prominent persons spoke briefly in ceremonies. … Many of the speakers dwelt upon the convenience and economic savings to the area represented in the new crossing. For eight years, growers of rice, barley and wheat in the area east of the river have had to haul their products many extra miles in order to reach their markets and warehouses on the west side. …
Replacement of the old bridge was long delayed by the war-time shortage of steel. First moves toward actual construction of the new bridge began three years ago. …
— Enterprise-Record,
Jan. 18, 1949
Flames Claim Life Of Butte Rancher At Lonely Residence Country Estate Residence, Once Festive With Social Fetes, Becomes Funeral Pyre of Owner …
Burned to a horrible death mid the luxurious surroundings of his home on Rio Seco ranch, the body of Sam W. Cheyney, widely known mining expert and rancher, was recovered in the smoldering ruins of the crumbled walls of his estate fourteen miles southeast of Chico Sunday afternoon.
The great county house which had been the scene of many gay festivities when friends of Cheyney and his family were entertained there had burned some time early Sunday morning, and the flare of the flames had attracted not a single person to come to the rescue of a man who was alone within.
His charred remains were discovered only after hours of searching by Sheriff R. N. Anderson and a group of his deputies.
The mystery of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the conflagration … has remained in spite of the investigation. … Persons from a dance held at Paradise Saturday night looked out across the valley and saw flames near the site of the Cheyney home about 2:30 a.m., but believe that a straw stack was burning there and considered the matter no further. Raymond Orendorff of Chico, returning from Oroville along the Chico-Oroville road between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, saw no evidence of the flames at that time.
Ranch hands … slept soundly through the night without knowing that the building was burning, and only discovered it had been destroyed when they arose Sunday morning about 7:30. They telephoned to Sheriff Anderson immediately, and the investigation of the ruins was begun.
Cheyney spent Saturday afternoon and evening in Chico … and had taken dinner with Mr. and Mrs. James Van Loben Sels … He left their home shortly after 7 o'clock and after writing letters to his family and mailing them at the Hotel Oaks, went back to the ranch where he talked with the men in the bunk house for a few minutes before going on to the big house. He was never seen alive again. …
The family, his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Cheyney, known in Chico as a leader in the club and society circles and a talented musician, and the three children Elizabeth, Sidney and Sam Jr., were in Berkeley where the children are in attendance at the university. …
— Enterprise-Record,
Jan. 11, 1924
Mansfield's Good Work.
Marshall Mansfield is making it very uncomfortable for that class of men who live from the earnings of fallen women, and Chico has never before been so free from this class of loafers.
The last raid was made Saturday night, and as a result three “pimps” have left Chico for pastures new. Constables Goe and Potter and Officer Rowe assisted in rounding up the bunch, and Judge Collins told the vagrants what they could expect if they remained in town. They left. — Chico Weekly Enterprise, Jan. 13, 1899
Cultivate Eucalyptus
Now is the time for farmers to set out their fruit and ornamental trees. The Australian gum tree being such a rapid grower, it is recommended for forest trees. No better tree can be planted for breaking off the north winds. It makes most excellent fuel, besides it is invaluable for manufacturing purposes.
Also experiments have demonstrated that this tree has the property of dispelling miasma, and effectively cleansing feverstricken districts of the deadly influence of malaria. Various instances are given in which the planting of this tree has transformed a marshy soil into dry, firm ground, and extirpated fevers that before rendered such localities uninhabitable.
It would be a good tree to plant along the margin of all our sloughs.
— The Weekly Butte Record, Jan. 17, 1874