Old Time Notes from The Beacon

130 Years Ago Jan. 17, 1891

• It is said that Supervisor Duncan was overtaken by night on the new Copsey grade, between Mountain View and Boonville, and had to camp out on the road. It was such a pleasant night for such an experience — rainy, muddy, cold and dark.

• The schooner Abbie, which went ashore at Caspar during the recent severe storm, was successfully launched and went to sea this week. The damage done her by being wrecked was very light.

• A coach of ten passengers from Fort Bragg passed through town Saturday en route to Ukiah to attend court.

• The steamer Coos Bay made her last trip here and other coast ports along this coast this week. The reason given for her having been taken off the route is lack of patronage. This action on the part of the P. C. S. S. Co. will greatly inconvenience citizens and business men, and shut off all regular sea communication with San Francisco. Owing to the combination between Mendocino and Humboldt lumber men, which only permits half a million feet of lumber being shipped to the city from this place a month, there will be at most only two steam schooners call here during that time. It is to be sincerely hoped that some arrangements will speedily be made to relieve the coast people from threatened isolation.

105 Years Ago Jan. 15, 1916

• The Cottoneva Lumber Company this week purchased 7000 acres of timber land from Standish and Hickey, the well-known lumber firm.

• Charles D. Ford, a member of one of the pioneer families of this place, passed away in San Francisco last Wednesday. Deceased was about 55 years of age and was born in Mendocino. He was a son of the late Jerome B. and Martha Ford.

• It was reported that the Caspar Lumber Company is considering the matter of operating the mill at that place both night and day.

• Pat Kenny, the wellknown chef de cookhouse, went to Greenwood last Thursday to take charge of the culinary affairs of a gang of timber cruisers who are busy in that section.

• Jere Hurley, who has been attending the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, has transferred to Stanford University, and is now enrolled as a student in the latter institution.

• Charles Hurley, Harvey Ferrell and Henry Bowman left last Saturday for Berkeley to resume their studies at the State University.

• Dr. Franklin H. Sanborn, a well-known physician of Fort Bragg, who practiced medicine on this coast for nearly 25 years, passed away Tuesday at the Fort Bragg hospital.

75 Years Ago Jan. 5, 1946

• Sgt. Walter Lawson of Point Arena has been honorably discharged from the separation base maintained at Santa Ana by the Army Air Force. Lawson is a veteran of 24 months of service in the Air Forces. He served in China, India and Asia, and was with the 14th Air Force for eight months as a gunner. The War Department has awarded him the Presidential Unit Citation and the Asiatic Pacific Theater ribbon with six battle stars.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Ciro last Sunday at the Community hospital, a son, Rodney James. The baby weighed 10 pounds, 5 ounces.