Old Time Notes from The Beacon
130 Years Ago March 6, 1891
• The Fort Bragg mill is at the head of the list of Mendocino county mills as having the greatest cut of lumber for 1890. It is credited with 18,500,000 feet, while Mendocino’s cut was 13,000,000.
• The steamer Maggie Ross arrived here yesterday morning for a load of lumber. This is Maggie’s first trip to Mendocino.
• R. Y. Glidden, editor and manager of the Record and principal of the public school at Point Arena, celebrated on Washington’s birthday by uniting in marriage to Miss Jennie Minor.
• Born — At San Francisco, February 28, to the wife of O. W. Everson, a daughter.
• A. R. Calder, who has carried on the tailoring business in this place for several years, will leave next week for Santa Barbara, where he has accepted the management of a tailoring establishment.
• The steamer Navarro will make regular trips to this port in the future. She left Tuesday night for San Francisco with a load of lumber.
• The skating rink opened in Tivoli Hall Saturday night. A large number attended and the Mendocino brass band discoursed music, which added much to the enjoyment.
103 Years Ago March 2, 1918
• At a conference of Mendocino and Humboldt county lumbermen held in
San Francisco this week it was practically decided to establish the eighthour day in the lumbering plants of the firms operating in these two counties. The mills in the Northwest which have been getting out Government orders for ships and aeroplane stock were some time ago placed on an eight-hour basis, and California lumbermen have concluded to adopt the same schedule. Mendocino county mills will continue to operate ten hours as at present, but will designate the extra two hours as overtime and allow compensation for the same at the rate of time and a half. The general increase in wages under this new schedule will be ten per cent.
75 Years Ago March 2, 1946
• The Robert Henry home was the setting for a surprise 40th wedding anniversary dinner for Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Van Deren last week.
• Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bishop departed Tuesday for a few days’ visit with their daughter. Mrs. F. Baroni, and family of Richmond. They had planned to return Friday and were going to bring the young grandson home with them. Taddy prefers to live in Mendocino and help grandpa on the delivery truck.
• Clifford Doolittle arrived home on Tuesday with an honorable discharge from the U. S. Army. He had been in the European arena since entering the service.
• Warrant Officer Alex (Pat) Stenberg is now in his civvies and glad to be home from the wars.
Young Pat is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Stenberg and has just completed a 5 year stretch with Uncle Sam. He will remain in Fort Bragg for the time being.
• Sam Iverson has returned from overseas duty with the U. S. Engineers and is proudly wearing his discharge button.
• Corporal Frank Sturges, Jr., has been discharged from the 20th Armored Division at Camp Cook after serving three years.
51 Years Ago Feb. 27, 1970
• Mendocino rejects incorporation — with 326 voters going to the polls, the vote was 128 in favor, and 198 opposed. According to the inspector of special voting precincts, there were 360 eligible voters in the proposed district and 90 percent turned out to vote.
• Change in delivery date — this week the Mendocino Beacon changed to a Thursday morning delivery instead of Friday.
• Lorne Macdonald, native-born on the Mendocino Coast, announced his candidacy for 5th district supervisor.
• Jean A. MacCallum, the daughter of Mendocino pioneers, Alexander and Daisy MacCallum, passed away in San Francisco on Feb. 17, and was interred at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park on Feb.
19. She was born at Glen
Blair, 85 years ago. Her will was filed and cash bequests went to four cousins, members of the Kelley family, $2,000 to the Mendocino Presbyterian Church, the residue being placed in a trust for various charities. Included in the trust was the MacCallum house in Mendocino, built by her grandfather, William Kelley and given to Daisy MacCallum as a wedding present.
• Safeway to open new store at Fort Bragg on March 4.
• Al Need’s oils and Lois Need’s batiks will be shown at the Austin Gallery in Santa Barbara, opening on March 8 — They will then be shown in a family show at the Town and Country Gallery in Palo Alto, opening April
12. The Needs have had their own gallery in Mendocino for seven years.
30 Years Ago Feb. 28, 1991
• Whales have already been observed on their northern migratory route off the Coast, and for the ninth year, the big mammal’s expedition is being celebrated during the annual Whale Festival. In Mendocino wine tasting is coupled with a tour of galleries and shops. For Saturday night’s entertainment Crown Hall will be the place to go where two one-act plays can be seen; “Maria of Romania” and “Laundry and Bourbon.”
• Amelia Paoli Byrne, 80, a Mendocino resident passed away Feb. 11 at her daughter’s home following a long illness. She was a member of the early pioneer Paoli family of Mendocino, where she was born, raised and educated. In 1932, she moved to San Francisco where she was employed as a gardener at the nursery and conservatory at Golden Gate Park. In 1950, she returned to
Mendocino, where she resided until her death. She loved raising rhododendrons and vegetables, which she canned and entered in the Boonville Fair, winning several blue ribbons.
• Golf Notes, etc… By Harry Fortune: Go out and enjoy our game as you have never enjoyed it before, because it’s the only game that will be waiting for us to play in the hereafter. We all want our game to be in the best possible shape when we head for the grand country club in the sky.