Old Time Notes from The Beacon
130 Years Ago May 17, 1890
• The Mendocino Brass Band made its first appearance in public yesterday. The school children followed the band in a march around the school ground during the dinner hour, and the boys acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner.
• The moorings at New Haven have all been put in order and are now ready for spring business. The schooner San Pedro loaded bark there yesterday.
• The Sea Gull, a sailing boat belonging to Fisherman Havens, of Fort Bragg, paid Mendocino harbor several visits this week.
• Mrs. Capt. H. Nelson left Wednesday afternoon for Caspar, at which place she took the steamer Jewel for San Francisco to reside there in the future.
• Jule Morse, while working in Rider & Co.’s mill at Westport, fell on Thursday of last week, his hand coming in contact with the saw which badly cut his fingers. He is at present at his home in Point Arena.
105 Years Ago May 15, 1915
• Despite the inclemency of the weather, the ball given by the Farmers and Apple Growers Association last Saturday night was well-attended, and was in all respects a most enjoyable affair. The heavy rainfall of Saturday afternoon and evening put the roads in very bad shape and as a consequence many out-of-town people who had bought tickets and fully intended to be present, were forced to stay at home. Dancing continued until four o’clock but the ball remained open until after five, for the accommodation of those of the out of town visitors who did not wish to start home before daylight.
• G. M. Alexander of Albion, coast agent for the Reo cars, informs us that George R. Loomis of Albion Ridge purchased a new Reo touring car last week and on Monday George Decker of Comptche also bought one. E. F. Alexander has ordered a Reo Six which will arrive here shortly.
80 Years Ago May 11, 1940
• Annual Pentecost Celebration Sunday … by Portuguese residents of Mendocino and surrounding communities … opening festivities were held last Sunday evening when the crown, carried by Miss Margaret Costa, was taken from the home of Mrs. Albert Paoli to the altar at Crown Hall.
• L. P. Hansens celebrate golden anniversary in S.F. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Hansen are well known in Mendocino and have many friends here where they lived for many years before moving to San Francisco some 18 to 20 years ago. The first wedding ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pamperin in the eastern suburb of town.
• R. H. Henry has completed a very fine summer home east of town about opposite the Paddleford home but about a half-mile south.
• A. G. Stone, better known to his many coast friends as Bert Stone, died in Oakland Monday. A native of Mendocino, age 68 years, in his young manhood he was in Boston perfecting himself in the watchmaker’s trade and returned home to enter his father’s jewelry store, which he conducted at Mendocino for many years.
55 Years Ago May 14, 1965
• Starting Saturday, May 22, Fort Bragg and Mendocino telephone subscribers will have to dial all seven numerals of a telephone number to complete local calls. Subscribers in these two communities will have to dial the three numerals of the prefix — 964 — then the other four numerals in the number.
• Mrs. Wilhemina Prusi, 74, passed away Wednesday at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Nello Del Grosso, of Fort Bragg, following a long illness. Mrs. Prusi was the widow of the late Ferdinand Prusi.