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80 YEARS AGO....1930

  A federal bill was passed this week providing funds for the completion of the North Fork of the Feather River Highway continuation from Quincy to the California-Nevada State border.

  W.E. Ward, pioneer California newspaperman, 86, died in Dunsmuir this week. The family settled in Plumas County in 1852 and Ward learned the printers trade in Quincy and later took up the news and editorial end for a number of years and conducted the Plumas National-Bulletin, one of the oldest weekly newspapers in California.

80 YEARS AGO....1930

Tuesday night the mercury in the thermometer throughout Plumas County started dropping with steady intent to eventually reach the bottom of its confining tubes when it reached the ten below zero mark by Wednesday morning.

An old fashioned snow storm visited Plumas County over the last weekend dropping five feet of snow at Bucks Ranch and two and a half feet at Belden in the Feather River Canyon. Telephone lines were destroyed between Spring Garden, Sloat, Portola, Quincy and Greenville as similar snowy conditions prevailed. Power lines were also effected county-wide.

80 YEARS AGO....1930
Building activities in Chester continue uninterrupted. The new school house is underway and several bungalows are in the course of construction. The school house will, when completed, accommodate about 100 pupils and it is expected to be completed by March 1.
The Plumas County Board of Supervisors organized for the year 1930 Monday afternoon by electing L.B. O’Rourke as chairman.

100 YEARS AGO....1909
Advertisement: New Year’s Eve masquerade ball at the Quincy House. Admittance, midnight supper and party favors $2.50.

100 YEARS AGO....1909
    Advertisement: Christmas Ball at the Quincy House on Christmas Eve. Music by Professor Sam Hunt’s Trio Orchestra. Tickets including supper: $2.50.