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Keri Taborski

Feather Publishing Historian

80 YEARS AGO... 1930

  Happy Birthday this month to 93 year old Quincy resident W.W. Kellogg, editor, lawyer and public-spirited pioneer and California State Senator and who cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930

Advertisement: Buy your Ford automobile at W. J. Hamblin's service garage in Greenville. It is your authorized agent for this section of Plumas County.

The Greenville Meat Market, recently closed, has been reopened Monday by Riehl and Openshaw, butchers of Indian Valley. They were presented a vase of flowers accompanied by a message of support and goodwill from the residents of Greenville pledging their support and patronage.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
    Miss Anita Bolton, costumed as a domino and C.N. Erwin, costumed as an Indian squaw were awarded the best costumes at last Saturday's masquerade ball held in Quincy. They carried off the honors in the field of some 100 entries representing every character imaginable including simple cowboys and Indians to the ornate member of the Russian ballet.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
According to data compiled by Plumas County Assessor H.C. Flournoy, a total of 1,876 motor vehicles are owned and registered by Plumas County residents. Of this, 537 are possessed by real estate property owners and 1450 by persons who have no real estate holdings in Plumas County. Conservativeley, these figures indicate that there is one motor vehicle to every two families within Plumas County.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930

Letter to the Editor: Herewith my check in the amount of $3.00 in payment for my subscription to the Plumas National-Bulletin for the year 1930. In the Plumas National-Bulletin we have a newspaper that does not try to pull "big town stuff" on a country newspaper. Kindest regards for 1930. Yours truly, a loyal reader.

Advertisement: Masquerade Ball at the American Legion Hall in Quincy Saturday night. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. Dance tickets: $1.50, spectators: 50 cents