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80 YEARS AGO... 1930
    Advertisement: Gifts for Mother's Day at Portola Mercantile--Gifts suitable for Mother include silk gloves, house frock, silk hoisery, silk umbrellas.
    Advertisement: Just in time for Spring--Bertie Lee Keen will be in Plumas County during the month of May to do natural permanent hair waving as follows: Lee Lodge in Chester, Phil's Barber Shop in Greenville, Adele's Beauty Shop in Quincy. Graeagle, Portola and Walker Mine locations to be announced.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
    Advertisement: Greenville Hot Springs now open under new management of A.F. White offering clean and sanitary mineral baths, plunge tubs and showers. Located in Greenville, California.
    When the work of the census taker at Portola has been completed it is believed that better than 1200 to 1400 residents will have been counted there.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
At a Graeagle town meeting held this week it was voted to construct a boxing site on the site of the old baseball diamond on the edge of town. The 16-foot ring on a 34-foot platform with five tiers of seats will be erected at once.

Keri Taborski
Feather Publishing Historian

80 YEARS AGO... 1930

Advertisement: Steaks and chops that satisfy, prepared to order any time. Coffee that is unexcelled in Quincy with pies and cakes like mother makes. Offering a daily special plate dinner: 40 cents. Always something nice for Sunday supper-The Coffee Shoppe, Quincy.

A company of 25 from Hollywood arrived in Belden this week on location for several days to film scenes to be used in the movie entitled "The Storm," a romance of the Canadian northwest, produced by Universal Studios.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
Despite inclement weather conditions, Plumas County roads connecting Genesee Valley with Taylorsville and other Indian Valley towns are in good condition.