Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-06-17

eral Electric Co.
NJ Segal, formerly merchant of Yer
ihgton, but now living in Oakland, is
here on visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel,
and also on business. He reports the
family we'll in Oakland.
G. w. West, Stanley Netherton, Geo.
Plummer and Will Powers have been in
Reno this week attending the Masonic
Grand Lodge as delegates from Hope
Lodge No %, of this place.
Mr.. Yeager was an arrival from Reno
the latter part of last week After re-
naming a couple of days he and Mrs
Yeager, who was the pianist at the Bow
dish theatre, returned to Reno.
Mrs. Fred Littell and Mrs. r. Delos
Smith leave Sunday afternoon for Carson
where they go as Delegates of the Re-
bekah Lodge to attend the Grand As
sembly which convenes on Monday June
10Th.
Another car party from Boston is due
to arrive in the district next tuesday to
visit the Nevada Douglas property and
the Nevada Copper Belt road. This,
in Boston.
Yesterday the most severe thunder
shower which has taken place here in
years visited Yerington. The storm
raised the river considerably and the
stream is threatening to do much dam
age by overflow
Commissioner King, Contractors Ward
and Calder and Mrs. Calder arrived from
Reno Thursday evening about dark by
auto. They started from Reno early III
the morning but had all kinds of tire
trouble on the way.
Miss Bessie Sperry, who taught here
/ for several terms past, has secured po-
sition in the Sparks school. She is a
4 splendid teacher, all exemplary young
woman, and her many friends here wish
her success i'll her new home.
4 Lawrence Lam is spending his vaca-
ton at home, having arrived from Oak
! land, Cal, last week, where he has been
attending school for some time past
| Besides other requirements Lawrence is
now quite an accomplished violinist and
cornetist
Dr. Lawson of Virginia City, and
wife, formerly Miss Mcintosh, who
taught school i'll this valley some years
ago, and ]. A. Lawson, of Silver City,
paid valley friends a visit this week
Mr.. Hoag, agent for REQ autos, brought
the party out and took them back
]. G. Kaufman, who has a teaming
contract with the Truckee River Power
| Co, was in from the front couple of
days last week and the first of this week
/ He will probably continue on the job
with his teams until the high power line
is completed to Verdi or Whereabouts
The first auto between Bridgeport and
| Bodie this season passed over the route
last week Wednesday. 1t was one of
the Nevada and California Auto Trans
portation company's cars, and the big
camp OH the hill will be included in the
regular trips from this OIL. -Chronicle-
Union.
Miss Doris Mcintosh, who has been
visiting her father and friends in Yering-
ton for couple of weeks. returned to
L.
grets at parting with many friends here
She expects to return to Yerington e'er
long and make this place her permanent
home.
{. +. Peoples, one of the prosperous
farmers of Fernley, in the northern end
of the county, paid Yerington a visit
this week and looked over our valley
some. He was much impressed with
the resources and opportunities offered
here, and will probably be back to make
an investment or two.
| ]. w. O Banion was down from Smith
Valley the first of this week on business
connected with his colonization scheme
in that valley He will soon be offering
| some of the finest land in the State for
! sale on easy payments and guarantee
of water sufficient to irrigate ever acre
of it,
The owners of the Nichol ditch have
gang of men employed at the head
gate and dam working like beavers to
keep the dam from going out, the ditch
being ruined and the Mel cod ranch over
flowed Trees are being cut down and
wedged i'll with sacks of rock and dirt
While the high water is bound to do
considerable damage, this work will aid
materially i'll lessening it.
Duncan MacNiche and l.. J. Hagen
barth, of Salt Lake City, paid Winnie
mucca visit the first part of this week,
according to the Silver State, and were