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 80 YEARS AGO.....1930
    Fire of unknown origin Friday night destroyed an office railroad car and its furnishings and contents owned by the contractors regraveling and reballisting the Western Pacific Railroad track between Spring Garden and Quincy Junction.
    A small fire was found Monday afternoon in the logging area of the California Fruit Exchange in Graeagle which burned one and half acres. Another fire burned about two acres on Sunday, south of Canyon Dam.

80 YEARS AGO.....1930
    Arrangements have been perfected between the Indian Valley Railroad Company and the United States Postal Service whereby the railroad company will transport mail between Paxton and Crescent Mills for all Indian Valley points.
    Items from the annual report of the Plumas County Free Library submitted to the Plumas County Board of Supervisors this week gives the number of registered borrowers in Plumas County as 4756 and the number of volumes in the Plumas County Library system as 39,230.

80 YEARS AGO... 1930
California's record of progress since its admission to the Union 80 years ago will be strikingly portrayed at the California State Fair which opens this week. The sate fair's theme "80 Years of Progress" was selected to commemorate the milestone.

Keri Taborski

Feather Publishing Historian

80 YEARS AGO...1930

  Advertisement: Dr. James Dodson, chiropractor, Portola. I ask no questions. If I can not tell you what and where your ailments are I do not want your case.

  At this weeks Plumas County Board of Supervisors meeting $2,500 was allocated for providing two bridges crossing the North Fork of the Feather River at Twain and Grays Flat to connect those two communities with the North Fork Highway.50 YEARS AGO...1960

  Meadow Valley School will not be closed according to the Plumas Unified School District board that met this week. The board has been considering the closure as the average daily attendance last year was 8.38 pupils.

80 YEARS AGO.......1930
Plumas County Sheriff L. A. Braden and a posse of deputies from Quincy drove in to Chester Saturday night and staged a raid upon a Chinese gambling den and dance hall, arresting five operators and dealers and confiscated furnishings.

Mike D. Ayoob of Greenville this week began construction of a modern two story and basement hotel on what is known as the hotel block at the corner of Main and Crescent Streets. The first floor will include a lobby, coffee shop, pool hall and barber shop. Construction cost: $40,000.