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75 YEARS AGO......1936

Ending a six year shut down, the Quincy Lumber Company sawmill will re-open next month announced C. A. King, company general manager and Quincy resident. The sawmill shut down in 1930 and since then the operations have been centered at the Sloat mill. Logs for the Quincy mill will be cut in Butterfly Valley where Quincy Lumber Company purchased 80 million board feet of government owned timber.

75 YEARS AGO.......1936

California Governor Frank Merriman has accepted the invitation to attend the three-day Feather River Prosperity Jubilee on the Fourth of July weekend in Quincy. The Jubilee will feature a mile-long parade, baseball games, fireworks, boxing matches, Queen contest, rodeo and a ball with an eleven piece orchestra.

75 YEARS AGO.......1936

California Governor Frank Merriman has accepted the invitation to attend the three-day Feather River Prosperity Jubilee on the Fourth of July weekend in Quincy. The Jubilee will feature a mile-long parade, baseball games, fireworks, boxing matches, Queen contest, rodeo and a ball with an eleven piece orchestra.

75 YEARS AGO..........1936

Bernard Schneider, native of Meadow Valley and Quincy businessman for over fifty years, died in San Francisco this week. He bought and operated Huskinson's drug retail business in 1839. Mr. Huskinson bought the store back when Mr. Schneider purchased the Plumas House, selling it in 1920 and moved to Sacramento.

75 YEARS AGO...........1936

Practically the entire route between Quincy and Truckee via Sierraville and Hobart Mills is now an oiled road.