100 YEARS AGO....1909

Poem: The little fly a joker is. Quite frolicksome is he. He loves to see you swat yourself just where he used to be. He is immensely tickled when you slap yourself with vim. So everytime he tickles you, you also tickle him.
Advertisement: Lost, a 32 caliber automatic Colt’s revolver lost between Quincy and Nelson Point. Finder please return to the Plumas National-Bulletin newspaper office and receive suitable reward for such.

75 YEARS AGO….1934
One half of the Quincy business district was wiped out by fire Tuesday afternoon resulting in a loss of $175,000. The fire, originating in the basement laundry of the Grand Central Hotel, which burned to the ground, started at 2:45 p.m. in the afternoon. Until the Greenville and Portola Fire Departments were additionally summoned it appeared that the entire business district was fated to be destroyed. The barber shop, the coffee shop, jewelry shop, the Western Union office and the McIntosh Store across the street were a raging inferno. Stock from Ayoobs store was piled on the courthouse lawn by volunteers. Windows were cracked as far away as Lawrence Street north of Main Street.

50 YEARS AGO….1959
Plumas County schools saw a slight drop in enrollment on the opening day of school this year. Enrollment marked a 110 decline in pupils from last year. Total enrollment this year was 2781 compared to last year at 2891.

30 YEARS AGO….1979
Last Thursday morning the Sloat Mill burned to the ground and after four days of sifting through the ruins at the Sierra Pacific mill, adjusters have concluded that the fire that gutted the building started in the compressor room. “It just went boom” stated Curtis Judkins, Sloat mill manager.

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