Remember When

80 YEARS AGO... 1930

Three men were arrested Tuesday night for burglarizing the store of L.B. Austin at Greenville, removing several slot machines, punchboards and their prizes, tobacco and other merchandise. Continuing on to Portola, they forced an entrance to the Northside Garage and helped themselves to merchandise. Sheriff Braden and deputies nabbed them in Chilcoot.

80 YEARS AGO......1930
Advertisement: A Travelair bi-plane will be in Quincy on Sunday to take up passengers for a full 15 minutes in the air. Stunt flying will also be demonstrated during the afternoon.

80 YEARS AGO.....1930

Residents of Blairsden are planning the formation of a corporation and the selling of stock to secure funds with which to erect a hotel consisting of 20 to 30 rooms to replace the Blairsden Hotel, destroyed by fire weeks ago.

 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.