Remember When

75 YEARS AGO.............1937

Greenville's new community hall will be dedicated Saturday night with a dance. The last of the flooring of the 50 X 75 foot auditorium was laid last Sunday and was sanded and totally finished this week. The hall was bult as a federal WPA project (Works Progress Administration) and was sponsored by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors. In addition to the hall, the building houses the fire department, the justice court and a kitchen with living quarters for firemen on the second floor.

One hundred delegates are expected at the annual district conference of the 13th district of the PTA at Quincy Saturday representing Plumas, Sierra, Butte and Tehama Counties.

75 YEARS AGO........1937

Thirty automobiles arrived in Taylorsville from Walkermine Sunday over the Genesee Valley Road, which was opened for travel for the first time this year. The 1,000 residents of the big copper mine had been marooned since December 26 of last year, their only outlet being by aerial ore tram over Grizzly Mountain to Spring Garden.

75 YEARS AGO........1937

Advertisement: Grocery items for your Easter dinner-- Royal gelatin 5 cents a package, large eggs 21 cents a dozen, ham 23 cents a pound, fresh asparagus 12 cents a pound, coffee 28 cents a pound--Kilpatrics, Quincy.

75 YEARS AGO........1937

Weather permitting, 1937 operations at the big Setzer Box Company sawmill will start in Greenville over the coming weekend. Extensive improvements have been made at the mill during the winter shut-down to increase production.

Wages paid to workers on Plumas County roads were increased by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors by 50 cents a day. The new pay scale is $4.00 per day for laborers, $4.50 per day for truck drivers, cat and blademen are $5.50 per day and foremen $6.00 per day.

75 YEARS AGO.............1937

The two sawmills of the Quincy Lumber Company will start operations April 15, announced general manager C.A. King. The sawmills are expected to saw 20 million board feet at Sloat and 15 million board feet at Quincy, resulting in the biggest year for the company since 1929. The timber is being cut from both the Butterfly Valley and Poplar Valley logging areas.

Sawing operations will start at the Meadow Valley Lumber Company at Spanish Ranch next week, with a three million board feet deck on hand until woods operations can commence.