Remember When

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

The Portola Fire Department has new officers and were installed at the annual banquet held at the Red Feather Cabaret. Installed was Chief James Johnson, assistant chiefs Andy Freeman and Jesse Roberts and secretary/treasurer J.M. Turner.

Plumas County old timers who talk about the winter of 1889-1890 have another one to talk about and it is the current winter which recorded the lowest temperature in history--28 degrees below zero on Friday and 22 degrees below zero on Thursday morning.

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

J.F. Hoke, beginning his third four-year term as a Plumas County Board of Supervisor member representing Beckwith Township, was elected chairman of the board this week.

Arriving in Portola on New Year's day in a chartered train car, 23 winter sports fans from Stockton spent the day there tobogganing, skiing and snowballing and returned to their valley homes on the evening train, a tired and happy crowd.

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

A Plumas County white Christmas arrived a day late when areas of the county received from two to six inches of snow on December 26 and 27. Automobile traffic for holiday travelers were kept moving freely through the combined efforts of the state and county plow crews.

California automobile license plates for 1937 will be issued starting Saturday at the Plumas County courthouse. Personal checks will not be accepts--cash only.

Advertisement: New Years Eve Fireman's Ball December 31 at the Legion Hall in Quincy. Music provided by Louis's Reno Dance Band--admission $1.00.

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

Advertisement: Order your fresh Christmas turkeys now. Other Christmas dinner items on special this week: veal roast 14 cents per pound, 25 pound sack of potatoes 62 cents, celery 10 cents a bunch, mayonnaise 32 cents a jar, walnuts 23 cents per pound, shortening 12 cents a tin, canned pineapple 13 cents.

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

Lack of snow to date has resulted in ideal skating conditions on the river ponds throughout Plumas.

Lights were turned on this week on the thirty foot outdoor Christmas tree placed in the courthouse square.