Newspaper Article
Contributed by: Nehemiah Bear of Blocksburg
Spring Weatner [sic] is Reported in Southern Area
This article appeared in the Humboldt Standard, January 6, 1920.
Blocksburg, Jan. 4 - Christmas morning the rain clouds dispersed and since that time we have had beautiful weather, sunny and cloudless, until today. The mornings are white with frost, but the days are balmy and more like spring.
The entertainment and Christmas tree on December 24 were as usual enjoyed by all the audience, as also was a very jolly well-attended dance on Christmas night, surely showing "peace and good will."
There were quite a number of outside visitors, several from Bandon, Oregon, and all seemed to have a good time.
So pleasant was Sunday, December 28, that Roscoe Hope took a party of nine to Dobbyns Creek salmon fishing, but the fishing was not good. However a pleasant picnic dinner was enjoyed.
Miss Dorothy Murphy was quietly married in Santa Rosa about New Years to Guy Muir of Willits. They have been friends since before the war, from which he has not long returned, Germany being his last residence.
Mr. Cooper still runs his machine to Fort Seward to meet the mail.
Mr. and Mrs Hosler gave a young people's party on December 31, as a farewell to Harold Prior who left on January 1, 1920 to enter the Eureka high school. A most enjoyable time was the universal report.
The pleasant weather of the latter part of the year came in time to be of benefit to all stock men and enable feed to grow.
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