Remember When

120 years ago
Henry Berman has had three cork palm trees planted in front of his saloon and will probably make enough corks to supply his trade.

120 years ago
Emerson has had his own lumberyard fenced in with a light board fence. Many think he has a notion to start a baseball club in the near future.

120 years ago
Cats. The town is overrun with them and they are strong-lunged and the greatest disturbers of the peaceful dreams of citizens, say possibly members of the rising generation, known as the “Youngbloods.” The latter, however, evade the law while Tom cat and mate do not. Their privileges should be curtailed and the board petitioned to offer a bounty for scalps.

120 years ago
One of the meanest thieves on record is Michael Burns, whom officers in San Francisco have arrested for stealing the ear trumpet of a deaf man.