Susanville Store Hit by Burglars July 18, 1950 Office of the Miller’s Market on lower Main Street was robbed of over $3,100 sometime Friday night. Using a ladder left by workmen the day before when they were installing coolers, the thieves entered the store by cutting...

Telephone Company To Expand Lines July 17th, 1929 Announcing an extensive construction program at Susanville yesterday, officials of the Nevada, California and Oregon Telephone and Telegraph Company, said a new copper circuit to Reno will be installed, providing a faster service and relieving the present...

Lassen County Free From Alfalfa Pest July 16th, 1924 Entomologist Enow of the United States Department of agriculture has just completed a survey of Honey Lake valley for alfalfa weevil, but he was unable to find any trace of the pest. In addition to this, the...

Notice Inviting Bids For Constructing Susanville Town Hall-Fire House July 13, 1923 Notice is hereby given that the Town of Susanville will receive sealed bids for the construction of its town hall-fire house. Said bids must be marked “Bids on New Town Hall,” and addressed...

Shots Fired Over Labor Dispute in Lumber Town July 12th, 1938 Striking members of the Committee for Industrial Organization’s Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union were driven from this northern California lumber town Wednesday after a fierce fight in which one man was shot and 30 others...

Gas Truck Driver Averts Tragedy July 11, 1937 The quick action of Don Gott, a truck driver for the Union Oil company, this morning prevented what might have been a tragedy when the truck he was driving turned over spilling gasoline, after colliding with a...

Ejected Union Crowd Flocks To Susanville 31 Injured When Mob Drives Strikers From Westwood July 10, 1938 Angered residents of this Red River Lumber Company town tonight dragged suspected C. I. O. members or sympathizers before a kangaroo court for “trial” in continuing a purge...

Notes from Susanville July 9th, 1940 Frank C. O’Kelly, for many years a stockman and dairyman of Lassen County, Calif., spent last Sunday in Fallon on various business matters and one of them was to promote interest in the forthcoming Lassen county Livestock Show to be...

Lassenite Plays For Junior Title July 6th, 1950 Lynn Barry, daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Hardin Barry of Susanville, will play in a tennis tournament in Mill Valley July 15 for the California State Junior championship, for the players under 18 years of age. The winner...

Blaze Razes Lassen Hotel Night Clerk Reported Missing; Fire Damage Estimated at $500,000 July 5th, 1947 Firemen yesterday evening probed the smoldering ruins by a $5000,000 fire in Susanville, searching for the body of a missing hotel clerk who is believed to have perished in...

Lassen Attorney Recovering From Gunshot Wounds “More Bullets Where First Came From” Says Gunman July 4th, 1953 Hardin Barry, a leading Susanville attorney, was yesterday believed recovering from two gunshot wounds inflicted under strange circumstances Friday afternoon. Held at Lassen County jail is Frank George Stifano,...