WE SAID in July 1942
Ad. In the Chico paper: “Berry pickers wanted. No high school girls need apply”.
School children are of value as workers if they have been brought up to work. Many have not the slightest idea that they owe every minute of their time they are on the payroll to their employer.
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Our work is never dull or boring. We discovered last week that an Oakland wholesaler had overpaid us $800.00 When we refunded this amount, they said they never would have discovered the error. The same day a lady who had sold us some hogs, came in and insisted we had purposely tried to beat her out of $20.00 on her hogs. And so it goes…something every minute.
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Our town was certainly not complimented last night. One of the ladies from Redding, who came down to play in the Badminton tournament, said that when she drove down Main street with her mother, her mother asked, “Is this Cottonwood?” I’ll admit we don’t have traffic lights like they do in Redding, but I insist our town is larger than Cottonwood.
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I want to thank the writer of the complimentary letter the editor published a few days ago. It is pleasant to receive occasionally orchids instead of skunk cabbage.
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How about having some genuine milk lamb for your Easter dinner? You can buy it at any of the following Red Bluff markets: Wentz’s, C and H Market, Kilpatric’s Market and Purity Market. It is no more expensive than good cuts of any other meat this year.
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When the Chautauqua used to come to town each summer, 25 people had to guarantee that the entertainers would receive a certain amount of money or else the guarantors would have to make up the deficit. My father was usually approached and told what a fine man he was in the community and that such men as he should consider it a privilege to be asked to guarantee the ticket sales. I could never see it and we had lots of arguments about it. I contended that worthwhile entertainers did not need subsidizing…that no one had to guarantee the circus when it came to town.
Dave Minch 1900-1964