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NEW OFFICERS FOR 2413
ELECTED ON DEC. lst
As usual, new Officers were chosen in
conjunction with our annual Election of
Officers and dinner, held at the Vet's Hall in
Nevada City.
XNGH Randy Burk prepared a great
Mexican Enchilada dinnet with
all
the
trimmings. We have the best-fed Board of
Directors in all of Clamperdom! Just make a
"gut check" sometime!
Election Results
As always, nominations for election to
office came from the floor and the only
qualifications for office were a demonstrated
in
getting things done for the
Chapter, and for the office of NGH, having
served as Recorder or First or Second Vice
interest
NGH.
Election Proctors again were XNGHs
Brian White and Tyler Souter. (Tyler
absented himself from the counting for lst
Vice Humbug.)
Our new NGH Daniel '.bluzz" Miller, and the Officers and Directors of Chapter 10 invite
all Redshirts to come to our 44th annual Sweetheart's Ball. It will take place at the SAME
LOCATION as last year. We will again have use of the St. Canice Church Hall. Lots of parking
and a great kitchen. To get there, take Hwy. 49 to the Gold Flat Road exit, between Grass
Vallev and Nevada City. Exit to the northwest side of the freeway and then turn risht on Zion.
Go a short distance to Reward Street on
BOK KAI FESTIVAL
The 133rd Bok Kai Parade will take
place, rain or shine, on Saturday, Mar. 16,
2013 in downtown Marysville. A long time
tradition for Chapter Ten is our participation
in this fun, family-oriented parade.
The Chinese community considers Bok
Eye the god of the North and he is said to be
the Chinese god of water whose powers have
successfully prevented Marysville from being
flooded when all surrounding communities
have sustained near-ruinous flooding
Noble Grand Humbug
Daniel "buzz" Miller, Grass Valley
lst Vice Noble Grand Humbug
XNGH Tyler Souter, Grass Valley
2nd Vice Noble Grand Humbug
Jeffro Winge, Grass Valley
Grand Noble Recorder
SWEETHEARTS BALL IN
GRASS VALLEY ON FEBRUARY 23,d, 2013
44th ANNUAL
/
as
recently as 1997. Tradition has it that it never
rains on the Bok Kai Parade.
The Bok Kai Temple is on the SW
corner
of First
and
D
Streets, and was
dedicated in 1880, replacing the previous one
built in the mid 1850s. It contains some very
beautiful and rare painted murals considered
to be among the best in the world. One expert
from the Getty Conservation Institute found
"the quality and execution of the
scenes
Gold Dust Receiver
Jason Thom, Penn Valley
equal to the few Taoist pairttings in American
museum collections."
When the long-needed restoration of the
DamnFool Doorkeeper #1
Michael Antrobus, Yuba City
temple was called for, the entire community
joined to help. Some funding came from the
National Trust for Historic Preservation.
DamnFool Doorkeeper #2
(chosen by DFDK #l)
Kenny Gillam, Smartsville
Grand Clamp Parade Mastcr
XNGH Gary Wright, Olivehurst
Grand Impertorbable Hangman
General Lee Cypher, Santa Rosa
will be installed at the
Sweetheart's Ball on Feb.23rd.
These officers
The Bok Kai festival is closely associated
with dragons, who also have power over
rivers, waters and floods. Visitors,
especially children,
and
will be delighted by the
antics of the colorful 175 footJong dragon
during the parade, along with the sounds of
the many firecrackers being set off by the
your left. St. Canice Hall is at the end of
Reward Street. NGH buzz says, "Don't miss
this one!" This event will be available by
ADVANCE RESERVATION ONLY, due to
the need to know how much food to prepare,
and will be limited to the first 200 entries,
due to the somewhat limited space available
at the hall. We will have only enough tables
and chairs for 200.
The cost for this extravaganza will be
tlre same as last year, $60 a couple and $35
for Stags. This includes a buffet dinner,
dancing and all the fun you can squeeze into
an evening. We will have a great costume
contest for the ladies, and another one of
Chapter Ten's big raffles, with lots of
goodies to be won! Please patronize the
Hawker and the Raffle sales!
We will have a live band this year for
your dancing and listening fun.
We'll be running the Bar again this
year with Director John Edens pouring the
shots. The bar opens at 4:30 PM and closes
at 9:00 PM.
Important stuff! Due to the church hall
being in a residential area, we must clear the
hall by TDN pm. The music will stop at 9:30
or so. We will, consequently, start at 4:30 pm
with dinner at 5:30 pm.
Please plan
accordingly so you don't miss dinner!
Send paperwork
to the
Chapter Ten
Recorder at the address below:
parade participants.
GNR/GDR XNGH Jason Thorn
P.O. Box 843
Penn Valley,CA95946
(Ironically, Vallejo would later become a
prisoner at Sutter's Fort and would spend
some time as Suttet's "guest" when Vallejo
and some of his relatives were taken prisoner
by U.S. Milinry officials during the U.S.-
A SHORT
HISTORY OF E
CLAMPUS VITUS
EARLY VALLEY SETTLERS
Here's another departure from the usual
fare we present here in the newsletter. We
look this time at some history of the early
settlement of the Sacramento Valley. Material
the
appeared
for this article first
in
Guidebook for TRASH XXXMI 2007,
which was mostly written and edited by Tom
Barry, who was the TRASH kader.
John A. Sutter
Other than those of the native Americans
living there, the fact is that there was not a
in the Sacramento or San
Joaquin Valleys in l84l other than that of
single house
John Augustus Sutter. Since his arrival in
August 1839, to the site of his settlement, he
had built one adobe house and a few huts, but
his fort would not be completed for some
time. Eventually it would be surrounded by,
according to one historian, three-foot thick
walls, eighteen feet high, enclosing a space
one hundred fifty feet by five hundred feet.
Other authorities give the dimensions of the
fort as "some 200 feet square, the walls were
some 12 to 16 feet high, and provided two
emplacements for cannon - one in the east
and one in the west." Maps drawn at the time
show that the first description is accurate, and
the second quite far off from the actual
dimensions.
In the spring of 1840, only a few months
after his arrival in the valley, under the orders
of Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, Sutter
and many other early settlers were arrested
and taken to Monterey, where they were to be
transported to Merico. This action was an
outgrowth of the in fighting of the Mexican
Government in California. The native-born
Californios wanted to establish a separate
republic in Califomia, not under Mexican
rule. But some of the Californios were
becoming concerned by the increasing
amount of immigrants coming into
California. They feared a takeover by
practically any of the nations who had sent
visitors and adventurers to California,
particularly the British and the French. Even
the Russians could have done so at almost
any time, using their setflement at Fort Ross
as a base. Other Californios, such as Mariano
G. Vallejo, felt that men loyal to
the
Californios, such as Sutter, would prove
beneficial to the government by their
presence, which might help deter takeovers.
A single ship from any of the outsiders could
have taken California from the Californios,
who had no real defense.
Sutter was held briefly
"in
Mariano G. Vallejo's rancho
custody" at
in
Sonoma,
where the generous and always gentlemanly
Vallejo treated him like a guest.
Mexican War in 1846. Vallejo was not treated
with the utmost respect, as Sutter and Frdmont
were both away from thc fort at thc time, and
Is. Edward M. Keru, appointed. by Frimont to
tale charge of the prisoners,felt the prisoners
were being teated too well by John Bidwell,
ann din not know of the kind rebrtonship
between Sutter and Vallejo, who was heW for
about a month in miserable conditions.)
With some intervention by Dr. John Marsh,
himself arrested at Monterey for several days,
and Thomas O. l-arkin, the matter of Sutter's
loyalty was resolved to the apparent
satisfaction of all. After about two weeks,
some of those arrested, perhaps forty or so,
were taken by ship out of Monterey Bay.
Sutter was allowed to become a Mexican
citizen and, from Governor Alvarado, obtain
the land grant for his settlement in
the
Sacramento Valley. He was even looked upon
minor official of the govemment.
Sutter then had the tacit blessing of the
Mexican government to encourage settlers to
the Sacramento Valley, where they could
as a
establish claims
assistance and
on land grants, with his
good offices practically
were truly pioneers, breaking ground that had
never seen the plow, raising houses on land that
had never held inhabitants other than temporary
visits by Indians. Often risking, and in some
cases, giving, their lives to win the land; to live
freely on their own terms, these
Presented here are only a few of the more
recognizable names in early Sacramento Valley
history, concentrating on those in the interior of
the valley and in the immediate vicinity of New
Helvetia. Many early land grants in the northern
and western parts of the Sacramento Valley were
given in the period from 1843 to 1845. Grants
were made on both sides of the Sacramento River
all the way to present day Redding. To list all the
early settlers is far beyond the scope of this guide.
Suffice it to say that Sutter had many neighbors
within a day or two's ride within a few years of
his pioneering efforts in the central Sacramento
Valley.
Nicolas Allgeier
Allgeier (perhaps correct spelling is Altgeier)
was a German trapper with the Hudson's Bay
Company, who came by land from Oregon and
worked for Sutter at New Helvetia. He often
quarrelled with Sutter, who once accused him of
having tried to kill him. However, he was not
discharged by Sutter as threatened. It was in
Sutter's best interest to work with Allgeier,
guaranteeing their approval. Sutter also loaned,
gave or sold some of his land to many new
Rhett Reddeye, ECV
arrivals to help them become established. He
by Bro. Ben
had, himself, located
a site for his "Hock
people
constituted the nucleus of American California.
Farm" on the Feather River some time in 1840.
Some thi*y-five miles north of his fort, it
would become an important part of Sutter's
life when things went honibly wrong soon
after the Gold Rush began. Mexican law at the
time limited land grants to eleven leagues, but
Sutter's original map of his requested land
contained over fifty leagues. His map, drawn
in 1841 by Captain Jean Vioget, a seaman and
Swiss by birth, would prove to be very
troublesome
in later years, as the
t?
southern
boundary was in error as to the correct latitude,
and would be disputed in the courts by some
who believed Sutter did not have title to all the
land he claimed. Vioget's delineation of the
boundary placed it north of the American
River, thus providing an opening for many to
claim that Sutter did not possess authority over
property in Sacramento City.
Sutter later applied
for a grant of
the
sobranie, or excess lands adjoining his in the
name of his son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr.,
who, by Mexican law, was also considered to
be a citizen because of his father's status as a
Mexican citizen. Sutter, Jr. would not arrive at
New Helvetia until September of 1848, some
eight months after James Marshall's discovery
of gold, but he was able to pay off almost all of
his father's debts by selling lots in the city he
would found; Sacramento.
Sutter would soon have many more
neighbors than one might imagine, as the
interior of California was almost as unknown
as the interior of Africa. But these newcomers
t,,
"Hey, Zeke! Tell them guys in the
mother ship that you can't leave
without yer hat and a couple
bottles of Panther Piss!"
thereby providing benefits for both of them.
ln lUZ, Allgeier got from Sutter a tract of
land on the Feather River just below the Bear
River, where he managed a ferry at the
crossing to allow traffic between Sutter's
Fort and his Hock Farm, a little further than
ten miles north up the Feather. Allgeier first
built a house of poles and thatch, then later,
an adobe. Soon, a settlement took shape, and
it
was one of only two settlements north of
New Helvetia until about 1848. Today, the
town of Nicholaus bears his name. He lived
on his rancho till at least l&49 and was still
living in 1860.
John Bidwell
John Bidwell arrived in the valley with the
Bidwell-Bartleson Party, finally reaching the
ranch of "Dr." John Marsh, near Mt. Diablo
on
November
4th, l%l . After
some
tannery operators, horse and cattle hands, etc.
Bidwell had the opportunity to do a lot of
traveling for Sutter in the course of his
employment, and he visited a saw pit in the
mountains, about forty miles from New
Helvetia, ostensibly to provide instructions to
the sawyers as the specifications of lumber
needed at the Fort. He took advantage of this
time to do a small bit of exploring for gold, but
was unsuccessful. He would later discover, after
Marshall's famous findings, that the place he
had looked over in that spring of 1845, would
be the site of some of the richest finds of large
nuggets. The place was south of the Cosumnes
and Mokelumne Rivers, about forty miles south
of the Marshall Discovery site on the American.
Bidwell later applied for and was granted a
rancho on the Sacramento River far downstream
from Sutter's, as well as another one in Colusa
County, but there is no evidence that he ever
in
difficulties with the Mexican
lived
not having obtained permission to enter
Mexican Territory, the men were able to
Sacramento Valley, where he would make a
valuable gold strike which made him a wealthy
man, and later buy a rancho from someone else
on the site of present-day Chico, and make it his
home until his death.
authorities
concerning the group's lack of passports, and
begin their lives in California.
John Bidwell would become one of
Sutter's most valualrle and trusted employees.
One of his first jobs for Sutter was to take
over the job of transferring all things of value
from Fort Ross, which Sutter had purchased
in December of 1841. In the spring of 18y':2.
Bidwell replaced Robert Ridley, whom Sutter
had originally given the job. Included in the
transfer were cattle and horses, which were
moved in a herd to the valley. Bidwell also
saw to the harvesting and drying of fruit from
the orchard, the dismantling of
wooden
structures to salvage the lumber and any and
all tools, blacksmith equipment, etc. Other
property included a small vessel that Sutter
would use as a launch to transport goods back
and forth to Yerba Buena. Into the launch
Bidwell loaded some forty or so old rusty
cannon and several small brass pieces along
with a quantity of old French flintlock rifles.
These were all removed to the fort. In the
spring of 1843, Bidwell then went to Sutter's
Hock Farm and supervised the construction
of the adobe
house there. He established
orchards and otherwise improved the land. It
was while working at the Hock Farm that
Bidwell would hear Pablo Gutierrez's claims
of having found gold on the Bear
River.
Bidwell stayed about fourteen months
at
Hock Farm, then after a short while, in early
spring
of
1845, went
to visit the mines
discovered by Baptiste Rouelle near the
Mission of San Fernando, about fifty miles
from Los Angeles. He was unimpressed wit}
the mining methods there and returned to
Sutter's employ the same spring. He became
Sutter's confidante, bookkeeper and general
businessman. Sutter's finances were, as usual.
in a bad way, partly due to his generosity to
guests and his proclivity to hire almost any
visitor who had any sort of skill. Bidwell
notes that Sutter employed from 100 to 500
men at various times during the year, the
most being at harvest time. He had need for
most of the mechanics that showed up at his
fort, be
it for
woodworking, ironworking,
either location. After selling those
places, he would explore the northern part of the
Theodore Cordua, George Patterson,
Theodore Sicard, Jack Smith and Claude
Chana
Theodore Cordua, a native of Mecklenburg,
entered into
a
lease,
for
nineteen years, on a
tract of land from Sutter in 1842. The location
where he built his adobe home, a storehouse, a
culinary department and other outbuildings was
where the beginnings of the present-day city of
Marysville now stand, at the foot of D Street.
Cordua called it New Mecklenburg, but the
surrounding people preferred Cordua's Ranch.
Cordua made friendly alliances with the Indians
in the locale, and with the help of their labors he
Smith sold the center portion of the tract to
George Patterson. It is interesting to note the
backgrounds of many of the early settlers in
the valley. As were so many others, both Smith
and Patterson were former sailors. Smith had
found employment with Sutter upon his arrival
in the valley. Patterson had come to California
in 1841 on board a ship of the Hudson's Bay
Company. He jumped ship in San Francisco
Bay and took refuge on Goat Island. He
eventually came to the central valley; he, too,
finding work with Sutter.
Another sailor was Frenchman Theodore
Sicard, who first came to California in 1835,
later remaining in the country and working for
John Sutter at the Hock Farm when it was first
established. He was replaced in the spring of
1843
by John Bidwell, who saw to
of an adobe house and
construction
the
the
of some orchards at the farm.
Sicard later petitioned for a land grant and
received four leagues of land on the south side
of the Bear River. He made a settlement on his
establishment
property about one-half mile above what
would later be known as Johnson's Crossing.
Sicard's property was directly across the Bear
River from perhaps the most anticipated and
sought after-destination for early overland
immigrants to California; Johnson's Ranch.
Purchased from the estate of the deceased
Pablo Gutierrez for $150 by William Johnson
and Sebastian Keyser, Johnson's Ranch was
the first white settlement the emigrants over
the Truckee River Route would encounter, and
it would be there that the rescue missions for
the Donner Party would prepare for the four
trips to Truckee Lake (now Donner Lake) to
bring out the survivors of one of the most
famous and tragic stories of hardship and
deprivation in the annals of the western
emigration.
Other settlers
Cordua was able to obtain a land grant of seven
leagues adjoining the leased land he already
worked. When the traffic of early travelers
between the northern and southern parts of the
valley warranted, he established a trading post,
in this area above Sutter's
New Helvetia included Michael C. Nye, who
had arrived with the Bidwell-Bartleson Party,
and Claude Chana, a Frenchman who had
come to New Orleans in 1839. He was a very
early settler of St. Charles, Missouri in 1841,
and had heard there of the wonderful climate
stocked from Yerba Buena and some of the
lower settlements in the valley. His business
property
was able to op€rate a successful stock ranch and
farming operation.
In
December
of lU4,
grew steadily, and he even expofied some of his
products to the Hawaiian Islands. In 1847, he
had fifteen or twenty workers, both Indian and
white, including one Charles Covillaud, who
was a mechanic and overseer. Cordua had about
ten or twelve thousand cattle and five hundred
wild horses, used mainly for the shearing of
their manes and tails to make "hair ropes."
In
1845, George Patterson settled on the
south side of the Yuba River, opposite Cordua's
land on a lease of property from Sutter. Jack
Smith also lived on the property at one time and
the place became known as "Sutter's Gardens."
This was perhaps a misnomer, as the place was
cultivated to the least extent possible to comply
with the lease conditions. In 1844, Smith had
obtained a grant of the land, by purchase, from
Sutter. This land on the south side of the Yuba
River would become the site of the town of
Linda, just south of present-day Marysville.
in California. He sold his
in Missouri and, in 1846, joined a
huge wagon train bound for the west,
and conditions
consisting of five hundred wagons and over a
thousand men.
Not all the wagons
were
Califomia bound; they had organized into
groups according to their destination, be it
Oregon, Utah, etc. The California bound group
arrived at Bear River in October of 1846.
Chana found work with Sutter as a cooper,
making water tanks, barrels, chums, pails, and
so on for settlers throughout the valley.
Charles Covillaud, arriving with the same
California train, and Michael C. Nye entered
employment with Theodore Cordua.
Charles Covillaud would later have some
success as a miner on the Yuba River and
would buy some land from Cordua to lay out
and build a town, Marysville, at the confluence
of the Yuba and Feather Rivers which he
named for his new wife, Mary Murphy
Johnson Covillaud, a Donner party survivor
IUORE SHORT HISTORY
of William Johnson of
and former wife
Johnson's Ranch. Mary had been married to
Johnson only a short time after her rescue
from the icy prison that was the campsite at
Lake Truckee (now Donner Late). She soon
realized that her marriage, which
she
thought would enable her, an orphan with no
means of support, to start a new life in the
west, was a failure. Johnson proved to be a
very poor choice for a husband, as he was a
drunken sot most of the time, and would not
give up his relationships with t}le several
Indian women he had developed over his
time living on the ranch. Mary was
introduced to Charles Covillaud and was
convinced to seek an annulment of her
marriage to Johnson, which she obtained.
Slowly but surely, the regions north of
New Helvetia grew as more and more
settlers arrived from the south and east.
Even Baptiste Rouelle, early discoverer of
gold in the mountains near the Mission of
San Fernando, settled near Sutter's Garden
on the south bank of the Yuba River in
tu1.
Sloughhouse on the Cosumnes
Just after John Sutter established his
ranch/fort on the American River around
1840, he began attracting mechanics and
other workmen to work for him. He had
need of all kinds of talented, hard-working
people. Among those early employees were
Jared Dixon Sheldon and William Daylor.
Sheldon had been working for the Mexican
in Monterey, erecting buildings,
setting up mills, and repairing any and all kinds
of things requiring a person with knowledge of
tools. Sheldon had met Daylor when he pulled
the English sailor out of Monterey Bay; after he
had either jumped ship, or had been thrown
overboard. Nonetheless, their friendship
government
resulted in the establishment of one of the
earliest communities outside of New Helvetia.
Sheldon, having money owed to him for his
work for the Mexicans, decided to take a land
grant and establish a ranch near Sutter. While
working for Sutter, the two men spied their
perfect spot; the Cosumnes River Valley in what
is now known as Sloughhouse. Sheldon got the
land grant and continued working for others in
What's the Difference?
You have probably noticed some
in the makeup and typestyles in
this issue of our little newsletter. This is due
to the transfer of publication of this document
from my 1998 IMac OS9 computer to my
newer IMac System l0 setup. The program I
had become so comfortable with over the
years (Appleworks) is not supported by the
new computer, and both of the printers for
my old IMac decided to take a dump on me at
the same time. It is practically impossible to
differences
get new printers that are
backwards
the Bay Area to buy cattle, sheep and other
needed things for the ranch. Daylor stayed on
the ranch, making fences, corrals, buildings for
compatible with the System 9 setup, and I
didn't want to take a chance on a used or
"remanufactured" printer. The result is that I
can prepare the newsletter on my old
computer, but can't print it or even send it to
someone who could transfer the material to a
their homes, as well as establishing a good
working relationship with the native Indians
Appleworks any more. My newer IMac has
marriageable young sisters somewhat nearby
(near present-day Galt) and by 1841 , the men
proceeded to develop a little community around
them, including some relatives of their wives.
link one text box to another yet, so I have to
living in the little valley. It was a very
successful enterprise, with both men finding
Sloughhouse remains today.
More history next time, so take care
keep Clamping!
*
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and
newer program. Nobody
in future versions.
I
haven't learned how to
start a new text box and type from one to the
other, with no automatic flow from one to the
other. I have spent a couple of days on this
task, and I am beginning to believe that, like
an old dog, I am unable to learn new tricks.
I'll keep at it and hopefully the next issue
will once again meet my standards. Either
that, or I'll lower my standards! Tom.
HEWGACT-MONITOn
71r!t!, Aviara Place
Sacramerrto. CA gsstlaotr
(Note: This address is for
the newsletter only!J
See insert inside for
Recorder's address.
First Class Mail
133'd Annual Bok Kai Parade in
Marysville.
Sat. Mar. 16th, 2013 1 1:00 am
Meet: Stassi Fourth Ward Tavern
102 7th St., Marysville around 9:39 am
uses
MS Office and I decided to take a flyer and
try to learn enough about it to do this issue of
the newsletter on it. The type sizes are
different (too small,I think) and will be fixed
"Hi
Mardi Gras Parade in Nevada City on
Sunday, February 10th. 2 pm.
I know
Wttllam Bull Meelr - TYilllam lllorrls Stewart
Chapter Ten, E Ctampus Yitus
is pleased to announce our
44th Annual Sweetheart's Ball Clampyear 6018
To be held at the St. Canice Church Hall on Feb, 23rd,2013n beginning at 4:30 pm, followed by a fantastic
buffet dinner at 5:30 pm. This is the same location as last year. We will have a live band this year, so bring your
dancin' shoes (or brogans)! New officers for Clampyear 6018 will be installed during a brief, tear-filled ceremony.
For the first time in quite a while, there is no conflict with the LSD #3 Bean Feed on this date. Come on up and
enjoy the day looking around the area, then party with new NGH Daniel"buzz" Miller and the rest of us!
Chef XNGH Randy Burk and his Cook Crew will prepare another one of the delectable meals you have come to
expect from his kitchen and extraordinary crew.
The price will be the same as last year, too: only $60.00 a couple! We will admit Stags at $35 each. "Honest"
John Edens and his crew of libationists will be dispensing "Timbuctoo Tea, Smartsville Sassafrass," and other
medicinal beverages beginning at 43A pm. Water and soft drinks will also be available. Be sure to have a designated
sober driver for the evening.
To get there, take Hwy. 49 to Gold Flat Road, which is between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Exit to the
northwest and turn right on Zion Street. Go a couple of short blocks and turn left on Reward Street. The hall is at the
end of the street at236 Reward Street. You can't miss it, as they say.
St. Canice is a small venuen and we must therefore limit this event to the first 100 couples, or 200 people. We also
must have ADVANCE RESERVATIONS as we must know how much food to bring.
We recommend that you prepare for inclement weather, as we have had this event in the rain, snow and sleet that
can come at this time of the year in the Sierra.
We'll have a costume contest for the ladies, a great raffle, great food, and best of all, a great time dancing and
carrying on till ten pm, maybe even later!
Please identify any Non-Clamper guests for us, to avoid us putting them on our mailing list by mistake. They are
most welcome, however, and who knows, they may even want to join after they see how great a party we throw!
Don't forget to feed the Sick |ackass if
you can't make it! It costs big bucks to
get this out to you!
Thorn
p.O. Box g43
'NR/GDR
Penn Valleyo CA 95946
Jason
Get your reservetions to the Recorder by Mon. Feb. 18th,2013! Make checks oayable to ECY 10.
Here's my (our) Advance Remrvation gold dnst for the 44th Sweetheart's Ball in Grass Vatley!
Ticket Price-'..$eO per couple, $35 $tag. No tickeh sold at the door! Bring a guest couple to look us over!
Clamper's
Name
Widder's Name
Address
State-
City
Phone(
ZIP
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lf you bring a non-clamper guest conple, please fill out the following lines for them.
lf another Clamper couple is coming with you, please indicate'Clamper" below.
Guest's Name
Vlidder's Name
City
State-
Guest is a
02-2013
#I54
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Clamper!
YES
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(use back side
for more
names, if needed!)
NO