Our Town 100 Years Ago: April 1899, Part I

1 YEARS AGO - APRIL 1899, PART I: April of any year brings the promise of warmer weather, green fields and hills, and only a couple more months before the warm freedom of summer. Back in April of 1899, there were plenty of headlines with topics not far from what we see today. The following articles are taken as written, with edits for length, from the April editions of the Jefferson Valley Zephyr. The photo is an ad that appeared in several of those 1899 weekly papers.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE ASTONISH THE NATIVES NOT A LITTLE: Butte as usual had the hottest kind of an electi...