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4-Ukiah Dally Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Wednesday, December 3, 1975 Snider's life topic of book "No one was ever in too much af a burry to stop, and help a fellow when he needed a hand;" John Snider concludes in the preface to the book written about his life by, his sister, Vera Snider Teague of The book, "From Buckskin to Team has been published' by The Letter' Shop and is now available at the Revue, here. "I remember in the old Snider says in the preface of the book: "the contentment and happiness I felt while driving my four or sixhorse team, hauling freight. The rhythm of the bells was music to my ears. I didn't have care in the world.

Perhaps because I felt sure I could handle anything that was likely to happen. If I should need help it was sure to be found at the in next house along the way, or. on given by the next ones to come Snider is believed to be the last of the old-time teamsters and stage drivers from this area. 'His pioneer ancestors came to Laytonville a as early as' 1858, and his mother was born there. John grew up on a homestead in the hills near the community of Laytonville.

His life has been an active one. He began driving four and six-horse teams at an early age and spent many years hauling freight- which at times NEW BOOK Ukiahans John Snider and his wife, Zola, seated at left, examine the first copies of the book "From Buckskin' to Team Bells" hot off the presses at The Letter Shop. The book is about John's life as a teamster, and has been written by his sister, Vera Teague. Mrs. Teague is seated at Romayne Martin, 80 busy decorator By CAROLYN COIL LOS ANGELES Anyone who wants keep up with Romayne Martin will have to be' Rein good physical condition.

Mrs. Martin, who, admits to A being "over 80," an interior whose clients are Escattered all over Southern California. When she gets a call from a client, she gets in her blue station wagon and drives there. And no job's too small for her. Mrs.

Martin says she likes to work with young people who are just beginning to buy furniture. "I keep them from making mistakes," she says. If newlyweds choose their sofa carefully, they'll' never have to buy another. They can just keep recovering it. Mrs.

Martin doesn't like groups or sectionals as they are too hard to rearrange. And before she buys a sofa for a client, she always. checks the' husband's height. She wants to-be sure the sofa -is long enough for the man to stretch out on. Some of her furniture, she says, has been in her family for five generations.

Oriental touches scattered throughout the 50-year-old house were collected by her ancestors who sailed clipper ships to China. Other ancestors came west. and provided their descendants with Indian artifacts. The house with its wood paneling and stone entryway the second one built in Palos Verdes, says Mrs. Martin, adding that the trees blocking her view were Sones she and her husband' It was after her husband's death in 1928 that Mrs.

Martin went to work. 461 found myself with a house to pay for and two children," says Mrs. Martin. "I told 'my mother I was going to apply for a job as a decorator. I told her, that if I' thought about it, I'd never do it." She applied for the job at' Bullock's and got it.

"I told them I'd had a fine education, traveled. a lot and always ran things," she says. Education played a big part in her life. Mrs. Martin believes it was her fine education, plus exposure all her life beautiful things, that got her that first job.

As a young girl, Mrs. Martin was sent dancing school, carpentry, cooking school and the Boston Conservatory of Music. She also studied French, Latin and Greek, each for five years. When she graduated, her mother sent her to Europe with her own, money to manage and an' aunt as chaperon. And she lived surrounded by old and beautiful things.

Her neighbors were descendants of Revere. Their house was filled with their ancestor's silver. At home dinner often was served from antique dishes, which Mrs. Martin still uses. "I never even saw any Victorian furniture," says Mrs.

Martin, as she talks about the homes she' visited while growing up. "'The furniture was all older. "I lived a very formal life. We: always dressed for dinner." But she was so shy as a young girl her mother was advised to help her daughter overcome her shyness by putting her in a school where she knew no one. Mrs.

Martin says she's felt comfortable anywhere ever since. The secret, she says, smiling, is not to take herself seriously. When she tired of taking her children to school every day in Redondo Beach because there were. schools in Palos Verdes, she got busy and organized one. O.

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Artists plan holiday buffet plan included dynamite- over' the County. He also was a farmer roughest roads imaginable: and rancher, here, 'over the During his teamster career he years. hauled equipment to the mines Now 86 years of age, John Trinity County; shingle bolts lives at 317 Main Street, sleds over skid roads 'in. Ukiah, Humboldt peeled and His' sister has compiled the transported tanoak bark, drove. many stories of his adventures; stage carried mail, and her son, 'Don hunted, trapped and helped Madden, has done the sketches make roads in Mendocino for the book.

Mendocino-Lake FAMILY LIFE Fae Woodward the right and her husband, George Teague, stands beside Dolores Shannon, owner of The Letter Shop. The sketch of the team bells, on the cover of the book, and other sketches of the scenes from John's life are the work of Vera's son, Don Raphael Madden. -Journal photo by Fae 1' 8 at NEW PLANTERS Mrs. Lloyd Curtiss checks one of the many plants, members of Ukiah Garden Club have prepared for the club's annual Christmas tea and sale, in a new wall bracket that also will be on sale with 'other Christmas gifts and decorations Dec. 7 at the Garden House, 1203 W.

Clay Street. 'The new wall brackets, designed by 'Alan Disney, each have a mirror like the one above. Many new Christmas gift ideas have been prepared this year by club members, along with new and traditional Christmas decorations for which the Garden Club has become so well-known. The Garden House is open each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from now through Dec. 7 for early shoppers.

Weekday hours are 9 a.m. to 3. The tea will be from 1 to 5 p.m..- Journal photo by Fae. BISQUE ALMONDINE For. a delectable and, decidedly dressy first -course, heat cream of mushroom soup with half the milk specified, some grated Monterey Jack or Muenster cheese and a drained can of crab meat: Serve with a sprinkling of sliced natural (unblanched) almonds.

Permanent Wave $5.50 includes Shampoo set a registered school UKIAH BEAUTY COLLEGE 810 N. State St. 462-8831 Student Work Only Christmas Sale BASKET dia. Reg. 3.00 For Planter, Vegetables APRONS nuts, fruits, etc.

$378. Reg. $4.10. PLACEMATS A NAPKINS to 228 218 1.96 to 2.90 ART vegetable and plant Ready to hang to. $5.00 501 S.

STATE: AMPLE FREE PARKING buffet The Coast And Valley sections of the Mendocino County Art Association will unite for a Christmas dinner party Sunday at the home of Donna. Miller, 555 Hazel Avenue. An invitation to Coast group has been "extended through Fort Bragg artist. Helen Florenzen. DeAtleys tell of troth Mr.

and Mrs. A.J. 'Pat" DeAtley, 32550 Gibney Lane, Fort Bragg, are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Rebecca to Gary Woeltge, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H.

Bruner, 102 E. Standley Street, Ukiah. Gary is a graduate of. Ukiah high school Class of '69; College of the Redwoods, Class of '71; and California State University at: Chico, Class of '73. He was employed by Johnny's Market as a bag boy, while attending high school; and worked in the Alex Thomas pear sheds during the summers while attending college.

Becky is Fort Bragg's AFS foreign exchange student to Australia, for 1970-71, and'. a graduate of Fort Bragg high school. 'The two 'are presently employed in Eureka. They plan to be married in late December at the home of Becky's parents in Fort Bragg. Dates to keep resentenn Dec.

4 Redwood Valley Grange bazaar and bakedgoods sale, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, corner of Church and Oak, streets. Dec. 4 New series meetings on "'The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" begins, 8 p.m., 235 Mirmonte, Lakeport (off Lakeshore, two blocks south of Hospital). Call 263-6825 or 279-4903.

Dec. 4 Meeting on needs of women returning to college, 11 a.m., Room 105, Fairgrounds interim campus, Mendocino Community College. Dec. 4 Mendo-Lake Chapter, California Credit Union League, 7:30 p.m., Broiler Steak House, $1 gift exchange. Dec.

4 Teenagers of the Moose, 7:30 p.m., 1282 S. State Street. Dec. Presbyterian, Women, 1:30 p.m. dessert, Bromley Hall.

and program, 2 p.m. Dec. 4 Business and Professional Women's Club, 7 p.m., House of Garner. 5 6 "'Nostalgia Pops 8 p.m., 'Bromley Hall, First Presbyterian Church. Tickets $1.75 for adults, $1 for children 12 and under.

Call 462- 2417. Dec. 5 6 Ukiah Co-Op Nursery Christmas 206 Pine Street, corner of Pine and Standley. Hours Friday, 6 to 10 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 12.

Dec. 5 Ukiah junior high drill team coffee break and bake sale, 9: a.m. to 4 p.m., Mendocino County Courthouse. Dec. 5 New series of meetings on "'The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" begins, 10 a.m., 2551 Blower Road, (off Soda Bay Road).

Call 263-6825 or 279-4903. Dec. 5 Rebekah sponsored card party, 7 p.m., home of Gertrude Nance, 401 Plum Street. Art Association. members, escorts and guests, will gather at' 4 p.m, for the winter festivities.

'In addition to a holiday buffet dinner there will be the. traditional gift exchange. Each person will take an "arty which is not to exceed $2 in value. Last year's party provided an entertaining array of interesting items such as a. one pound tube of painting medium, erasers; papers and the like.

Pat Hotchkiss is chairman of this year's party. Working with her are Donna Miller, who will do the decorations; Minnie McQueary and Ann Denham, who will help with decorations and arrangements; and Francine Bearden, who will work on the telephone committee and, assist with the food coordination. Any artist who has not been contacted or would like any more information about the Christmas party should call Pat at 485-8351. For, coordination of food artists call Francine at 462-4107. 4 'NOSTALGIA POPS CONCERT' Barbara Steadman and Helen Bjorklund, soloists for the "Nostalgia Pops Concert" Friday and Saturday, enjoy trying on hats from.

by-gone days. Costumes for the concert date from 1918 to 1928 as do the music and dances to be performed by a cast of more than 30. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. both nights at Bromley Hall, First. Presbyterian Church.

Tickets for adults will be $1.75 and for children 12 and under, $1. Journal photo by Fae Lady Bickford 1' honored in Eureka Former Ukiahan, now president of the Association. of the Ladies Auxiliary, Patriarchs Militant of California, International Order of Odd Fellows, Lady. Evelyn Bickford was honored recently at a reception in the Eureka Odd Fellows Temple. She was escorted" by her foster son, Albert Toland, past, master of the grand junior lodge, IOOF, also a former Ukiahan.

Mrs. Bickford and her' husband, the late Vernon 'Bickford, were Ukiah residents for many years. She is a past noble grand of Cornelia Rebekah Lodge and a member of Ukiah Auxiliary No. 7 to Ukiah Canton 7. Turners tell of new grandson 44 BRIDAL SHOWER Debbie Frazer, bride-elect of Bob Marson of Grass Valley, is shown opening gifts at a shower given in her honor by her mother, Ann Miller of Calpella, and her aunt, Glenna Pettit, at the Pettit home in Redwood Valley.

Shower decorations, which can be seen in the background, were in soft yellow and green and were the work of Sandi Pettit. The shower cake also was in yellow and green and had two hearts with 'Debbie's and Bob's name on them. Attending were Mrs. Vecile Laster, grandmother of the bride-to-be; Dorothy and Judy Laster, Pat and Raelene Duwe, Debbie Taylor, Louise Parker, Dorothy Pettit and Lynn Kirby. Gifts also were received from Phillis Vann, Betty and Lou Taylor.

Raelene Duwe was winner of a macrame hanging 'pot made by Glenna Pettit. 3. Dec. 6 7 Rummage Sale Dec. 7 Annual benefiting Calpella classroom, 9 tea and sale of Ukiah Garden a.m.

to 5 p.m., office building Club, 1 to 5 p.m., Garden House, next door to the Prescription 1203 W. Clay Street. Center, corner of State and" Dec. 8 Visit of Rebekah. Gobbi 'streets.

Assembly president, Dolly Dec. Women of the Moose Teutschman, 6:30 p.m., Ukiah 816 birthday and anniversary Grange Hall. Dinner $2.75. Predinner-dance, 7. p.m., Moose reservations due Dec.

4: hall, 1282 S. State Street. Din- Alice Hoover, 660 Leslie Street, ner, $3, 7 to 9 p.m.; dancing 9 Space 42. p.m, to 1 a.m. Dec.

9 Theta Eta Chapter, Dec. 6 Willits Soroptimists' Beta Sigma Phi, 8 p.m., home of holiday community benefit, 6 Karen Bua, 203 Laws Avenue. p.m., Willits Community Dec. 11 Ukiah Fire Belles Center: candy sale, 10 a.m. to 9 Dec.

6-- Bi-County Advocates front of J.C. Penney's 'Store. of Community Concern, 2 p.m., Ukiah Community: Center, 225 E. Perkins Street. Dec.

6 Christmas Magic bazaar, 9 a.m, to 6 p.m. at Home Federal community room. Santa's hours; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.' Beautiful Selection Off CARDIGAN SWEATERS Select Your Favorite Style A good assortment of colors. Belge, white, black, champagne, and, more.

Priced From JUST $1395 ARRIVED Gift wrapping Tool LORNA'S BOUTIQUE .107 S. School St. DOWNTOWN UKIAH Former residents of Ukiah, Mr. and Charles "Chuck" "Turner, who now reside in King City, have received word of a new grandson, born to Mr. and Mrs.

Mike Turner, with the U.S. Army in El Paso, Tex. The baby, which weighed seven pounds and 13 ounces, was 20 inches long, His parents reported. They have named him Lloyd Anthony Turner. The baby's maternal grandparents are Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Walker of Modesto and Mr. and Mrs. Ashley of Stockton. HARRIS PHARMACY HOME DELIVERY OPEN: -Fri.

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