As we were: Big race at the Speedway

25 Years ago

Aug. 28, 1987

Camino’s Whitney has largest Speedway lead

Drivers in four classes will enter the homestretch at Placerville Speedway this Saturday night as sprint cars, modifieds, super stocks and street stocks tackle the quarter-mile oval. A series of heat races, trophy dashes, and main events will be held for each class. Warmups begin at 6 p.m. with racing planned for 6:45.

With just three races remaining in the 22-race regular season, competition remains close in all four divisions. Although each class has a clear leader after 19 weeks of racing, none of the division titles has been decided for 1987.

The largest gap exists in the super stock class where Camino’s Ray Whitney leads Sacramento’s Dennis Ahart by 53 points. Whitney has not yet claimed a main event but has been a consistent top-five finisher …

 

60 Years ago

Aug. 28, 1947

Ty Cobb Pays Fine of $25 Following Arrest On County Charge

Tyrus R. Cobb, major league baseball player a quarter century ago, paid a fine of $25 Friday before Justice of the Peace T. F. Lewis in pleading guilty to charges of violating county ordinance No. 113 (keeping too many chickens).

Cobb did not appear personally but was represented by Attorney T. S. Marlor, who explained to the magistrate that Mr. Cobb is not well, that the pending charge has added to his distress …

 

Fifty-Year Jewel Presented Coloman by Odd Fellows

Coloma Odd Fellows had an especially happy occasion during the past summer when they met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Papini to present Mr. Papini with a pin in recognition of his fifty years of membership in Coloma Lodge No. 27, I.O.O.F., of which he is a charter member …

Mr. Papini is a native of Lucca, Italy, and a member of an old Italian family. He was born in a home that had been occupied continuously by his family for seven hundred years and is a relative of Giavanni Papini author of “The Life of Christ.”

He arrived in the Coloma Valley in 1883 and worked at the famous Vineyard Hotel. Coloma at that period was a flourishing town and Mr. Papini states that the valley and town of Coloma was one of the most beautiful sights he had ever witnessed …

 

120 Years ago

Aug. 27, 1892

The Taylor mine is coming to the front as one of the best equipped milling plants in the State. Quite a village is springing up around it. The mill building and hoisting works machinery, electric light apparatus, etc., are of the most approved styles and of the most skilled workmanship. The timber yard is large and neat. Two daily stage lines connect the mine with Auburn and Placerville, and a telegraph office gives it still greater advantages of communications. Its water power is all that could be desired, coming from the California Water Company’s main canal, at a point just below Georgetown. The entire business is systematically and intelligently managed under the Chapman Bros … Georgetown Gazette