Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Bluff City News

People are busy hauling tree limbs away from the ice storms. With so many limbs missing from the trees, it makes it seem like our neighbors are closer to us. Maybe the new leaves this spring will hide some of the scars, but some trees will not be able to recover.

Steve and Missy Beaver have purchased a new home near Holly Springs and will be leaving our community. We hate to see them leave, but wish for them the very best in their new location. They were honored with going away gifts and a luncheon at the Bluff City Church of Christ Sunday, Feb. 11.

Mrs. Annie Helen Lampkin Hackney passed away on Feb. 6. Funeral services were Friday, Feb. 10, with burial in Bluff City Cemetery.

In honor of Valentine's Day I thought I would include a love letter that was printed in the Picayune in 1884. The paper stated that it was written by a Prescott man.

My dearest darling,

I am dying to fly to thy presence and pour out the burning eloquence of my love as a thrifty housewife pours out hot coffee. Away from you I am melancholy as a sick rat.

Sometimes I can hear the June bugs of despondence in my ears, and feel the cold lizards of despair crawling down my back. Uncouth fears, like a thousand minnows, nibble at my spirits and my soul is pierced with doubts, as an old cheese is bored with skippers. When the awakening pig ariseth from his bed and grunteth, and goeth forth for his morning refreshments, I think of thee; and like a gum elastic, my heart seems stretched clear across my bosom. Your hair is like the mane of a sorrell horse, powdered with

gold. Your laugh rings in my ears like the bleat of a stray lamb on a bleak hillside.

Since the light of your face fell upon my life, I sometimes feel as if I could lift myself up by my bootstraps to the top of the church steeple and pull the bell-rope for singing school.

Well, I must draw my letter to a close. Goodbye.