Past Pages 04/05/09

130 years ago

Looks Haunted: Cleacovich has closed his restaurant and everything has been removed. The building, late at night, looks as if it were haunted by spooks, goblins and all sorts of wicked spirits. To linger about the spot at midnight will make the flesh of one even not superstitious creep. Without light and furniture the room looks like the anti-chamber of Dante's hell. So much for the fancies of a sober man; but let one, who has loaded himself well with drink, make a survey of the establishment, about the time when the churchyards yawn and we will wager that he can see long processions of ghosts, clad in white.

110 years ago

Before the present State of Nevada was even a Territory, Senator Bland of Missouri, who was favorably known in the west as Silver Dick, was an official in what is now the Silver State. At that time Nevada was part of Utah and the county was known as Carson County. Senator Bland was the Recorder for the entire county under appointment from Washington. It was here that he probably received his steadfast love for the white metal and probably looks back on a time before the great Comstock was uncovered and remembers the State of Nevada as Carson County.

70 years ago

The possibility of a double celebration is at hand in the city marking the opening of the civic auditorium and lighting up the city's white way.

50 years ago

Robert A. Allen today ended 40 years of public service to the state of Nevada with a short, terse note of resignation to Gov. Grant Sawyer. Allen, who served for eight years as chairman of the Public Service Commission under former Gov. Charles H. Russell. "The whole state of Nevada owes a great deal of debt of gratitude to Bob Allen," said Gov. Sawyer. Allen had suffered a stroke and was unable to return to work.

20 Years Ago

Time has expired for Carson City's parking meters. All parking meters throughout the city will be ripped out by May 1. The first was pulled during a special Board of Supervisors meeting on Caroline Street.

- Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.