130 Years Ago
Chinese New Year begins so a sweet potato peddling son of the Mongols told a housewife yesterday.
110 Years Ago
Seed distribution: The distribution of garden and flower seed will soon begin. I shall be pleased to furnish the people of Nevada with seed if they will send me their name and address in Washington, D.C., signed Wm. M. Stewart.
70 Years Ago
E. C. D. Marriage was appointed state librarian by Governor Richard Kirman to serve "at the pleasure of the governor."
50 Years Ago
Photo caption: Secretary of State John Koontz formerly opens the 1959 assembly session with newly elected speaker Chester Christensen.
20 Years Ago
The Board of Supervisors gave Mayor Marv Teixeira the go-ahead to start construction of the 125 by 65 foot Mills Park ice skating pond. The pond will be located on an unimproved area of Mills Park where there is already power and plenty of parking.
10 Years Ago
Governor Kenny Guinn proposes that Nevada's tobacco money be spent on a "Millennium Scholarship" program to insure Nevada students a college education.
- Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.