Carson City Past Pages 5-7

130 Years Ago

Ah Chouey will be the happiest Chinese man outside of the Celestial Empire when he hears that he will not have to swim " but can pass his days in peace and plenty at the State Prison.

110 Years Ago

Carson bids for the fight: W. A. Brady received a telegram from A. Livingston of Carson City, offering to guarantee $20,000 for a fight between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons. It would seem that Carson still has a chance. If they fight here, it will be a scrap and no jawbones affair.

70 Years Ago

President Roosevelt will launch a new electrically transcribed series of government broadcasts " the first with Lowell Mellett, executive director of the national emergency council.

50 Years Ago

Bob Crowell won the eighth grade election to become president of Carson High School's incoming freshman class. Lee Haggland won vice-resident, Stephanie Cogorno, secretary and Art Bullentini, board of control.

20 Years Ago

Carson City's C-scape is a success as the biggest conservation and education program ever undertaken in the capital city. The program was introduced in 1988 in the midst of Northern Nevada's third consecutive year of drought.

10 Years Ago

Frankie Sue Del Papa filed the paperwork needed to launch candidacy for U.S. Senate, the position that Sen. Richard Bryan is leaving.

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