130 YEARS AGO
Another runaway - About 4 o'clock last evening, a horse and buggy were crossing the railroad track on Carson and a locomotive whistle startled the horse. It started down Washington street, fouling a post on Nevada street. It left the buggy a wreck ... the driver was looking for some spokes and the off fore wheel at 10 o'clock last night.
120 YEARS AGO
Society Gossip - The ladies of the Episcopal church are busy making real downy comforters, head-rests for easy chairs to be sold at their festival ... which will take place during the last week of November.
70 YEARS AGO
Seen, Heard or Thought by E.T.C. - For last year's Admission Day celebration, residents from Reno made the round trip on the Virginia and Truckee special train ... because of the desire to take advantage of what they deemed the last chance to take a journey on trains of a historic railroad ... This year they came because it was the best and cheapest mode of transportation.
50 YEARS AGO
Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer is in Chicago to "sell his state's industrial potential to 100 of Chicago's leading industrialists."
20 YEARS AGO
Advertisement: 1989 Dakota 4x4 pick-up, Tu-Tone, V-6, A/T, P/Steering, A/C, AM/FM Cass., $11,485.
10 YEARS AGO
The Salvation Army Thrift Store will fill an 8,000 square foot store in the Crossroads Center on East Winnie Lane.
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.