130 YEARS AGO
Memorial Day: How it was observed in Carson City. As a last tribute, 500 children put flags on the graves of the veterans and mounded flowers on the graves of children that had died in the last year in a very touching salute.
Chaplain of the Day, George R. Davis gave the memorial sermon: "The anniversary which we today commemorate is one of the grandest and saddest that the nation has any claim to. The event has a double significance: It shows the manliness and forgiveness of the American people, the strength and permanence of the American Republic."
100 YEARS AGO
The Appeal is in receipt of a letter from Census Enumerator George B. Russell. He asks that if possible, anyone that has been missed by an enumerator in the last census please send their name, along with answers to some 27 questions to him in Elko. The information is needed so we know every last person that lives in the state.
70 YEARS AGO
Leslie Pierson and JohnD Winters were nominated for president of the Carson City 20-30 club, and Al Sutherland and Gino Gianni vice president during the club meeting last evening. Bill Dunfield, Ray Nelson, Wilson Russell and James Walker were nominated as directors.
50 years ago
Joe Canino, one of six charged in fraud for promotion of Las Vegas Stardust Hotel stock, was to appear before a federal commissioner today. Canino, a pit boss at the Silver Slipper, surrendered to a U.S. Marshal yesterday. The men were indicted by a secret grand jury in Carson City last week.
20 YEARS AGO
Mormon crickets move closer to Winnemucca despite efforts to poison them to death. The influx of the insects is expected to frighten a lot of people. Department of Agriculture officials estimate that next year's problem will be 10 to 100 times worse.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.