Past Pages June 18

130 YEARS AGO

Romance and Reality (continued from Thursday): The Englishman had perched his hammock above the falls and was reclining, smoking a fat cigar. About midnight some fisherman in a hut near the falls heard a terrific hullabaloo. He was dripping wet and clad only in his nightgown. "Dom blaust a country like this: Hi think the bloody rope broke. Wen hi woke up hi was right him the water. Gawn by Jove." Clothes all swept away, the Englishman retired to Glenbrook the next day where it was thought he was sending a letter to the London Times, which he will endeavor to prove the Pacific Slope is a hallow fraud and Lake Bigler (Lake Tahoe) only a mud puddle.

100 YEARS AGO

Indians have been notified by C.H. Asbury, superintendent of the Lovelock Indian School, that there is land situated near Stillwater that is open for settlement by the Piutes who do not presently have land. Ten acres will be given to each Indian, making from 20 to 50 acres to each family.

70 YEARS AGO

Miss Gladys Gilbert arrived in Carson Wednesday to visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Gilbert. Miss Gilbert is a student at Armstrong's in Berkeley.

50 YEARS AGO

Girl Scout director Joyce Johnson announced plans for the annual Girl Scout day camp. The theme this year will be based on Indian crafts and sports. Girls are to meet at designated points to be transported to Galena Creek campsite.

20 YEARS AGO

Golf and basketball team member Dick Stoddard and Kimberly Orlando, track and cross country team member were named Appeal citizen-athletes of the month.

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