Saturday
150 Years Ago
Only a Few Days’ Grace will be allowed to those owning personal property tax. In an advertisement in today’s Appeal, it will be that Assessor Chedic by Debut gives notice that he will, after the 5th of September, seize property and collect personal property tax then remaining by persons not owning real estate in the county.
130 Years Ago
Yesterday at 2 o’clock there was quite a crowd at the auction of circus horses and a good deal of sport was had at Folsom’s hay yard. When Folsom brought out two donkeys, the crowd began to sing “Three Little Maids From School.” A.M. McCade bought the hurdle jumping mare for $35. Peanuts, the trick pony, was bid by Conway for Forrepaugh, $49.
100 Years Ago
The adjutant general’s office received notice today that on Sept. 1 six African-American men will entrain for Camp Lewis. Three will be called from Clark County, one from Washoe and two from White Pine.
70 Years Ago
Fifty members and guests of the Kit Carson Riding Club enjoyed an outing and breakfast Sunday, the latter held at the Carson Hot Springs. Horse races provided entertainment for several hours thereafter.
50 Years Ago
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Walton’s Chapel of the Valley for Mrs. H.F. (Gertrude) Dangberg, a longtime resident and pioneer of the Carson Valley. She was 91 and died Friday while riding in an automobile in Carson City.
30 years ago
A two-day Hertz car sale slated for this weekend at the Carson City Community Center has outraged local car dealers who say the city should not promote out-of-town business.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Between the outlet of the Truckee and Sugar Pine Point, near the shore of Lake Bigler, is a remarkable natural curiosity. About 300 yards from the shore the top of a pine tree shoots out of the water to the height of seven or eight feet, and of a diameter of about four inches. The tree is now dead, but appears to be firmly rooted in the bottom of the lake. The water around the tree is 150 feet deep by actual measurement. —Trespass
130 Years Ago
The next effort of the Episcopal ladies will be musical and literary entertainment given under the direction of Mrs. D.A. Bender.
100 Years Ago
Miss Leah Baker, district club leader, has written the Appeal stating that the County Club fair will open in Carson on Wednesday, Aug. 28, and the State Armory has been selected as the place for displaying the exhibit.
70 Years Ago
In view of information received by the public service commission, Governor Vail Pittman announced today that he would recommend that daylight saving time be continued in communities serviced by Sierra Pacific Power company in Western Nevada “until such time as there is assurance that there will be no power shortage.”
50 Years Ago
The Carson-Tahoe Hospital was almost totally destroyed early this afternoon by a blaze believed to have started in a furnace room. An estimated 30 patients were evacuated within minutes after the fire started. Most were moved by ambulance to temporary emergency facilities at the Capital Convalescent Center. County Commissioner Keith Macdonald said a wing of the new hospital might be readied earlier to accommodate patients evicted by the blaze.
30 years ago
The federal government’s Soil Conservation Service approved $55,000 to reseed most of the 1,800 acres above Carson City that were burned by the “C” Hill fire earlier this month, officials announced Thursday.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
The Japanese Troupe. The great Royal Ha-yah-ta-kee aerobatic jongleurs and equilibrists have had the most successful run in Gold Hill and Virginia. The press assures us that no better performances have been seen here.
130 Years Ago
Beef promises to be awful high this winter.
100 Years Ago
So many people have asked for Mrs. E.T. Patrick’s bread recipe that she has kindly given to the Appeal for publication. Mrs. Patrick has made careful measurements of all the ingredients and with details of the process of preparation of the recipe.
70 Years Ago
Fifty-five persons in Ormsby County have been approved for old-age assistance payments for the month of September. Throughout the state 2,226 cases were approved.
50 Years Ago
“Carson-Tahoe Hospital had too few firebreaks and such firebreaks as it did have were not properly spaced.” This sobering analysis came from Deputy Fire Chief Bernard Sease Tuesday as state, city and county officials and insurance investigators prepared to meet at the site to determine the cause of Monday’s fire.
30 years ago
Leaders of the Nevada Brothel Association have geared up to fight moves in the 1989 Legislature to outlaw prostitution in the rural counties.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.