Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Saturday, August 7
145 years ago...
Fire Crackers Extraordinary. — What’s up with our Chinese Neighbors that they are so emphatically pyrotechnical all at once? They broke out suddenly with a long continued explosion of fire crackers on Monday night, and again last night, — and as suddenly subsided.
140 years ago...
A Good Catch. Yesterday Messrs. Lewis and Cowan went to the Mexican dam and flushed in the same pool where the old farmer was so successful last Sunday. They came back with nineteen silver trout weighing form one to two pounds.
120 years ago...
The News office has taken the improvement fever. The old porch is being torn down and a concrete walk will be placed in front of the building.
80 years ago…
David Roy Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spencer, and Carson City high school youth who on July 1, this year, won the Nevada state championship driver title in the contest sponsored by the Ford Good Driver League, leaves for Dearborn, Michigan, on August 17 where he will compete for the national title.
50 years ago…
The Comstock Restoration Foundation crews Saturday will complete preliminary preparations for moving historic Old No. 27 of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad back to the Comstock.
20 years ago…
The long-awaited improvement sot the Carson City Senior Center should get under way in September. “We simply do not have enough space,” said the director.
Sunday, August 8
145 years ago...
Yesterday the fires in the Sierra just west of us, wakened and stimulated by almost a Washoe Zephyr, seemed to rage with tremendous fury. The scene conveyed the idea of a tremendous conflagration. The actual facts are that the ground burned over has been long since stripped of its timber and what was burning was the debris of old woodcutter’s camps, bark, limbs of trees, decayed logs, etc.
140 years ago...
The Place to Go. A few days ago a lot of Carson youngsters were discussing where would be the best place to steal watermelons. “I’ll tell you the place to go, up to old ________. He don’t advertise in any of the papers or even take one, and where a man don’t show any enterprise you may be there’s five or six holes in his fence; he’s too stingy to keep a dog and its two to one his shotgun hasn’t been loaded for over a year.” The boys thought it an excellent idea and invaded the field only to find the man had been too slow to plant and there wasn’t a green thing on the whole lot, except for a little clump of sagebrush and a few Mullen stalks.
120 years ago...
Tough Fare. Volcano, the Tonopah correspondent of the Walker Lake Bulletin writes the following: The food here is the worst on earth. This camp, only 60 miles from a railroad, has, as a rule, for daily fare bacon and bread with spoiled water on the side. The way people are fed here is an outrage and the cost is more than the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
80 years ago…
The Nevada state museum officials are at about the end of their patience with boys who have apparently taken great delight in breaking the windows of the mint building, which is being fitted up at much expense for use as the state’s museum.
50 years ago…
A new multi-purpose gymnasium for the Stewart Indian School at Stewart has been approved by Congress, Sen. Alan Bible, D-NV., told the Nevada Indian Affairs Commission. Construction of the gym will cost $1.3 million.
20 years ago…
Security officers will not be working around the clock in order to curb vandalism that is slowing progress on school bond projects set to be completed by August 20 behind Fritsch Elementary School.
Tuesday, August 10
145 years ago...
The concert given last evening by the Little Girl’s Band was remarkably well patronized. The performance which was aver interesting one throughout, was heartily applauded. The large attendance last evening attests the interest felt in these small performers by our citizens.
140 years ago...
On Sunday the yacht Transit, owned by John McKenney, and the Minnie Moody, owned by J. Pharrell, raced from McKenney’s to Idlewild and return for a stake of $100. The Transit led in the first quarter, but when the Minnie luffed her large bowsprit to the breeze she gathered up the studding sails of her rival and passed her mizzen chains like a house afire. Both boats reached the wharf together but as the Minnie got her bow lines put first she was adjudged the race.
120 years ago...
Several ladies in Pioche are now engaged in locating mines, and like many of the sterner sex, are not particular as to whether they get on somebody else’s ground or not. They just go right along and located everything in sight and out of sight, permitting the location work to remain for some other person to come along and do it. — Pioche Record
80 years ago…
The federal building in Carson, the local bank and the Sprouse-Reitz store are getting new signs that they will bear in scheme forming a part of the coming motion picture, “The Remarkable Andrew,” which will be filmed in part in Carson. A cast of 100 players is expected to arrive from the Paramount lot late today or tonight.
50 years ago…
Nevada’s inflated unemployment rate is already at a 10 year peak and appears to be headed higher, says the chief of the state employment security department.
20 years ago…
An exhibit hall at Fuji Park may be the next battleground between park preservationists and city officials. In a 4-1 vote last week, Carson City supervisors ordered staff to develop a plan for separating Fuji Park form the fairgrounds, and search for an alternative site so the fairgrounds may be sold.
