Saturday
150 Years Ago
Business locations, 1871: Corbett House, One block south of the U.S. Mint, Carson Street. Capitol Saloon, Carson Street, 3d door north of Second. Theater Saloon, fronting the Carson Theater (New Theater Hall, Moore & Parker proprietors).
140 Years Ago
Happiness at the hospital: The Ormsby County Hospital does not feed their patients on a regulation diet, but the Matron takes their orders for each meal just the same as if they were paying a round figure for their accommodations. It is said the patients are in no hurry to leave the institution. This is the true way to deal with the ailing.
130 Years Ago
Lake Tahoe: People are flocking to all parts of the Lake, like bees around a sugar barrel. Captain Todman is preparing daily trips by the 18
th of this month. The steamers are all being overhauled and repainted for the summer.
120 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Columbia Bicycles, Ed. J. Walsh, Agent. Ask for 1901 Catalogs.”
65 Years Ago
Warren Engine Co.: Arnold Millard was reelected president of the Warren Engine Company. Also renamed was Duane Berning, secretary. New officers are Mel Woodgate, vice president, and Ike Helgren, treasurer; Abe Riehl was reelected a trustee. Bill Berning and Tom Young, new trustees. Stanley Peyton was chosen chief, with Lester Groth first assistant and Jack LaGrange, second assistant chief.
20 Years Ago
Candidates: 2006 Candidates who filed for elected offices in Carson City as of Thursday: Justice of the Peace District 1: Robey Willis, Mark Krueger; Supervisor Ward 1, Robin Williamson; Supervisor Ward 3, Pete Livermore, Neil Weaver, Joseph Eiben, Charles Kuhn; Assessor, Dave Dawley; Clerk-Recorder, Alan Glover…
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Hank Monk “On Time:” Hank Monk had a load of Michiganders down from Lake Bigler (Tahoe). He took his time coming up the mountain from Glenbrook, and the tourists thought they would miss the evening train for Virginia (City). Hank repeated to them the little speech he made to Horace Greeley: “Keep your seats: I’ll get you there on time.”
He issued a double ration of buckskin to each of his mustangs: up went eight heels and away four fleet horses, down a grade, like forked lightning lapping crooked pine tops…. The crack of a whip, the snort of a mustang. The Michiganders reached Carson City more than an hour before train time, fully impressed with the idea that Nevada is a “fast” State, but one in which staging is not conducive to longevity.
140 Years Ago
Found in sewer: At the sewer between Second and Third, and Ormsby and Nevada streets, the laborers found imbedded in an old channel an eighty-pound letter press attached to a heavy log chain. A few feet further down they found the top of a primitive style iron safe. Years ago a man was living on the premises where these articles were found. He was a kleptomaniac. In 1853 or 1854 a fire broke out in a heavy business house and a safe containing $7,000 in money, bonds and other valuable papers was removed. It is believed that the safe found in the old channel is the identical one that was lost at the fire. His wife, a widow, is still living in these parts.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Thomas Fitch, the silver-tongued orator has located to Red Bluff, California. He will practice law there.
Willie Murphy of Genoa has challenged Patsy Hanifan of Empire to a one-hundred yard foot race for $100 a side.
100 Years Ago
Snow at the Lake: Eight inches of snow on the Glenbrook summit was reported and five inches at Glenbrook. No snow extended to the far east.
65 Years Ago
Postage: (Washington) Letter postage from 3 to 4 cents is proposed with tentative approval from the House post office committee. The group also voted to boost the airmail from 6 to 8 cents. All of this is in an effort to help wipe out the annual postal deficit.
20 Years Ago
Genoa-Dayton debate: The history of the early 1950’s was the discussion topic at “Friday night at the Nevada State Library and Archives” panel discussion with Guy Rocha. More than 160 people attended the event.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Roop: The territory north of Washoe known as Roop County, Nevada, has ten inhabitants. Having no Justice of the Peace, the ten have to ride 140 miles to register and vote.
140 Years Ago
Perfect Bliss: Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Bliss gave a children’s picnic in honor of the birthday of their son Duane. Fifty children were transported to the shady retreats of Bliss’s ranch, near Clear Creek. Each child ate an estimated five plates of strawberries and drank half a dozen glasses of lemonade out of a barrel. After dinner games and sport, the party voted the affair, “the boss.”
130 Years Ago
A gala day: Two carloads of Carson school children went to Reno and visited the University, Insane Asylum and took a look at other curiosities of Washoe.
100 Years Ago
Grand theater: “Everybody’s Sweetheart, a new Selznick production, is playing at the grand. It is one of the most charming pictures of the season.
65 Years Ago
Going to the dogs: One hundred dogs and 70 handlers went through courses at a Dog Competition in Fuji Park. Poodles and collies could be seen racing, hopping and walking onto teeter totters. “The basic thing is to have fun, fun, fun,” according to Terri Swensen of Auburn, California.
20 Years Ago
Photo caption: Brittany Balm, 11, prays next to a memorial set up at the site where Bob McKinney was shot to death by a Storey County Deputy. Residents expressed outrage over the incident, calling McKinney a harmless character. Residents held a candlelight vigil and are planning a protest in Virginia City.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
