Saturday
150 Years Ago
Lake Bigler (Tahoe): Fifteen excursionists came over to the Glenbrook House from Cornelian Hot Springs. Ten were Eastern parties, five ladies and five gentlemen from Chicago.
140 Years Ago
Jottings: Mr. Keys attended the Episcopal festival and was so pleased with his reception that he talks of buying a pew in the church.
M. M. Hyde’s son dislocated his arm, Mr. Hyde had his finger mashed by a 200-pound casting, and the rest of the family are being very careful not to hurt themselves.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Nail pencils are the latest. They are made of a ten-penny nail with the lead inside, which is run out and in by turning the nail head one way or the other.
100 Years Ago
Madame Curie: (Washington). The discoverer of radium, Madame Curie, received a gift from the women of America — a gram of radium — value $100,000. President Harding made the presentation address. A throng of scientists were present. Mme. Curie and her two daughters will visit the coast before returning to France.
65 Years Ago
New tribe: The Senate voted to create a new Indian tribe. Some 4,000 Indians in and near Roberson County, North Carolina shall be known officially as the Lumbee Indians. They claim to be a descendant of early English settlers and coastal Indians.
20 Years Ago
Photo caption: Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn unveils a conservation plan to help protect Nevadans from the rolling power blackouts that have hit neighboring California. Frank Siracusa, Chief of the State Division of Emergency Management, said the plan could help Nevadans save up to 25 percent on their power bills.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Decoration Day: A special meeting of the members of Stanton Post, No. 10 is called for. Members are requested to assemble at 6 o’clock a.m., at their headquarters on May 30 for the purpose of attending the sad ceremonial of decorating with flowers the grave of departed comrade. Let all who can contribute to this worthy ceremonial.
140 Years Ago
Promising silver deposit: Duffy’s house was burned and confusion incidental to moving the furniture was so great that $700 worth of silverware was left on the sideboard. It melted and scores of boys and a few men were on the spot prospecting for silver which was found in little bunches. Some of the samples would assay $32,000 to the ton. Duffy found about half of it, and the rest went into the hands of the various locators. The silver pocket is pretty well worked out now.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Six bars of bullion from the Yellow Jacket mine were received at the Mint.
A movement is on foot at Stockton to build a kite shaped race track. It will be two seconds faster than the old track.
100 Years Ago
Class reunion: The Alumni association of Carson high school is planning to hold a reunion of all graduates this year on the 11
th of June. It will be celebrated with a banquet and drive. The association consists only of graduates from the class of 1906, but an endeavor is being made to obtain the names of as many as possible of the previous graduates to 1906. This request is directed to all who graduated from the Carson high school at any time, or from the highest class in school before a high school existed.
65 Years Ago
Injured: Charles Schrick, federal building janitor, was seriously injured when he tumbled about 20 feet down an open elevator shaft in the post office. Schrick opened the door to the elevator on the first floor with a special key without noticing it was on the second floor. He stepped in and fell to the bottom of the pit.
20 Years Ago
Fuji Park issue: Records from 1966 at the city assessor’s office show a 2.6-acre parcel of the fairgrounds was owned by local 4-H leaders known as the Carson Area 4-H Leaders Council. The President of the 4-H leaders council says, “We have no desire to have our land used to move the beautiful creek and make it possible to relocate Fuji Park.”
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Ophir bridge burns: The Ophir bridge that spans Washoe Lake at the town of Ophir was burned. The fire took place on the west side of the bridge, a magnificent structure, less than 1½ miles long. Piles were driven in the lake, and the bridge doubled floored with three-inch plank. The structure was built in the palmy days of the Ophir Silver Mining Company and cost sixty or seventy thousand dollars. It was designed for a railroad bridge and built under the supervision of the late Capt. W. L. Dail, Superintendent of the Ophir mine.
140 Years Ago
Smallpox on the Comstock: The Virginia City people don’t observe any of the ordinary rules for the prevention of smallpox, and the disease is spreading. A woman living on G Street, Mrs. Fairbanks, was taken with small pox and has been moved to the pest-house with a severe case. The child of Mrs. Elkins is reported to have the disease and people in the neighborhood are in a panic. Patrick Gould conveyed Mrs. Fairbanks to the pest house and came back to the city without changing his clothes and went to H.S. Beck’s store to haul bedding. County Physician Bergtein gives his opinion that there will be 100 cases of smallpox on the Comstock inside of 30 days.
130 Years Ago
New post office: Postmaster Rodman got into the new Post office, and all the people were in the new building choosing post office boxes. We now have a much better Post office than San Francisco.
100 Years Ago
Beautiful stand of colors: The members of Capitol Post of the American Legion, are very proud of the stand of colors they recently purchased with help of the towns-people. They want everyone to see the beautiful flags and have them on display in one of Gray, Reid, Wright’s windows—the flags to be used on Decoration Day.
65 Years Ago
Civil Defense Test: Officials staged an H-bomb test in Skokie, Ill, and shattered the Sunday calm of the Chicago suburb. At 7:30 a.m. the town’s four huge sirens went off and woke residents who within minutes called the police. Police explained that this was Operation Rescue to rehearse Civil Defense on what to do if a nuclear bomb hit the area.
20 Years Ago
Superfund: Consideration of placing a Yerington mining site on the government’s Superfund list is now in the federal EPA “issues resolution” process. Complex issues include groundwater monitoring showing high levels of metals and air-home dust containing metals.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
