Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
By Sue Ballew and Trent Dolan
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Saturday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will give a grand strawberry festival at Moore & Parker’s Hall. Every preparation is being made to make it a grand success. The Yankee kitchen will be a prominent feature with refreshments of all kinds in abundance. Ladies will be dressed in the style of a century ago. Music, singing and other attractions will be added to the program as well as strawberries and cream.
A crazy, wild man of the woods named John Kelsey has been captured in the mountains about ten miles north of Virginia (City). He was formerly a resident of Gold Hill. Since his confinement in the Virginia (City) jail he attempted to beat his brains out with a rock.
Wm. Corsor of Douglas County has a calf about two weeks old that only has three legs and is otherwise perfect.
George Fryer is recuperating from the mumps. “Mumps have gone down,” says Fryer. He looks very delicate and interesting as an invalid.
140 Years Ago
The knife: There was a cutting affray at Winston’s saloon. A man named Ben Anderson raised some trouble at the faro table when he was threatened with ejection. Ben said no one could put him out. Officer Ingraham who attempted to do so was stabbed in the neck, nearly missing his jugular vein.
130 Years Ago
Quick work: The white bronze monument dedicated to the soldiers and sailors of the war, that was erected on Memorial Day in the cemetery was thought of and money appropriated for in a very short time. The whole affair was engineered by Hy Doane and James A. LInforth. The statue was furnished by the Monumental Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, Connecticut, cost $100. The monument is excellent, and the old Vets say it is true to life.
100 Years Ago
Jumbo: Jumbo, directly west of Mount Davidson, is coming to life in the spring. Small amounts of gold have been taken out, and several small mills operated. By driving an 1,800-foot tunnel the Monarch Mining company has drained the district and properties which have been idle for years. Operations are being renewed. Mills are in the making now that there is an abundance of water and electric power. Several Carsonites hold interest in the camp as well as a number of pioneer settlers of Jumbo. It is now owned by a San Francisco concern and contracts have been let for extensive exploration. The richest gold ore mined in Nevada has come from this district.
65 Years Ago
High School Band: Carson high school band will present a 40-minute concert on the capitol lawn, director Al Saliman announced. The concert is being held preliminary to remind people of the school bond election.
20 Years Ago
Off the Couch—Upcoming Events: “The Music Man,” at Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, Tickets $15 and $20.
Annual Comedy Night featuring “Venus Attacks!” a self-help parody, at the Carson Nugget Ballroom, no-host bar-Cost $25 at the door.
An “Antique Lace Exhibit” at the Roberts House Museum, 1207 North Carson. Admission $3 for tour and exhibit.
Sunday
145 years ago
Memorial Day. To-day the surviving soldiers of the late War of the Rebellion, and citizens generally, will assemble to do all they can do in honor of our lustrous dead, whose memories have been rendered sacred by having taken up arms in service of their country. Flowers are the emblems of love and purity; the embodiment of beauty; and their lives, their brightness and freshness remind us of those whose memory we would to-day honor.
140 years ago
An Angry Father. Night before last a man called at the Ormsby House, with a six shooter in his hand, and asked the clerk if certain parties had registered there, demanding to see the book. The names of the parties he was in search of were not there. He said that his daughter had eloped with a young boy, and he proposed to find her. Up to the present writing there is no trace of the missing pair.
130 years ago
The Virginia Chronicle directs attention to the fact that the 44 star flags are the only genuine ones and Secretary Tracy has given notice of the way the new union is to be arranged, with Wyoming’s star included. The new star is to be added to the flag on the next Fourth of July.
120 years ago
Today being national Memorial Day no paper will issue from this office tomorrow.
100 years ago
Rev. C.H. LePage, the new pastor of the Methodist church of this city, arrived here yesterday afternoon. The new minister comes from Pennsylvania, where he was been in charge of a church. He is unmarried.
Tuesday
145 years ago
The Sutro Tunnel is now in a distance of 13,238 feet. The quantity of water now running out of it is 127 miners’ inches. The rock in the reading is porphyry of a uniform character, and is very difficult to drill and very hard to blast.
140 years ago
Memorial Day was observed in Carson yesterday by the usual ceremonies involving a civic and military display, combined with musical and literary exercises. The day was cloudy enough to temper the rays of the sun without distracting for the genial warmth of the atmosphere, and a cooling breeze (which occasionally threatened a gale) blew from the west.
130 years ago
A few weeks ago Mr. Dangberg received an order from a Commission house in Kentucky to ship a car load of Nevada potatoes. He did so, and the car had been on the way a couple of days, when he received dispatch not to sent as the market was glutted. It was too late and the car reached Louisville and the potatoes placed on sale. In a few days Mr. Dangberg received another dispatch to send another car. A letter a few days later informed him that he superiority of the Nevada plugs caused a ready sale.The people of the East are fast finding that Nevada potatoes are absolutely the best in the world.
120 years ago
Susanville — At Lookout, in Modoc county, Calvin Hall, his three sons and a young man living with Hall, were arrested for horse stealing. Last night the five men were taken from the custody of the Sheriff by a mob of about fifty men and all were hanged.
100 years ago
The plans of the G.A.R., W.R.C., Spanish War Veterans, American Legion and Auxiliary Unit all went glimmering yesterday when snow covered the ground in the early morning, to be followed by a steady rain in the best part of the day. The Memorial Day program, one of the most elaborate in years, was postponed, resulting in individuals visiting the silent city and leaving their memorials in grief and appreciation.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006. Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan.
