Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Wednesday
145 Years Ago
May Day Dance. Mr. Geo. Clifton, the blind musician is here. He proposes to give a dancing party at Corbett’s Hall on Saturday evening. He needs what he can make out of this undertaking. The price of admission is only 50 cents. We hope he may be liberally patronized, for he is stone blind.
140 Years Ago
Rifle contest. The Carson Guard of this city will shoot a friendly match with the Oakland Light Cavalry next Saturday. The teams will consist of five men each, who will fire ten shots at both ranges — 200 and 500 yards, with the privilege of two sighting shots. The Carson Guard team will shoot at their range in this city, while the Oakland Guard will contest on their own dung hill. The result of the shooting will be telegraphed between the two companies.
120 Years Ago
Baby Krause. The traction engine that is operating at the Dangberg ranch in Carson Valley has been named Baby Krause by the boys that handle the machine. Fred Dangberg, Jr., was in Carson yesterday and when asked how the engine was working, stated that it was doing all that could be asked. The baby isn’t very pretty, and the horses have not made friends with her up to date, but the fact remains that the machine is doing the work of sixty horses to the satisfaction of investors.
80 Years Ago
Wilbur Stodieck, farm extension agent for Douglas and Ormsby counties, with headquarters at Minden, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Carson City Rotary Club this week. Mr. Stodiek discussed agriculture’s place in the war effort.
40 Years Ago
Nevada magazine has been given a reprieve. It is warranted and will give the magazine a chance to prove it can operate in a fiscally responsible manner.
20 Years Ago
A judge on Monday sentenced a Carson City woman he called a “liar” to 26 years in prison for bilking her elderly charge of thousands in cash, property, and jewelry and ripping off two people in Internet and auction fraud.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
Stone for plaza fence - In the street at the west corner of the Capitol Square is irregular masses of of sandstone. The same at for the foundation of a projected iron fence. This is the first lot of the preparatory stone. We venture to say that there is a very general desire to see this work underway. The town is oppressively dull, and the bustle consequent upon the operations indicated will come as a balm and boon to stupefied humanity.
140 Years Ago
The new comet. Our local astronomers are nightly straining their eyes to catch a glimpse of the new comet, which is almost due. According to calculations it ugly to make its appearance between the 25th of this month and the 10th of next. It will be visible until September.
120 Years Ago
Joseph Brown has been arrested at Elko on a charge of maintaining a house of prostitution within 400 yards of a schoolhouse.
80 Years Ago
Lieutenant Weldon Smith of the U.S. Army Air Corps has received two citations within the past few months for valor and for flying over uncharted areas of the south seas.
40 Years Ago
The Senate today defeated a pair of amendments to the nuclear waste bill that would have strengthened the ability of a state to stop a proposed repository.
20 Years Ago
Nevada’s growing budget shortage has forced state prison officials to temporarily cut four weeks of training for new prison guards.
Friday
145 Years Ago
Officers of the Virginia City and Gold Hill Miners’ unions officially deny that the attack made on Wednesday morning upon the railway Chinese person was by Union men.
140 Years Ago
Inconsistent. Some of the loudest shriekers against Chinese immigration in this and other communities continue to employ Chinese help in their households and places of business. The pursuit of such a course is very inconsistent, if not detestable hypocritical. So long as the Asiatic curse receives this kind of substantial encouragement, we shall never be able to rid ourselves of it.
120 Years Ago
A grewsome find. Parties roaming the Como hills this week found the skull of the lat Walter Crowinsheild, at a point hear his cabin, a couple of miles northeast of the old town of Como. The skull is fractured which would indicate that the old gentleman met his death by foul play. Authorities are investigating the matter. His body was found here his cabin in 1900, missing the head at the time.
80 Years Ago
A Stockton resident who came to Carson to do some flying over the weekend was compelled to make a forced landing at the Winnie ranch Saturday, when his plane developed motor trouble.
40 Years Ago
Carson City voters will be asked in November if Sheriff’s Department employees should receive an additional 3 percent salary increase.
20 Years Ago
Students can expect portable toilets and bottled water at Carson High School for their second day following the discovery of traces of antifreeze and other chemicals in the drinking water supply.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
