John Meder Collection
145 years ago
Mexican Veterans. It was a grand old time the Mexican Veterans had last night at their ball. Here was the kaleidoscope of the present and the past, the two joined in celebrating the day, and the result was such as will ever vivid in the minds of the actors Yet it was a happy time for the Mexican Veterans, their ball was a magnificent success, their company was rich and select, their music and dancing was of the very best, their spirits were as merry and happy as the tones of a marriage bell.
140 years ago
Reported Fire at Tallac. On Wednesday the residents of Glenbrook saw large volumes of smoke arising at Tallac. It is believed that the hotel or some of the outbuildings have been destroyed by fire. It is rather doubtful whether ‘Lucky” Baldwin, the owner, would rebuild at once, thus rendering the most sublime resort about the Lake unavailable for the next season.
120 years ago
A war between the undertakers of Virginia is the latest. A rival house buried a partner of the other firm and things are doing in that line of business. It might also be mentioned that the partner who was buried by the rival is the silent partner.
80 years ago
Believe it or not, the Nevada community on last Thursday had been isolated 13 days because of snow, with the likelihood that three more weeks would elapse before roads can be opened and ordinary traffic restored. Such was the condition of Midas, in western Elko County. So, what Midas calls isolation really is not comparable with snowbound conditions of years ago, before the era of telephones and radios.
40 years ago
A special meeting of the Carson City School Board played to a packed house Monday night as board members, administrators, teachers and spectators spend 2 1/2 hours “chasing their tails’ as one observer put it. The meeting was called to air out a controversial study on the school district’s vocational education program.
20 years ago
An attempt to stop development of a brothel in northern Lyon County was rejected Friday by District Court Judge William Maddox.
Thursday
145 years ago
The Chief of the Paiutes, Nachez, the renowned, is lying sick with pneumonia at his ranch on the Big Meadows. Whether his time has now come to join his fathers in their happy hunting grounds with, whether the sun of his life is about to set in the earth we know not indeed, but Nachez has ever been faithful to the tribe over which he presides.
140 years ago
A pubic school teacher of this city says that a Washoe Indian is more easily taught to read and write our language than is a man from China. She has the two races represented in her school at one time, and the Indian would invariably shoot ahead of the man from China.
120 years ago
The Indian powwow, billed for Winnemucca Friday, has been stopped by the State Board of Health.
80 years ago
Authorizes and other persons over in White Pine county are reported giving considerable thought to the increasing pressing problem of what to do for the care of enemy alien families of the district, following the removal of the wage earners of the families to concentration camps.
40 years ago
Word of an imminent major disturbance, alleged to be carried out by the prison gang Aryan Warriors, has prompted the lockup of 24 of its members at the Nevada State Maximum Security Prison.
20 years ago
Memorabilia went on sale from a Gardnerville Casino — Sharkey’s.
Friday
145 years ago
The Weather. — Probably in no other place in the United States, outside of the Pacific Coast, is such beautiful weather predominating at present as here in Carson. While February has not yet passed, while we should expect bustling winds and driving snow storms, yet the sun is shining bright every day, and out door life is enjoyed by all.
140 years ago
The mines of Sweetwater, about 75 miles south from here, are promising very well. Quite a large quantity of bullion from there was recently deposited at the Carson Mint.
120 years ago
Bound for Tonopah. Sunday morning there passed through Carson, bound for Tonopah, a crowd of twenty-one men. They jail from nearly every nook and corner on the Pacific coast, where mining is the principal industry. Within the next few months the local railroad will be pressed severely in handling passenger traffic, that will go to the new gold fields.
80 years ago
It is declared that when the office of price administration designates Las Vegas as a “defense rental area,” as will be done, according to the rumor, no landlord will be able to evict a tenant so long as such tenant pays rent at the rate in force on April 1, 1941.
40 years ago
Twenty-six horses, passed over in the Bureau of Land Management’s adopt-a-horse program, will go to a Southern Nevada “zoo” for eventual use as lion food, the BLM said Tuesday.
20 years ago
Carson-Tahoe Hospital’s new regional medical center is starting to take shape.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.