Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Saturday
150 Years Ago
New style hats: Mrs. Brooks received her first invoice of spring hats and bonnets. They are beautiful, none of your fly away kind, but respectable; things made to cover the head, not hung on by one hair. Hurrah, ladies, go and see them, and throw away those mean gossamer things you have been wearing.
140 Years Ago
House roofs: Snow shoveling on house roofs is quite the fashion. We are tempted to remark that while some places boast of their chivalry, Carson may be proud of her shovelry.
130 Years Ago
Born: A 13-pound boy was born to Mrs. J. J. McEwen at Lakeview. Both mother and child are doing well. The father is doing as well as can be expected. It is a peculiar coincidence that the child’s birthday falls on the same day of the month as the father’s birthday.
100 Years Ago
Boy Scout election: Carson Troop, No. 1, Boy Scouts of America was held at the rectory. Active members of the Carson Troop have been announced: Grant Bowen, Kenneth Buck, Joe Cavell, Royal Crowell, Leonard Gifford, Walter Hunting, Charles Ives, Francis Johnson, Roland Karns, Roy Kelley, Charles Kitzmeyer, Ean Lucas, Jack Mackey, George Maclean, George Meyers, Carrie Taft, Joe Vandermark, and Douglas Vaughn.
70 Years Ago
Leisure Hour Club: One-act plays highlight the most recent meeting. The play is a one-act play, “Rumors Wanted,” by Joy Tobias and was presented under the direction of Mrs. Gertrude Badt. Members of the cast included Forest Hall, Mrs. Jean Oxley, Nancy Bordewich, Don Amodei, Mrs. Lois Blau, Mrs. Mylei Carter and Mrs. Lucille Petty.
25 Years Ago
Photo caption: Riders Will Huff and Ed Atencio at Meneley Elementary School look on at the route of the Pony Express through Carson Country. The Pony Express carried mail between Sacramento and St. Joseph, Mo.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: Utah has a two-horse, back-action, self-adjusting, patent gearing machine for exterminating grasshoppers. Those who have tried it prefer the grasshoppers.
140 Years Ago
The storm: A heavy and impenetrable fall of snow blocked up the road between Carson and Reno. The C.P.R.R. Company had 250 men shoveling snow on the summit, the storm making their work useless. It will take over 1,000 men nonstop to keep the track clear.
130 Years Ago
Chautauquan society: The first course of the society lectures will be in the M. E. Church. Rev. C. L. Logan’s’ subject will be “Columbus” and Lieutenant Governor Poujade’s, “Settlement and Growth of America.” Admission free.
110 Years Ago
C & C Railroad purchase: The old C & C Railroad originally built by the late D. O. Mills extended from Mound House to Keeler. During the strike in Tonopah, it was one of the most profitable railroads in the chain owned by the corporation.
70 Years Ago
School Lunch Menu: Monday: Tamale pie, celery sticks, jelly sandwiches, applesauce and milk. Tuesday: Chili beans with meat, carrot sticks, whole wheat bread sandwiches, prunes and milk. Wednesday: Baked egg noodles and tuna, cheese sticks, peas, bread sandwiches, pears and milk…
25 Years Ago
Rico’s closes: Rico’s Pizza, owned by Carson City Supervisor Greg Smith, closed on the last day of the restaurant’s 20-year lease.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Look out for stovepipes: Equinoctial gales may be expected. Its appearances indicate a change of weather and a heavy gale of wind. By paying a little attention to stovepipes much loss and suffering may be saved.
140 Years Ago
Not killed: Collett Paran, working for A. B. Boles at Pine Nut who was reported as killed, was lost in the great snowstorm. Boles went out to get the man’s body and returned with his team. Paran, the man thought to be killed, had footed it to Carson.
130 Years Ago
Burglar: A women in Sacramento called the police station and said that a burglar was in the house. She mentioned that the man in the attic was her jealous husband watching her bedroom. Her husband was pulled down by the officer and promised to behave himself.
110 Years Ago
Smallpox: Two cases of smallpox have been reported in Bodie. It has made its appearance in Hawthorne, Lucky Boy and Aurora. Physicians and health officers of western Nevada are on the lookout for the disease and hope to prevent its spreading.
70 Years Ago
State emergency: President Truman was expected to proclaim a disaster area in northern, eastern and central Nevada where the worst winter in 60 years has happened. Gov. Charles H. Russell sent the nation’s chief executive a midnight telegram requesting federal funds and assistance.
25 Years Ago
Brothel: If former brothel operator Joe Conforte wants release while battling federal charges, he’ll have to do it when in the United States. He lives in Chile and is accused of taking large amounts of money from his Mustang Ranch Brothel and hiding it in foreign banks.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Special watchman: At the north end of Carson Street owners have employed Dr. Billings as watchman. His beat extends from the railroad depot to Matt Rinckle’s butcher market. The attempt of an incendiary has caused residents of that end of town to look out for their property.
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Twilights, Attention! Members of the Twilight Social Club are requested to meet at the Carson Opera House. A full audience is desired, as business of importance will come before the meeting. A. J. Mills, Secretary, W. L. Taylor, President.”
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The pickle factor of Petaluma, California, turned their tons of cabbage into sauerkraut in one week.
110 Years Ago
Underground wires: The wiring to the Capitol building is to be underground. Trenches are being run to the gates and outside point so as to obviate all wires in the trees and about the lawn.
70 Years Ago
Oscars: Humphrey Bogart and Vivien Leigh won the coveted Oscars. Vivien Leigh became a two-time Oscar winner with an award for her role as a faded nymphomaniac in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Humphrey Bogart snared the award for river captain in “The African Queen.”
25 Years Ago
Mother’s search: Jaycee Lee Dugard’s mother said investigation of her former home cleared up any suspicion that family was part of the girl’s 1991 kidnapping.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
