Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Election: The election to determine the grounds for the site of the new schoolhouse will take place at the school building. All qualified voters are entitled to a choice in the matter. There are many objections to the King Street property and also the Minnesota street ground. (Minnesota ground won).
140 Years Ago
First grade algebra: Professor Howe will have an examination in algebra of his first-grade pupils the last Friday in June. A general invitation is extended to the public to be present.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Major Ford is King of the fishing lodge. Friday, he took a heavy catfish from the Lake, weighing almost three pounds. It fluctuated in weight from three to ten pounds, by the time he reached Carson.
100 Years Ago
Filmland Flashes, Viola Dana: Called the “Peter Pan” of the screen, is happy once more, for Viola counts that day lost when there is no glimpse of her favorite source — +the sun.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption: Lo-Lo the clown will appear at the magic show being sponsored by the Vestry of St. Peters Episcopal church to be held at the Civic Auditorium. It is presented by the Reno Magic Circle, Reno businessmen who make magic a hobby. Lo-Lo will star in the show.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Wallace theatres, 2226 Highway 50 East—The New Cinema $1.00 ‘Cutting Edge’ (PG-13), ‘Article 99’, ‘Once Upon a Crime,’ and ‘Bugsy.’
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Wax works to raffle at the Sazarac: A beautiful wax cross, white as alabaster, enclosed in a large glass vase is to be raffled. It is to be seen at Lewis & Torrington’s saloon. There are twenty-five chances at one dollar each. It is a very beautiful piece of work and was executed by a lady of this town. She is selling it to pay her way to California.
140 Years Ago.
In brief: P.N. Marker is getting ready to commence operations in the mountain back of Washoe City. Oliver Roberts has a gold mine in Mountain House district, which he thinks will make his pocketbook plethoric.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: There are thousands of rabbits in the hills this spring.
100 Years Ago
Acquitted: Dick Trounce, former pugilist of western Nevada and California, and wife were acquitted by a jury in the district court in Virginia City on a charge of having sold liquor to a minor. Twenty-eight bottles of booze formed part of the evidence. The couple were acquitted, however, because there were no accommodations at the county jail.
70 Years Ago
Brownies initiated: Brownie Troop No. 3 had 15 Brownies initiated into their Brownie Troop at the Civic Auditorium. They are Patti Bernard, Virginia Chambers, Kathy Davis, Susan Doherty, Linda Haffney, Patty Maxsom, Betty Russell, Bette Lou and Sonja Svensson, Margaret White, Jeannette Wilde, Lila Williams, Carolyn Wilson, Cindy Wilson, and Sharon Yates.
30 Years Ago
Advertisements for real estate: Victorian 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage - $77,500 and Lewis’s home, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1,800 square feet - $127,000.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Marble Canyon toll road. The toll road that runs from Carson River to Nut Pine is owned by T.B. Audrain and is in good repair. A number of teams are now employed to use it to haul nut pinewood to the river, which is delivered on the railroad at $10 per cord.
140 Years Ago
Something wrong: The Enterprise, referring to the missing child of Empire, suggests that the little girl might have been the victim of foul play. Two weeks have passed since she was last seen alive. The river has been dragged and the surrounding country searched. The Enterprise suggests that this case is one worthy of the attention of a shrewd detective, or the mystery will never be solved.
130 Years Ago
Spring fights: Dick Roberts (Roberts House Museum) and O.A.F. Gilbert were in the ring. The cause was a hard name applied to Gilbert by Roberts. The result was a draw of Dick into the cooler.
100 Years Ago
First auto law violator: H.W. Johnson, a Reno businessman, was the first person to appear before Justice of the Peace Charles Bull on a charge of failing to comply with the state motor vehicle law; that is, driving a machine (auto) without license plates—fine $10.
70 Years Ago
Polio course: The Ormsby County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will have a two-day course on the care of polio patients at Washoe Medical Center. The incidence of polio is likely to increase and the need for being prepared to meet this disease is becoming of increasing urgency.
30 Years Ago
Field dangerous: Ruts, furrows, gouges, black eyes, and bruises are the complaints heard from softball players on the condition of the northern four fields at the three-year-old $1 million softball complex at Centennial Park.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
