Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Telegraph office: A new telegraph office has been established at Washoe City by the railroad company for their own accommodation, and it is probable that they will do business for private individuals who desire it. The office heretofore kept open at Glenbrook was closed for the season.
140 Years Ago
“A Grass Valley Poet”
By Rufus Shoemaker
“Where are you going my pretty maid?”
“Going shopping sir,” she said
“Where! I asked scarce in surprise.
“Oh, anywhere – where they advertise.”
130 Years Ago
Commercial lunch: There will be served during the summer, a regular commercial lunch at Anderson’s lunch counter in Weiland’s saloon. It will be a hot lunch with soup, beer, tea, coffee, or milk for 25 cents. This is the best lunch in the city for the money.
100 Years Ago
First football game: The first game of the season was played in Carson when the eleven from the Stewart Indian School came for a practice contest with the local high school eleven. The first team for Carson High School line up as follows: Center, Grier; right guard, Bonafous; right tackle, Thompson; right end. Barrington; left guard, Sweetland…
70 Years Ago
Square dance: A square dance class for beginners is being started by Pa’s and Taws in the Civic Auditorium. Anyone is welcome as well as former dancers who would like to brush up. All instruction is free.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Wallace Theatres, The New Carson Tri, 55 E. Winnie Lane, Carson City – ‘Pet Semetary,’ ‘3 Ninjas,’ ‘Honeymoon in Vegas,’ ‘Gun in Beety Lou’s Handbag,’ and ‘Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
An insane lawyer — Judge Sawyer, formerly a resident of Carson and now District Attorney of Lincoln County is at Chamberlain’s hotel, Reno, suffering from a violent attack of insanity. He is so ungovernable as to make his close confinement necessary. His friends hope that his lunacy is merely temporary.
140 Years Ago
It is not easy to carry water on both shoulders in a county fight as a few men in Ormsby are trying hard to do. A man had better be something or nothing and not mince matters.
120 Years Ago
“Herman the Great,” the most wonderful of all modern necromancies will appear at the Opera house Oct. 7. Herman is truly a remarkable man. Without preparation he accomplishes the most astonishing feats of sleight of hand and prestidigitation.
80 Years Ago
Seen, heard, or thought by E.T.C. Ever see or hear of the “balloon barrage” on a miniature scale at Glenbrook this season? A Carsonite who was at Glenbrook recently said that he was mystified, when he observed around the garden a number of paper bags and an occasional piece of white cloth suspended from strings, and he asked the gardener some questions. The Carsonite was informed the bags created an effective “barrage” against nocturnal raids on the garden by deer that have free run of the grounds. They are the best and cheapest guard system available.
40 Years Ago
U.S. automakers close 18 plants due to sagging sales, forcing temporary layoffs of more than 45,000 workers.
20 Years Ago
Carson City was saturated in pink Tuesday as hundreds of men and women donned t-shirts to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
The first train through — The first passenger train through from Reno arrived at Carson at 4:15 yesterday morning. The train consisted of locomotive “Reno,” one mail and express car, one baggage car, and two passenger cars. The train was under the control of conductor Harry Shrieves and brought in about eighty passengers.
140 Years Ago
The Gazette very truly says: We like to hear a man refuse to take his home paper and all the time sponge on his neighbors for the reading of it. We like to hear a man complain when asked to subscribe for his home paper, that he takes more papers than he reads now, and then go around and borrow his neighbors or leaf around until he gets all the news from it. We like to see a man run his home paper down as not worth taking, and every now and then beg the editor for a favor. We like to see a mechanic or merchant refuse to advertise, then try to get a share of the trade the newspaper brings to town. We like to see this — it looks economical, thrifty, progressive, and cheeky.
120 Years Ago
When the local arrived at the Brunswick yesterday morning, old “18” blowed out her “pop valve” and was dead in two minutes. Jerry had to make a run up to Woodbury’s to telephone for another engine. They sent “20” to pull him up, and when they arrived, Jerry was using a palm leaf fan and said the weather was warm.
80 Years Ago
The deer season opens in most Nevada counties tomorrow, and hunters in large numbers will be at their favorite hunting grounds in the mountains in time for the early morning shooting. Keep in mind the first day of hunting season is also the first day of fire prevention week.
40 Years Ago
Photo Caption: Chili chefs add the “secret ingredient” (tequila) to their bowl of red. They were among dozens of teams competing Saturday at the 5th annual Great High Sierra Cook-Off between the Ormsby House and the Ormsby Inn.
20 Years Ago
Removal of a late model Ford Bronco mired in the sand on Carson City’s “S” Hill continues to confound officials at the Bureau of Land Management, and now the problem has doubled. A second vehicle, a Jeep CJ, is trapped in a depression just east of the hill.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
