Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Our new schoolhouse. We are able to state our patrons and those interested in the public school that this new building will be completed by the 1st of November and ready for occupation. The painting and plastering are speedily going on, and everything is approaching completion. When done, there will be four schoolrooms, two on the lower and two on the upper, four recitations, and four hat and cloak rooms. It will accommodate four hundred with ease, and five hundred if necessary.
140 Years Ago
Out of kelter. C.W. Friend’s outdoor electric clock has been out of kelter for some time, which is considerable inconvenience to many citizens. We doubt not that Mr. Friend would keep the clock in constant good order should he receive some slight encouragement to do so.
120 Years Ago
There was a grand rally of the Fusion forces at Dayton last night. There was music, bonfires and public speaking and great enthusiasm. The exhibition of loyalty to the cause of Fusion and reform was sufficient to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Dayton, the birthplace of the silver movement in this state is right in line.
80 Years Ago
Charles Felesina, county commissioner, was the first hunting “casualty” reported in this area when a Reno hunter a short distance away aiming at a flying pheasant shot, hitting Felesina in the ear. Other pellets hit the man in his jacket. Felesina told his wife shortly before the accident to “duck,” with both turning away from the man just before he fired.
40 Years Ago
The historic hull of King Henry VII’s warship Mary Rose, which sank 437 years ago, was raised to the surface almost intact except for a few cracked timbers.
20 Years Ago
The Affiliated Obsidian National, a 20-year-old California-based American Indian support network has threatened participation in the Nevada Day Parade if chairman of the Washoe Tribal Council Brian Wallace serves as one of four grand marshals. Comments from opponents worried the Nevada Day organizers enough they considered cancelling the parade.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Wood choppers wanted. Yerington, Bliss & Co. want from 50 to 100 good wood choppers, and will not only pay them the highest prices, but give them steady employment. This is a splendid chance for men as this company always pays what they agree to and only ask me to attend to business.
140 Years Ago
Afraid of the comet. The foolish intelligence sent over the wires that the comet would destroy this earth in 1883 has already had the effect of consternations a number of superstitious people in this city. Such nonsensical trash in the columns of journals whose mission should be the enlightenment of the ignorant and superstitious works great harm and should find no place to print.
120 Years Ago
There are no further particulars obtainable of the killing of Maurius Restore, a French sheep man, by Randall Sage, which occurred near the letters ranch in the Disaster Peak country last Monday.
80 Years Ago
Reno is helping one industry in this county and to a considerable extent nearly every building that is going up in that city is being plastered with material from the gypsum plant owned and operated by J.W. Adams three miles east of this city.
40 Years Ago
Sen. Paul Laxalt has turned down an offer to succeed Richard as chairman of the Republican National Committee because he already has a full-time job as a U.S. Senator.
20 Years Ago
Construction problems have caused major delays in plans to open a slots bar in the Ormsby House parking garage.
Friday
150 Years Ago
“Old Telegraph.” Dr. Sharp drove the horse to the target excursion on Saturday, to a heavy buggy, containing himself, wife, and child. Everybody knows this horse as well as they know Doc. He is about twenty-five years old and is the gayest, proudest horse in the country. Doc left here when the train started and beat it to the grounds just ten seconds, and in returning the old horse was a little behind the toll grate, but it being a down grade he made Carson about a half a minute first. The old fellow was a little wet and tired, but the satisfaction of knowing that he could beat an iron horse was glory enough for him and he was happy.
140 Years Ago
The American flag always floats over the courthouse when the U.S. District Court is in session. It floats now.
120 Years Ago
Every once in a while, there is a scheme talked over of raising Lake Tahoe above the natural water line for the purpose of either irrigation or taking the water to San Francisco. Whenever the San Francisco project is talked over, the farmers along the Truckee have a small fit and all kinds of litigation is talked of. A trip to the lake would be apt to change the minds of many who believe that the plan will be carried out some day.
80 Years Ago
The Nevada fish and game commission announced today that 513 bucks and 104 doves were killed in Nevada during the first 10 days of the season.
40 Years Ago
Photo caption. Two Carson City landscapers won first place awards from the Northern Nevada Landscape and Irrigation Council’s first competition. Angelo Pecorilla works at Mormon Station, where he won a first-place award. Below, Dennis Cassinelli’s son Tim works at the Ormsby Medical Clinic. Cassinelli’s firm won two first place awards and two second place awards.
20 Years Ago
The Vietnam Memorial at Mills Park is getting a new look, with the landscaping removed to make way for five huge blocks of hand-carved sandstone from the Nevada State Prison quarry.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
