Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
SATURDAY
150 Years Ago
Railroad matters. We are informed that the track around the ruined tunnel was to be completed last night and that trains will run over it today. This has been done very rapidly for so extensive a work. It has been surveyed, graded and track laid around the point on a very sharp curve for the distance of about 1,700 feet in less than a week.
140 Years Ago
A wanderer’s return. Mr. George T. Davis, after a five month’s tour through Europe and the Eastern states, has returned to Carson. While abroad he visited all the famous ruins of the old world, including Byron’s old castle, the inn where Shakespeare threw a flitch of bacon at the waiter’s head and the celebrated Casino where the pilgrims of the Rhine came twice a year to enjoy the healing waters.
120 Years Ago
(Continued from yesterday) The parents of the girl demanded he marry the girl and prevailed upon him to sign a contract to that effect. From evidence in possession of the officers, Mullins deliberately planned to murder the parents, steal $605 they had in the house and leave the country.
80 Years Ago
United States District Judge Frank H. Norcross this forenoon from the bench extended to Mrs. Clodiel Kleinecke of Sparks his congratulations because she is the first woman ever to have served as a grand juror in the Nevada district.
40 Years Ago
Carson-Tahoe Hospital is warning parents to be wary this Halloween, and the hospital’s radiology staff has volunteered to X-ray trick-or-treater’s bags for metal foreign objects.
20 Years Ago
The season is winding down at the Carson City BMX track on Edmonds with the friendly Sunday races ending next month.
SUNDAY
150 Years Ago
Hallow eve: The last night in October is kept in a queer fashion in country villages. The peasantry of England and Scotland have very superstitious beliefs. It is thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief making beings are all abroad in their baneful mid-night errands…
140 Years Ago
A craze: Every boy in town seems to have the brass band craze. All the old instruments known of have been cornered, and the dance and campaign music comes up Carson Street in large blotches now.
130 years ago
Observation: Jim Yerington was seen walking along the street with the bottoms of his pants turned up, and he was holding an umbrella. He had just received a letter from H.M. that it is raining in London.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Key Pittman, United States Senator, re-election to the United States Senate at the General Election, Nov. 7.”
70 Years Ago
88th anniversary statehood: Written by Basil Woon — “This is Nevada Day. Eighty-eight years ago, Nevada was admitted to the Union, second western state to be so honored. Nevada was admitted because she had, per capita, contributed more to the cause of national unity than any other territory—or state. Silver from her mines had financed a victorious civil war.”
30 Years Ago
Photo caption: The Douglas High School Band marches in front of the old Lucky Spur building downtown Carson City during the 55th annual Nevada Day Parade. Kari Lynn Taliaferro celebrates as she rides her pony in the parade…
MONDAY
150 Years Ago
Street corner politics: At every corner of Carson Street from the St. Charles Hotel to the Mint, can now be seen little knots of anxious individuals gathered.
140 Years Ago
Well loaded editor: Mrs. A. Towser gave a whist party at Nevada City. The feature of the evening was a prize for the heaviest man present. L.S. Calkins, editor of the Transcript, took the prize weighing 240 pounds. Upon being investigated Calkins was found to have 100 pounds of shot stowed about his person. When he was “stood on his head,” shot rolled out for an hour. (Grass Valley Telegraph)
130 Years Ago
Good pie makers: Miss Nellie Jaqua and Miss Kate Foxx left a pie at the Appeal office. The Appeal devil has attempted to cut the pie. The crust was fair to look at but under its sugar-coated exterior were found scraps of leather, ground oyster shells and yards of filigree hem. If this is a sample of the sort of pies these young ladies make, the Appeal cannot conscientiously recommend them.
100 Years Ago
Largest apples: The Comstock copped the real prize in the apple line, as well as in gold and silver production. W.H. Greiner, at Griener’s bend at the head of Gold Hill, is a tree that has yielded this year a total of sixty-five apples, with the combined weight is seventy-five pounds. Samples measure fifteen inches in circumference and tipped the scales at a pound and a half each.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — Jungle Jim in ‘The Forbidden Land,’ with J. Weissmuller and Angela Green. Also, Silver City Bonanza with Rex Allen.”
30 Years Ago
Nevada Day weather: The three-hour Nevada Day parade through Carson City was cold and cut down on the number of people at the parade. Governor Miller rode in a covered wagon and Secretary of State Cheryl Lau managed to ride past the Capital on horseback.
TUESDAY
150 Years Ago
Globe saloon: Davis & Mowry of the Globe saloon have a faro, keno, rondo, chuck-a-luck, and log game at their saloon which are running every night and afford amusement to many who try to build up their shattered fortunes by engaging in the games.
140 Years Ago
Hallow eve: There were a number of social parties as well as a large assortment of gates unhinged and distributed round where they didn’t belong. The boys were out in large force, and they frolicked with people’s property in a very loose and off-handed way.
130 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Frank Folsom. Wood for sale by the cord at flume rates. Wood sawed at $1 per cord. Only place in the city where lumber can be purchased in large quantities. Grain, hay, feed, wood, delivered to all parts of the city.”
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Never Weaken” with Harold Lloyd and “Women Who Wait,” Grand Theatre, Admission 24 and 55 cents.”
70 Years Ago
Ghost counties: Nevada has three “ghost counties”— Lake, Roop and Stewart. Lake was established in 1861 by the territorial legislature. In 1862 the name was changed to Roop. In 1866 the county of Stewart was proposed but changed to Lincoln County while the bill was still in the state legislature.
30 Years Ago
Nevada sees slow growth: Nevada likely remains the fastest growing state in the nation with most of the growth in Clark County. The population still grew 3.5 percent over the year. Nevada had averaged annual increases of 4.5 percent to 6 percent throughout the 1960s.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.