Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
A fawn. We noticed a boy playing with a half-grown fawn yesterday, near the railroad track in rear of the Mint. The youngster had a rope tied about the fawn’s neck and was anxiously engaged with a good-sized switch trying to make him “haw” – said switch being assiduously applied to the “saddle” of the young venison.
140 Years Ago
The removal of Dr. Dawson from the superintendency of the Insane Asylum at Reno was made in defiance of a just public sentiment which demands that into places of such sacred trust and responsibility the polluting hands or politics shall not be thrust. – Virginia Chronicle
120 Years Ago
One week from Sunday, the bicycle boys of this city will open the season. A road race is to be the program and a handicapped race at that. The plans are for all who can ride a bicycle to get in line in front of the post office and start for Empire via the prison route; thence to Carson, back to the starting point up the other road to Empire.
80 Years Ago
Truck operators who without authority use trucks for personal transportation will be cut in gasoline allotments, John M. Hiskey, district manager of the Nevada Office of Defense Transportation said today.
40 Years Ago
Sen. Sue Wagner, R-Reno, said Monday her campaign reform bill doesn’t have enough votes to get it passed in the assembly.
20 Years Ago
A government consultant from Michigan and the city managers of Elko; Lake Havasu City; and Beloit, Kan., are the top candidates for the Carson City manager’s position, supervisors decided Thursday.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The skating rink will be opened next Friday evening at the request of numerous patrons. As there is no amusement whatever in Carson at the present, Moore & Parker have consented to bring out their skates once more. The Carson Cotillion Band will be on hand. We hope to see a large attendance at the rink next Friday evening.
140 Years Ago
An expert’s opinion. Wells Drury, who has been considered for many years to stand as a beer expert in the same position held by Dan DeQuille as a meteorologist, a few days ago came out upon the broad platform that the been manufactured by Jake Klein of this city was superior to all known brands. For some years Drury leaned toward the Boca, but after drinking two hundred barrels of each, now gives is verdict for Carson.
120 Years Ago
A telephone message was received from manager Boyle in Como this morning in which he stated that everything at the north Rapidan mine is in fair shape to start work in the tunnel next Sunday and he wished to announce to those men whom he has already employed to be in Como Saturday next so that they will be on hand Sunday to commence work immediately.
80 Years Ago
At the regular meeting of the Carson City 20-30 Club, president Robert Smith announced that the annual Easter egg hunt has been abandoned this year because of war conditions, scarcity of eggs and other foods, etc.
40 Years Ago
Gov. Richard Bryan’s first three months have surprised many, disappointed others and strengthened the reputation he’s a workaholic.
20 Years Ago
Jeff Fontaine was named director of the Nevada Department of Transportation on Tuesday.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
The senate and assembly chambers are in a shockingly dirty plight. Never a broom, nor a swab, nor a dash of water, nor an ounce of soap has been seen in either of those apartments since last the legislature adjourned. The old sojors of nicolean Solons still cluster about the verge of the forlorn and abandoned spittoons; clutter and the things of untidiness cumber floor and desks and chairs and all nooks and crannies; and one will an able-bodied nose turned up that feature in scornful curve.
140 Years Ago
On Sunday last G. Herbert and a man named Roy, both French Canadians, started across Lake Tahoe in a boat and have not been heard from. Yesterday the boat was found bottom upwards, and the voyagers are supposed to be drowned.
120 Years Ago
This promises to be the busiest summer in this city for a number of years. In the first place the Orphans Home is to be rebuilt. This is no small job, and the work will call for stone masons, bricklayers, and carpenters. This building will be one of the finest in the state.
80 Years Ago
The chairman of the manpower commission said today that every able-bodied man between 18 and 38 years of age will be in the country’s armed forces by Dec. 31, except for those in agriculture, the ministry, and vital industries.
40 Years Ago
An outstanding example of cooperation among law enforcement agencies led to the discovery of a drug lab in the Clear Creek area investigators said is capable of productions millions of dollars’ worth of “speed.” The lab was discovered in a house on Clear Creek Road near a police training academy.
20 Years Ago
For students at Eagle Valley Middle School, it is not unusual to see dogs walking down the hallways or lying next to a desk in a classroom. Under Warren Wish’s guidance, students begin initial guide dog for the blind training, bringing the dogs to class, home and other functions.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.