Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Fine wagon. Torreyson has outdone himself lately in building a heavy “schooner” for teamster Edwards, to be used in the transportation of borax from Esmeralda to Carson when the Columbus road is finished. The monster vehicle is not quite as big as the ark but looks like strength itself. Its wheels are red and its body blue. A cask on either side painted in corresponding blue sets off the structure.
140 Years Ago
All Knights Templar visiting here, go to the state prison to take at the prehistoric wonders.
120 Years Ago
The air was full of rumor regarding the escaped Folsom convicts yesterday. First, they were at Bijou, but tracing of the rumor developed that the men have never been within five miles of that place and are giving it a wide berth. That they were at Gilmore Springs on Sunday there seems no doubt.
60 Years Ago
The seat of the U.S. District Court for Northern Nevada will be moved to Reno within a year, Bruce R. Thompson, of Reno, federal judge designate, said today.
40 Years Ago
Friday is the last day “we the folks of Carson City” can tell Johnny Carson “howdy” and request he have a representative of the town on the “Johnny Carson Show.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Johnny C was on his way home late at night and sat between two posts for the sake of shade and got stuck. Sweeney struck a match in his face and carried him to bed. But like a polyp whose head you cut off lives all the same, Johnny wriggled out again and the vigilantes watching him totter, waited for his fall. They picked him up Sunday night; but the cobwebs are still in his eyes, and he will not be ready to listen to his doom till to-day — if then judging by the cocktails he got outside of, yesterday, on bail.
140 Years Ago
Yesterday afternoon a pair of heavy horses belonging to a freight wagon, broke loose and ran down Carson Street at their fullest speed. It was amusing to notice with what degree of alacrity heavy tracks and men who generally move about like enormous planetary bodies, got out of the way. No one hurt and no damage.
120 Years Ago
From the latest reports the escaped convicts from Folsom seem to have the hills and dales to themselves, there is no record of anyone being on the trail. Since they left Glen Alpine, no one seems to have any track of the men. Judge Harley remarked that about the best way to catch them is to leave them alone, because they are all criminals at heart and cannot resist crime any more than they can eating.
60 Years Ago
World history may be held up for at least 10 days while “Khrushchev” sits out a drunken driving jail sentence in the Ormsby County jail. The Khrushchev being held, however, is not the fat roly-poly Russian but a sarcastic motorist from Wisconsin.
40 Years Ago
Stockholders of Dug’s Windjammer, Inc. reportedly pressured to trade off their stock earlier this summer, were told last week they didn’t have to make a hasty decision after all.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Presiding elder. Warren Nims, the peculiarly devout and earnest working preacher, who in earlier times used his muscle and his begging energy to erect the Carson Methodist Church, stone by stone, to its completion, is appointed elder of its district.
140 Years Ago
De Witt Clinton Commandery of Virginia City was the most superbly rested in the Knights Templar procession.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday a high wind prevailed and while it failed to bring a shower of rain, it did bring down a shower of apples. In every yard in this city there is an orchard and the trees this season are loaded to the branch.
60 Years Ago
The second of two escaped prisoners turned himself into Ely police today. The escapee, Benny Ortiz, who was sentenced from 1 to 14 years in jail on a forgery charge, followed another escapee, Ronald Gomes Jr., who turned himself into Ely police yesterday. The two escaped from a prison work detail in Mason Valley in a prison truck.
40 Years Ago
A certificate of appreciation and a plaque were presented to Wanda Martin of Yerington on Friday by officials and inmates at the maximum-security prison in recognition of religious work. She and her husband, John, have performed for Northern Nevada prison inmates for years.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.