Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
We are informed by Mr. Lewis Doron that the skeleton of a man, and a packsaddle near by the same, were discovered a few days since by Mr. Len Hamilton, near Desert Creek in Esmeralda County. It is surmised that these are the remains of one of the convicts who escaped from the state prison and who was wounded in the fight there. We didn’t learn whether anything had been done with the skeleton.
140 Years Ago
There are 36 newspapers published in Nevada, 14 daily and 22 weeklies.
120 Years Ago
S.B. Cohen, one of Carson’s businessmen, has been awarded the prize for the best decorated private business in this city, during the reception of the president. The rise was offered by Jas. Yerington, which showed more than the usual amount of enterprise on the part of that gentleman.
70 Years Ago
Albert Seeliger, superintendent of Consolidated B school district in Fallon since 1944, is the new superintendent of the Carson school system. Seeliger is a graduate of the University of Nevada and has done graduate work at Nevada, Utah, and Oregon State universities. He has many friends in Carson from university days.
30 Years Ago
Carson City officials are making the most out of the need to build a new jail, looking at ways to lower costs and jail population and increase efficiency all at the same time. The biggest priority voiced by several officials was to put both the jail and courts in the same building.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
We learn through Mr. Chamberlain of the firm of Mason & Chamberlin, that the 20 miles of grading undertaken by the Carson shareholders in the Columbus Wagon road some 11 miles will be completed by tonight; and as it is fair to presume that the Columbus people have finished an equal stretch of the road, it may be calculated that but 18 miles are left to be graded and prepared for travel. It is thought it will be ready for teams by the first of July.
140 Years Ago
Families living in the vicinity of the schoolhouse, complain that the profanity, obscenity, and horrible talk on the ball ground on Sunday afternoons would make a cobble stone blush. The police should see to the matter.
120 Years Ago
President Roosevelt has visited our state and taken his departure, and during his stay with us, although it lasted but a few hours, he was made to feel, according to his own statement, that there did not exist in any country a more hospitable people than the Nevadans.
70 Years Ago
Carson City’s newest business, the Sky-Vue drive-in theatre, will open Sunday night. It will accommodate 364 cars and has a snack bar which will warm babies’ bottles for parents while they watch the movie. The camera operators will be Jack Cicero and Don Clendenon.
30 Years Ago
The 102-year-old state library building may get a $5 million face lift courtesy of a local group if the legislature passes a bill introduced in the senate last week. The local Nevada Preservation Group wants to restore the building and lease it out.
Friday
150 Years Ago
A smart hailstorm which got dissolved into the melting mood of a spanking shower of rain, accompanied by some gentle demonstrations of electricity, came upon us yesterday afternoon. The grass and leaves looked very green and brilliant after their grateful drenching; and the air was redolent of the fragrant sage.
140 Years Ago
Lost. Left in the Ormsby House water closet a Smith & Wesson self-cocking five shooter. The finder will leave the same at this office.
120 Years Ago
From the chief of the Grand Army of the Republic: The passing days bring us again to Memorial Day when we garland the resting places of our heroic dead with the flowers of budding springtime and droop above them the flag whose purity and glory they offered their lives.
70 Years Ago
The world’s first atomic artillery shell was fired successfully today from a monster cannon and burst with historic violence over the Nevada proving grounds to usher in a new era of ground warfare. A brilliant double fireball, the first ever seen by observers, shot up from the explosion, indicating the military may have something newer even than the shell itself.
30 Years Ago
The Regional Planning Commission took its cue from staff, the Utility Department, and the Western Nevada’s Builders Association, establishing enough building permits in 1994 and 1995 for 3 percent growth. The maximum increase is set at 553 for 1994 and 569 for 1995.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.