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Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Squirrel: Frank Hall’s pet ground squirrel is worth studying. Frank has kept him up until his coat is as sleek as a mole, and he has grown fat and tame. His cage stands near the stove by the theater entrance. When Frank takes a notion to fool with him, he goes around behind the bar and cracks a pine nut with his teeth and Mr. Squirrel comes running out of case and up onto Frank’s shoulder, where he reaches up and takes the kernel from between his master’s teeth…
140 Years Ago
In brief: During the evenings the Ormsby House lower floor is just as crowded and presents the same appearance as during a session of the legislature.
The Episcopal social will be a jolly affair, good music, dancing and nearly all the nice folks in town will be there.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: A girl in California has been starving herself because her love has been taken from her.
110 Years Ago
Rabbit drive: The Indians are gathering in force to the southern end of the valley, preparatory to a big rabbit drive. They have been in Carson purchasing necessary supplies. It will start at the Indian School.
70 Years Ago
New Carson Theatre: Building of the new $175,000 Carson Theatre is in progress. It is designed to be Nevada’s most modern movie house according to the manager, A.R. Bowen. The exterior work is nearly finished. The new movie house will be 130 feet long and 63 feet wide.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Lost: Captain Mart Reese lost his Carbuncle breast pin during fire duty. He is a Veteran patriot. This pin has great value in Mart’s eyes. It is an heirloom and was once a ring with which his great, great grandfather, the Doge of Venice, married the Adriatic. He will bestow a suitable reward on anybody who will return it to him.
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Hear what we say—New Shoe Store, New Shoe Store. We are not calling your attention to the prices to suit… we intend to stay and live with you and give you goods of the finest manufacture at eastern prices! Sunderland & Burlington, opposite post office.
130 Years Ago
New firehouse: A firehouse is being constructed in the northwestern part of town, near the old ball ground. It is within 120 feet of a hydrant, and it was so situated that two men would have no trouble in drawing the hose cart.
110 Years Ago
Carson Brewery: Max Stenz of the Carson Brewery shipped a carload of beer to Tonopah and is preparing to make more shipments to different sections of the south. The Carson beer has tickled the palates of users of the article and created a great demand for it.
70 Years Ago
Names for new schools chosen: An essay contest among students, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce with consent of the school board of trustees, has resulted in the following winning names: Martha F. Gleason will be the name of the Musser Street building. First prize for the choice will be split between Kippie Furlog and Ken Swift with each getting $5. John C. Fremont will be the name of the Fifth St. building. John Cory and Joanie Gatten will divide first prize each getting $5. Max Fleischmann will be the name of the new Corbett St. building. Troy (Skippy) Williams won $10 for first prize.
Friday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: We take this serious and formal manner of informing the powers that be that there are pigs, hogs, boars and sows about the west end of this small city. These illicit vagrants should be imprisoned.
140 Years Ago
In brief: The gambling houses are as densely crowded now as they were fifteen years ago. All manner of games are running from dusk to dawn.
People on the Comstock who desire to leave town are again raffling off their houses at one dollar per chance. A man won a house on G street a few evenings ago, and he traded it off to a Piute for two ponies. Five years ago, that same house could not have been bought for $2,000.
130 Years Ago
Empire notes: The Midwinter Fair and Wiggins’ turkey shoot and Masquerade Ball are the absorbing topics at the port of entry. Wiggins has several ranges measured off, and his building a pontoon bridge across the river so anyone who wants to measure the turkey range. He will have his hall illuminated with forty incandescent lights on the night of the Ball, and he intends to run a line over to the turkey range at night they will have good light.
110 Years Ago
Fiftieth anniversary: St. Peter’s parish of the Episcopal church will celebrate its fiftieth year of existence in Carson. Splendid programs here have been arranged.
70 Years Ago
Howard Hughes: Whether millionaire industrialist Howard Hughes moved to Las Vegas to evade a suit in Los Angeles is in question. New York lawyers think they are planning to abandon the case in Nevada.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.