Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
At the Episcopal Church the workmen are busy with their preparations for reconstruction and repairs. A dray was hitched on to Parson Allen’s study yesterday morning and it was snatched with vigor and zeal away from its late sanctified articulation over toward the schoolhouse, and there we suppose it will remain until the new part is completed when it will be joined thereto.
140 Years Ago
On Wednesday evening while Norman, the three-and-a-half-year-old son of J.F. Farrell, on the company of some other urchins, was riding on John Newmham’s dray, the youngster fell off and the dray passed over him. His injuries were at first supposed to be serious, but yesterday he was resting easy. The chances are that he will try to climb onto the cowcatcher of a locomotive in a day or two.
120 Years Ago
Carson City’s fairest were out in all their glory for the band concert at the Capitol grounds last Sunday. They presented a picture that for beauty and grace could not be excelled in any city of liked size on the continent.
60 Years Ago
Two former department of motor vehicle employees pleaded guilty in Elko County District Court to charges of embezzling state funds.
40 Years Ago
The Carson City landscaping firm of Cassinelli Landscaping and Sprinklers received the sweepstakes award for the best overall project at the second annual Landscape Awards ceremony held at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
The Board of County Commissioners had a seance yesterday. One of the principal things done was to ratify the acts of the board of equalization. The proposal of Mr. John Griffin to build the Empire and Brunswick road for $28 was accepted with the proviso that he gives the requisite bond. Adjourned.
140 Years Ago
“Grizzly Dan,” the ex-convict, who was arrested here a week ago for petty larceny and was let off without punishment upon promising to leave the state, is now under arrest in Virginia for some sneak thievery.
120 Years Ago
One of the most interesting and difficult operations in the history of modern veterinary surgery was performed yesterday at the state prison by Dr. Price, assisted by Dr. Dempsey, of Dayton and Dr. Von Radesdy, in the presence of a large number of physicians. The great mare Mamie F., formerly the property of D. Circe, but now owned by Warden was a successfully operated upon for cancer of the abdomen.
60 Years Ago
A 70-year-old deer hunter, missing since Tuesday, was found dead today, apparently from a heart attack. Henry Jackson, a World War I veteran, who went into Snow Camp Mountain area with Dan Phillips of Eureka.
40 Years Ago
Nevada Newspaper Week. A free press: Democracy’s first defense.
Friday
150 Years Ago
In a baseball match between the Golden and Silver Star clubs at the racetrack Saturday the former won the victory by a score of 85 to 33 — the note which lies upon our table adding, “giving the Silver Stars 12 ahead.” We don’t know what that means unless it is that the Goldens allowed the Silvers the odds and beat them.
140 Years Ago
Lake Tahoe timber. At a meeting of the Lake Bigler (Tahoe) Forestry Commission, held on Monday last, it was resolved to ask the Central Pacific Railroad Company not to sell its land on the shore of the lake until the next legislature. The members of the commission think that the land would be much more valuable to the company in its present condition, as an attraction to tourists.
120 Years Ago
The written resignation of Mayor Mackey was not accepted, and resolutions were introduced to the effect that he was the right man in the right place and that the board needed him in its business.
60 Years Ago
Mike Furlong and Gary Dean are tied at 51,000 points apiece in the exciting Nevada Appeal ‘win a bike contest.’ Ernie McGrath has dropped to third with 37,000 points.
40 Years Ago
At the movies: National Lampoon’s Vacation, Smokey and the Bandit, Romantic Comedy and Yellow beard.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.