Nevada Historical Society
Saturday
145 Years Ago
Snipe hunting: The victim was the cook on the steamer Stanford and the fellow sat three hours from 9 p.m. until midnight on the damp ground in Captain Pray’s meadow, holding a bag open waiting for the snipe to be driven in from the mountain but nary a snipe entered the bag. The cook is wrathy, and the bloods are not circulating around Glenbrook very freely at the present.
140 Years Ago
In brief: J.W. Spurgeon says there were all of sixty people fishing in Washoe Lake, meeting with desirable success.
Lyman A. Frisbie’s band plays at all the charitable affairs here, and they never charge anything for their services on such occasions; but when any money is to be paid for music, an outside band is always imported. The Frisbie people are justly displeased at such treatment.
130 Years Ago
A good idea: Editor Appeal - “The trustees of the Carson Schools intend giving the children but two days’ vacation during Fair week. And I think that the children should have the whole week, because it will be a setback to the Fair… Now if you would just give the children a lift through the columns of your paper, I think you would be doing a great favor for the children and also help the Fair to be a success.” Signed, A Parent.
110 Years Ago
Carson Kiddo into the ring: The bar of ex-supreme Justice James G. Sweeney of this city, has been launched upon the sea of politics.
70 Years Ago
Television broadcast: The first television broadcast by Reno’ first television station, KZTV, met with mixed results. Reception at times was good with the pictures moderately clear and sharp. The expense involved in getting this less than perfect reception will be too great for most local residents to pay. KZTV is the second station to begin operations in Nevada and is owned by Donald W. Reynolds and Albert E. Cahlan of Las Vegas.
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Ironwood Stadium Cinema, 1760 US 395, Minden. ‘The Fighting Temptations’ with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles; ‘Underworld,’ with Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman; and ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’ with Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp.”
Sunday
145 Years Ago
A brute arrested: William Hart went to the home of William Miller and proceeded to kick down the door. He entered the house and drove the colored man from his bed. This man then made several ineffectual efforts to strike the victim over the head with a bottle. Miller escaped and went to town to request police protection. Constable Sterm and officer Ingraham went to the scene and found Hart tucked in Miller’s bed. The officers collared the fellow and brought him to the county jail, where he lies meditating upon how hard the way of the transgressor is. He will have an examination before the police magistrate.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: J.W. Spurgeon says that there were all of sixty people fishing in Washoe Lake, and they met with desirable access.
Three young gentlemen left for Marlette Lake and returned the next morning, having caught more than 100 trout. Had they been detected in their unlawful fishing; they would have been shot.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The female skeleton in the old shaft in Silver City continues to excite a great deal of interest.
The visiting horsemen are delighted with the Carson racetrack. They say it is a natural track and doesn’t lay the horses up that go over it. They all declare it the best track in the state.
110 Years Ago
Painful memories: Tax Commission Emmett Boyle while hurrying off to work, had the misfortune to turn his right ankle when crossing the street. The accident comes at an unfortunate time.
70 Years Ago
Daylight savings: Governor Charles H. Russell called attention to the fact that Nevada will return to Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, Sept. 27, 1953. One of the results of the change will be lighter skies in the morning, but darkness will come earlier in the evening.
20 Years Ago
Nevada Day: Nevada will celebrate its 139th birthday Oct. 31, 2000. The parade theme is a salute to veterans and features World War II veteran Richard Sorensen.
Monday
145 Years Ago
Pedestrianism: The mornings at this season of the year are perfectly charming and made solely for those whose business is of an indoor nature to take exercise before breakfast. One has a magnificent appetite for breakfast, feels well and is bright all day afterward.
140 Years Ago
Fatal accident: The belt of the threshing machine at Jesse Winters’ ranch at Silver Creek became detached from the driving wheel when James Elwood, seized a scantling to prevent it from coming off. The rubber lagging became detached from the wheel, and unwinding, acting like a whip, struck Elwood on the head and neck and killed him instantly. (Times Review)
130 Years Ago
Fool’s cap: A premium of $2 is offered by the directors of the District Fair for the best essay by a boy or girl under 16 years of age to be written on “State Resources,” the essay to consist of three pages of fool’s cap [sic]. A prize of $2 is also offered for the best written copy of “Home Sweet Home.”
110 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Drink ‘Tahoe Lager Beer.’ It now speaks for itself. Brewed from the finest malt and hops on the market, and the purest water in the world. Carson Brewing Company, Carson City.”
70 Years Ago
Carson babies: The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson is seriously ill. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walker is showing signs of improvement.
20 Years Ago
Dayton: Time is running out to save the old Dayton Depot. “The corner is sold if we do not stop the process,” said Roxie Paine. “A drive-through Taco Bell will be there.” Dayton is slowly losing historic sites at an alarming rate.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
Dirty business revived: Several gangs of loafers congregate at different prominent points in this city to stare at every passing lady out of countenance. These loafers make disrespectful comments upon her dress or walk, and sometimes their language is evil. They will be taught a lesson. Some big brother, father or husband and may come around one of the corners where they rendezvous and send a load of backshot into their cowardly carcasses.
140 Years Ago
First sight: On a visit to Carson a young lady had bid farewell to her seventeenth summer. She had never seen a steamer or a locomotive. Her first sight of a steamer was at McKinney’s, Lake Tahoe, when she saw the little steamer, Niagara. She will go on her first railroad ride, explore the mysteries of the telephone and be dazzled by the beams of the electric light.
130 Years Ago
Undue familiarity: It is not an usual spectacle to see men go into the ring to fight. In the Armstrong-Barber fight in the seventh round the two boxers clinched and Barber, the colored fighter in a jocular spirit, implanted a kiss on the cheek of his white opponent. The kiss seemed to stir up some of the worst elements of his nature. Armstrong says that he is a man of some feeling and likes kissing.
110 Years Ago
Winters mine: Three teams arrived in Minden loaded with ore from the Winter’s mine. The ore is being shipped to the reduction works for treatment and the new company expects to gain a good profit from every silver-lead ore carload shipped. The company contemplates the erection of a plant at the mine for the reduction of ores, and the heavy cost of transportation will be eliminated.
70 Years Ago
Nevada Day radio program: Gov. Charles M. Russell will appear on a radio show to provide publicity for the Nevada Day celebration.
20 Years Ago
Jammin’: Carson Street was thicker than normal swollen by some 40,000 motorcyclists heading for Street Vibrations in Reno. The last weekend in September is often a busy one on Nevada roads.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.