North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
A lecture on Mormonism was announced, yesterday, to take place last evening at the Carson Theater, by two “Wandering Sisters,” young women recently from a visit at Salt Lake. Notwithstanding the notice of the proposed lecture did not appear until late in the afternoon, about 60 persons were present, including a few ladies.
140 Years Ago
The last of this month, according to the prophecy of Mrs. Bowers, Reno is to be destroyed by a big fire.
120 Years Ago
Lt. Governor Allen, who has been spending a few days at the home ranch in St. Clair in Churchill County, has returned to this city. Lem has a farm in this section since the day that the pasture spots were discovered and is still in the business. “Churchill today promises more than any time since it was recognized as a county or a place worth looking to.
60 Years Ago
Extra income seems to be out of the picture for Ormsby County Sheriff Howard Hoffman. An opinion of the Nevada Attorney General Harvey Dickerson said the sheriff is not entitled to retain for his personal use an amount equal to 6 percent of the gross amount on each business license sold but must be turned over to the county treasury.
Hoffman asked for the funding because of NRS 364.020 which allows the sheriff to retain that amount as compensation for being ex officio tax collector.
40 Years Ago
New license plates for cars and trucks designed to promote tourist started rolling off the assembly line at the Nevada State Prison Tuesday. The new plates have special metallic silver and gray-silver graphics.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The Episcopal Church approaches completion. It will be occupied next Sunday. Rev. Mr. Allen has invited Bishop Whittaker and other clergymen to be present and participate in the services. The upper and more dreadful row of gingerbread has been knocked off the choir balcony.
140 Years Ago
No trace has been found of the man Jacob Buchler, who, it is supposed, committed suicide by jumping into the Carson River near Sutro. The river has been dragged as far as Fort Churchill, without finding a body, and the search has been given up.
120 Years Ago
Mr. Thompson of the Sampson Iron Works installed the new pumping plant at the Dressler ranch near Genoa last Wednesday. A large crowd was present to see the plant in operation and all pronounced it a great success.
60 Years Ago
Twenty prominent Carson City area residents have sent telegrams to the Nevada congressional delegation protesting what they term bad treatment of homesteaders by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
40 Years Ago
By Monday afternoon, ratepayers will know who is going to blink first in a simmering battle that has embroiled the Public Service Commission for the past two weeks.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Two dollars bounty for killing a wild cat, is among the expenditure in our report of the allowances by the county board. Now, the first wretch who attempts a pun upon the fraudulent mining business, dies in his worthless tracks.
140 Years Ago
Trout are beginning to run up the Carson River.
120 Years Ago
The prizes to be awarded at the Children’s Masquerade party this evening will be five in number. For best dressed girl; the best boy; the most original character girl; the most original character boy; the most amusing character boy or girl. Owing to the uncertainty of the ages of the successful ones, it has been found impracticable to determine what these prizes will consist of.
60 Years Ago
Two women were arrested in a Reno motel Tuesday evening and charged with attempted abortion, Washoe County District Attorney William J. Raggio said. One of the women was performing an abortion at the time. “The method used was extremely crude and very dangerous to a person’s safety,” Raggio said.
40 Years Ago
A strike in Reno in 1949 brought about Nevada’s durable right to work law and played a major role in reducing union influence throughout Nevada, historians say.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.