Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Some long-needed repairs to the streets in the northern part of the city are going on — especially in that neighborhood where about Judge Harris lives. We trust there may be no abatement of these street repairing ‘til all the rougher planes are made smooth, and the crookeder ways made straight.
140 Years Ago
The Nevada Livestock Association recently formed has surprised a good many people who up to recently did not realize that the cattle industry in Nevada had reached such dimensions. The association is now taking steps to protect all dealers, and cattle thieves had better give the sagebrush a wide berth from this on.
120 Years Ago
The graders are within sight of Tonopah, being only nine miles from town, and 50 miles of grade will be completed tonight. About three miles of track was laid during the week, and the tracklayers will be within two and a half miles of Coaldale.
60 Years Ago
Carson City high school’s track and field team, tuning up for Saturday’s triangular meet against Fallon and host Wooster, yesterday thumped Stewart 88-30 in what Coach Bob Burns charitably described as “a good mid-week workout.”
40 Years Ago
Public Service Commission Chairman Scott Cragie rolled the dice, and it came up $7 million in new charges for southern Nevada natural gas customers as the PSC moved Monday to resolve the most bitter public split it has seen in years.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
No school this week. Too many Easter eggs for that, you know.
140 Years Ago
T.R. McGuirk, of Virginia City, has invented a machine for splitting wood. The affair, which threatens to drive the Chinese out of the country, is simply a big ax attached to a piston rod. The wood is placed under the ax, and, it being operated by steam power, it exerts such a force that it will split the knottiest log with a single stroke.
120 Years Ago
The good house last evening shows that the citizens of Carson are always ready to recognize good attractions when they come here. The management went to considerable expense to bring Miss Irving to this city.
60 Years Ago
The state capitol will soon be back in the flying business, Kirk Loney, chairman of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce’s airport committee told chamber members last night. “The county commissioners are being very helpful, and with their help we are going to have an airport here,” Loney declared.
40 Years Ago
At the luxury theaters: Romancing the Stone, Never Cry Wolf, Tank, Up The Creek, Where the Boys are and Police Academy.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Henry Rives, Esq., of Pioche, just shackled with golden chains of matrimony, came here with his beautiful young wife yesterday, just in time to be the recipients of the compliment of a post-nuptial party devised for them by their very thoughtful friends.
140 Years Ago
At 10 minutes past 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon a slight earthquake shock was experienced in this city. It was not a serious affair, but pronounced enough to cause people to rush out of doors to see what was the matter and inquire of the first one met, “Did you feel it?” The duration of the shock was estimated at three seconds. The shock was felt all over town, but so far as hard from no damage was done.
120 Years Ago
The Reno Journal, through its correspondent, gives the news that a fine body of coal has been discovered near Tonopah, and from the development, it looks like one of the biggest things yet discovered out that way.
60 Years Ago
Organization of an air unit of the Civil Air Patrol was proposed Wednesday night by Tom Hay, co-owner of Capital Aviation. The photographic unit and a cadet unit already exists in the CAP here. If 30 persons sign up, there is a good chance the patrol will get at least one army surplus airplane, he said.
40 Years Ago
Every time one drives past the beautiful old White House, either on one’s way to Reno, or on the return trip, the same question comes to mind — “When are they ever going to open?” The Winter’s Ranch House, which stood vacant for so many years serving as nothing more than glorified pigeon roost, is once again in limbo.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.