Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The great clothing house of Koppel & Platt, corner Carson and Third streets, opposite the St. Charles Hotel, Carson City. Have just received the largest finest and most complete assortment of spring and summer goods…”
140 Years Ago
Round about town: Another whisky war has broken out in Glenbrook.
Look out for your old iron as the small boys have begun to steal it to make circus money.
130 Years Ago
Fishy: People who send the Appeal letters telling how many trout they are catching in the mountains, will do well to accompany their epistles with some fish. Not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
70 Years Ago
Polio hits L.A.: Polio claimed 29 new victims despite the combined efforts of city, county and state health officers to halt a Los Angeles county infantile paralysis epidemic. The new cases boosted to 747 the number of persons infected since the first of the year.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: Off to Denver — Nevada’s famous coin press is hoisted off the front steps of the Nevada State Museum to go aboard a truck for Denver where it will be used to mint more silver dollars. A crew of workmen were on the job all morning struggling to remove the six-ton machine from its place just inside the museum lobby. Foreman John Janssen is assisted by Marvin Reed, both of Reno, in guiding the suspended press to the truck.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Artful dodgers: When one of the women charged with disturbing the peace was entering her plea, she thought it well to see if there were any friends there to vouch for her. Suddenly hats were at once placed before faces, men suddenly lost half of their stature in their endeavors to hide their faces and some were suddenly reminded that they had very urgent business elsewhere. Not recognizing anyone, the trial was proceeded with, but, for fear of a repetition, the audience quickly dispersed.
140 Years Ago
Round about town: Another whisky war has broken out in Glenbrook.
A man called “Skippy,” was fined $40 in Genoa for selling whisky, in a boat near the wharf at Glenbrook. He claims the fine unconstitutional.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The mountains are full of campers.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-In Theater —‘The Joe Louis Story,’ the picture that bares his life… his love… and the wicked whispers… And a second feature: ‘Fort Algiers’ with Yvonne DeCarlo.”
60 Years Ago
Nevada’s 100th: The eve of Nevada’s 100th birthday as a state, has been proclaimed a legal holiday by Gov. Grant Sawyer. This allows persons from throughout the state to attend the centennial observations Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 in the state capital.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Incendiarism: It transpires that a man Bradford, who was caught in the attempt to set fire to a blacksmith shop in Dayton was hired to commit the crime by Mrs. Barbara Swartz whose house was nearby, for the purpose of destroying the latter property so that she could obtain the insurance. Mrs. Swartz has kept the “Traveler’s Home” for some time. On account of this attempt at incendiarism the general insurance agent has been ordered to cancel all fire insurance in Dayton.
140 Years Ago
Round about town: A rattlesnake with seven rattles was killed near the North Carson Mine.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Dr. Cavell’s horse ran away and smashed the buggy badly.
Miss Jennie Hancock of Sutro has killed three rattlesnakes in the past 10 days.
70 Years Ago
Navajos: The Indian Bureau said it will begin mass transportation by bus of 5,570 Navajo children to schools in eight states, including Stewart in Ormsby County. The children ranging from 10 to 21 years in age are to be taken to the off-reservation schools. It will take a month. The Navajo children will be picked up at various collection points on the reservation located in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and taken to boarding schools in Nevada, California, Kansas, Oklahoma and Oregon. There will be 360 children placed at Stewart.
60 Years Ago
Band fund: The Nevada Appeal Band Fund drive passed the $500 mark. More than one-sixth of the $3,000 goal has been reached. Donors include Randell’s Photo Studio and St. Theresa’s Catholic Church. The funds will be used to send the Carson City High School Band to the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena. Total donated stands at $495.90.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Returned: A suspicious package marked “Carson Appeal Office, Carson City” arrived. It was thought it might be a bomb prepared by one of Sutro’s emissaries. Removing the outer wrapping of paper disclosed a cigar box indicating Havanas, but inside were some clothes and beneath them were four ivory balls painted and numbered. They were recognized as the “King balls” belonging to the “Carondelet” game at Vic Muller’s Saloon. They were stolen last Saturday by some person accompanying the Miners Union Picnic. Within the box was a copy of the local item in Sunday’s Appeal, clipped from the Virginia Chronicle. The box was sent “charges collect;” which we consider the unkindest cut of all. Vic paid the charges and again, “the game goes on.”
140 Years Ago
Round about town: The V.& T. R.R. has made a present of $1,500 worth of pipe to Hawthorne for fire purposes.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Vic Muller is back from the lake. His lily complexion is considerably tanned, but his jaw wags as lively as ever when it comes to fish stories.
Little Chester Muller was badly bitten by a savage dog while trying to prevent an attack from the animal upon the daughter of Arnold Millard. The dog was shot.
70 Years Ago
Gulf Oil Co. to drill: A sixth exploration well drilled in eastern Nevada will be undertaken 15 miles southeast of Lucin, Utah, and will be known as Williams Federal No. 1. It will be the sixth drilling venture undertaken by Gulf in the Wells area in less than two years — five previous drilling were “dry holes.”
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — ‘Palm Springs Weekend,’ with Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens. Coming soon, ‘How the West Was Won.’
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.