Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
We visited the state prison yesterday. It is a marvel of neatness and well sustained system. Since our last visit there, the new dining room has been completed. Not a sick person in the prison. This speaks volumes for the management. Every morning the whole inside is made untenable to vermin by burning red pepper.
140 Years Ago
Mrs. Bowers burned out. People will learn with genuine regret that Mrs. Bowers, the seeress, has lost her little home at Franktown. Some miscreants entered it the other night, ransacked and burned it. She has had a hard struggle against misfortune and some effort ought to be made in her behalf. Virginia City, Reno and Carson, where she has many friends, ought to move in the matter.
120 Years Ago
(Appeal benzine machine continued) There is a disposition on the part of the amateur automobilists to keep a tight grip on the gear, as one feels that it might get away. This raised nine blisters on our right hand and six on the left. It was about this time we ran into one of Jim Wiggin’s cows. The animal was rolled into an irrigation ditch, and we continued to go on. Next, we encountered commissioner Jim Woodbury’s team and jailed it into the sagebrush after taking a few spokes off his wheel. Woodbury used some language which cannot be printed in his family journal. (Continued next week)
50 Years Ago
Carson City Gallimaufry by Jeanette Miller. Five generations of the Fuller family are now living in Carson City. Recent arrivals are Mrs. Effie Fuller, great-grandmother, and Mrs. Rube Eakins, grandmother of Mrs. Sandy Barnett. Also living in Carson are Mrs. Barrett’s mother, Mrs. Juanita Libby, and Mrs. Barrett’s children, Tim, 15, Roy, 14, and Becky, 12.
40 Years Ago
Three firms have joined the race for Nevada’s long distance telephone business and the biggest of them, AT&T, wants a voice in their appeal.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Postmaster Winnie has moved into the new office in Rinckle building. The same as sweet as a new made bed and the window delivery is as handy as a pocket in a shirt.
140 Years Ago
A favorite amusement in Virginia City with small boys consists in rolling boulders down Mount Davidson to crash into the dwelling houses “on the plain below.” The city authorities are now negotiating with authorities of China for a section of their Great Wall.
120 Years Ago
(Appeal Benzine machine from last week) But as Jim don’t send any county printing our way, we didn’t stop to apologize. Next time we are liable to take the whole wheel off. (Continued)
50 Years Ago
A survey of parents with students attending Fremont Elementary School has revealed that most responding feel the daylight savings time plan, involving travel to school during dark hours, is not desirable in Carson City.
40 Years Ago
Lazy horses stand about under skimpy shade trees at Mills Park out-of-time mountain men mill around talking, planning, catching up after another year apart. The trip is a capital-to-capital trek that Nevada and California mountain men make along with 35 covered wagons.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
We claim the floor. We lay a preemption claim to the Centennial Fourth of July celebration. We located the same in Carson — first because this is the capital of the state; second because this is the state capital; and third, because this is the capital of the state.
140 Years Ago
Shad in Walker Lake. Two years ago, 1,000 shad spawn were planted in Walker Lake for the benefit of the people of Hawthorne. The citizens did not realize what fish the shad was until the restaurant keepers attempted to serve them at the table. The miners were nearly choked to death with the bones.
120 Years Ago
(Appeal Benzine machine) In nearing the bridge over the next irrigation ditch, we wondered if we would be able to take the bridge right. Not desiring to rush a mistake we shied off to the right and the machine jumped clear over the ditch without the use of the bridge. As a jumper the machine is all right. (Continued)
50 Years Ago
Boy’s state is underway this week at the Clear Creek youth camp with city elections being held today. On Sunday Jim Jones of congressman David Towell’s office and Gene Milligan presented an opening address to the 182 delegates.
40 Years Ago
Scott Barry and Robin Barry, Carson City High brother and sister, qualified for the world junior golf championship in San Diego next month in Friday’s regional qualifying tournament at Eagle Valley. Scott won with a 73. Robin won with a 94.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.