North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Clear and breezy yesterday; streets clean from the sweeping of the zephyr; white folks and Indians looking cheerful; no fights, no foot races; and only one alarm of the fire.
140 Years Ago
J.A. Conboie has received the contract for removing the remains of soldiers at Fort Churchill. Nearly 50 bodies will be removed and re-interred under the auspices of the Custer Post of this city.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday was a day devoted to the woman suffrage resolution in the Assembly chamber. Long before two o’clock the ladies of Carson were in the Assembly chamber looking for seats. The ladies were dressed in their best suits and packed the chamber, shot the most killing glances at the members who fell one by one like spring wheat before the mower.
60 Years Ago
Charley Lynch took his usual morning look at his garden yesterday at the county farm, made a few mental notes on how his crop would fare when winter thawed and walked inside the Ormsby County Fam where he lives. Yesterday started as most days in his 22 years at the farm residence, then Lynch got his surprise: “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Charlie…” In the celebrating a cappella were 12 fellow fam residents, two civil defense employees who had worked at the county park nearby and Mr. And Mrs. Winston Clark, who direct the farm. As Lynch accepted his badly needed gift, a pair of socks. Lynch was 82 yesterday.
40 Years Ago
Nevada Attorney Gen. Brian McKay’s bid to stiffen the state’s open meeting law barely stayed alive today as the Assembly Judiciary Committee rejected a motion to kill the plan on a 7-6 vote.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
The laying of the track on the Silver City branch of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad will be completed by next Saturday. The branch is being constructed for the purpose of supplying the mills at silver with ore and wood.
140 Years Ago
Mr. Bath recently had a valuable horse killed in his field by unknown parties. He found it in the morning with a rifle ball through its lungs and dying. It expired in great agony in a few hours.
120 Years Ago
The present session is very free from drunken workers.
60 Years Ago
Nevada lawmakers were urged today to keep the state library in Carson City open to the public. Assemblyman Archie Pozzi Jr., R-Ormsby, told the judiciary committee members that Ormsby County and Carson City offered $3,000 for extra help at the library, but the donation was refused because of plans to close it to the public in July of 1966.
40 Years Ago
Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev. told Nevada lawmakers this morning to hold off making their minds up on whether to support a high-level nuclear waste dump in the Yucca Mountains near Las Vegas.
Friday
155 Years Ago
Big day’s work at the Mint. Col. Curry minted some $10,000 in gold tens yesterday at the Carson Branch Mint. This begins to look like business. Before long we shall coin more money here than they do in San Francisco.
140 Years Ago
The massacre at Khartoum, the cowardly killing of Gordon and the horrible mutilation of the bodies of English troops by the Arabs, can only be avenged by obliterating El Mahidi and his forces. The English, however, are blaming the home ministry about as much as the Arabs. Red tape played its part in the work.
120 Years Ago
The old prison walls at Reno, should be utilized to erect the addition to the university.
60 Years Ago
Plans to phase out the Carson City library service to the public came as a distinct shock to both the people who have worked to develop the library, Mrs. Mildred Heyer told the Chamber of Commerce at a regular dinner meeting at the Carson Hot Springs.
40 Years Ago
University of Nevada officials, conceding the disparity between salaries paid the presidents of UNR and UNLV has created an “intolerable situation” promised lawmakers today the gap will be gradually narrowed.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.