Past Pages for August 18 to 20, 2021

Wednesday

145 years ago

Last Saturday evening the Republicans of American Flat met at the school house for the purpose of organizing a Hayes and Wheeler Club. 

140 years ago

Last week the road agents got even with J.B. Hume, the detective, by stopping a stage he was on and robbing him. He was obliged to hold up his hands just the same as the other passengers while the robbers went through his pockets. He is hot on their trail.

120 years ago

George Wedekind, the discoverer of the famous mine of his name owns one hundred acres of land near the claim, which he has thrown open to prospectors. He states that anything that is found in the form of metal belongs to the discoverer.

80 years ago

At the Lions meeting-luncheon today, Dr. L.D. Sullivan presided in the absence of President Roy Kelly, and Don Foster performed the duties of the only elected tailtwister the club has ever had — Archie Pozzi. The request of the Carson Business Association that the club have a representative at a meeting of the California highway commission when plans for keeping U.S. 50 open turnout the winter will be discussed. The club will comply with the request.

50 years ago

Even though Eddie Evans, the Reno Rocket, and Jerry Junze, the purple haze, were both out of town, Tahoe Carson Speedway “managed.” The overall evening winner was Tommy “Zippo”, of Carson City.

20 years ago

Don Howser, of Minden, stood proudly as Sen. Lawrence Jacobsen pinned the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster on his chest. This is the second Bronze Star Howser has received. He earned his first in 1953 for his leadership int he Korean War.

Thursday

145 years ago

The Circus is coming, and is preparing to announce itself in the most stupendous manner possible. Poster fences are being erected by the mile, and the town is about to blossom out into a marvelous display of scarlet and blue and yellow pictures, firefly untamed steeds, immense elephants, tall giraffes, and snarling lions. We shall know all about it when it comes.

140 years ago

The Footlight calls Hank Monk “a historic relic kept for the purpose of attracting the Boston tourists.”

120 years ago

Work Shuts Down at Yerington. James Kenedy returned last night from Mason Valley, where he was employed as an accountant in the office of the Bluestone Mining Company. He reports that the entire mine — mine, smelter and all — is closed down, owning to a strake on the part of the smelter men, who wanted more pay.

80 years ago

The streets and many of the business places of Carson were enlivened Saturday evening by the presence of probably 1,400 of the 1,800 soldiers for whom camp near Winnie ranch was established for the night. There was no special policing problem and no unpleasant incidents reported.

50 years ago

Nevada Highway Death Toll. 156 last year. 164 this year.

20 years ago

Former Nevada Gov. Robert List has been hired to promote the position that the nation’s high-level nuclear waste is inevitably coming to Yucca Mountain.

Friday

145 years ago

The Great Unwashed hold their primaries in this county to-day. What the contest is, if any, we don’t know; but we do know that a job printer was in this office yesterday hunting a rooster cut.

140 years ago

The narrow gauge railroad running from Glenbrook to the Summit, has dumped from 6,000 to 8,000 cords of wood per month into the flume during this season.

120 years ago

A Nevada Sample. Yesterday Ed Walsh received a shipment of new onions from Dayton. They are about the largest of anything in that family grown. Several of the bulbs weighed 2 pounds each and all of them will average half a pound a piece.

80 years ago

The Nevada state prison baseball team, that lost many of the earlier games this season, kept up its recent winning streak by defeating the Nixon CCC team yesterday by the score of 10 to 7. The game was played on the prison grounds.

50 years ago

The Citizen’s Committee on Drug Rehabilitation will hold a meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Ormsby Public Library auditorium. The specific goals of the meeting will be the formation of committees, election of the board of directors and drawing up a rough draft of the bylaws.

20 years ago

The Board of Regents has approved a master plan designed to transform Western Nevada Community College form a collection of buildings into a campus.

Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.