Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Capitol Square. Now that the State House is so well underway it won’t do to call the Plaza by any such common name anymore. We should always speak of it as Capitol Square. If we can’t afford to put on airs, who can?
140 Years Ago
Bob Keating is now the Major General of the militia in place of ex-general foreman, resigned.
120 Years Ago
The Indian who punctured the wandering Modoc at the brick yard Wednesday evening has not yet been located by the officers. As other Indians have been secured to trial the murderer it is now believed that they will land him within the next few days.
80 Years Ago
Ormsby County inductees who left Carson City today were Elwood Rose, Jack Johnson, Oren Walker and Edwin Dick.
60 Years Ago
Approximately 300 children have registered in the Ormsby County schools first summer school program in elementary education. Classes will be held for each grade level, first through eighth.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Good squirting. The Warren Engine Co. brought out their machine for drill, last evening, and in two trials each time threw a stream over and several feet higher than the liberty pole on the Plaza. Bring on your machines that can beat that!
140 Years Ago
Reno proposes to have the University anyhow. The board of regents is looking about for a site.
120 Years Ago
A strike has been made sometime during the past month near the Winters mine that rivals the sensational strikes that have been made in the southern country. Some of the assays bringing in assays of values up to $100,262 a ton, or $50 per pound.
80 Years Ago
Plans are nearly completed for a bus line to operate between Carson City and Fallon, it was learned here today. Connections will be made with the Ely and Las Vegas lines.
60 Years Ago
Ray Roberts, a private detective in North Las Vegas, has been appointed investigator for the State Attorney General’s Office. It pays $10,000 a year.
Friday
155 Years Ago
Aboriginal visitors. There are quite a number of strange Indians of Piute persuasion in town. They come from Walker River, soak a little English and understand dice and “seven owd (sic)” as Wanbold would say. They are a neighborly set of fellows and will perhaps ease their cousins of the tribe residing in this vicinity of a few ponies when they return to their native sagebrush jungles.
140 Years Ago
The last 48 hours has been a clear reminder of winter.
120 Years Ago
RENO. The gambling games in the Louvre were closed last evening owning to the fact that the tills were empty. A few weeks ago, Mark Johnson accounted that he would take the limit and “splits” off the game, which is considered the games chance to live. Johnson lost over $15,000 the past week.
80 Years Ago
Nevada’s war veterans will have an opportunity to settle down on farms and grow up with the state when they are discharged from military service. Nearly 2,760 acres of public lands in Nevada are offered to veterans of World War II.
60 Years Ago
About 40% of Carson’s registered voters turned out yesterday to elect George Criteser and Jack A. Lindsey to the city council and approve the $850,000 sewer bond issue.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.