Daun Bohall Collection/Nevada State Museum
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Tuller & Cluggage’s Stage Line. On and after this date, stages will leave the office of Wells Fargo & Co. daily, carrying passengers and W.F. & Co. Express from Genoa and Warm Springs for Nine-Mile House, connecting with stages for Aurora, Columbus, Lida, Cerro Gordo connect at Genoa with stages for Monitor and Silver Mountain. Make the trip to Aurora in 12 hours to Independence in three days. H.A. Brown, agent.”
140 Years Ago
Old Yank: The great Tahoe liar is down from the lake telling fish stories that would make a mule blush.
130 Years Ago
Bloomers in Carson: Bloomers for bicycle riding have come to stay in Carson, and they are so becoming and proper that everybody wants to see more of them. To Miss Danhauser belongs the credit of having the nerve to ride down Main Street in the first bloomer costume and Miss Humphries second. The young ladies drafted a resolution: “That in all cases where in our best judgement, the regulation skirt is unhealthful, impracticable, ungainly and inconvenient, we will have the moral courage to renounce our prejudices and adopt such other costume as will eliminate these objections as nearly as may be.” After discussion, it was decided not to adopt the resolutions as they might get in the papers.
70 Years Ago
Model homes atom blast effects: How model homes constructed at varying distances from ground zero fared in the atomic blast (in part): 4,700 feet — one story frame rambler type house, almost a complete loss; 4,700 feet — two-story brick and cinderblock home destroyed. The second floor wiped away and the first floor collapsed into basement; 4,700 feet — several homes built of lightweight reinforced cinderblock and pre-cast lightweight concrete suffered only minor structural damage; 5,500 feet — a two story re-designed frame residence irreparably damaged…
60 Years Ago
Sandy gets 30 days: James Sherman (Sandy) Kellogg of Tonopah was sentenced to 30 days in the Ormsby County Jail on a charge of impersonating a woman. He was arrested in a downtown Carson City casino and was wearing female clothing. Kellogg’s nickname is Sandy who claims to be an entertainer.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Arrests for fast driving and swearing: The first arrests that have been made here for violation of the ordinances against fast driving and the use of profane and indecorous language on the street were made by Mr. Butts. The offenders were Empire men. After a palaver of several minutes, he was conveyed to the police station and locked up. Hardly had the key been turned upon this unfortunate when one of his friends came upon the scene and warmed up somewhat too loudly upon the matter, waxing profane and talking a trifle louder than the law allows. These were two well-known citizens of the county and have done pretty much as they pleased, and nobody would have thought of arresting them. Fast and dangerous driving through our streets should be stopped, no matter who the offender may be. Butts is evidently the right man in the right place. He knows his duty and is not at all afraid to perform it.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: “Pecks Bad Boy” carried along a live Billy goat. Remember the “Bad Boy” matinee.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Mrs. Wm. Frazier’s 18 month old son was drowned in a ditch in Reno.
The stage robbers who held up the stage have been captured near Napa. One of them resisted arrest and was shot.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Ships’ Bar grand opening — come in and meet your new host — Ambros Furrer. Food, fun, Budweiser on tap.”
60 Years Ago
Highway department moves: The state highway headquarters (NDOT) moves from its location on South Fall Street to a new headquarters at 1263 S. Stewart St., in Carson City. It was announced by W. Otis Wright, state highway engineer. The new building is a four-story structure with a red brick veneered surface, matching other department buildings in the group.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Colored people’s picnic and ball: Our colored friends will have a picnic at Thorne’s ranch, up near the Sierra, and in the evening, they will have a ball at Turn Verein Hall. This will be a sort of reunion of the quite numerous colored folks of this and the adjoining counties and an enjoyable affair.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: Commissioner Havenor has had a long talk with Vansickle in New Orleans. The latter says he will never come back.
Mr. Gordon, the carpenter who cut his leg with an adz some weeks ago is lying very low and blood poisoning is feared.
130 Years Ago
A terrible murder: Mrs. Sarsman, an old lady living near Cradlebaugh’s bridge, was brutally murdered by a tramp. When her husband returned, he found smoke issuing from the bedroom and rushing in found the bed in flames. He called for his wife and hearing no response, proceeded to extinguish the flames with buckets of water and then went about the premises to find his wife. He found the dead body of his wife, with her head crushed in with blows of a hatchet and the lower part of the body scorched and blistered. He drove to a neighbor’s house and gave the alarm. A tramp was noticed hurrying along the road to Gardnerville and looking back as if in fear of pursuit.
Mrs. Sarsman was 62 or 63 years of age and had resided on the ranch for 10 or 12 years. Her friends say she frequently expressed a fear that she would be murdered by tramps. She leaves her husband, two married daughters and one son, 17 years old.
70 Years Ago
First radio station KPTL: Carson City’s first radio station, KPTL, will begin broadcasting according to Edwin L. and Alma Bullis, owners. Permission to start broadcasting was written in a telegram from the Federal Communications Commission. KPTL (call letters chosen for their resemblance to the capital of Nevada), will broadcast on a frequency of 1400 kc 250 watt power.
60 Years Ago
Grace Bordewich retires: The following resolution is adopted: “Whereas the 5th of June, 1965, Grace Bordewich officially retires from teaching in the Ormsby County School District, and, ‘whereas, this marks the completion of 32 years of excellent service in the Ormsby County School District, and, whereas, the recollection of her years of wonderful service and achievements, her dedication to the young men and women who have participated in her classes, and her high professional standards that have benefitted all who have been fortunate enough to know her, would still leave untold many acts, of kindness and consideration for others…
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.