Nevada State Library and Archives photo Carson City Fire Station No. 1 was built in 1954 to house the all-volunteer Warren Engine Company.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Scarlet fever: Malignant scarlet fever prevails at Lower Gold Hill. In one family three little girls died of this dreadful disease.
140 Years Ago
Who is he? An old man rode into Circe’s livery stable on a large work horse and said he wanted it kept overnight. He failed to appear the next morning and has not been seen since. He was an old, stout man with a white beard and had on a thick canvas overcoat.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Half an inch of snow as we go to press and more in sight — Merry Christmas.
Twelve Germans arrived from New York and started up the Carson Valley to locate. They say hundreds more would come if they only knew the kind of soil and climate we have here.
70 Years Ago
Inter-racial hotel, Las Vegas: Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis started a new job as official host and greeter for the Moulin Rouge Las Vegas’ first inter-racial hotel. A crowd of nearly 4,000 persons filled the Moulin Rouge. The new 210 room hostelry, largest of its kind, was built to accommodate Negro tourists who are barred from the 10 luxury hotels along the famed Strip.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: Five award winners at the Carson High Award ceremony at Carson High School are Todd Russell, Jan Peckhardt, Paul McKnight, Nikki Tyler and Andrea Greene.
Sunday
155 Years Ago
Invited to the Corner Stone Laying. Mr. W.H. Corbett, secretary of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, has kindly furnished us with the following list of those whom invitations have been sent to take part in the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the State House: Masonic Order, Odd Fellows, Good Templars, State Officers, Federal Officers, Mint Officers and attaches, workmen on the Capitol, the Military, Grand Army of the Republic, the Fire Department of Virginia, God Hill and Carson, and the people generally through the press.
140 Years Ago
The observance of Memorial Day in this city on Saturday was one of unusual interest. The Committee of Arrangements had been remarkably pains-taking and energetic, and the result was the carrying out of a program in which there was not a single hitch.
120 Years Ago
Indian murder. Washoe warrior sends a bullet through a Digger. Last evening at the Indian camps near the brick yard a Washoe Indian known as George Peters shot and instantly killed a Digger Indian known as Jack Brady. Brady came to this city a week or more ago during the time of the circus.
80 Years Ago
In memorium. Wherever they may sleep. In earth or tideless deep. Our country’s starry pall. In tribute covers all. Forgetting not that land. Where like strange Lillie’s tall. While crosses stand. To the men of Ormsby County who gave their lives for the cause of freedom.
60 Years Ago
Don F. Brown Jr., 37, of Las Vegas was appointed new superintendent of the Nevada Highway Patrol by Director Louis P. Sprints of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
Chinese Geese are a great curiosity. Farmer Treadway used to own a pair of them. He swapped them to Bob Sharp for some ducks. These geese have horns on their heads and live to a great age. Tread swears that his were at least 100 years old. They have a very peculiar voice — a sort of cross between the sound of a gong and that of a Scotch bag pipe. When they tune up you can hear them a mile, against the wind.
140 Years Ago
Henry Vansickle, the rover who left the country so suddenly some weeks ago, called at the Appeal office yesterday to settle his subscription. When asked to give some idea of his wanderings, he took out a jack-knife, and going to a map of the U.S., traced out his line of march. He left within making a decision a half an hour into the thought and traveled some 15,000 miles.
120 Years Ago
The light companies here are not at war in deadly earnest. Today, suit was filed by the Reno Power and Light and Waster Co. against the Washoe Power and Development Co. for $5,000 damages and a temporary injunction was demanded against the latter company which was granted. The injunction stops the stringing of all new wires by the Washoe Co.
80 Years Ago
Los Angeles. In the first local application of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states need not recognize Nevada divorces; Superior Judge Alfred L. Bartels today invalidated a Las Vegas divorce obtained last July by aircraft engineer Hobart F. Firmel.
60 Years Ago
Nevada sailed through a busy Memorial Day weekend traditionally the start of the summer tourist season without a highway death, the state patrol said today.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.