Past Pages

120 YEARS AGO

Carson is at present overrun with famished cows. They stretch their gaunt necks over the fences and gnash their teeth at a basket of potato peelings like a mountain wolf trying to get into a sheep corral. Boys can get a dollar a head for cows at the pound and two active boys ought to make $60 a day in Carson if the weather is good.

100 YEARS AGO

March 19 was the day the Appeal office started operations with electricity from the new electric company that is wiring so many houses in this city. The sound of the gasoline engine that has entertained our neighbors for the past year or more will be heard no more. The Appeal is among the very first to apply the new power. The V&T is to place motors in the shops.

70 YEARS AGO

Honorable Clyde P. Johnson, member of the assembly from Reno, dies at his home there. He had been in failing health for months. He was born in

Dayton 45 years ago, once recorder in Esmeralda and connected with the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

50 YEARS AGO

Girl born May 14, Carson-Tahoe Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Price of Carson City. Mrs. Roy Ihfe, after a serious operation, making satisfactory recovery at Carson-Tahoe Hospital.

20 YEARS AGO

Cornerstone was laid by members of various Masonic organizations for the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. Edward Block supervises the tools with Clerk-Treasurer Yvone Bernard placing cement.

10 YEARS AGO

American Cancer Society Carson City unit is looking for people to arrest at Scolari's Highway 50 East under chairwoman Key Bennett, Carson City Supervisor. The fund-raiser generates about $30,000 a year.

Bill Dolan, a Carson City resident, has been writing this column for the Nevada Appeal since 1947.