95 years ago
May 7, 1915
Advertisement. Do it now. Now is the time to buy implements. We desire to announce that our line of farm implements and wagons was never so complete as at the present time, a large shipment having been received and is now ready for your inspection. The famous Olive and John Deere gangs, sulkeys and Walking Plows in chilled and steel bottoms, Schuttler and Studebaker steel and thimbleskein wagons, John Deere Low Down Spreaders, Stover Feed Grinders, United States and Sharpless Cream Separators. Wood-Nelson Co., Minden.
80 years ago
May 9, 1930
A rip-snorting, side-winding rodeo will be held in Gardnerville on June 7th and 8th, according to "Bim" Koenig and Chris Gansberg. The rodeo will be held on the high school grounds and a string of real bucking horses will be featured. The promoters have had scouts out hunting horses with a reputation for delivering the goods. They have been successful in their mission and vaqueros will need to be good riders to keep from "pulling leather" or hitting the dust. And that's not all! A herd of bulls will be rounded up and the bull-throwing will be good, if not better. Spectators get more thrills out of cowboys riding wild steers or bulls, than most anything else. The rodeo will be a regular three-ring circus, without lions and tigers, but with thrills aplenty to make up for the lack of menagerie or zoo. Hold everything for this date and nervously await further announcement.
50 years ago
May 12, 1960
Alpine County, Calif., was the first county in the nation to complete its official 1960 decennial census enumeration. Mrs. Rosella M. Jackson, the county's census enumerator, by April 9 had tabulated all 362 of its inhabitants. She estimated she had driven about 200 miles to get the count. The official census shows a substantial increase in population over the census of 1950 when only 241 persons were counted.
25 years ago
May 9, 1985
Photo caption. Styles of dress. Selected by their peers as wearing the three most common styles of clothing at Carson Valley Middle School are Paul Meadows, Preppy; Tammara Taylor, New Wave; and Andi Burnell, Metaler.
10 years ago
May 3, 2000
Following complaints, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office has erected "no shooting" signs in the sand pit area of the Gardnerville Ranchos. Sgt. Lance Modispacher said some residents and school officials complained that people were using the sand pit area south of Tillman Lane for target practice, and although shooters may be the legal distance from residences, people felt endangered.
A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.
