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130 YEARS AGO

Salary: The President's salary is $50,000 a year; Vice President, $8,000; heads of departments, $8,000. It takes $1,845,000 each year to pay the salaries of Senators and Represen-tatives, to say nothing of the incidentals.

Episcopal fair and festival: The ladies of St. Peter's Episcopal Church will hold a Fair and Festival at the Opera House. Fresh oysters, hot coffee and cold lunch can be obtained. Articles of value and beauty will be sold at reasonable prices and the fair will close with a dance. The ladies will be pleased to see all strangers who are visiting Carson. Admission 25 cents.

120 YEARS AGO

All sorts: On behalf of the editor, now away from the city, the compositors tender their thanks to Jake Klein for the keg. "Here's to the absent one."

70 YEARS AGO

Currency Caches: $2,000 in bank notes have been found at the Bluestone in Yerington during the past two weeks. $1638 in old bank notes were uncovered by Herbert Dunn in the foundation of a stone cellar. Bill Pelligrini and Edward and Raymond Hall uncovered $280 in the same vicinity earlier. A portion of the money has been turned over to Sheriff Penrose. The boys made the discovery while poking sticks in the crevices of the old rock cellar and encountered a can which contained a sock stuffed with bills.

50 YEARS AGO

Carson City's long awaited dog pound will be open for business about May 1. In the meantime, the city will be accepting applications for dog catcher.

20 YEARS AGO

Residents are paying their last respects to the V&T shops which are coming down this week and within two months, the land after 117 years of housing the shops will be barren.

10 YEARS AGO

Photo caption: City officials hope to see Roop Street expanded to four lanes in the future. A study may be in the works to see if there is enough right-of-way between Fifth Street and Winnie Lane.

• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.