100 YEARS AGO
For the past week a gang of "dope fiends" has been hanging around Elko, and yesterday Constable Onderkirk arrested them on the charge of robbery after they looted a room at the Telescope Hotel. They are now having free lodging at the county hotel, where work is a stranger.
70 YEARS AGO
A local high school pupil jailed last night admitted to breaking into the HiWay Service Station and taking a 5-cent slot machine. The youth was observed carrying the slot machine from one backyard to another until he noticed police approaching.
50 YEARS AGO
(Photo Caption) Betty Supera will present a matador number during the Ross School of Dance recital at the Civic Auditorium.
20 YEARS AGO
Civic leaders launch a "Bricks for the Brewery" fundraiser to produce $75,000 for the rehabilitation of the Carson Brewery Building. The Brewery Arts Center needs more than $400,000 to complete renovation of the 128-year-old building.
10 YEARS AGO
It's going to be another dry year unless Nevada gets a big dose from an incoming storm.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
