Past Pages Jan. 5

130 YEARS AGO

Library Entertainment: A benefit for the Circulating Library is to be given at the Opera House, Jan. 6, 1882. The following is the program: Part 1-Trio, violin, piano and organ, Messrs, Chas. E. Laughton, J. P. Meder and A. Owens. Part 2-Piano duet, Misses Rinckel and Olcovich.

120 YEARS AGO

Married: Jan. 1, 1892, by Rev. Geo. R. Bird - Jesse Newnham and Cora Hoteling both of Carson. The lucky groom is a Carson raised man who is in the employ of George H. Meyers and the pretty bride is a Virginia girl.

70 YEARS AGO

President Franklin Roosevelt set February 16 as registration day for all men between the ages of 20 to 44. The President stated that the new registration is required to ensure victory, final and complete, over the enemies of the United States.

50 YEARS AGO

Popular names: Of Nevada's current crop of babies, the most popular names for boys, Robert, David, Richard, John, James, Thomas, Joseph, Daniel and Michael.

30 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: "Jobel Financial Company, Joan & Belmont Reid, General Partners, local stockbroker and investment advisor."

10 YEARS AGO

Nevada loses many in 2001 - probably the best known nationally was Bob Laxalt who is known for his book "Sweet Promised Land," the story of his father Dominique's return to Basque homeland after emigrating 50 years earlier. Bob founded the University of Nevada Press in 1961.

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