The Supreme Court and State Library building under construction in 1937. The fountain in front was donated to Carson City in 1909 and used to water animals at the intersection of Carson and King streets.
140 Years Ago
Mr. D. R. Sessions was appointed Principal of the State University at Elko and is instructed to report to the Board on the course of study. Mr. Sessions will go to Elko and start the University as soon as possible. He graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1870, excelling in English Literature and the Modern Languages. (The State University moved from Elko to Reno, Nevada in 1885).
130 Years Ago
Tybo in Nye county is asking for temporary assistance for those in distress. Tybo is in ashes and many people are homeless and destitute.
110 Years Ago
The year of 1894 has been a strange one. Hard times have jammed many merchants to the wall, wrecked banks and buried the Democratic party…and brought the nations people to absolute combat.
70 Years Ago
In Roosevelt’s radio address to the convention, he believes the renomination of Wallace as vice president to be impossible. He would be happy to run with 60-year-old Senator Harry S. Truman, munitions production investigator from Missouri.
50 Years Ago
Three weeks before Major Charles L. Kelly died in Vietnam, his 12-year old daughter, wrote this poem:
In Vietnam a cold war rages,
Soldiers are found with very small wages.
Men fight, women cry--and day and night more people die…
I don’t know why, I never will
Know why men have to die in the battlefield.
30 Years Ago
Geraldine Ferraro will be acclaimed the Democratic vice presidential candidate, with Walter Mondale as President. This will make history for her country and her party as the first woman to run for Vice President.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
