150 Years Ago
List of registered Voters of Ormsby County, Carson City Precinct (in part): H. G. Blasdel, E. E. Belcher, Orion Clemens, George Chedic, Peter Cavanaugh. (Please note that there are no women on this list. They didn’t have the right to vote).
130 Years Ago
Hallow E’en [sic]: The holiday is always celebrated by the boys of small towns, especially by pulling gates off their hinges and piling it up on someone else’s back shed. When you wake up one morning and find a big hole in the fence where your gate used to swing, you may know by the signs that it is Hallow E’en. Bob Lindsay of Reno patented a contrivance that when a boy yanks his gate off, the water is turned on. He fixed one a few nights since and a neighbor calling on Mrs. Lindsey got showered. Bob did not do it on the malice aforethought plan.
110 Years Ago
Graders nearing town. The old flume beyond Major Gardner’s home will convince people that the new railroad is on the move. A dozen big teams are ploughing [sic] and scraping, bridges across the river have been completed and above the lumber yard, the railroad people have several immense piles of ties.
70 Years Ago
The Rambler by Wes Davis. There is no single thing needed in Carson so much as a good hospital. Perhaps it can be done with federal money. Some group should be working on plans — and quickly.
50 Years Ago
Advertisement. “Carson Theater — ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ with Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole — find the answer to the comedy question of the year!”
20 Years Ago
Scams. A scam is reported operating in Nevada by the name of the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. A Las Vegas assemblyman received a letter requesting he call a Nigerian number to arrange for a deposit of $45.5 million. Nevadans who receive such letters are asked to call the Secretary of State or the Sheriff’s Department.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
