100 Years Ago



COLONEL PROSKY'S PANHARD automobile, a sixty horse power French machine costing $8,000 was wrecked Tuesday on the road between Fallon and Rawhide by the careless driving of the chauffeur. It was towed into town Wednesday by a teamster and subjected to the attentions of E.J. Maupin, auto repairer.

Churchill Standard, Dec. 20, 1907





75 Years Ago

QUAKE CENTER IS SAID SOUTH OF HAWTHORNE. WAVES SEEN IN PAVEMENT AT FALLON. Ranchers Escape Death in Crumbling Cabin; Many Buildings Cracked. Loud Blasts Heard at Quartz Mountain during Earthquake. Location by scientists of the origin of the earthquake which last Tuesday cracked Fallon buildings, rocked Nevada and was felt in adjoining states, at a point thirty miles directly south of Hawthorne corresponds with reports appearing in The Fallon Eagle last Saturday of Reese river cattlemen who experienced violent shocks in the Mina district and barely escaped death in a falling stone building.

The Fallon Standard,

December 28, 1932



BOY UNHURT WHEN THROWN FROM CAR. Gordon Williams, Jr., three years old, was thrown from a car while going to Reno with his grandmother, Mrs. C.L. Crew. The little fellow was seated in the back seat, asleep, but apparently wakened and opened the car door. He was thrown from the car and over an embankment, but suffered only bruises on his head and arm.

The Fallon Standard,

December 28, 1932

50 Years Ago



This Week's Prime-time TV Programs, KOLO TV

SUNDAY Ð Passport to Danger; Honeymooners; Ed Sullivan Show.

MONDAY Ð Phil Silvers; 26 Men; Ray Milland; December Bride.

TUESDAY Ð Zorro; Secret Journal; $64,000 Question.

WEDNESDAY Ð Last of Mohicans; Disneyland; The Millionaire; Sheriff of Chochise.

THURSDAY Ð State Trooper; Groucho Marx; Dragnet.

FRIDAY Ð Cavalcade of Sports; Official Detective; I've Got a Secret; Red Skelton.

SATURDAY Ð Life of Riley; People are Funny; Oh! Susanna!

The Fallon Standard, Dec. 25, 1957



From the Past...Stories from the Churchill County Museum Archives, researched and compiled by Diane E. Gauthier-Novak, Churchill County Museum Assistant