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100 YEARS AGO
GENERAL NEWS AND COMMENT
The fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Comstock will be celebrated at Virginia City this summer. Of the four original discoverers only “Manny” Penrod survives, living in Elko and planning to attend the festivities. * Cracksmen paid a visit a few nights ago to the depot of the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad at Rhyolite, blew open the safe and escaped with $400 in cash and a check for $8,888. * They are having trouble in Dayton over collecting the insurance on the court house recently burned at that place. As some walls are still standing, the insurer refuses to pay for a total loss — $10,000. * S.A. Browder is confronted with an extraordinary pest – myriads of catfish, carp and suckers in the slough near his house just west of Fallon. His children recently took an ordinary garden rake and pulled fully a wagon load of the fish, some two and a half feet long, onto terra firma where they became hog feed. The Churchill County Standard, June 3, 1909.
75 YEARS AGO
CHURCHILL NOW IN RELIEF AREA FOR DROUTH AID. The entire state of Nevada is now recognized as a drough area by the federal administration so all counties are eligible for the shipment of livestock and feed at emergency rates. Nevada extension agents will act as directors of the cattle purchases in their territories, working without pay.
The Fallon Standard, June 20, 1934.
LIGHTNING DESTROYS 5,000 RABBITS AND HUTCHES. Newlands Project has most violent electrical storm in years. Fire following a bolt of lightning Sunday evening destroyed C.M. Powell's rabbitry, one of the largest in all Pacific coast states.
The Fallon Standard, June 20, 1934
50 YEARS AGO
CIVIL DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS
PREPARE:
• Your family shelter and equip with two-week supply of food and water, first aid kit, battery radio.
• Evacuation kit for your automobile with food, water, first aid kit, battery or car radio, blankets.
LEARN:
1. Warning signals and what they mean.
2. Your community plan for emergency action.
3. Protection from radioactive fallout.
4. First aid and home preparedness.
5. Use of CONOLRAD – 640 or 1240 for official directions.
The Eagle-Standard, June 9, 1959.
FALLON PLUNGE OPENED FOR SWIMMING SEASON. 400 Kids Beat Hot Weather in Pool Here. The throng of youngsters splashed about in the municipal plunge which opened for the season this afternoon and will close August 31.
The Eagle-Standard, June 16, 1959.
From the Past … Stories from the Churchill County Museum Archives, researched and compiled by Diane E. Gauthier-Novak, Churchill County Museum Assistant; Photographs and graphics provided by Andrea Rossman, Churchill County Museum Photograph Curator.
GENERAL NEWS AND COMMENT
The fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Comstock will be celebrated at Virginia City this summer. Of the four original discoverers only “Manny” Penrod survives, living in Elko and planning to attend the festivities. * Cracksmen paid a visit a few nights ago to the depot of the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad at Rhyolite, blew open the safe and escaped with $400 in cash and a check for $8,888. * They are having trouble in Dayton over collecting the insurance on the court house recently burned at that place. As some walls are still standing, the insurer refuses to pay for a total loss — $10,000. * S.A. Browder is confronted with an extraordinary pest – myriads of catfish, carp and suckers in the slough near his house just west of Fallon. His children recently took an ordinary garden rake and pulled fully a wagon load of the fish, some two and a half feet long, onto terra firma where they became hog feed. The Churchill County Standard, June 3, 1909.
75 YEARS AGO
CHURCHILL NOW IN RELIEF AREA FOR DROUTH AID. The entire state of Nevada is now recognized as a drough area by the federal administration so all counties are eligible for the shipment of livestock and feed at emergency rates. Nevada extension agents will act as directors of the cattle purchases in their territories, working without pay.
The Fallon Standard, June 20, 1934.
LIGHTNING DESTROYS 5,000 RABBITS AND HUTCHES. Newlands Project has most violent electrical storm in years. Fire following a bolt of lightning Sunday evening destroyed C.M. Powell's rabbitry, one of the largest in all Pacific coast states.
The Fallon Standard, June 20, 1934
50 YEARS AGO
CIVIL DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS
PREPARE:
• Your family shelter and equip with two-week supply of food and water, first aid kit, battery radio.
• Evacuation kit for your automobile with food, water, first aid kit, battery or car radio, blankets.
LEARN:
1. Warning signals and what they mean.
2. Your community plan for emergency action.
3. Protection from radioactive fallout.
4. First aid and home preparedness.
5. Use of CONOLRAD – 640 or 1240 for official directions.
The Eagle-Standard, June 9, 1959.
FALLON PLUNGE OPENED FOR SWIMMING SEASON. 400 Kids Beat Hot Weather in Pool Here. The throng of youngsters splashed about in the municipal plunge which opened for the season this afternoon and will close August 31.
The Eagle-Standard, June 16, 1959.
From the Past … Stories from the Churchill County Museum Archives, researched and compiled by Diane E. Gauthier-Novak, Churchill County Museum Assistant; Photographs and graphics provided by Andrea Rossman, Churchill County Museum Photograph Curator.
