Past Pages Feb. 4

130 YEARS AGO

"Yank" (Continued from Thursday) Yank was trying a case involving a considerable sum of money and while the most important witness was being examined, he fell asleep and began snoring like a house afire. "Hello Judge!" cried on of the interested parties. "How kin you decide this case when you ain't hearing none of the evidence?" Yank replied: "That's ah right, I know all about the darned case afire it kim into this yere Court. I've made up my mind about the merits long ago." (Continued Saturday)

100 YEARS AGO

Unless present plans fail it will be impossible to purchase a shave in Nevada on the Sabbath day. A bill, to be introduced with the support of the local barber's union it will become a misdemeanor to have a shop open on the Sabbath.

70 YEARS AGO

Officers have been elected to the Thimble Club at the home of Mrs. Harold J. Berger. President is Mrs. W. Donohue; vice president, Mrs. E.V. McNeil; secretary, Mrs. Emma King; treasurer, Mrs. Laura Wood. Following the meeting, "500" was played.

50 YEARS AGO

Carson City painter Eva Gay Gillen is having a one man show of her work at Conner's Jewelers in February.

20 YEARS AGO

Battered women have a more difficult time with trauma in rural Nevada. The only shelter is located in an undisclosed location in Carson City.

10 YEARS AGO

In a worst-case scenario, it will cost Carson City

$6.7 million to reduce the level of arsenic to federal standards by 2006.

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