The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-06-24
STATE NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TAKEN FROM
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One mile of street in Reno is to
he given oil treatment as am expert
ment in preference to paving.
garden fete which was attend
ed by 500 people was given by Mr.. ard
Mrs. Il. b. Hickey at their home in
Carson Friday evening.
And now it is reported that the City
Council of Reno will prohibit the
Wheelmen from holding races on
Sundays.
A cubic foot of newly fallen snow
weighs 81 pounds and has twelve tim
es the bulk of an equal weight of
water.
\ citizens alliance, fsimiliar TO the
organization at Cripple Greek, has
been formed at Ely and lodge has
been organized at Reno.
George +. Blakeslee, a jeweler of
Tonopah, and Miss Louise Rinckle of
Carson were.married in San Francisco
Wednesday evening.
head of lettuce measuring "A in.
in circumference has been presented
to the chamber Of Commerce in Reno
It is probably the largest head ever
raised in Nevada.
The Churchill Standard predicts
that within the next three months
there will be in the neighborhood of
5000 men employed in the vicinity
of Fallon and the town will then take
on lively air.
The two organizations known as
the Spanish War Veterans and the
Spanish American War Veterans have
been consolidated and hereafter will
be known by the latter name.
The youngsters of Tonopah have
been using the reservoir which sup
plies the inhabitants with drinking
water as a swimming pond and the
residents of the town have become
quite wrathy.
Senator Stewart has sold his farm at
Ashburn, Virginia, for $4,000 less
than it cost him. This would indicate
that the old topper is not success
as a farmer He farms the people
more profitably than he does the soil.
a cabinet of mineral specimens
from Nevada, which consumed
twenty-five years in collection and
represents an actual cost of $4,000,
is exhibited by Nevada at the Worlds
Fair.
Six damage suits brought against
the : p. company for s20,o0 each, as
the result of the explosion at Jackson
Siding, New, on the 10Th of February,
were settled i'm the Federal Court at
Salt Lake last Monday. Judgment
was entered against the company in
each ease for 81 800.
There is a minister in Washington
d. C., who has ridden bicycle over
$500 miles, almost wholly on business
connected with his professional work.
He is the Rev. Teunis Hawlin, pastor
of the Church of the Covenant there.
Evidently the city of magnificent
and tiresome- distances has no terror
for him.
On account of the Truckee- Carson
irrigation project, the acting Commits
sioner of the General Land Office has
instructed the Register and Receiver
at the Carson City Office to withdraw
from all forms of disposal all lands
within one mile of the margin of Car
son lake, Churchill county, New.
Here is the way an editor over in
Utah comments on the subject ofl
dancing: "When we go out to a party
and see how costly the heads and
shoulders belonging to the couple
we have described, rest on one an
other, we imagine we are back in the
Office and like they, have locked forms
and gone to press.p
Nineteen men and six teams are at
work ON the new reservoirs being
built by the Reno Power Light and
water Company. These are immense
reservoirs and have already cost the
Company $4,000. The larger will
nave a storage capacity of $4,000, 900
gallons and the smaller 20, ,0000 600 gal |
Ions.