The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-02-15
IN YEARS GONE BY
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

The beauty contest closes Satur-
day. An even hundred votes were
sent in yesterday afternoon and this
morning. Sixty of that numbe,
were from Paradise, which is rapidly
coming to the front.
Very few railroaders are out OF
employment these days.
Read the ad of P. A. Pinson
lumber dealer, in this issue. He IL
engaged in business at the boom.
ing town of Golconda. Mr.. Pin.
son makes a speciality of taking
contracts for putting up buildings
The newspapers of Carson have
started a very commendable scheme
for Nevada merchants to advertise
their wares, carry larger and better
stocks and to branch out to secure
Nevada patronage, and to keep Ne.
vada money in Nevada. A general
wholesale establishment in Reno
could do a great deal to accomplish
such results.
The following pupils took prize.
for map drawing at the Paradise
school: Physical map, North Amer
lea, John Case: South America, Car
Bradshaw; Asia, Frank Kemler
Africa, Belle Bradshaw. On Frida,
afternoon, Miss Bessie Purviance
won the spelling match. A. M
Latta, principal.
The fact is gradually dawning or
the outside world that Nevada ap.
pies are the best grown anywhere
in the United States. Nevada tool
the first prize at Philadelphia, New
Orleans and Chicago for her apples
and to win out at each of these
great expositions naturally set ap.
pie buyers thinking. As result
Nevada apples have been more in
demand all over the east. Their
fame has spread to London and 9
few weeks ago, Ross Levers OF
Washoe valley filled an order of one
carload of apples for London. They
wanted three carloads, but he wa.
unable to furnish them as he hac
to fill other orders.
H. Warren returned this morning
from San Franciso.
If the editor is to make a gooC
newspaper you must tell him things
md don't be bit backward about
it. 1t is not improper or forward
or wrong to inform him of persona
items about your friends visiting OF
when you go away on business OF
pleasure trips.
An exchange says: "If a news
paperman knew how many knock.
he received behind his back, hi
would adopt another calling" re
marked a citizen yesterday. But
the newspaperman who succeeds ex
poets to be maligned by every Law
breaker, swindler and hyprocrite
every lover of notoriety who i.
ignored, and in fact, by all person,
who do not agree with him on pub
lie or private questions. The news
paperman who expects to go through
life without being misrepresente.
should make arrangements to di,
young.
Chas. Muller is reported as being
very low at Golconda.
Mrs. r. S. Roberts arrived Satur
day on visit to friends.
A band of several hundred noun
tain sheep are ranging in Ruby val
ley, Elko county. About forty heae
were killed last week, mostly BY
Indians.
The polls in the beauty contest
closed Saturday night at o'clock
and the canvass showed that Mis-.
Kate McEnerney of Winnemucca
Miss Annie Fellows of Unionville
Miss Cylthie Bradshaw of Paradise
and Miss Lille Stinson of Winnie
mucca, having received the highest
number of votes, were the four rep.
resentatives selected by the people
of Humboldt county.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is in
New York City endeavoring to get
the unions of that city to enter into
a great movement for an eight hour
work day.
Bicycle riding has begun to be
in vogue here.
John Etchart came down from
Golconda yesterday.
The beauty contest at Elko re-
suited in the selection of Misses
Carrie Keith, Edith Hunter and
Alice Lowe.
Superintendent Rougon of the
water works at this place has COM
menced work on the mains and
other pipes on our streets which
are in need of repair. This spring
will tell whether the much discussed
electric light plant proposition for
Winnemucca has fallen through or
not.
Arrangements have been perfected
by the Humboldt Guards to con-
vert the commodious armory into
a modern skating rink. The skates
and all the paraphernalia have been
shipped and may be expected to ar
rive here within tho uaaL