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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1895
Page
3
A jumble of notes reports Senator Summerfield is ill and Dan Wheeler remains sick at Rena. Various social visits, housing, and club news fill the town pages, with mentions of Santa Barbara events elsewhere. Resolutions favoring Woman's Suffrage in California and Nevada Southern Railway land plans appear alongside local society gossip and minor injuries.
Elko notes fixed county tax for the year at 60 cents per $100 valuation and a state tax of 0 cents, totaling $1. The Keely bill, approved 8 to, would fund Keely Institute care at public expense for indigent liquor and drug addicts. Also mentioned are Reno Division uniforms, a park project near the passenger depot, a Distarcn sign by K J Puller, and C E Skinner Reno photographer praised as a top coast artist.
George Herberth has bought the Russak business at Wadsworth and will run a first class house offering gentlemen furnishings and clothing. All debts of Russak are transferred to Mr Herberth who will settle outstanding accounts. Herberth, resident at Wadsworth months, has gained friends and will continue to serve the public with fair pricing.
A letters page note explains that funds on deposit in the Wadsworth Fire Department Redemption Fund are restricted to paying bonds and interest. Current expenses require a separate fund. county commissioners may levy a tax if the town’s board proves need for day to day costs under the 1865 Act establishing the department. KE H Noxcross, District Awy.
A railroad slang list lists misheard terms like doubling going home with twins and mislaid switch on his coat collar. It catalogs phrases such as left a widow and four lost rights and hot box meaning attempting to stay out of it with references to a dispatcher and a carpeted hard veil for the superintendent.
The Mt. Horeb Encampment staged a grand masquerade at Music Hall on Friday night. Costumes ranged widely, prizes awarded for best group, original character, and best dressed pairs, with Mrs Lindsay praised for supper. A long list of attendees and participants from multiple towns followed, including many named masqueraders and civic members.
A fragmentary list names individuals with roles or titles such as TC Fontke Coffee Sacks Mra B McClane Night Mamie F Lane Valentine Pearl Pike Valentine R Arther Spanish Cavalier AF Sieson Father Hayseed Mra J Kain Quaker Lady d Brown Glork Mra ki Klemin Nurse DV Merrigan Wadsworth Bottling Worke Misnes Ada Davis Ida Davis Clara Finley Mrs B E Dilley Grecian Costume group.
The Wadsworth School monthly report for February 1 1895 details department figures. In the Grammar department attendance 771 days present 274 absent. 41 pupils enrolled with 16 boys and 5 girls. Intermediate shows 39 enrolled with 20 girls and 19 boys, average attendance 37. Primary reports 780 days present 19 absent 32 tardy. 42 pupils enrolled with 27 boys and 15 girls. Pupils listed as neither absent nor tardy include Allan Wickland Clarence Esden Orlandar Roudebush Barbara Bryant Eva Beemer Louis Bryant Jax Abbay May Clay May Pollock Bertha Wickland Etta Hettsuhhausen Ed O'Brien Josie O'bs Y Douxuenoxs.
An advisory note urging mothers to regulate sweets and acids in children’s diets to protect dental health. It highlights early neglect causing tooth decay and stresses prompt professional guidance. Dr KO Ward offers free, special advice for children's teeth this season.
The notice invites readers to join the Examiner's weekly edition with premiums totaling 145000 dollars and prizes including a 10000 dollar fruit farm. Readers are urged to call the office and subscribe before the 28th for 150 dollars per year, with receipts numbered and you hold a winning number.
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