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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1892
Page
3
Odd dispatch from Adsworth notes a transport to Churchill county for an event named Mrogwaree and other news items. The record lists a 70 year old Hapreme and mentions a Wednesday October 1 date amid partial times and initials.
Brief items report Ed Wright in Wola Carlin and George McPherson going to Reno for jury duty. Other notes include candidates appointed as election judges, drafts of insurance business, local travel to Reno, and various social and political remarks.
The article emphasizes growth for Wadsworth with Nevada support and aims to extend the town’s prosperity. It expresses faith in Senator Stewart to complete planned works surrounding Wadsworth, hoping to flood acres and elevate the town to the front rank.
The narrative records attendance figures in the primary and grammar rooms, calls for visitors, and mentions Columbus Day celebrations. Examinations dominated the week as students displayed emotion during reading of papers. The Longfellow literary society held a Friday program with songs readings and a debate on whether the State Fair harms the state, with the negative side prevailing in judges' decision.
Monthly set report lists grades and honors for Wadsworth Public Schools for September 92. Includes names of students on honor roll in grammar and primary departments and high attendance and averages, with principal Enwy.
Five hundred dollars that Weaver carries the State. Five hundred dollars that Stewart and reeds himself. Five hundred dollars that Newlands is elected to Congress.
A letter discusses the role of enthusiastic crowds at nominating conventions and argues for preserving spirited debate while avoiding rowdiness. It notes editorials in Berilmera Magazine and contrasts it with sober delegates, then shifts to Canada’s civil service reform and Intercolonial railway losses influencing politics.
A column recalling George W Utinue Curtin and his era, noting his literary rise with Nile Notes and Prue and I, his editorship at Harper publications, and his Brook Farm ties with Emerson and Margaret Fuller. It mentions his debt payoff, political shift as head of the Independent Mugwump faction, and contemporary remarks on his legacy. It also touches on 19th century progress in horse speed records and public health measures affecting ships and cholera control. The piece closes with a note that the Crazy Jug will be sold at Mrs Parker's home Saturday evening.
A political slate lists James B. Weaver for president and James G. Field for vice president with a full slate of presidential electors from Eureka Humboldt Washoe Storey Lyon Ormaby and other counties. It includes nominations for Congress judge of the Supreme Court regent of the state university and associated offices.
The ballot lists names for county positions including assemblyman C. A. Norcross S. Pike A. D. Griffin and officers such as Sheriff R. C. Leeper John B. Williams and Treasurer D. B. Boyd Orlando Evans and B. F. Curler named among candidates for long term county commissioner in the People’s Ticket.
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