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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1884
Page
5
The article outlines the hours for office operations with the main business from 9 to 4. The order department opens from 9 to 5. Sunday hours are stated as 8:30 to 4:30. Ostaxpo Evans, P. M.
SEREVITIES lists a raft of Reno area notices including illnesses and returns, political chatter, upcoming meetings, and minor accidents. Notables: Mrs. Captain Cook ill. Tadian Agent Gibson to take office Oct 1. Hattie Higgins home from Calderate. Lila Dixon and mother back from Eastern trip. J N Jaquish visits from Surprise Valley for merchandise. Republicans urged to vote straight ticket. several city moves and inspections at Verdi and Pyramid. Burrs of notes on Band of Hope meeting. John Singleton stroke. Di rector J H Harris nominated for Alturas County DA. White misinfo on base change. Noteware/ wife earmarked for Orphans Home. Wa. David returns from Australia. Courts handle disorderly conduct. Gus Frey injury. Segur dies in Sacramento. insane man committed. Thaxter appointed Lt Col. Ross mansion near finish.
The Board of County Commissioners awarded the Mayberry bridge contract to the San Francisco Bridge Co. for $1,843 with bond approval and a price-change prohibition. No payments before December 1, 1885, and changes limited to details. The board also established Precinct No. 13 at Incline with G. N. Folsom registry agent and approved several small bills. The session adjourned to October and then continued with equalization duties. Also reports a Governor Kinkead party arrival in Sitka, Alaska.
General Clarke in town and local updates note quarrying, rail matters, trials, and social happenings. Mining stocks dull, Quail plentiful on Peavine, many travelers leaving mountains, and H H Bancroft visiting Salt Lake. The week covers court sessions, a wave of public notices, Jewish New Year observance, and a planned Grand Army post charter in Reno.
John McVey, hobbling on crutches, ran into a barb fence yesterday in the dark. He struck the fence with force in a lively gait causing a severe leg laceration.
General Forman told Enterprise that the Inter State match will proceed as planned. Lieutenant Kleine of the California team seeks ten top shooters to travel to Carson on the 24th to contest for the bronze trophy and avoid Nevada disappointment. Nevada’s selected shooters include Burke, Thaxter, Cameron, Parker, Cardew, Galusha, Cowing, Curnow, Ferris, Cheney with Lord and Borges as likely reserves.
Adrian Hitt, who proposed earning 2000 by a cross country wheelbarrow trip, was at Humboldt House last Sunday and expects to reach Reno tonight, 320 miles ahead of schedule. He aims to present the feat in Woodward's Gardens and elsewhere in San Francisco and Oakland, then return to New York in a palace car. Col. C. O. Thomas, Nevada’s Commissioner to the New Orleans Exposition, has secured 6500 square feet for Nevada displays.
Apples on this side of the mountains are very abundant this year and will be comparatively cheap. A load of Honey Lake apples sold yesterday for 75 cents a box. Boxes cost about 20 cents each and are useless to buyers except for firewood, adding about 60 dollars per card to the consumer. If sold without boxes the producer would fetch full price with 25 percent saving for the consumer. Wanderers returned from an extended tour through eastern Oregon and Idaho with plans to locate a favorable site for stock raising. They traveled nearly two months and looked fresh and satisfied with the journey.
J. W. Hayes his wife and three children traveled from Colorado in emigrant fashion through Reno yesterday heading to Shasta county California. They have been on the road five months and plan to reach their destination in about two weeks via Susanville.
Assemblymen T. F. Laycock and D. Allen of Reno, E. Griswold of Wedsworth, Recorder J. W. Holbrook of Wadsworth, Treasurer D. B. Boyd, Public Administrator W. Jones mentioned in listing of city officials.
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