Remember When? for Sept. 16

95 years ago

Sept. 18, 1914

Margaret Foley of Massachusetts, one of the most effective suffrage speakers in the country, addressed an open air meeting in Gardnerville last evening. Miss Foley is known in the east as "the woman with the big voice" because she can easily be heard a block away. She can not only make a big noise in the ears of her listeners, but she says things that open their eyes and bring conviction to their minds that woman should vote.

80 years ago

Sept. 20, 1929

Chas. Bauder was sent by the California fish and game commission to acquire title to a tract of land in Pleasant Valley above Markleeville, where a fish hatchery is to be erected. It is announced that the erection of the necessary buildings and equipment will be completed before snowfall and before next year has progressed many months, between 750,000 and one million young trout will be reared at the new hatchery. Practically all of the output of the Alpine hatchery will be planted in the streams of that county. The Alpine Sportsmen's club has been working to secure a hatchery for the past number of years and finally secured the promise of the state fish and game commission that the plan would be investigated.

50 years ago

Sept. 17, 1959

Plans for a 50-bed general hospital with a completely equipped emergency service were announced this week at Lake Tahoe. The hospital, to be known as the South Tahoe Hospital, is to be built on a 20-acre site near the California-Nevada state line on land owned by Jack Van Sickle. Original plans for the hospital were made in the summer of 1958, when Van Sickle conferred with Dr. James Whitely of the Tahoe Medical Center regarding the necessity of a general hospital for adequate medical care of Lake Tahoe's rapidly expanding population.

25 years ago

Sept. 13, 1984

Enrollment in Douglas High Schools lived up to the projections made on the first day of school: 282 new students are now attending schools in the district. School Superintendent Gregory Betts had predicted that more than 200 new students would be in school as of Sept. 10. The increase is 7.7 percent over the 1983-84 enrollment.

10 years ago

Sept. 15, 1999

A few surprises, a few disappointments, but plenty of excitement were on tap at the Carson Valley Historical Society's first Appraisal Fair. For the owner of an Indian basket, it was a red-letter day - a basket he had been using as an umbrella turned out to be worth upward of $25,000.

A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.