10 Years Ago

  • Nevada will be one of six states in which unmanned aircrafts, sometimes known as drones, are tested for private use, federal regulators announced on Monday.
  • A Pahrump woman was killed in a rollover accident in Mineral County.
  • Jason Taaffe, 42, and Coleman Ward were arrested on Dec. 21 and charged with murder with a deadly weapon after Charles Kinkel, 39, was found dead from a gunshot wound by two people collecting firewood near Silver Peak .

20 Years Ago

  • Mineral County residents were saddened by the news that a former resident Army Pvt. Jerrick M. Petty from one station Unit Training was killed by hostile fire while guarding a gas station in Mosul, Iraq. Petty grew up in Mineral County where he attended school.
  • Mickey Boyles graduated Peace Officer Standard from Training (POST) Academy in Carson City. Sheriff Trdlia presented Boyles with his certificate. He is the son of Karen Boyles of Hawthorne.

30 Years Ago

  • Work was progressing nicely by the EZ Construction Company on the new firehouse located on the south end of Hawthorne.

40 Years Ago

  • The Hawthorne Elks Lodge was completing plans for its annual “Hoop Shoot” competition to be held at the Hawthorne Elementary School Gym for the youth in this area.
  • Billie Jacob’s was shown in the newspaper with her second grade students receiving instruction at the Catholic Church. Class members were Shannon Decker, Maricruz Garza, Rachel Mahlum, Tara Grulli, Yong Sun Breslin, Gil Trujillo and Amber Johnson.

50 Years Ago

  • The MCHS Serpents lost to the Douglas Tigers 69-63 in Basketball play.
  • Congressman David Towell announced that the U.S. Treasury Department would mail revenue sharing checks and that Mineral County’s allocation would be $18,788. The county’s payments under the plan were being applied to the construction of the new courthouse unit.
  • An alumni wrestling tournament was planned with participation from alumni including Del Cornella, Jr., Reggie Brantley, Lewis Johnson, Herschell, Reggie Brant, Smiley Lopez, Mike Thyne, and John White.
  • Officers of the Red Circle of the Bethel Baptist Church were pictured in the newspaper. Officers Beverly Bunt, Christy Linston, Darlene Brown, Belle Burt,
  • Engene Christensen were awarded the Expert infantry Badge from the Army National Guard. “Geno” was a member of the Hawthorne unit of the guard.

60 Years Ago

  • Winners named in the annual Christmas home decorating contest were Lupe Martinez, Dianna Glassford, and Mrs. Garland Rowlett.
  • The government plant in Hawthorne added another phase of advanced operations to their plant here.
  • Uncle Vane Day wrote in his “Every Day by Vane Day’ column in the paper 50 years ago: Most of us, l believe, are from faraway places, from every nook and cranny of the country and if you please from distant harbors across the seas. All huddled now into a little world of our own; a quiet, peaceful spot, a refreshing oasis on the great desert.

“That nature was in a grim mood when the area adjacent to Hawthorne was created as apparent to the newcomers over magnificent distances whose terrain reveals evidence of of violent volcanic disturbances in the remote ages of the past, the board stretches of country covered with bristling rocks and boulders, as if to guard what lies beyond from the intrusion of all humanity.

“And, yet, as if to compensate for this awful barrenness, there is a stately grandeur about those rock ribbed hills and mountains, a sublimity in those threatening distances which induces a feeling of awe and reverence for the creative power of the Great Creator of the United States.

“The desert with its quiet, shifting brands never offering beyond a whisper its part in the great mystery. It cradles the timid, fragile desert flowers adding beauty and glamour to the incomparable. The hills, the mountains, the rocks, and boulders the desert with its flowers, all playing their part in the magnificent drama.

“The People of Hawthorne, the community, it seems their hearts are bigger and stronger with understanding and vastness of Nature each has its own, in isolation from a cruel civilization, a world in distress, we know our neighbor well and we love him.

“There is no better place to live than America, unless it’s HAWTHORNE, NEVADA.”

70 Years Ago

  • Nevada’s first highway fatalities of 1954 occurred in Mineral County when three people were killed in a car accident on Highway 95 five miles north of Hawthorne.
  • Large size Tide or Cheer laundry detergent were available at the Spic & Span Market for 28 cents and MJB Coffee was only 89 cents a pound.
  • Augusta (Harry) Reuther, about 70, was found dead near the east city limits of Hawthorne. Authorities said he apparently died of natural causes as he was known to be in poor health. He worked as a swamper and dishwasher at the local bars and cafes.

80 Years Ago

  • Season tickets to the home basketball games of the Mineral County High School School Serpents were available for $2.20.
  • Local residents leaving from Hawthorne to enter military service were Thomas Williams, Martin Evansen, Fred G. Grice, Brady Johnson, James A. Cline , John W. Childress and Neal L. Grouell.
  • The Regional Dof the OPA predicted further cuts in gasoline rations because of extremely serious situations on the Pacific Coast.

90 Years Ago

  • Ten women, five in Hawthorne, five in Mina were given employment under the CWA Program. Those in Mina were sewing blankets for the needy, and those in Hawthorne were helping the staff at the county hospital and making some improvements at the high school. The women were paid 50 cents an hour and their work week was set at 30 hours. Mrs. A. L. Carman, the woman member of the CWA Committee, was supervising the women’s project.
  • Salt pork allotment provided by the government was 979 pounds for Mineral County, 579 pounds for Hawthorne and Rawhide, and 400 pounds for the Mina area.
  • Enrollment was being accepted for men seeking to serve in the Civilian Conservation Corps and it was hoped that Hawthorne CCC camp would be brought to full strength soon after the first of the year.
  • The Mineral High baseball team turned the tables on Tonopah and defeated the Muckers 25-13 in Hawthorne. Tonopah girls defeated the Mineral girls 23-7 while the Hawthorne NAD Marines defeated the Tonopah Elks in a 35-34 thriller.