10 Years Ago

  • Hawthorne residents can soon expect the sights, smells and sounds of construction activity across the street from McDonald’s. Golden Gate Petroleum, a Martinez, California, based distributor of fuel and lubricants, intends to build a truck stop at the site.
  • Bountiful Basket is a grass root co-op in Hawthorne strives to bring the highest quality of products to individuals. Because it’s a small organization, the cost of the items are at rock bottom compared to shipping at a big box store.
  • With the regular season now in the rear view mirror, both Serpents squads will fight for a spot in state when they take the floor in the single elimination NIAA Division IV Northern region tournament in Reno this week.

20 Years Ago

  • Gusty winds hit the Hawthorne/ Walker Lake area caused damage to businesses, homes and automobiles. A gust of 106 mph was recorded by the Nevada Department of Transportation at the lake.
  • The Democratic caucus was held at the Hawthorne Convention Center. During the caucus m selects their presidential nominee and later selects delegates for the Mineral County Convention.
  • ABLT Ready Mix was sold to Burton and Kim Packard of Hawthorne. The operation will now be known as Bucket box Mud Ready Mix, LLC.
  • Keith Neville and George Winters, both coaches at MCHS, were selected for the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Hall of Fame. Neville took the baseball program to an experienced level of success. His teams won 350 games, 12 league championships and three state titles. Winter boys basketball teams won 259 games over 80 games in 12 years. Both Neville and Winters coached just more than baseball and basketball all while teaching academics to students

30 Years Ago

  • Hawthorne Drove 35 Benevolent, Patriotic Order of Does was the host Lodge for the 44th. Annual State Meeting that was held in Hawthorne at the Masonic Hall. Mavis Spikes, the 73rd Supreme President of the Order of Does of the United States of America presided at the meeting.
  • High winds caused an accident where residents of Homadale, Idaho were blown from the highway about seven miles north of Hawthorne. The pickup truck and travel trailer they were traveling in overturned several times and the trailer and its contents were scattered along the east side of the highway. Stanton Leroy Pegram and his mother, Eileen Pegram were both injured in the accident.

40 Years Ago 

  • A full page advertisement sponsored by the Mineral County Classroom Teacher Association encouraged parents to contact school board trustees and object to some of the changes that the board  had proposed for 1984-85. Some of the questionable proposals included dropping home economics from the Junior High curriculum, combining the 4th and 5th grades classes, dropping drivers training and cutting one P.E. Position. Members of the school board were Frances Hawkins, Alfred Prince, Carolyn Isom, Donna Glazier, Sharen Lininger, Tom Dorsey, and Barbara Harnage,
  • Winners in the annual Lions Club speak contest were Rezalia Watson, first, Dawn Miller and Kevan Kovacs runners up.
  • Nikki Winters and Paul MacPherson were Hawthorne’s representatives in the Nevada State Hoop Shoot final held in Hawthorne.

50 Years Ago

  • “Tis truly a virtue to give of one’s self to encourage others to find themselves,” was the opening quote of the announcement that Mrs. Catherine Barlow would retire from teaching after 27 years.
  • The title to the story that appeared in the February 6, Divot Date was- Walker Lake is dying. The story continues: “Not a quick, merciful death, but a slow agonizing one-an inch at a time.” The article encouraged individuals to get involved in the Walker Lake Boat and Ski Club or Sportsman’s Club of Mineral County that were dedicated to the preservation and development of Mineral County’s recreation resources and kept a close watch on developments that would affect them in the future.
  • The fifty-five mile speed limit was put into effect.

60 Years Ago

  • Reconstruction of highway 95 north of Schurz was slated to begin and the Development of Transportation estimated that the route would cost nearly $80,000.
  • A tourist visiting Hawthorne who had lost his wallet containing $340 in cash and two uncashed checks for large sums, was surprised when his wallet was returned by C.H. Butler who had found it earlier in the day and turned it into the Sheriff’s Office.
  • A navy pilot who ejected from his jet plane  south of Hawthorne suffered a broken leg, but he was far from  happy about his injury, as his parachute failed to open when he made his emergency jump.
  • High School students receiving a 4.0 honor roll award were Allen Armstrong, David Balaria, Joan Broer, William Cavin, Toni Dellamonica, Larry Kinkor, Lynn Parks, Ronald Tayl, Katerina Williams and Gary Young.
  • Serpents ended a 7-5 season with wins over the Douglas Tigers and the Yerington Lions 70-53 and 51-48.
  • When asked how he was “happy and go lucky” most of the time. Uncle Vane Day answered by writing in his “Every Day by Vane Day “column in this paper back in 1963: “I don’t have a cure for the blues, because as far as I know l don’t have any. I don’t try to build sand traps for myself. I want a clean straight fairway ahead of me. “My biggest failing? Talking when I should be listening, I suppose. “I believe in the doctrine of opposites that every disadvantage has an advantage. The thing that distresses me the most is impoliteness  but not even that one can excuse. “I try to accept everything for what it really is. I don’t ever really find myself bored.

“There is a big unfulfilled goal called death l am approaching. While you’re living you’re dying, and while you’re dying you’re living. The trick is to make the best of the journey.  “Since the goal of death is unknown, l intend to approach it as cautiously as possible and acquaint myself with it very slowly. “That’s the reason l look both ways before crossing the street.”

70 Years Ago

  • A car collided with a truck loaded with ammunition near the cliff area. No one was injured but both vehicles were extensively damaged.
  • Hawthorne ended the hoop season by taking losses to Sparks 56-48 and Fallon 70-50.

80 Years Ago

  • The county savage committee started a cleanup drive. Process from the sale of scrap paper, can, and other items were to be used to improve the school playgrounds.
  • L. E. Blaisdell and N. E. Conklin was involved in a complicated count action to determine which lawyer actually was the acting district attorney of Mineral County.

90 Years Ago

  • Earthquakes continued to shake Mina and other parts of southern Mineral County.
  • All Civil Works Administration (CWA) projects were being concluded as no further appropriations had been made to continue the program which had been made to continue the program, which had provided work for more than 60 men and 10 women. Women worked at the sewing room that had been established here, while the men did road repairs throughout the country, placed concrete curbing and sprinkler systems at the courthouse, installed new seating and storm doors at the high school gym, replaced wiring and plastering at the county hospital, expanded the water line to the Hawthorne cemetery.