The way it was

100 Years Ago -- December 23, 1903

ITEMS -- Wilber N. Vass has been appointed a rural mail carrier and George D. Vass a substitute carrier, out of Walker.

Miss Louie Key and sister Miss Blanche and Miss Sallie Ridgeway of Baird College, Clinton, arrived to spend the holidays.

The Nevada Elks will on Christmas morning present a number of the needy poor of this city a kind remembrance in the shape of a basket of edibles. This is a beautiful custom of this popular and charitable order.

Messrs. Strohm E. Whems of Dempsey Candy Works will entertain the young men in their employment with a six o'clock dinner at the Elkhorn Christmas Eve. Plates will be laid for 20.

75 Years Ago -- December 23, 1928

FROM ST. LOUIS- Prohibition officers "will do everything within their power to stop any exhibitions of public drinking of intoxicants at New Year's Eve parties in hotels, clubs and cafes," Sam S.Haley, prohibition administrator of Missouri and Arkansas, declared yesterday.

50 Years Ago -- December 23, 1953

Santa Claus surprised three young ladies at Scott's Store last night while making the rounds of the downtown business places to distribute candy canes and to hear requests of the small fry. There was a conspicuous scarcity of little tykes on the wind-blown streets of Nevada last night so the jolly rascal gave most of his candy to middle-sized and fully-grown kiddies.

Betty Fenton told Santa Claus what she wants most of all for Christmas and Santa wouldn't share her secret but the doll counter is what maybe in Betty's stocking Christmas morning.

EDITORIAL -- 42 Years at a Post Office: The mails must go through. Then you talk to a man like Harry Stukesbary who has spent the past 42 years in the Nevada Post Office, seeing that the mails do get through. And it hasn't always been an easy job.

He recalls that the roughest sledding was back in the Model-T Christmas rush days when icy roads would waylay the Post Office's only delivery truck, making the delivery of holiday gifts by Dec. 25 almost impossible. Stukesbary, who started work in the Nevada Post Office in 1913 when all parcel post to be delivered around the Square was hauled in a small pushcart.