The way it was

100 Years Ago - March 2, 1904

R. Schonewetter, who lives five miles southeast of Nevada, had a narrow escape from death yesterday and the engineer of the Missouri Pacific passenger train is due credit to the fact that Schonewetter was not killed. Schonewetter was walking to Nevada and had started across the trestle just south of Union Station and had reached the center of the high bridge when the passenger train came down the track behind him.

The train was so near that Schonewetter did not have time to cross the bridge nor to get back. He started to one side thinking that in order to save himself he would be compelled to jump. About this time, the engineer saw the perilous position of the man and reverse the throttle and soon stopped his train and Schonewetter hurriedly crossed the bridge.

75 Years Ago - March 2, 1929

Little Miss Betty Lee Powers, nine years old and a student in the fourth grade of the Franklin School, will play the composition "Adoration," a violin solo at the First Christian Church Sunday evening, as the feature musical number of the service.

50 Years Ago - March 2, 1954

A 3-inch moisture-filled snowfall, which dropped on Nevada this morning, failed to dampen or chill the enthusiasm of Nevadans as the climax to a year of hard work on the part of NIDC officials and the populace in general, was reached as the first spade of earth was turned at the NIDC building site at the north edge of the city at 2 pm. The groundbreaking ceremony was one of the two highlights to the day's activities, which attracted the attention of all sections of the nation.

Of interest to the nation, the day's festivities were filmed by the NBC television camera crew from Chicago who arrived in Nevada to photograph the activities for use on Dave Garroway's morning television show from New York, "Today" which is picked up locally.

SPORTS -- From Sarasota, Florida ... Ted Williams vowed today he'd fool the doctors who gloomily predicted he would miss the baseball season's opener because of a fractured collarbone.

"Don't bet against my playing in the opening fame of the season," the Boston Red Sox slugger said. "I'll be ready, I'll get over this sooner than they think," he continued.