Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver is not identified.
100 years ago: Game warden Cummings returned from a trip to the Western Colorado Power Co. in the Cascade section, where he found 4 feet of snow on the ground.
75 years ago: U.S. defense savings bonds and postal savings stamps were placed on sale in the main post office during a national effort to “make America impregnable.”
50 years ago: Mountain State Telephone Co. announced that it would crack down on people who used the telephone to make harassing, abusive, obscene or threatening calls.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
