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: The local smelter company decided to increase wages for smelters by 15 cents per day.
50 years ago: William Saroyan, a leading playwright and author, was announced as the next visiting scholar and artist at Fort Lewis College, and was scheduled to give a free lecture at the end of the month. The public was cordially invited to attend.
25 years ago: A local brief announced that a benefit auction would be held at La Plata County Fairgrounds to raise funds for a woman who received severe burns in a Durango mobile home fire the month before.
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.
