100 years ago: “Apricots are commencing to ripen. This delicious fruit is more plentiful this season than usual and all good housewives can be depended upon to make an extra exertion in canning a goodly supply of this fruit.”
75 years ago: “A 17-year-old youth is being held at Aztec for further questioning after his arrest in Silverton as a companion of the lone bandit who held up the First National Bank at Farmington and escaped with a loot of $4,000.”
50 years ago: “It seems to be teenagers, not tar from city paving, which is making Main Avenue sidewalks dirty from the Strater to the post office. Many stores sell for a cent or two paraffin in the shape of a bottle. When these are crushed onto the sidewalk they look like tar. The Kiva theater is familiar with the problem. It is apparently a popular pastime in certain groups to deface theaters or streets with the paraffin.”
25 years ago: “Fireworks remained ‘high on the list’ of possible causes of a Fourth of July fire that destroyed a Durango home and scorched about 100 acres of hillside. The fires started at the rear of the residence at 875 E. Fourth St. It shot quickly up the hillside and spread along Raider Ridge, as tender-dry pinyon and juniper trees exploded in flames.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
