100 years ago: “Lester Bradshaw delivered one coyote hide at the county treasurer’s office and drew down the state bounty of $2.”
75 years ago: “Judge and Mrs. T. E. Higgins were hosts at an unusually attractive party when they entertained at a Hallowe’en dinner.”
50 years ago: “A fire totally destroyed the 100 barrel flour mill owned by Halworth Tanner in Bayfield. ... A number of school boys got a truck load of sacked flour out of the burning building, but the building and its contents were a total loss.”
25 years ago: CORTEZ – “A coach’s decision to exclude a student from the junior varsity football team because he wore an earring to school has been upheld by the board of education. The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education voted to back the high school football coach, ruling it was the coach’s choice to take whatever actions he thought necessary to impose discipline on the team.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
