100 years ago: “Newt Barton, delivery man for the Otis-McGirr Mercantile Company, was out with the aid of a cane for the first time in a couple of weeks since he tried to lift his team and wagon out of a hole and sprained his back. Newt says he could easily have lifted either the team or the wagon separately, but that he was in a hurry and tried to lift them all at once.”
75 years ago: “Christmas decorations on Main Avenue are coming down and the merry yuletide is officially over.”
50 years ago: The Kiva Theatre was showing “Return from the Ashes.” The billing read: “No one may enter the theatre after Fabi enters her bath!”
25 years ago: “As the new year begins, endangered fish still have the massive Animas-La Plata Water Project snagged on a hook. Project proponents are hopeful a plan to recover two threatened fish species will prompt a go-ahead from biologists, enabling a May construction start – one year late.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
