By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: Classified for-sale advertisements included, “80 head of goats, delivery wagon and harness”; “complete set household furniture for 5-room house for cheap”; “well-broke team geldings, 5 and 8 years old, weight 1500 and 1600 respectively”; and “one foot King Ditch water, one foot or more of Morrison Ditch water, also a number of horses, mares and colts.”
75 years ago: Official notice was received by the War Department that Capt. Sherman F. Stacher Jr. was killed in an airplane crash overseas.
50 years ago: Ten men from La Plata County were notified to take their physical examinations for enlistment in the Army.
25 years ago: Two teenagers were cited for throwing fireworks at passing vehicles in downtown Durango at Seventh Street and Main Avenue.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
