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 Bayfield Blade reported that Joe Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Turner, was “in the officers’ training camp at Jacksonville, Fla.”
75 years ago: Sheepman George Lemome hired four women to shear sheep after four of his shearers became ill.
25 years ago: The Driver Licensing Office of Durango conducted group testing for instruction permits at Florida Mesa Elementary School.
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.
