100 years ago: Wanted advertisements included someone experienced in nursing or “in the care of children,” “two good lots” on Main Avenue in exchange for a “good team of mares and wagon,” an experienced and reliable married man for ranch work and a ranch with 50 to 100 tons of hay.
75 years ago: About 80 men, who had been drafted for military service, were transported to the Pueblo examination station via the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
50 years ago: A 14-year-old boy admitted in La Plata County District Court that he took a pair of skis from one of the racks at Purgatory after being questioned by E.R. DeLuche of the District Attorney’s Office.
25 years ago: Someone was shooting a firearm at the top of Smelter Mountain and put several bullet holes in the Burnett Construction Co. radio tower.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
