100 years ago: A weather report for Durango said, “the weather maker is providing us with some of those perfect days the poets sing about.”
75 years ago: Cadet Franklin W. Mock of Aztec was on a U.S. merchant ship that rammed and sank a Nazi submarine.
50 years ago: Narelle Mobley filed a damage suit against the New Strater Corp. in county court that said, “she received a broken great toe when an employee dropped a heavy table on her foot.”
25 years ago: A resident at Purgatory Ski Resort reported that someone broke into a storage shed, stole a pair of skis, damaged them and returned them to the shed later that evening.
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.
