100 years ago: Classified want advertisements included a “young school girl for companion to aged lady” and an ice cream factory and bottling works for trade, which was available because the owner wanted to relocate to a lower altitude.
75 years ago: A crew of 12 men started to clear the right-of-way for the Piedra timber access road construction project. Ironically, most of the work involved cutting timber.
50 years ago: Plans were set for a “big book-moving” at Fort Lewis College. Classes were to end early, and 1,400 students and faculty would carry by hand 15 tons, about 35,000 volumes, of books across campus to the new library.
25 years ago: A women reported three juvenile boys who shot her with a pellet gun as they passed in a truck on the 1100 block of Main Avenue.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
