100 years ago: Thomas Lewis of Dolores “charged the commissary divisions of the local stores yesterday and wrought devastation among the stocks of edibles through his heavy purchases.”
75 years ago: A total of 120 young draftees from Durango marched down Main Avenue to the railroad depot to board a train that would take them to Pueblo for induction into the army.
50 years ago: Three people were injured in a car crash on Highway 172 one mile west of Oxford. The car went off the right side of the road, swerved back onto the pavement, drifted into the left-lane shoulder, swerved back into the right lane and flipped over onto its top.
25 years ago: Two men were caught defecating in a stairwell in the 900 block of Narrow Gauge Avenue and chased off by police officers.
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.
