100 years ago: “The double tragedy discovered by police in North Durango were almost the sole topic in the city. The news of the murder and suicide of the two well-known young people created the greatest sensation of recent years.”
75 years ago: “Accustomed to regard the world through two big brown eyes, Hazel Limprecht of the Turner Investment Company, today sadly contemplates life through only one optic. A minor eye operation necessitates a bandage over Hazel’s left eye.”
50 years ago: “A stout safe at Durango Recap, 803 Second Ave., left would-be burglars empty handed. Durango Police Capt. John Garnand said the burglars entered Durango Recap by way of the side door. ‘They knocked the hinges off the safe,’ Capt. Garnand said, ‘and pounded it to death, but they couldn’t get it open.’ Only thing missing was a few cents change out of a stamp box.”
25 years ago: “The participants who worked 30 years to replant the site of the massive 1879 fire on Molas Pass that ‘burned the very soil itself’ were honored. During a ceremony on the pass, a sign commemorating the replanting of the 27,000-acre Lime Creek Burn was dedicated north of the Little Molas Lake turnoff on U.S. Highway 550.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
