100 years ago: “All the traveling men in town are planning to go to Silverton tonight. The reason is that about 30 pretty school teachers will leave here then for Silverton to attend the two weeks district normal.”
75 years ago: “The city clerk received a formal statement from the State Treasurer Charles M. Armstrong ‘dunning’ the city for $13,961.25, an amount the state claims the city owes as the state’s rightful 85 percent of liquor license fees collected here.”
50 years ago: “Mrs. Merle B. Pittman is the apparent winner of the $10,000 grand prize in the current Kraft contest. Officials in the Kraft office in Denver flipped. To have the grand prize winner in the area – wow!”
25 years ago: “If Durango Crime Stoppers and La Plata County law enforcement agencies have their way, you’ll soon be seeing something like ‘Durango’s Most Wanted’ on local television. Crime Stoppers are putting together plans for a regular 60-second re-enactment of certain crimes, something like the broadcasts on cable TV’s ‘America’s Most Wanted.’”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
