100 years ago: “Thirteen of the young friends of Miss Catherine Crowdis, who was 13 on June 13, surprised her. The evening was pleasantly spent in games and amusements, with refreshments of ice cream, candy and cake. Catherine was born, says her father, on Friday the 13th, but it has always proved her lucky day.”
75 years ago: “Fred Hutchings, Allison fox farmer, was in Durango. This years fox crop includes 76 fox pups, an average of slightly more than six per litter.”
50 years ago: “The Animas River reached .03 foot above flood stage at 8 a.m. today, but no one is expressing any particular alarm. ... The Animas is out of its banks in the Animas Valley and in some places is covering the Denver and Rio Grande Western gauge railroad tracks.”
25 years ago: “The La Plata County Commissioners closed the county fairgrounds grandstands to public use, saying an engineering study has found the seating to be unsafe, and the cost of repairing it was probably too high to be practical. ... An engineering study of the 50-year-old wooden grandstands presented to the commissioners a week ago reveled ‘a dangerous condition which could result in an accident.’”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
