100 years ago: “While gathering wild logan berries south of town, Miss Sherry Fipp came face to face with a snake. The reptile saw her first and tried to get into a prairie dog hole, but Sherry grabbed it by the tail. She stripped the reptile of its skin and hung it on a stake, and now she wears it round her leg – it was a garter snake.”
75 years ago: “Under the auspices of the Western Colorado Power Co. an interesting display of the latest types of lighting is being made in the Masonic Hall. Among the displays are fluorescent lamps, sodium lamps, black ray lamps and sterilamps.”
50 years ago: “Shriners, riding the Silverton train, helped remove a 10-ton rock and several smaller ones from the track at Mile Post 476 between Ah! Wilderness and Teft Spur. ... Train crews and some Shriners worked for about an hour and 20 minutes removing the rocks.
25 years ago: “School District 9-R got an unexpected and somewhat unwelcome surprise. An increase in kindergarten and first-grade students at two schools has turned a music room into a classroom and has some parents concerned with large class sizes. Overall preliminary reports on enrollment for the district predict an increase by about 100 students.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
