100 years ago: “Mildred Smith and her brother Herold, the children of Conductor Smith of the Rio Grande, came in accompanied by Norman Dempster, a young friend, from Decatur, Ill. The young folks will soon leave for school and ‘the Captain’ wanted to have them on just one trip at least.”
75 years ago: “Cecil Hurst of La Plata County proved the high quality of pinto beans grown in the county when he placed first with his sample against one of the largest and finest exhibits of beans ever seen at the state fair in Pueblo. This sample of beans won considerable favorable comment from exhibitionist judges and will probably result in a few sales of seed from the county.”
50 years ago: “Students in Durango School District 9-R swarmed back to classrooms this morning to begin the 1963-64 school year, generally in larger numbers than last year, according to scattered reports from the buildings.”
25 years ago: “Telephone workers for US West Communications have moved into Silverton to fix the telephone service in the isolated San Juan Mountain town. They started examining equipment in Silverton to get rid of the buzzing, the cutoffs, the dead lines, and the wrong numbers townspeople say have been a daily inconvenience and a problem in emergencies.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
