100 years ago: “‘Bud’ Weaver, a barber formerly well known to the bunch at Silverton and more recently from Pueblo, came in with Mrs. Weaver last night to locate permanently in this city. He will work in the Helm shop in place of Joe Grillo, who leaves to go on a magician show – his former line of business.”
75 years ago: “City manager O.W. Harrah stated that if there are any men, women or children who own dogs and can’t rake up the money wherewith to pay for licensing their pets, he will give them jobs of work so they can ‘work out’ any part of the license fee.”
50 years ago: “Durango still has two pilots of the famed and extinct Galloping Gooses – or Geese. They are John Crum, 23 Junction Creek Road, whose wife, Josie, has written a number of books on narrow gauge railroading, and Ernest Lewis, 769 Sixth Avenue. George McLean, who died in Ridgway Sunday, ended his railroading career by running the last Galloping Goose into Ridgway.”
25 years ago: “Residents of the Animas Valley near the state line say the legal victory of a Cedar Hill, New Mexico, family, which proved to a jury that a gas well contaminated its well water, could lead to more lawsuits. ... The Charles Winters family sued Union Texas Petroleum Corp. when the water well on their five-acre property one mile south of the Colorado state line became contaminated with hydrocarbons in April 1985, 10 months after the company drilled a gas well into the Fruitland coal formation 2,100 feet from the water well.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
