By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: A weather notice said, “Don’t cuss the weather. It makes the hay for the farmers and the fishing will be better after church next Sunday.”
75 years ago: Tax sale of the abandoned Silverton and Northern Railroad, a nine-mile section of track, was to be postponed until Aug. 7.
50 years ago: Durango police received word from Monahans, Texas, that a pickup truck stolen from Dave Fisher of Durango had been found.
25 years ago: An $85 gold hood ornament was stolen off a 1989 Cadillac that was parked at Town Plaza.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
