100 years ago: “Owners of dogs on the north side are teaching their pups to be vegetarians since someone up there is gratuitously feeding meat in which generous portions of ground glass are mixed. Dogs who have tried the new menu are a good deal of trouble to bury now that the ground is frozen.”
75 years ago: “Honoring Abraham Lincoln’s birthday the Women’s Republican Club is sponsoring a Lincoln Day luncheon.” Topics would include “Lincoln, the Man”; “Lincoln, the President”; and “Lincoln, the Lawyer.”
50 years ago: “Errol Ryland of Durango and Scott Bessire of Cortez, conservation officers of the state Game and Fish Commission, were showing a Mason jar of dark grey sludge which, they said, they’d picked up from the spot where Standard Metals Corp.’s tailing ponds empty into the Animas.”
25 years ago: “A local official testified before the Colorado State Patrol in Denver that mountain passes and curvy roads on U.S. Highway 550 between Durango and Silverton have caused 11 major truck accidents in 10 years. The testimony disputed the patrol’s claim that the highway is the area’s safest north/south route for truck traffic.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
