100 years ago: “Private car B-7 was hooked on behind the Eastern when it dragged up to the depot. The car is for the accommodation of R.E. Sloan and party, who leave for Denver.”
75 years ago: An advertisement for Catchpole Beauty Salon read: “High styles for the holiday. It’s time you got yourself one of the popular high style coiffures for the gay Yule season ... by making an appointment now, you’ll avoid all possibility of disappointment through lack of time.”
50 years ago: “Mrs. Betty Abernathy of Bayfield was a $100 merchandise prize winner in the ‘Rich Uncle’ sweepstakes recently conducted by Creamland dairy products.”
25 years ago: “The State Patrol grabbed another 130 pounds of marijuana moving through La Plata County. Patrolmen have now confiscated about 280 pounds of marijuana in the last two months, in addition to the 3,200 live plants and 40 pounds of processed marijuana harvested by local police and sheriff’s officers.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
