100 years ago: SUNNYSIDE – “The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller are sick with la grippe, which began with croup. Quite a number of people are suffering from bad colds, which seem to be an epidemic in our neighborhood.”
75 years ago: “The Herald-Democrat dispatched $25 to the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. This money was collected through voluntary subscriptions in Durango. Further contributions will be welcome, and will help a brave people truly fighting democracy’s battle to continue their heroic stand.”
50 years ago: “A national piano teachers newspaper, The Piano Guild Notes in a recent publication, mentions the piano workshop given in Durango last summer under the direction of Dr. Clarence Berg of Oklahoma City University.
25 years ago: “Snowmaking is to resume on Chapman Hill. City officials, saying they had felt ‘compassion’ for county residents without water, had cut off the 250-gallon-a-minute snowmakers. Twenty supporters of the Chapman Hill Improvement Association showed up at the City Council meeting and asked that snowmaking resume.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
