100 years ago: “Horse races at the fairgrounds depend wholly upon the weather. If it does not rain and the track is in fit condition the races will take place at the usual time.”
75 years ago: “Durango’s goodwill tour now is slated to leave the city on June 9 – nearly two months earlier than previous tours have started. The tour now planned will extend a round-trip distance of 2,002-miles – through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas – and the party will be gone from the city for eight days and seven nights.”
50 years ago: “When teachers and staff of Smiley Junior High School arrived at the school many of them found a mess. Vandals had entered the school through one of the rooms and then the school itself. The intruders did considerable damage to the men teachers’ lounge, knocking everything to the floor, going out and getting soap and wax which they dumped on to the desks and floor, poured varnish on desks and broke a window.”
25 years ago: “Colorado and New Mexico senators have called on Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan to ‘use the authority vested in you’ to help build the Animas-La Plata Project.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Animas Museum and Center of Southwest Studies. Their accuracy may not be verified.
