100 years ago: “Ray Duffy, a ranchman, cattleman and bean grower, was in town to patent a process for raising beans with an expansive skin, which will allow him to pump air into each bean and make them run 17,687 to the bushel instead of something over 34,000 as they do now.”
75 years ago: “Claude and Jim Pacotti came down from Silverton early in the week as the snow was too deep for them to do any more work on the mining claim for the present.”
50 years ago: “Pres. John Reed of Fort Lewis College will present interim enrollment figures to the State Board of Agriculture indicating a 7.4 percent increase for the winter trimester on the Durango campus. With enrollment not yet fully complete there was an increase to 958 students.”
25 years ago: “A car collided with the rear-end of a bus from the New Life Academy at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Bodo Park when the driver was distracted by children protesting the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
