By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: A subscriber mailed a “batch of poetry” about the extra session of the state legislature, but the “hot weather spoiled it” before it reached the news desk.
75 years ago: Fourteen draftees from La Plata County were scheduled to leave for Army service July 26.
50 years ago: Clarence Gohn was charged with careless driving after hitting a parked car at 1503 East Third Ave. with a tractor from Penny Pincher Rental.
25 years ago: Seven intoxicated cowboys were standing in the roadway and walking in front of traffic in the 600 block of East Second Avenue.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
