100 years ago: “Attorney Rex Mollette received from the secretary of the Colorado Bar Association’s Committee nominations for candidates for Supreme Court judge. The lawyers named included four attorneys of Durango – Judge W.N. Searcy, Judge James E. Pulliam, Edgar Buchanan and B.W. Ritter.”
75 years ago: “Additional improvement to the La Plata County Fairgrounds at Durango are stipulated in a $23,440 allotment made by Works Progress Administration authorities in Washington. The work includes the construction of entrance and exit gates, ticket offices, restrooms, and a caretakers building.”
50 years ago: “Elliot Donnelley, wealthy Chicago printing executive, has decided that the Nomad, the showpiece private car of the narrow gauge, shall stay permanently in Durango. He is transferring the car upon which General William Jackson Palmer once entertained President Ulysses S. Grant to Cinco Animas Corp., headed by Emil Arndt of La Plata Motors, and becoming himself the sixth member of the corporation.”
25 years ago: “John Brennan of Durango won Animas River Days kayak slalom to gain a tie with fellow Durangoan Mike Freeburn in the seventh annual event’s top-boater standings. Brennan and Freeburn, competing in the men’s racing class, finished the two-day, three-event whitewater festival with 54 points in the overall standing.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
