100 years ago: “An election will be called by the city commissioners to be held for the voters to decide whether or not they want to adopt the two initiated ordinances regulating pool and billiard rooms and saloons and raising the license of the latter to $1,200 a year.”

75 years ago: “William Houston, federal conciliator assigned to the Silverton mine strike, left with the strike at the Shenandoah-Dives Co. still unsettled. Compromise terms offered by the striking union at a meeting were not accepted by the company.”

50 years ago: “A busy schedule is planned for five Norwegian exchange cadets who will arrive as guests of the Durango Civil Air Patrol during a tour of the United States.”

25 years ago: “The owner of a drug store robbed Wednesday said the robber might be the same man who held him up six months ago. The man got away with drugs and money from Durango Drug, 1802 Main Ave.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.