100 years ago: “The San Juan Creamery put into the local post office 107 letters containing checks aggregating $364.96, for the farmers of this section, in payment of cream delivered during the previous week.”

75 years ago: “A Florida ranch woman is in Mercy hospital in Durango after undergoing a harrowing experience in which she was rescued from certain death by freezing in the near zero weather. The horse the woman was riding got off the beaten path and floundered around in the snow. Somewhere in the process she lost both boots and her hat. She was found later lying in the snow and ‘frozen stiff.’”

50 years ago: “An original play ‘Patriots at Sea’ by Robert W. Wood, Fort Lewis College student from Cresco, Iowa, will be one of the offerings at the college theatre productions.”

25 years ago: “The Old West will soon come to life in Durango, but the re-creation of the railroad stations, schools, stores, wooden bridges, windmills and houses with picket fences from the turn of the century will be miniature. A manufacturer of scale-model railroad accessories from Southern California will relocate its business in Durango by late summer. The company, owned by a husband-and-wife team, manufactures several accessories and about 100 different kits that consumers put together to re-create towns.”

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