100 years ago: Jason Johnson and Edward Mackey, The Blind Wonders, played at the REX.
75 years ago: Because of increasing revenues and “decreasing number of old-age pensioners,” the August pension payment in Colorado was “the highest summer payment since the old-age pension law became effective in 1937.”
50 years ago: Army Pfc. Harold R. Abeln, 22-year-old man of Cortez, was assigned to the First Cavalry Division in An Khe, Vietnam.
25 years ago: Eight chickens and a turkey were killed during the night in the 23000 block of Highway 140.
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.
