100 years ago: A dance was scheduled to be held at Perins Peak Club House, and it was promised “to be well attended by Durangoites.”
75 years ago: Five young Durango women returned from Fort Bliss, Texas, to make their homes in town while their husbands served in the Army.
50 years ago: Robert Ayres, president of the Garden Mercantile Co., was hospitalized at Mercy after he suffered what his physician called an “irregularity of heart beat.”
25 years ago: La Plata County Sheriff’s Office deputies took a 34-year-old intoxicated woman home, after she called from the 32000 block of U.S. Highway 550 to report that she knew where a subject from the television show “Unsolved Mysteries” was located.
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.
