100 years ago: “Manuelita Martinez, 17, the daughter of Romero Martinez of Perins Peak, had an almost miraculous escape from death when she was run down by a Calumet mine switch engine and dragged 50 yards beneath the moving engine. The girls was take from under the locomotive suffering, so far as could be ascertained, only from cuts and bruises.”
75 years ago: “‘This Washington’s birthday celebration stuff may be a fine thing but it’s just one big headache to me,’ moaned a Durango man as he wrestled with a hangover.”
50 years ago: The following appeared in the section titled Breen News: “The school cooks, Mrs. Clarice Schmid and Nell Harris, and teachers of Fort Lewis Mesa school have conducted a contest among the grades. The fourth, fifth and sixth grades competed against the first, second and third grades in cleaning up their plates at lunch time. The children cleaned up their plates so well the cooks and teachers shared in buying cream sticks for all of them.”
25 years ago: “La Plata Community Hospital made $15,000 in January – good news after losing up to $80,000 a month. An increased number of patients in January pushed revenues to a higher level than they were any month in 1988. Patient revenues in January totaled $604,684.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
