100 years ago: “Don’t overlook the last day of demonstration at the F.R. Graham hardware store today – Cole’s heaters and kitchen ranges. Just what the wife wants for Christmas.”
75 years ago: “After a week’s battle with a cold, Mrs. Charles Taylor is back at Taylor-Raymond’s, victorious, but still not too perky.”
50 years ago: “A jam-packed audience of Fort Lewis College students and townspeople brought Joe and Eddie, folk song vocal duet, back for a half dozen encores following their program in the college field house. The attractive young men, tops in their field, sang a program ranging from jivey songs with a great beat to haunting love songs to spirituals.”
25 years ago: “About 120 Colorado National Guardsmen have been told to report to the Cortez and Durango armories in a mobilization that may soon send some of them to Saudi Arabia. Included in the notification to report are 70 members of the Durango detachment to the 928th Medical Company based in Cortez.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
