100 years ago: “If you desire to look at a perfect specimen of potatoes, call around and size up the beauties left in the office by Felix Vanderweile. Each potato weighs about 2½ pounds and as near perfect in shape and color as potatoes can be grown.”
75 years ago: An advertisement for Wallace G. Mollette, 127 E. 9th St., read, “For sale – A good brick and stone house of seven rooms, bath, basement and two garages. Located near Smiley Junior High School, plenty of yard. Home is partly furnished with new enamel coal range and new coal heatrola. Complete selling price is just $1,800, with $200 cash down and the balance in monthly payments, less than rent.”
50 years ago: “Deer were fighting under the window of Mrs. Carl Nossaman, 3114 West Fourth Ave., before opening of hunting season. Her house is against the hill, and a peculiar sound awoke her one night recently. She looked out her bedroom window and saw two bucks fighting. She said there was no noise but the contact of the antlers; no voice noises or snorting or pawing the ground. Eventually, one of them lay down and the other one left. After a while, the tired one left, too. Mrs. Nossaman said it was a weird thing to watch.”
25 years ago: “Locals Appreciation Days seats on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s final two days of the season sold out Oct. 14, the same day they went on sale for $5 each.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
