And the West is History

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100 years ago: “The Fort Lewis school is making an attempt to secure a three-hundredths of a mill levy, so that its income, while not large, may be definite and regular. That amount will mak...

DATE: Jan 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The city schools are in some grades badly overcrowded as the result of an unusual increase in attendance. Twenty-five new pupils are reported since the first of January which...

DATE: Jan 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Denver Post says: ‘Father M. F. Callahan, of Durango, has been appointed successor to Monseigneur Brady, rector of Annunciation Parish. Brady resigned from his parish Dec...

DATE: Jan 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Ray Duffy, a ranchman, cattleman and bean grower, was in town to patent a process for raising beans with an expansive skin, which will allow him to pump air into each bean an...

DATE: Jan 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Five sleigh loads of household goods and furniture were moved over from Bayfield to furnish the new home here of Mrs. and Mr. John Wagner, who now are domiciled in the Frank ...

DATE: Jan 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mrs. John W. Wagner, of Bayfield, who with Mr. Wagner will make their home in this city, came over from that town with Al Houser in the Durango-Bayfield-Ignacio Ford Stage Se...

DATE: Jan 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “George W. Avery, manager of the Incas mines, who has been in the city for a few days on matters of business, returned to the La Platas.” 75 years ago: “George Gilm...

DATE: Jan 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: An advertisement read: “Abby Schiller, public stenographer, 305 Newman Block, shorthand and typewriting taught.” 75 years ago: “The little Misses Ileen and Themla B...

DATE: Jan 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Found – A lady low-cut slipper, with a paper sole, in front of a store in the block between 10th and 11th streets on Main Avenue. If the wearer of such a slipper during the h...

DATE: Jan 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A temporary injunction restraining the town board of Ignacio from issuing a saloon license to any applicant was granted by Judge Searcy in the district court, on the petition...

DATE: Jan 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “That the Durango Democrat was one of the most widely and generally read newspapers received by the American and English colony in the Russian town of Dzansoul previous to its...

DATE: Jan 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Thomas J. Owenby, of the Fort Lewis Mesa, was a business visitor who pointed his team homeward about 5 o’clock after liberally patronizing the Main Avenue advertising merchan...

DATE: Jan 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History