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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “‘Scotty’ Monteith spent all day in town hunting for help to put up hay on his Griffith ranch. He has his hay on the ground and can’t get any help. He went home last night to ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Stock Inspector Sam Ethridge came in on the Southern from Dolores, where he inspected several flocks of sheep that needed dipping for scabies.” 75 years ago: “Whil...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A request on the public trustee, County Treasurer Turner, for the foreclosure of a trust deed on ‘Ignacio City,’ the property of the Ignacio Townsite and Development Company,...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The E.B. Pond family are nicely located in the Haggart property on Fifth and Seventh streets, where they will reside permanently.” 75 years ago: “The Herald-Democr...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Graden dry goods department has been added to in the person of Lee Dynee, of St. Joseph, Mo., an experienced dry goods man, who is now connected with the big store.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The St. Columbus parochial school opened with 85 pupils, in charge of Sister Mary Nicholas, who was here several years ago, and has been since then in the Cripple Creek and S...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “John Olbert went up to Trimble Springs to take the baths in the hope of getting the rheumatism out of his joints caused by reading the U.P. war news.” 75 years ago...

And the West is History

100 years ago: SUNNYSIDE – “One of the worst wind and rain storms in many years visited our mesa. The rain came down with such force as to beat the alfalfa to the ground and small streams of...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Walter Morrison, of Bayfield, was a business visitor in the city. He recently returned from Cave Basin, and says there are not so many men there now as at the first of the se...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Oscar and Clarence Handley, of the Florida Mesa, were in town on a business and supply buying trip, patronizing the stores that advertise.” 75 years ago: “Speaking...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “By majorities that approximated the total vote for the proposed laws, the two initiated ordinances regulating saloons and increasing the license to $1,200 and closing billiar...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Jack Couch, one of the candidates for the sheriff’s nomination on the Democratic ticket, was in town talking in a whisper. He says he has been out in the country since the co...
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