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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Attorney Rex Mollette received from the secretary of the Colorado Bar Association’s Committee nominations for candidates for Supreme Court judge. The lawyers named included f...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “John Brown and Boone Vaughn, both ex-sheriffs of San Juan County, New Mexico, are at the old smelter with a bunch of 1,500 sheep which they are taking to the mountains.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Following a brief and simple funeral service at the Hood & Ames undertaking parlors on Ninth Street, the body of the late Colonel David F. Day will be taken on this morning’s...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Colonel David Frakes Day, editor in the chief of the Democrat died after an illness of almost six months.” 75 years ago: “The new 40-room fireproof addition to the...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Ignacio is becoming known as the greatest honey market in this section of the state. We have R. L. Penella who knows the business, and is building up a fine trade at this poi...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Ignacio – “Several of our citizens went to Durango to take the post office examination. The present postmaster, having had the office long enough to know the woes that are att...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A thrilling finale was given the teachers at the Silverton normal at its close by the Silverton Commercial Club, which took the young ladies to Gladstone for dinner, and then...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “That the Mesa Verde National Park will be opened to automobiles on June 20, is the advice received here by James Jarvis of the local Studebaker Agency from Superintendent Ric...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “C. W. Bloodgood, formerly a fancy chicken raiser in the Animas Valley, returned on the Eastern train from an extended trip to St. Louis, Denver and other cities where he has ...

And the West is History

100 year ago: “Advices state that R. E. Sloan is showing marked improvement materially benefited by his visit to Hot Springs.” 75 years ago: “Yesterday’s terrific dust and wind st...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Rev. Father Nolan, of New York, came down from Silverton and left on the Southern for Sheridan, Wyo., where he expects to conduct a mission.” 75 years ago: “Pa...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Will Wigglesworth, of the engineering firm of Wigglesworth & Skoog, spent yesterday at Cedar Hill fixing up Charley Johnson’s siphon.” 75 years ago: An advertiseme...
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