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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: An Animas City resident called an ambulance to deliver “Mrs. Kelley,” who was “very low with pneumonia,” to Mercy Hospital. 75 years ago: Trujillo Sheets Pos...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Colonel C.C. Ednected of the exemption board in Durango reported that registered men were “returning their questionnaires properly filled out very rapidly.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mrs. I.M. Shaffar of the Animas Valley returned to Durango after 10 days at the Nicholson home, where she was visiting her sister’s family and her mother, Mrs. W.G. Payn...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Chas Deudal brought in 500,000 eastern brook spawn from the Bert Hosselkuss hatchery, located about a mile outside Creede, to be placed in the Durango fish hatchery, which...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Tom Edwards, who was connected with the F.R. Graham hardware store, resigned from his position to work at the Joe Bordeleau hardware store in Silverton. 75 y...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Joe Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Green of Durango, enlisted in the coast artillery. Green graduated from Denver University and was a theological seminary student at the...

And the West is History

100 years ago: After passing the examination at the local recruiting office, Wendell McDowell, a Durango High School graduate, and F.J. Welk, a grocery store employee, left for Denver to...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Quite a number” of men had been laid off at the Sunnyside Mine and mill at Eureka. 75 years ago: Mrs. Robert McWilliams “and son” left for Boonville Mo., f...

And the West is History

100 years ago: O.P. Rush, a miner who was working at the Sunnyside Mine at Eureka, left during the morning for the east. 75 years ago: Chief electrician Ralph S. Moore rece...

And the West is History

100 years ago: O.A. Dunn, president of the Mesa Verde Oil Co., traveled to Durango from Aztec by automobile to “sink several test holes down in the lower valley.” He had been called to I...

And the West is History

100 years ago: An “epidemic of colds” hit most of the Flora Vista population, but “a few old mossbacks” escaped it. They were “too slow to catch anything but a nap.” 75 yea...

And the West is History

100 years ago: George Gilmour, “a fine breed onion raiser of Flora Vista for the past 26 years,” relocated to Aztec. He was either “over-supplied with apple jack or recovering from an at...
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