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And the West is History

100 years ago: “Tomorrow the school bells will ring and the lads and lassies will try to get their faces clean and find the school books they hid in the clothes closet last spring. All the s...

DATE: Aug 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The Brinkley-Douglas Commission firm unloaded a car of California oranges for the local trade. A beautiful pack.” 75 years ago: “Only a little more than two days t...

DATE: Aug 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The fire department was called to the North Side by an alarm turned in at box 42 when employes of the light company attempted to readjust the wires in a box they had disconne...

DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The double tragedy discovered by police in North Durango were almost the sole topic in the city. The news of the murder and suicide of the two well-known young people created...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Superintendent Tom Hamor of the Durango fish hatchery took out 150,000 fry for Moler Lake, Gladstone Lake, Pole Creek, East Lime Creek and Bear Creek, all of which are public...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The bodies of W.E. (“Red”) Ritter and Mrs. Ruth Hamblin were found in the Heckman cottage, 2180 West Third Ave., by night Marshal Garbanati. The two had evidently been dead f...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The city schools open next Monday, Aug. 30. This week Superintendent Smiley will be in his office in the high school building every day, to meet with prospective pupils and p...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Pat Sheridan, Fred Seybold and Carl Anheier, all on the Western Colorado Company’s payroll, went up on last night’s train to Electra Lake loaded down with fishing rods and gu...

DATE: Aug 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Eighty acres of ranch land near Oxford were transferred from John F. Taft, of Freeport, Ill., to Thaddeus Taft, of Spencerville, Ohio, for a consideration of $3,000 by a warr...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Thirty or more embryo teachers gathered at the high school building to take the examinations for rural teachers under the supervision of county superintendent Miss Florence S...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Forest Ranger Frank Grubb goes out this morning to burn the carcass of the deer that was found dead on the Horse Gulch road to Bayfield, about 6 miles from town. The head and...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “While reports generally of grouse hunters’ luck on Sunday, the first day of the season, were good, few had the good fortune attending Dr. J.B. Ochsner and W.R. Mason who shot...

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

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