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And the West is History

100 years ago: “Charged with opening the safe of the Globe Express Company in the Durango station and taking out a money package containing $230, Theodore H. Dakin, formerly a driver for the...

DATE: Feb 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Dr. P.G. Capps who went out to the Fort Lewis Mesa to investigate a reported case of smallpox returned. He says he found the woman out in the yard feeding the chickens, and s...

DATE: Feb 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Water Commissioner Redman, who made a trip out over the pipe line, reports a considerable snowslide on the Florida Road just out of town that came down from the rim rock and ...

DATE: Jan 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “After bucking snow for 4½ hours, the Silverton train, leaving here at 9:35, got stuck in a snow bank near the Cascade Spur and came back to town, arriving here at 1:40 this m...

DATE: Jan 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The enrollment in the high school this year now is 240, an increase of 16 pupils over last year.” 75 years ago: “Fire this morning totally destroyed the two-story ...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Dainty pink dominos and false faces that would put the allied armies to rout will be seen at the first masquerade of the season at Red Men Hall.” 75 years ago: “Du...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A new place to spend extra change will soon be provided in the old Bismarck saloon stand on Main Avenue. Meer Brothers of Denver are moving six pool and billiard tables into ...

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

And the West is History

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

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