75 years ago: “Jim Jarvis shipped six carloads of lambs to Denver and Bruce Sullivan shipped eight to Kansas City.”

50 years ago: “Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., undersecretary of Commerce and son of the late president, will address a Democratic Party rally in Miller Junior High School auditorium. The rally is open to the general public.”

25 years ago: “There aren’t many people alive today who can say they once had an encounter with the infamous Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. Josephine B. Carbajal can – and has lived to tell about it. Toady is the Durango resident’s 100th birthday. … One of her daughters said her mother received a letter of congratulations from President and Mrs. Bush.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.