Days Gone By

Days Gone By: Nov. 12, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago To be in harmony with the feelings of the defeated the thermometer dropped to a point three degrees above zero last night. Deputy Game Warden Clark cracked down on hunters in Piceance Creek. No arrests were made for the abundance of game laws[Read More…]

November 13, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By

Days Gone By: Oct. 22, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Never spread an evil report about your neighbor until you know positively that it is true, and don’t do it then if he is a good deal bigger than you are. • A lazy man never believes that his pay is high enough.[Read More…]

October 22, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Oct. 15, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Every man who goes wrong tries to shift the blame upon somebody else, and the greatest coward invariably selects a woman. • The Meeker-Rifle stage changed to winter schedule this week and now gets in close to five in the evening. •[Read More…]

October 18, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Oct. 8. 2020

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago • Collins, the jeweler, has moved from the Oldland store to the restaurant, two doors east. Good work and moderate prices are building up quite a business for Mr. Collins. • Collins, the jeweler, has moved from the Oldland store to the restaurant, two[Read More…]

October 8, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Oct. 1, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Shoestrings were first used in England in 1797, and English buckle makers presented a petition to the throne asking that such an innovation be prohibited by law. A hundred years have passed and the untied shoestring is as much in evidence as ever. [Read More…]

October 6, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By

Days Gone By: Sept. 17, 2020

The Meeker Herald |125 years ago • Asparagus is the oldest known plant that has been used for food. • The train robbers who held up the D. & R.G. Western at Crevasse a few days ago, must have been the same parties who held up the Meeker-Rifle stage some time ago,[Read More…]

September 19, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Sept. 10, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • A good many people try to cover their own blots with the blemishes of others. • Perry Spurlock met with a serious and very painful accident on Monday last. He was up at the Watkin ranch on Coal creek and seeing a large[Read More…]

September 10, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Sept. 3, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • This was court week, and The Herald’s hired man has been struggling desperately with lawyers’ arguments and Blackstone to such an extent that this issue resembles the aforesaid hired man — it has a forlorn, tired appearance. If the reader happens to[Read More…]

September 7, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Aug. 27, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • An editor who has been dealing with the average mankind, draws the following conclusion: “A few complimentary notices will often puff a man up like a balloon, and often swell his head so big that everybody can notice that he is overconscious of[Read More…]

August 27, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Aug. 20, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • The fruit crop at Grand Junction this year suprasses all previous years. All Colorado should turn out and see our western valleys, which are fast becoming California’s rivals. • It is now drawing to the season when citizens who have the interests[Read More…]

August 22, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Aug. 13, 2020

The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • A Grand river fruit man was in this week with a load of peaches. The ordinance licensing hucksters is not yet in effect, but likely will be by the 7th of September. In view of the fact that the postoffice store (and at[Read More…]

August 14, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By

Days Gone By: Aug. 6, 2020

The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Joe Rooney, the popular clerk at the Meeker hotel, is now under sheriff. • The Utes have arrived in the lower country on their annual deer-killing expedition. Isn’t it about time the state authorities were taking these hide hunting Indians in-hand? •[Read More…]

August 8, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled