Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago War ought to send the price of beef up several notches. The street cleaning department has a force of men at work cleaning out the town ditches preparatory to turning on the water. It is claimed that Lake Erie produces more fish to the[Read More…]
Tag: Rangely Times
DAYS GONE BY – April 11th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago After spending the winter at San Diego, California, and vicinity, Sam Martin is home again much improved in health. Glenwood is already in the field for an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration. Game Warden Goodell caused the arrest of Oscar Collins at Basalt a[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – April 4th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The weather was more spring like during the past week. Word reached town yesterday that a man was found dead in a cabin on the east fork of Big Beaver. Coroner Niblock has gone up there to investigate. Dave Karren has bought the WH[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – March 28th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Fourteen below zero Tuesday night and not an orange tree or a banana bud of this part of the citrus belt hurt in the least. What a glorious climate this is. The blue birds and meadow larks had a hard time of keeping warm[Read More…]
Days Gone By – March 21st, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Spring can’t be far off. The robin has arrived. Miss Clara Steele, who has been out to Denver for some time, was visiting Meeker friends for a few days in the early part of the week. She left for her home at Buford Tuesday. [Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – March 14th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The powers that be too frequently sit down on an evil as if it were an inverted tack. Late Denver papers say that the worst blizzard of the winter visited the capital city last Sunday. The Oldland brothers sailed from Southampton, England, on last[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – March 7th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Of all meddlers, there is none who get it in the solar plexus quite so hard as those who meddle with love. The chap who used to be so sure that our winters were growing warmer now has his donuts, and, perhaps frosted ears.[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – February 29th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Spring can’t be far off. A solitary blackbird made its appearance the other day. Late reports from the Douglas Creek and Rangely sections of the range indicate that cattle losses will be large. An unusually heavy fall of snow and a limited supply of[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – February 22nd, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The meteorological conditions during the week have been of a favorable character on an average. In other words, it was neither very cold nor very warm. A large lion hunting party, headed by John Goff, went up Sulphur Creek Sunday morning, but as yet[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – February 15th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Some traitors are bad, and others are merely good men who have been converted from the error of their ways and are no longer available for campaign use. A young lady from the outside gives Meeker great praise for the good dancing and nice[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – February 8th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The Odd Fellows will celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, next Tuesday evening, February 14, by giving a dance at their hall. Vernal is considerably worked up over alleged late gold discoveries in the vicinity of the Colorado-Utah line. There ought to be no scarcity of[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – February 1st, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Experience teaches people a lot of things they’d rather not know. Dr. French was a passenger on the outgoing stage Monday morning en route to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, to visit “the folks at home.” The doctor will be absent two months or longer. Our local[Read More…]