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DAYS GONE BY: August 19

The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Syrup of Figs: With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills… There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the[Read More…]

August 20, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Presidential Elections of 1896: Republican Ticket For President: William McKinley of Ohio. For Vice President: Garret Hobart of New Jersey Democratic Ticket For President: William J Brian of Nebraska. For Vice President: Arthur Sewall of Maine • As usual, this section (Rio Blanco[Read More…]

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Days Gone By: Jan 21, 2021

The Meeker Herald – 125 years ago A social dance will be given at the Coal Creek school house on Friday evening, Jan. 31, 1896. All are cordially invited. By order of Committee. Most of the cattlemen are paying their wolf tax very promptly and as a result the war[Read More…]

January 26, 2021 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: Dec 17, 2020

The Meeker Herald – 125 years ago It was cold enough Wednesday morning to freeze the tail off a brass monkey. There are some people who cannot distinguish between the notoriety itch and a real desire to reform something. The Meeker Herald – 100 years ago An item in another[Read More…]

December 22, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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: June 4, 2020

The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The city of Meeker is preparing for an old-time Fourth of July celebration. • The champions of the divided skirt are loudly declaring in its favor that it has two legs to stand on. • The more a strike is complicated with rioting[Read More…]

June 5, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald 125 years ago W.H. Jones of this place, has leased the Steele ranch and road house at Buford, and will run the place for the next two years. The Steele family has gone to Mississippi to reside. Our hustling friend, A.J. Gregory, is advertising in the Vernal[Read More…]

February 25, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Rio Blanco County Days Gone By

The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago ♦ J. Kircher of Hayden favored The Herald with a visit yesterday. Mr. Kircher is here to meet his family, which had been back visiting relatives in Kentucky. ♦ Reinhold Hartke will open up a harness shop in the vacant room adjoining the[Read More…]

January 21, 2014 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Mrs. Fred Gregory will serve supper at the hall on Christmas night. An excellent supper is promised the dancers, and the charge for the same will be 75 cents each, which is not high considering the expense and disadvantages Mrs. Gregory will[Read More…]

January 1, 2014 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • The Midland directors held a meeting at Colorado Springs this week for the purpose, it is supposed, of considering the question of extending the road westward. The results of their deliberations have not yet leaked out.

December 22, 2013 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Burke Brothers, who recently bought the Metz ranch on Piceance Creek, have brought in a fine bunch of cattle which they have turned loose on Piceance and the lower country.

December 6, 2013 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • W. H. Clark made a preliminary survey Tuesday for a ditch for W. L. Veatch. The ditch will be taken out this side of Miller Creek and it is expected that it will be continued onto the Mesa. Mr. Veatch proposes to[Read More…]

December 3, 2013 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled