The Meeker Herald
125 years ago
• Henry Pearson has bought Lewis Allen’s ranch in Powell Park. The ranch is one of the best in the park.
• Sheridan and Mootz erected substantial sheep pens on the Sheridan ranch last week. This week they “dipped,” next shearing operations will commence.
• As the smallpox is raging in quite a number of the large cities, Dr. Bruner has sent to the celebrated Lancaster county, Pa., vaccine farm for fresh virus, which will arrive on Monday, May 7, when he will be ready to inoculate all those dreading this fearful disease.
The Meeker Herald
100 years ago
• Last week at Glenwood, several athletic events took place, among them being a spirited basketball contest between the crack Glenwood high school team and the Hoel-Ross Business college team of Grand Junction. The former won by a close margin. Commenting on this contest, the Glenwood Avalanche say: “Fairfield, the classiest center in Grand Junction, got his range and made 16 points. We might mention that Fairfield is one of the most gracious and gentlemanly players who ever appeared on our floor. He plays clean basketball and is an excellent basket shooter.” The Fairfield referred to is none other than Freeman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fairfield, of this town.
The Meeker Herald
50 years ago
• Rio Blanco County stands to lose $120,000 in road and bridge fund money and $80,000 in school funds, if Senate Bill No. 351 is approved. The bill concerns monies received under the federal oil leasing act of 1920.
• At 12:00 o’clock pot luck luncheon was held at Kilowatt Korner on the exact date of the 11th anniversary, March 27th, that the Rio Blanco Cowbelles were organized.
The Meeker Herald
25 years ago
• Everyone has seen the TV commercials featuring Bo Jackson. Bo knows this. Bo knows that. Meeker doesn’t have a Bo Jackson, but it does have a Larry Shults, and Larry Shults knows fly fishing. But, you’d have to press him to get him to admit it. “I guess I know what I’m doing,” acknowledged Shults. “I generally manage to catch fish. That’s probably the mark of whether you are doing it right or not.”
• Meeker resident and rancher Lenny Klinglesmith of L K Ranch, was nominated and selected to attend the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) 1994 Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Conference in Denver, on behalf of the Rio Blanco County Stockgrowers Association.
Rangely Times
50 years ago
• On Tuesday April 15, 22 high school counselors from the Denver area were flown from Denver on a chartered Aspen Airways plane to Rangely where they were shown around Rangely College Campus, and introduced to the facilities and programs offered at Rangely College.
Rangely Times
25 years ago
• She wasn’t elegant. She didn’t stand out in the crowd and she has been all but forgotten for over ten years and was showing signs of neglect. But she undoubtedly was one of the most important buildings, historically speaking, of relatively early Rangely. She was the former Rangely Town Hall that stood on the northeast corner of Stanolind and Prospect. Now she is being torn down to make a parking lot for the auto repair business of Allen Dunn just to the west. When it is completely gone, the history of Rangely that the walls could tell will go with it.
• The Rangely Police Department received a check from the Rangely Human Resources Council last week for $200. This is from a Venture Grant request submitted in February. The money received by the Rangely Police Department will be used for transient assistance. This includes meals, gas and, if the newly formed emergency shelter is not available, one nights housing for indigent transients requesting assistance at the Police Department.
• Sometime from Friday night to Monday morning the weekend of the nineteenth of this month, a theft amounting to about $6,000 worth of materials took place at three buildings on CNCC campus. Stolen was three monitors, three keyboards, two CP units, two printers and one fax machine.
