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.
• Four Chicago drummers were captured by moonshiners in Kentucky. What luck some drummers have!
The Meeker Herald | 100 years ago
• All reports go to show that there are about 13 hunters to every deer in the hills.
• A device for protecting people from taking doses from poison bottles is a sandpaper label. The ordinary label is pasted on a piece of sandpaper large enough to go all round the bottle, so that when anyone takes up the bottle in the night, no matter how dazed from sleep he may be, the rough unfamiliar feel of the sandpaper rouses him and he recognizes at once that the bottle contains poison of some description. The printed label tells the kind of poison in the bottle.
The Meeker Herald | 50 years ago
• Mr. and Mrs. Herb Blagg found they got a little more than they bargained for Sunday when they took an afternoon drive to see the colorful aspen. Enroute home about 6 p.m., 13 miles north of Lake Avery at the base of Sleepy Cat, their car bogged down in a hole and “stuck” they were.
• Politics are intensely personal. The person is you, the vote is yours. Vote in the November election.
The Meeker Herald | 25 years ago
• The state health department has some mixed news for Meekerites. First, the good news: a statewide oral health assessment program has found that senior citizens in Meeker have fewer teeth missing than many other areas of the state. The not-so-good news is that because Meeker did not begin to fluoridate the water until late in 1990, the tooth decay rate for children under seven is about double the rate for children who have drunk fluoridated water since birth.
• Nathan Caldwell, a Barone Middle School seventh grader, won a new landing net and baseball cap from Wyatt’s Sports Center in Meeker. Nathan landed a 24-inch, six-pound trout early in the summer to take the top honors in the Meeker Herald Big Fish Contest.
Rangely Times | 50 years ago
• The Atomic Energy Commission is now studying a proposal of Equity Oil Co. of Salt Lake City and CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas for a possible underground nuclear shot to stimulate a gas field west of Rio Blanco in the Piceance Basin.
Rangely Times | 25 years ago
• U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse-Campbell, R-Colo., visited Rangely Tuesday morning to visit The Rangely Times during a tour of northwest Colorado newspapers this week.
• The Grand Marshals for this year’s parade will be Leon Smuin and Velda Wilkins.
