Simp Harp has secured the mail contract for summer service from New Castle to Marvine Lodge and will run a line of fast passenger coaches in connection with same.
Mediocrity wages incessant warfare against superior ones.
Patronage solicited at City Restaurant. Meals at all hours. Mrs. McAdow.
The Meeker Herald 100 years ago
Buford and Marvine: Fourteen degrees below this last storm. The ice harvest is about over for the season.
More laws repealed and less new ones enacted is what we need.
Mrs. H.L. Grinstead wrote the effective poetic parts shown in the Merchants Carnival.
The Meeker Herald 50 years ago
After the past two weeks of fresh, new snow, the area near Meeker will be the scene of much activity this weekend when two days of snowmobile races are scheduled at Sleepy Cat Guest Ranch.
Recent complaints of possible sonic boom damage in the Meeker area have been received by the Department of the Air Force, to which Col. William E. Shannon, has replied: “Investigation reveals that a route used by Strategic Reconnaissance aircraft passes near the vicinity of Meeker.”
Last Sunday’s television failure, lasting several hours, was due to a planned power outage serving the translator site at Tabby Mountain in Utah, Bill Robinson, county TV technician reported this week. He was not notified in advance of the planned power outage.
The Meeker Herald 25 years ago
The town cops are swamped. And if all goes well, they’re going to ask you to do something about it on April 2. That “something” is a proposed half-percent sales tax hike from the present 5% to 5.5% to pay for a fifth full-time police officer for Meeker.
The incident has mushroomed into a significant crisis and controversy, to the point where the police, the district attorney, defense lawyers and perhaps even the courts, in addition to the school authorities, are involved. ‘Nuff said. Please consider yourself up to date.
Rangely Times 50 years ago
Hugh Caldwell, veteran county commissioner for District No. 1, representing the Rangely area, retired in January after 32 years in this position, declining to run for another term. He was the senior commissioner in the state, being first elected in 1938.
A frog cannot breathe when its mouth is open. It’s a good thing humans aren’t constructed that way.
Instead of getting rid of his prejudices, the average person whitewashes them and tries to pass them off for principles.
Rangely Times 25 years ago
An underground fire that started last week at the Deserado Mine is still burning but has stabilized, a Western Fuels spokesman said Monday. No one was injured in the fire.
Children at Parkview Early Childhood Center and Parkview Elementary have been collecting Campbell Soup labels and other proofs of purchase from Campbell-made products. A total of 5,283 labels were collected by both schools during the first semester of the 1995-96 school year.
With two weeks to the state track competition, the Cowboys are headed to the league meet in Grand Junction this weekend. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/mhs-track-team-heads-to-league-meet/sports/
This is the 22nd year wildlife biologist Mary Cunningham has introduced classes of students from Meeker Elementary and Barone Middle School, as well as members of the public, to our local assortment of birds in honor of World Migratory Bird Day. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/celebrating-our-migratory-birds/meeker/
There will be three cannon test shots fired downtown on Friday, May 3 as a test run for the 4th of July. For more information on the cannon itself, visit https://www.theheraldtimes.com/the-sound-of-history-come-to-life/meeker/
Feel like you're always "putting out fires" instead of doing the important things? https://www.theheraldtimes.com/editors-column-differentiating-the-urgent-from-the-important/opinion/
Three finalists for county administrator were interviewed by the commissioners last Tuesday. https://www.theheraldtimes.com/commissioners-interview-administrator-candidates/rio-blanco-county/