Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Says a rural editor: “Money is close, but not quite close enough for us to reach it.” Ambrose Oldland, who has been on the sick list, was up and around this week.  The state authorities have finally tired of appealing to the Washington authorities[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Rev. William John and family this week moved into the Oldland house, which was recently fitted up in elegant shape. Yesterday Boyd Walbridge began moving his household effects from the Flemming house, where he has lived over a decade, to the Riley place corner[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The proper move now is to drop political animosities and pull together for the expansion of the interests of the great empire of Northwestern Colorado. The official figures of the population of Colorado were given out this week. The state is given at 539,700,[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A whisper in a country village continues to echo for a week. The question of refunding a portion of our county indebtedness carried by a vote of 204 to 16. Heap railroad talk these days. “Sure thing this time,” so Hertz says. Well,  let[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A down-the-river lady nearly skinned ye editor alive the other day because we failed to announce the arrival of an addition to her family which happened some time ago. We acknowledged our fault in not having a representative in the ante-chamber awaiting the accouchement[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Piceance Creek is full of Aspen people, no less than a hundred being down there, says the Times, whose reporter was there for a few days. They are living on venison. A game of genuine, unadulterated football is promised to Meeker on Thanksgiving Day.[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Powell Park is one of the most fertile regions in this county and was the first section of White River valley settled by white people — if we bar the original Danforth Indian agency location near the mouth of the canyon.  Four feet of[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The new Baer residence in Danforth park is beyond all doubt the finest in this valley. Indeed, it would do credit to Capitol Hill, Denver.  The Sanderson residence on east Main Street is going up in a rush. The present is the longest dry[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Democratic candidates for county commissioner: James W. Rector, W.S. Simons, Reuben Oldland, Henry Wilson, Ewin Amick, Harry Niblock, James Stevens.  Hardly a Western section but becomes vitally interested in the forestry question and  the preservation of these reservoirs of nature, when once it is understood[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Revenge may be sweet, but overindulgence in sweet things makes trouble. Sheriff Williams denies emphatically that he wrote the governor,game commissioner or anyone else that the Utes were in this county on a game slaughtering expedition. It took “sixes” to take out a crowd[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago If the political liar could be eliminated from our campaigns, it would be a long step towards cleaner politics. The man who lies to obtain a business end gets the contempt of all respectable persons. Why shouldn’t the same rule hold good in politics?[Read More…]