Days Gone By

Days Gone By

RBC Days Gone By: July 28, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • True love is all the sweeter because its course doesn’t run smooth. • There is a growing suspicion that the noisiest politician is usually the one who is always ready to entertain a cash proposition from the opposition. The Meeker Herald | 100 years[Read More…]

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Days Gone By: July 23, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Colonel Ben Price made one of his periodic visits to the city this week and reports a very annoying and unexpected happening from the Banana ranch. Early in the summer swarms of black crickets appeared in the basin and as soon as[Read More…]

July 28, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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Days Gone By: July 16, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Secret Societies: Rio Blanco Lodge, No. 80, A.F. & A.M. meets the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Valentine Lodge, No. 47, I.O.O.F. meets every Wednesday evening at 8 o-clock in the Hugus block. • Harman Coulter says the climate here is[Read More…]

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Days Gone By: July 9, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • If you would move mountains, grab a spade and go to work. • Fortunate is the man whose errors are sufficiently ludicrous to pass current as jokes. • Born on Friday afternoon, July 12, 1895, to the wife of H.S. Harp, a son.[Read More…]

July 14, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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Days Gone By: July 2, 2020

The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • The inherent greed of man (or more properly speaking in the present instance — cursedness) was fully illustrated on Piceance lately where Water Commissioner Moog found people ruining their ranches with too much water rather than let their neighbors have any. •[Read More…]

July 8, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

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Days Gone By: June 25, 2020

Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Ex-President Harrison must mean business; he has muzzled his talkative son, Russell. • Money having been the leading family question for many years it is not surprising to find that it has now grown to be a national question. • A shrewd and[Read More…]

July 1, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: June 18, 2020

The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • The agricultural department has decided that a peanut is a pea, not a nut. This is the worst roast that popular edible ever got. • A heavy frost visited these parts on Monday and Tuesday nights, which did considerable damage to fruit[Read More…]

June 21, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Rio Blanco County Days Gone By: June 11, 2020

The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The Nine-mile hill road has been closed, the road around the hill being the county road. I shall prosecute any person tampering with the fences of my ranch. W.P. Herrick. • There are over 500,000 telephones in service in the United States. • It[Read More…]

June 17, 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

Days Gone By: May 21, 2020

[responsivevoice voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Listen to this”] The Meeker Herald 125 years ago Since the building of the White River Valley railroad has become almost a certainty coal lands are being more sought after, and filings are of almost everyday occurrence. A post office at Marvine Lodge during the months[Read More…]

May 23, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: May 14, 2020

The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The large business signs of T.B. Watson were replaced during the week by those of A. Oldland & Co. • This afternoon the Craig and Meeker baseball clubs will have a game of ball. The home team will be placed as follows: Pitcher,[Read More…]

May 15, 2020 by Herald Times Staff Comments are Disabled

Days Gone By: May 7, 2020

The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The railroad surveyors are on 14-Mile Creek. They have encountered no rock work whatever between that point and New Castle. • J.B. Wheeler and P.C. Coryell are developing five coal mines near where the White River Valley railroad will cross Piceance Creek. •[Read More…]

May 13, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled