The Meeker Herald – 125 years ago It was cold enough Wednesday morning to freeze the tail off a brass monkey. There are some people who cannot distinguish between the notoriety itch and a real desire to reform something. The Meeker Herald – 100 years ago An item in another[Read More…]
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Days Gone By: Dec 10, 2020
The Meeker Herald – 125 years ago Walter James had a rather exciting adventure with a mountain lion on Saturday. He had shot and wounded the puma, which was a large one, when it turned on him and was only a few yards away when a well-directed shot stopped its[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Nov. 12, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago To be in harmony with the feelings of the defeated the thermometer dropped to a point three degrees above zero last night. Deputy Game Warden Clark cracked down on hunters in Piceance Creek. No arrests were made for the abundance of game laws[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Oct. 22, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Never spread an evil report about your neighbor until you know positively that it is true, and don’t do it then if he is a good deal bigger than you are. • A lazy man never believes that his pay is high enough.[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Oct. 15, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Every man who goes wrong tries to shift the blame upon somebody else, and the greatest coward invariably selects a woman. • The Meeker-Rifle stage changed to winter schedule this week and now gets in close to five in the evening. •[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Oct. 8. 2020
The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago • Collins, the jeweler, has moved from the Oldland store to the restaurant, two doors east. Good work and moderate prices are building up quite a business for Mr. Collins. • Collins, the jeweler, has moved from the Oldland store to the restaurant, two[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Oct. 1, 2020
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. [Read More…]
Days Gone By: Sept. 17, 2020
The Meeker Herald |125 years ago • Asparagus is the oldest known plant that has been used for food. • The train robbers who held up the D. & R.G. Western at Crevasse a few days ago, must have been the same parties who held up the Meeker-Rifle stage some time ago,[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Sept. 10, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • A good many people try to cover their own blots with the blemishes of others. • Perry Spurlock met with a serious and very painful accident on Monday last. He was up at the Watkin ranch on Coal creek and seeing a large[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Sept. 3, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • This was court week, and The Herald’s hired man has been struggling desperately with lawyers’ arguments and Blackstone to such an extent that this issue resembles the aforesaid hired man — it has a forlorn, tired appearance. If the reader happens to[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Aug. 27, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • An editor who has been dealing with the average mankind, draws the following conclusion: “A few complimentary notices will often puff a man up like a balloon, and often swell his head so big that everybody can notice that he is overconscious of[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Aug. 20, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • The fruit crop at Grand Junction this year suprasses all previous years. All Colorado should turn out and see our western valleys, which are fast becoming California’s rivals. • It is now drawing to the season when citizens who have the interests[Read More…]
