The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • A Grand river fruit man was in this week with a load of peaches. The ordinance licensing hucksters is not yet in effect, but likely will be by the 7th of September. In view of the fact that the postoffice store (and at[Read More…]
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Days Gone By: Aug. 6, 2020
The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Joe Rooney, the popular clerk at the Meeker hotel, is now under sheriff. • The Utes have arrived in the lower country on their annual deer-killing expedition. Isn’t it about time the state authorities were taking these hide hunting Indians in-hand? •[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
