The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – The man who has a fine head of hair is careless about parting it. But the man who has only eight hairs left never fails to get four on one side of the part and four on the other side. – Weather conditions[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – Trot out your candidates for mayor and alderman. – Snow is almost all gone in this section; and, unlike in other seasons, it didn’t run off into the river. It went into the frost-free ground. – Tom Ruckman of the Park, looked the town[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – The limit of time for filing tax returns has been extended to April 1. But don’t wait till the time limit expires. Do it now. – Some of our citizens who put “this and that” together and then drew satisfying conclusions, are of the[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald 100 years ago – The Meeker Grade School opened in various quarters as follows: Grades one and two in F.E. Sheridan’s house next to the Herald office; grades three, five, six, seven in Rooney’s building; grade four in the district courtroom and grade eight in one room[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – Considerable of the trouble in this country at this time is caused by two soldiers—General Apathy and Private Interest. – Whether you are in business or politics you should always remember that persistent advertising will make any man great. – Get your[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – If we lose the war what difference will it make whether we have woman suffrage or prohibition? The kaiser would then regulate that. It is the patriotic duty of all suffrage and prohibition fanatics to put their hobby horses in the barn[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – The war will be a blessing in one respect if it succeeds in making a lot of rich old tightwads dig down and cough up. They are the parasites that must be jarred loose and compared with them the hard-hearted banker is[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – Compulsory health insurance is now being talked of as another step in community welfare, the course being especially recommended in welfare work among wage earners. – Dr. Harvey G. Beck of the University of Maryland has told a simple way to calculate[Read More…]

The Meeker Herald — 100 years ago – Thomas Gentry spent a few days in town this week. – Rooms, 35¢ and 50¢, at the Princess Rooming house, Meeker. – With the exception of New Year’s, which was cloudy, every day this week was summer like. And now the worry[Read More…]