Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Things have not gone well with Boers since General Roberts passed on and refused to patronize Oom Paul’s shaving parlor. (published by permission of “Steele’of the Denver Post.) Highest cash price paid for choice fox, coyote, wolf, wild cat, mountain lion, and bear skins.[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago It doesn’t pay anything to be polite, and it often pays enormous dividends. Frank Aul, a freighter of Hayden, came in from that place Thursday and loaded out with alfalfa seed and Meeker flour. Mr. Aul says that the Hayden valley people are putting[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The telephone line will fill a “long felt want” in Meeker. Monday was Lincoln’s birthday and Wednesday was St. Valentine’s Day. Both events were observed quietly in Meeker. The recent improvements in St. James church are a lasting memorial to the work and tireless[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Don’t overwork yourself. Imagine how miserable you would be if you finished all your work today and had nothing to do for the rest of your life. J.A. Simms returned from Rangely yesterday. Mr. S has been running the Coltharp store at that place[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Never speak ill of your neighbor. It gives him license to speak ill of you.  Off your hats to Neighbor Worth as a weather prognosticator. Last fall he prophesied that dust would be flying in the middle of winter, and the past two weeks[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The Denver papers announce the appointment of James Lyttle as chief game warden for this district. Come to think of it, there can be no doubt that any effort to abbreviate 1900 will surely come to naught. Owen O. Jones of Powell Park has[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A substantial code of ethics is much more valuable than a historic coat of arms.  The backbone of weather is broke, and so far it has been a mild and pleasant one.  A very enjoyable tea party was given under the auspices of the[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Learning unapplied is like a seed put away to decay slowly on the shelf of indolence. Another week of good weather. We find it very hard to get used to putting it–1900. Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago The snow continued to fall most[Read More…]

Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Some of our cattlemen fear that the range will be overstocked next summer. If all the cattle are brought in that are booked for this valley, it looks to us as though there are substantial grounds for their fears.  The hardest worked man in[Read More…]