Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago There are still four widows of Revolutionary War soldiers on the pension rolls of the government in Washington. At this rate, the United States will be paying pensions to soldiers of the Civil War or their widows well on in the last of the[Read More…]
Days Gone By
DAYS GONE BY – September 26th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Register Chipley of the State Land board returned yesterday from Routt county, where he viewed with favor a proposition to inundate 150 acres of state land preparatory to irrigating the surrounding country. Ralph Meeker, of the New York Herald, is in the city on[Read More…]
Days Gone By – September 19th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago The drought of the past month was broken Wednesday, but it did not rain good and hard till Thursday evening. Hunters, tourists and all others will please note the ad of Messrs. Blain and Purdy in this issue. These gentlemen understand their business. Call[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – September 12th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago If you miss the parade of Slave of the Silver serpent at the Festival this year you will regret it. The Sanderson building is undergoing extensive repairs. The number of students from outside districts in attendance at the Meeker school is in evidence as[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – September 5th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago This is to certify that I have had chronic diarrhoea ever since the war. I got so weak I could hardly walk or do anything. One bottle of Chamberlains’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured me sound and well. On Tuesday David Smith and[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 29th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A rural editor says chickens are worth 2 cents apiece in his town–but he doesn’t say how large the pieces are. Ambrose Oldland went to Denver yesterday on a combination business and pleasure trip. Hunting parties and tourists were very plentiful this week. Meeker[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 22nd, 2024
MEEKER 125 We live in an age of fact, not fiction; for every effect is assigned some simple and natural cause. The town authorities are doing a praiseworthy act in having the weeds in and around the park cut. The operation should be extended to the entire town. Rustling horses[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 15th, 2024
MEEKER 125 The deer season opens next Tuesday, and the woods are full of deer-hunters already. The rains took a parting shot at the already well soaked earth last Saturday afternoon, since which time we have had good haying weather. Fred Garrison, the photographer, says he was getting ready, a[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 8th
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A lovely morning greeted the good people of this valley this morning, and it looks as tho’ the rain is over for the time being. Cattle buyers were numerous this week. “Announce another boy down at our house!” is the way Mr. David Smith[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – August 1st, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Miss Percy Beard returned to Meeker last Saturday evening, after an absence of nearly two years, in attendance at Campbell University, Holton, Kansas. Miss Beard is in poor health, the result of over study. The general land office has finally permitted the Utah sheep[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – July 25th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago No wonder time flies when the spur of the moment is continually urging it on. The maid of honor contest in this county has finally narrowed down to Miss Fannie Wear of Powell Park and Miss Clara Steele of Buford. Every year sees more[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY – July 18th, 2024
Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Knowledge is power only to the individual who knows he doesn’t know it all. One of our ranchmen had to do something this year he never had to do before, namely, turn the water into the creek in order to let his alfalfa patch[Read More…]
