Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
It wouldn’t be a bad idea if the town council would plant a row of native cottonwood trees around the outside of the town park. These trees will grow. It is doubtful whether any other kind will.
Meeker business houses could be made a lot more attractive by the application of a liberal amount of paint.
The recent damp spell left our streets in very rough condition after the mud dried up, and in order to smooth them down Town Marshal Nichols ran a four-horse leveller over them this weekend.
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
Work on the warm water swimming pool on the Meeker dome has been going on steadily all week and was completed yesterday evening. There have been many people, during the past week, using the “vapor cave” which was constructed where the water comes out of the pipe. It is just as good a steam bath as you would get at any specialist.
Thomas G. Thomas killed a mountain lion on his ranch Friday last that measured ten feet from tip to tip. It was the largest of its kind ever killed on White River and had become so audacious that it came within sight of Mr. Thomas’ residence and killed and carried off young stock.
This week the Rexall store installed a new ice cream packer. This new equipment is composed of what is known as the “frigid air” system. These packers do away with all the ice, being cooled by continual changing of gas to liquid much the same as an ammonia plant.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
Receiving the once over from school nurse Virginia Samuel to see if she has the measles, young Rebecca Barley awaits the decision. More fortunate than 50 of her schoolmates, the second grader was given a clean bill of health. The measles epidemic which has plagued Meeker for the past two weeks seems to be receding. A Colorado Health Department immunization program was given to all school pupils Wednesday.
For those who have been arguing that coal development is a reality that we’re likely to see before oil shale comes along, the activities of the Colo-Wyo Mine, 21 miles northeast of Meeker, could certainly lead one to feel they were right.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
The Rangely Panthers won their second straight NWL Class AA baseball title last week by defeating Rifle and entered state playoffs. Todd Getz, Kris Hayden, Randy Miller, Craig Wright, Tim Blanton, Ron Cattelan and Coach Don Collins; David Howard, Willie Workman, Steve Strain, Randy Burchett, Dave Maybury, Ron Riebold, Vance Wilczek, Wayne Smithey, Jim Haas and Coach Jack Elder; Rex Baker, Tom Staley, Bryan Fairchild, Mike Riebold, David Shue, Kelly Brown, Buck Blackburn, Chris Burnham, Jerry Patton, Jim Pacheco and Mike Nelson.
In hopes of controlling the current outbreak of measles in Rangely, the Colorado Department of Health sent in Mr. Roy Compton from Grand Junction to conduct an immunization clinic for all children age one year through high school. 368 people were given shots for red measles, rubella, oral polio or DPT or a combination of the above.
RIO BLANCO HERALD TIMES ~ 25 years ago
Deputies explain the rules of the Meeker Elementary School bicycle rodeo to a group of first grade students. The bike rodeo was part of the annual spirit week.
The new chief of police for the Town of Rangely, Flint Chambers, who was to begin his duties at the end of February, began work a couple of weeks early and hasn’t stopped since.