Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
With this issue the Herald enters its 16th year.
W.F. Hossack has been appointed a forest ranger. A good appointment.
A hypocrite is a man who, in trying to fool others, fools himself.
Campaign documents prove the untruthfulness of the adage, “Figures cannot lie.”
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
40 years ago today the Meeker Herald was founded by the late James Lyttle. In the intervening space of time nearly three thousand issues of the Herald have made their appearance without missing a single issue. It was the ambition of the late Editor and Publisher to make it an even forty years at the helm. He lost by ten weeks of achieving the forty year mark but never in the forty years did he lose faith in the future of this country.
A tarantula was on exhibition in the Commercial Club window this week in a glass jar and was a curiosity to many.The comments on this overgrown spider were varied: some contending that its sting was incurable, while others maintained that the effects of its bite was about the same as that of a wasp. No one expressed a desire to take it home as a pet for the children.
Meeker Herald ~ 75 years ago
The grand and glorious news “that the war [WWII] was over” reached Meeker shortly after five o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
This week marks the start of the 61st year for the Meeker Herald, the second oldest newspaper in Northwestern Colorado and the only paper in Western Colorado which is operated by the same family which started the paper.
A cabin or bunk house on the Milo Love ranch on Piceance Creek was totally destroyed by fire shortly before noon last Saturday. It was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harrington, who are working on the ranch. It was newly built and decorated and they had moved in only the week before.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
Mrs. David (Judy) Eskelson, the new Director of Nurses at Pioneers Hospital, is not a newcomer to Meeker, as she is a graduate of Meeker High School. Mrs. Eskelson is an RN with an Associate Degree in Nursing received from Mesa College in Grand Junction in June of ‘71.
Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
Fleet manager for Rio Blanco County, Dave Overton, and County Commissioner Don Davis returned from Teller County with a fat check to build a new county shop. In fact it was a $420,000 check.
Residents of Circle N trailer park at Ninth and Water were without water Friday night and most of Saturday due to a broken water pipe.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
At the Twin Cinema theater in Vernal: “JAWS”
Local participants in the cheerleading clinic are: Rhonda Pennell, Kathy Klements, Brenda Hatch, Janalee Nickson, Alisa Warren and Gail Newton, LeAnn Seebaum, Beth Hayes, Valerie Bock, Brenda LeBleu, Patti Eddy and Debbie Hazlewood.
