The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Upon the request of the requisite number of petitioners, our county commissioners have decided to pay a bounty of $5 on wolf scalps, $3 for lion and 50 cents for coyotes. To meet this expense an extra mill was levied on the 1897 assessment.
Link Tagert, our new assessor, left this morning for Denver, where the assessors throughout the state will meet the coming week to discuss matters concerning their duties.
Word was received here Saturday last that a miner operating a coal mine near Rangely was killed by a cave-in on Friday. The name of the unfortunate man is Ebey.
The Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
There will be a basketball game tonight at the Dunham hall between Rifle’s Fire Department team and a Meeker town team. This will be a good fast game and one to be enjoyed by all sport lovers.
“Don’ts” in using electric equipment: Don’t leave the electric flatiron connected to the circuit and go to use the telephone, visit with the neighbors, or to call at the grocery. It costs $10 for the fire department to make a “run” even for a smoking ironing board.
A radical is a person who has strong convictions of his own and no tolerations for the convictions of other facts. In other words he knows it all.
The Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
After Police Chief Yates recently informed the public the department was going to enforce a 29-year-old ordinance which prohibited a minor from frequenting a 3.2 beer establishment, about 30-35 teenagers met with the council wanting to know what precipitated enforcing the ordinance and argued effectively for the right to frequent Oscar’s, particularly so since they theatre has been closed and they “had no place to go.”
It’s been quite a winter so far and the amazing thing is — we’re only halfway through. Current snow reading in Meeker is right around 18-½ inches of the fluffy stuff. This is the most snow I’ve seen on the ground in Meeker in 20 years,” Dick Lyttle said Wednesday. “When I was a boy before cars, I’ve seen snow drifting up over a man’s head. Several times in the country between Meeker and Rifle there has been 3-4 feet on the ground.”
The Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
County commissioner Kim Cook on Jan. 13 reported that the state is taking action against landowners who have billboards or advertising signs on their land along state highways 13 and 64 in Rio Blanco County. All advertising billboards must be torn down within the next few months.
As one of Bernard Yaeger’s family, we were very interested in keeping a paper in Rangely I know that is what he would have wanted us to do. However, it was impossible for us to continue the operation of the Times. It was on the market for over a year, and efforts were made to find a local owner. When there was no response from the people in Rangely we felt that the arrangement with you was a good one. I would hope that the citizens of Rangely that are interested in keeping the paper in town, would like their voices to be heard in support. It takes both the business community as well as the subscribers to make the paper a success.
Rangely Times ~ 50 years ago
Duane Aplanalp was the big winner in the Christmas drawing sponsored by the Rangely Chamber of Commerce, winning a cassette tape player. Janice Porter won second price, a clock radio.
Congratulations to Shane Barkman and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Barkman. The young man is the first 1973 baby born in Rangely.
We hear that plans are in the legislative mill to raise the salaries of U.S. Congressmen from the present $42,500 to a flat $50,000.
Rangely Times ~ 25 years ago
Smoke and falling snow filled the sky in the community of Dinosaur on Jan. 5 as a fire ripped through the home of James and Lola Lee. No one was home when the fire started.
RHS Panther John Kenney dazzled the audience by twisting around and earning two points against Altamont on Jan. 6. The boys lost 57-77.