The Meeker Herald
125 years ago
• Haying is now well underway in this locality. Prepare for rains.
• White River is receding, and trout fishermen line its banks daily with variable success.
• It is said that the 13-year and 17-year locusts are both due this year. Should they come wouldn’t it be a good scheme to her them on the foxtail, dandelion and thistle patches? This odious trio is spreading at an alarming rate in many places throughout the county.
• Mountain lions are very numerous in the neighborhood of White River, and the question of paying a bounty for them will be brought to the attention of the county commissioners very forcibly by the settlers interested.
• The festive mosquito is strongly in evidence the season from the flat-tops to Lower White. Several families of them are said to be sojourning in Powell Park, while in the vicinity of White River City they are so numerous that the Rangely mail carrier is stalled on nearly every trip in getting through the clouds of them. George Witter sais that one can only see the sun in the early morning hours.
The Meeker Herald
100 years ago
• During the past week the band has been practicing for the Fourth. There are two things that keep a town on the map. One is a good baseball team and the other is a good band. Both institutions should receive better encouragement in Meeker.
• But think what a crime way we might have now if the country hadn’t gone dry.
• The forecast of the week was a continuation of our long dry and dusty spell. Refreshing showers all around, but Meeker missed them. We will get ‘em in plenty in a day or two.
The Meeker Herald
50 years ago
• In the business world there is the story about a newspaperman who inherited $100,000. He said he planned to keep running his newspaper until the entire inheritance was gone.
• Meeker’s Range Call Court: Queen Cora Lee Gentry, attendants Chris Oldland and Debra Barney.
• The Meeker Monument, erected in 1927 and placed at the intersection of Highway 13 and 64, has recently been moved to the historical sign in Powell Park, on Highway 64. This change was brought about through the efforts of Elige Joslin, president of the Rio Blanco County Historical Society.
The Meeker Herald
25 years ago
• Rio Blanco County has received a clean bill of financial health from its annual audit.
• So far, individual support for the new clinic at Pioneers Hospital has been verbally enthusiastic, but financially nonexistent.
• Sheriff Phil Stubblefield has established a “ranch watch” program in Rio Blanco County.
• Leslie Sorensen, the Rio Blanco County accountant for the social services department, has won accolades from the state for her assistance to other counties in the state.
Rangely Times
50 years ago
• The Rangely business office for Mountain Bell will be closed on June 30 and all records transferred to the business office at Craig.
• We wonder how some residents can allow weeds to grow eight feet high in front of their home and businesses when a few minutes a week would eliminate them.
• A prediction from Dr. Edward Teller stated, “I say to you that in the ‘70s, America will be subjected to its most severe test — the most severe test in its whole existence, unless we begin to change course now.
Rangely Times
25 years ago
• With the mighty Green River flowing at even higher levels this year, Dinosaur National Monument officials decided to move the Echo Park ranger station to safer ground.
• Thanks to a recent grant, Colorado Northwestern Community College students may one day be able to make it to class without leaving their dorm rooms. And they won’t even have to get dressed. Starting this fall, the grand from the Colorado Department of Higher Education will be used to provide complete interactive audio and video data delivery.
• Swimming like barracudas, Rangely’s 8-and-under medley relay team, consisting of Alyssa Pierson, Kelsey Pierson, Brittany Skelton and Danna Green, and the boys’ 9-10 free relay team, consisting of Zach Green, Daniel O’Toole, Andy Key and Michael Hinaman, placed first in their races.
