The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
The town board passed an ordinance this week prohibiting the erection of amy more barbed wire fences within the corporate limits, and all those up now have to be removed by the first of next May. Aren’t we getting metropolitan?
Another one of the Brown’s Park desperados is in the toils, being safe behind the bars of Meeker’s jail. He is named Good and eluded two different posses hot after him over in Utah, escaping into our county with a few bullet holes through his hide. Sheriff Williams received word a few days ago of the man’s presence near Rangely, and went down after him. He returned last evening with the man.
The Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
Early Wednesday morning the men of the community gathered at the Earl and Don Morris ranches and spent the greater part of the day fighting the crickets. County Agent O.L. Davis was present and showed how the poison should be mixed and spread for best results.
“Prohibition agents will work under cover,” says a news item. Well, that’s where the hootch is.
The Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
Officers Josie Clapper, treasurer; Margrete Anderson, secretary; Robert LaGrange, president; DeLos Parr, vice president; and Dorothy Kehrberger, historian, will head the reunion of the Rio Blanco County Pioneers next year.
Pool manager Bill Turner said early this week that attendance has been down considerably but blamed this on the cold, rainy weather we’ve been having. Bill said now that the temperature is coming back up, attendance is rising with 120 youngsters splashing about on Tuesday.
The Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
Dennis Koenig of Meeker and a member of his roofing crew installed new shingles on the roof of St. James Episcopal Church in Meeker earlier this week. The shingles had to be replaced less than 10 years after they were installed. Koenig said the roofer who installed the defective shingles charged the church for new sheeting, but instead installed the shingles directly onto the original old wood. Insurance is paying the bill.
Leaders of the National High School Rodeo Association appointed Elisha Watt of Meeker the Wrangler High School All Star Rodeo Team, the first-ever corporate-sponsored youth rodeo team.
Rangely Times ~ 50 years ago
Preliminary scientific data from the May 17 Project Rio Blanco nuclear detonation indicates that the extent of spall caused by the explosion fell well within predicted limits, and that it did not damage oil shale deposits. Spall is an underground effect caused by the reflection of shock waves traveling upward from the explosion back downward from the ground’s surface. Spall has been a major concern of its possible effect on the oil shale lying above the detonation point in the Piceance Basin.
Wayne Nickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nickson, will appear on KSL TV, Salt Lake City on June 12. He has been asked to sing two or three songs and report on his upcoming tour of Europe, including “The America’s Youth in Concert.”
Rangely Times ~ 25 years ago
Architect Robert Jenkins turned the Re-4 Administration building with Superintendent Robert Mullen on June 9. Amid fresh water stains from a leaking roof, Jenkins and Mullen discussed a variety of issues related to the building’s need for restoration. Of particular concern to Jenkins is the series of blind hallways in the building, which could prove deadly in a fire.
Bob Lee, Jim Altosa and Erik Nordensen stood a short distance away as a mammoth dust devil engulfed CNCC’s freshly washed Citabria ‘taildragger’ on June 3. The plane was picked straight up 4 to 6 feet into the air, inverted and virtually dropped back down into its original spot.
