Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Knowing that there will be a shortage of water in the Piceance creek the coming season, some of the ranchmen there are already diverting water onto their land. They want at least one cutting.
St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday this year, but this fact didn’t keep the Odd Fellows from announcing a dance in honor of the patron saint. It will be held Monday evening, the 18th.
At the Kansas City stock yards a Hereford cow was recently sold for $3,700, the highest price on record.
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
There seems to be considerable agitation in regards to completing the telephone line from White River City on down the river to Rangely this summer.
At the meeting of the High School Board last Saturday, bids were received for the purchase of the old high school building. The White River Lumber purchased the building for $1,000.
This week the Meeker Pharmacy received a new soda fountain which is the latest improvement in that line.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
WInding up the basketball program for the year, the 5th and 6th grade boys will have a four team tournament Tuesday, March 9th in the high school gymnasium.
Chuck Reichert of the Division of WIldlife and Larry Robinson of the U.S. Forest Service appeared at the quarterly meeting of the Rio Blanco County Historical Society Sunday afternoon to ask the Society for information on the old cabins at Trappers Lake, just off of Little Trappers.
Delivery of the 1976 Meeker area telephone directory will begin March 19, according to Mountain Bell local manager Helen Thompson.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
The Western Colorado Council of the Boy Scouts of America is holding its annual fund drive for Sustaining Memberships this month, according to Chairman Leland Byers.
Miss Mary Laura King and William R. Willis exchanged wedding cows at 1 p.m. February 21, 1976 at St. Ignatius Catholic Church.
Jody Sigwardt at CNCC has been nominated by Region I for the NJCAA All-American Basketball TEam for 1976.
RIO BLANCO HERALD TIMES ~ 25 years ago
Liberty Cinema is the name of a new movie theater to be built in Rangely this summer. It will be a three-screen theater with a capacity for 225 people.
Meeker High School seniors Landon Smith, Aaron Overton, and J.D. Merriam will play two football games this summer in Australia on the Colorado North All-Star team.
More than 50 pee-wee wrestlers traveled from Meeker to Craig last Saturday to compete in the year’s first tournament, and more than half came home with medals.