The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
A light snow fell Tuesday night, but on the whole the weather has been lovely during the past week.
Judge and Mrs. Walbridge came in from Steamboat Saturday evening. Mrs. W. will spend the winter here with the junior Walbridge family but the judge will return to the land of deep snows.
Game Warden Wilcox visited Meeker this week, and he is liable to be a frequent visitor hereafter.
The Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
A newcomer in the upriver country is milking fourteen head of cattle. This is the way to bring prosperity to Rio Blanco County. It’s a better way than sitting around and bemoaning hard times. There would be no hard times if people would get to work.
Cold nights and pleasant days were the characteristic features of the weather last week.
The Baer Creamery is working at greater capacity than ever before. It can increase its capacity if farmers will bring in the cream. There is a big demand for Baer butter, all over the state. It’s the best.
The Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
Telephone toll circuits between Meeker and Craig have been shot down by hunters seven times during this hunting season, according to Bob Patterson, district manager of Mountain Bell.
The problem this year has been the worst ever, he said, with hunters carelessly shooting cables and snapping some lines near transformers. Target practice seems to be the worst offender.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Williams, who have made their home on Little Beaver for the past 25 years, moved last Wednesday to their home on the eastern slope in Julesburg.
The couple sold their 160-acre ranch to Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Williams of Hurst, Tex., who have resided here in Meeker each summer for a number of years.
Due to problems with the newspaper press for the past 2 weeks and a vacationing-elk hunting linotype operator, we have had to delay some important news items which would have normally been printed in the last two issues.
Hopefully, unless some other nightmare stops us, all will be back to normal next week?
The Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
On Oct. 19, the Meeker FFA advanced two judging teams to the State contest in Fort Collins, The Agricultural Mechanics team was runner-up to eventual winner Durango.
Bruce Clatterbaugh, president of the First National Bank of the Rockies in Meeker, announced that the bank will sponsor a seminar on the Year 2000 or Y2K problem. The seminar is scheduled in Meeker for Nov. 12 at the Kilowatt Korner, beginning at 1 p.m.
Three men, two from Craig and one from North Dakota, have been arrested in the drive-by killings of more than 30 deer and pronghorn antelope this summer on Moffat County roads.
