Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Deputy Game Wardens Slaughter and Walze arrested William Cardinell, Jr., and two parties named Harris and Scott last Saturday on Piceance for alleged violation of the game laws. The accused were brought to Meeker and turned loose without charges being preferred against them. It is said that they had nine deer carcasses in their possession. Why they were turned loose in the face of such evidence as this is a mystery that only Mr. Swan and his deputies can explain. The parties hail from Grand River.
Our merchants are laying in large stocks of holiday goods.
On Tuesday, Justice Mow issued warrants for the arrest of R. Ford and Geo. Kunkleman of Vernal, Utah for killing cattle belonging to the Hatch Horse & Cattle Company. It is claimed that the parties were caught with the beef in their possession. They are now under arrest at Vernal.
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
A Pennsylvania woman with 12 children advertises for a husband who is willing to work. If she gets on it will be the supreme proof that advertising pays.
A number of the men of the town gathered at the Commercial Club Saturday evening in celebration of the announcement that the White River Road from the Utah line to Trappers Lake is to be a state highway.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
The Mark Sheridan and Bill Turner families of Meeker drove to Rifle Thursday for a family dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sheridan, Luke and Mary, students at WSC in Gunnison.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Raley hosted Thanksgiving dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Warren McPherson of Rifle, Mr. and Mrs. Dale McPhereson of LaPriel, Dan and Steven of Silt and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Raley and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Palmer were Thanksgiving Day dinner and afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Art Greer and family.
Meeker Herald ~ 25 years ago
The Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners voted to spend $2,222 or so to outfit all 10 windows in the county jail with heavy steel security windows. The old windows weren’t very secure and enterprising inmates could, with a piece of string and a tube of toothpaste, and with the help of a girlfriend or other accomplice, bring cigarettes and other contraband into the jail by tossing the string out the windows and hauling stuff in through the fairly large openings in the screen.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
The Rangely District Hospital Board announced this week that two doctors have selected Rangely as their base of operation for a minimum period of two years.
RANGELY TIMES ~ 25 years ago
A Chevron oil company employee with a good sense of smell and the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time is credited with averting what could have been a significant environmental crisis. According to Chevron general manager Kevin Patterson, the unidentified night time field operator sniffed the pungent aroma of crude oil in the area of Colorado 64 near the bridge over the White River at about 7:45 p.m. on Dec. 1. He followed his nose, and discovered that a 6-inch gathering line had ruptured, spewing crude into the White River.
