Rio Blanco County Days Gone By

The Meeker Herald — 50 years ago
• The 1000th phone in the Meeker exchange was installed July 15 at the Peavy home, 28 miles upriver.
• Louis Alfred was fined $15 and given a 30-day suspended sentence for selling beer to the minors responsible for the beer party and vandalism at Highland cemetery.
• One of the hardest rains of the season hit Meeker on Wednesday afternoon of this week. It was of near…