The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • Never spread an evil report about your neighbor until you know positively that it is true, and don’t do it then if he is a good deal bigger than you are. • A lazy man never believes that his pay is high enough.[Read More…]
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Days Gone By: Sept. 3, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • This was court week, and The Herald’s hired man has been struggling desperately with lawyers’ arguments and Blackstone to such an extent that this issue resembles the aforesaid hired man — it has a forlorn, tired appearance. If the reader happens to[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Aug. 27, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • An editor who has been dealing with the average mankind, draws the following conclusion: “A few complimentary notices will often puff a man up like a balloon, and often swell his head so big that everybody can notice that he is overconscious of[Read More…]
Days Gone By: Aug. 6, 2020
The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Joe Rooney, the popular clerk at the Meeker hotel, is now under sheriff. • The Utes have arrived in the lower country on their annual deer-killing expedition. Isn’t it about time the state authorities were taking these hide hunting Indians in-hand? •[Read More…]
RBC Days Gone By: July 28, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • True love is all the sweeter because its course doesn’t run smooth. • There is a growing suspicion that the noisiest politician is usually the one who is always ready to entertain a cash proposition from the opposition. The Meeker Herald | 100 years[Read More…]
Days Gone By: July 9, 2020
The Meeker Herald | 125 years ago • If you would move mountains, grab a spade and go to work. • Fortunate is the man whose errors are sufficiently ludicrous to pass current as jokes. • Born on Friday afternoon, July 12, 1895, to the wife of H.S. Harp, a son.[Read More…]
Days Gone By: June 25, 2020
Meeker Herald — 125 years ago • Ex-President Harrison must mean business; he has muzzled his talkative son, Russell. • Money having been the leading family question for many years it is not surprising to find that it has now grown to be a national question. • A shrewd and[Read More…]
Days Gone By: June 4, 2020
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The city of Meeker is preparing for an old-time Fourth of July celebration. • The champions of the divided skirt are loudly declaring in its favor that it has two legs to stand on. • The more a strike is complicated with rioting[Read More…]
Days Gone By: May 21, 2020
[responsivevoice voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Listen to this”] The Meeker Herald 125 years ago Since the building of the White River Valley railroad has become almost a certainty coal lands are being more sought after, and filings are of almost everyday occurrence. A post office at Marvine Lodge during the months[Read More…]
Days Gone By: May 14, 2020
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The large business signs of T.B. Watson were replaced during the week by those of A. Oldland & Co. • This afternoon the Craig and Meeker baseball clubs will have a game of ball. The home team will be placed as follows: Pitcher,[Read More…]
Days Gone By: May 7, 2020
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • The railroad surveyors are on 14-Mile Creek. They have encountered no rock work whatever between that point and New Castle. • J.B. Wheeler and P.C. Coryell are developing five coal mines near where the White River Valley railroad will cross Piceance Creek. •[Read More…]
Days Gone By: April 30, 2020
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago – The North Side round-up will meet at Wolf creek on Wednesday, May 15. The South Side round-up will meet at Rangely on Thursday, May 30. – The laterals around town were put in shape this week to receive water from the town ditch,[Read More…]
