Tag: Rangely Times

Days Gone By – September 14, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago One evening last week as State Game Warden J.S. Swan was crossing the state bridge at Glenwood he met a heavily laden pack animal, and upon investigation, he found it loaded with deer killed before the season opened. The offender was John Wetzill[Read More…]

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The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Arthur Critchlow was in from Piceance during the early part of the week and reports material progression in his section. Among the most notable improvements is that of the new school house on upper Piceance. It is a stone structure, large enough to[Read More…]

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The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago We are now having lovely days and cold nights. Messrs. J.W. Hugus and J.C. Davis returned from Yampa river points Saturday evening and tarried over Sunday in the White river metropolis. Both gentlemen left for the outside Monday morning. Mr. Hugus is very[Read More…]

Days Gone By: August 24th, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Boyd Walbridge left Thursday morning for Steamboat Springs to visit his parents there. He took Frank Sheridan along to drive his team. Several wagon loads of fruit have come in from Grand River within the last week or two, but the quality is[Read More…]

Days Gone By: August 10, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Several wagon loads of fruit have come in from Grand River within the last week or two, but the quality is not what it was a year ago.  The apple crop of Garfield county bids fair to be an abundant one this year,[Read More…]

Days Gone By: August 3, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Two trout poachers, Charles Harrison and Edward Gorman, were nailed at Trappers Lake, on Tuesday, with 77 pounds of trout in their possession, by a Glenwood deputy game warden. They pleaded guilty, and now languish in jail in default payment of $67.50 fine[Read More…]

Days Gone By: July 27, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago H.H. Leonard’s bay gelding “Little Ruby” won the three-minute Aspen last Sunday in three straight heats, beating W.S. Copeland’s Beauty and Harry Barnes’ “Bonetta.”  Four loads of Bear River cattle got on the Denver market and bought the top prices. When steers from[Read More…]

Days Gone By: July 20, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A typical “Wandering Willie” went through town Monday, walking in from Rifle and going north at a two-mile-an-hour aint. “Ragged Jack” wasn’t in it.  Water Commissioner Moog reports less trouble with ranchmen as the summer advances. Not on account of rain, but because[Read More…]

Days Gone By: July 13, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Monday night the court house hall was filled with the biggest crowd ever gathered together at a dance in Meeker, and it put the baseball boys in good shape financially.  Senator Wolcott has had his stepson Lyman M. Bass, appointed a second lieutenant[Read More…]

Days Gone By: July 6, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago Reverend Davis took M.E. Sunday school students at Robertson place to a picnic in Powell Park with a turnout of 33 students. This inspired Reverend Handel of St. James Episcopal church to do the same. Thomas F. Dunn, brother of John, of Big[Read More…]

Days Gone By: June 29, 2023

The Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago A man in Virginia, rode 40 miles to Fairfax Station, for the express purpose of getting Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and took home with him a dozen bottles of medicine.  Another old landmark began to disappear this week. The adobe where Judge Hazen once[Read More…]