Ten Years Ago

January 7, 2010

The short break from the three weeks of snow that melted away after Christmas day ended late last week when an overnight storm again whitened Pomeroy.

The Pomeroy Pirates wrestling team placed third in its annual Christmas tournament behind Kittitas and Pullman. Tye Knebel took the championship at 145 lbs, his fourth Pomeroy tournament title in as many years. Tory Knebel and Klytin Bott also claimed titles at 160 lbs. and 189 lbs. respectively.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 4, 1995

Pomeroy Conservation District will hold its first Conservation Day next week in the Dick Brown Community Building at the fairgrounds.

“Extremely tight” world supplies should hold Portland white wheat prices at or above $4.00 per bushel in 1995, says a University of Idaho agricultural economist. Tough times have befallen beef producers who will see them continue in 1995. Returns over cash costs likely will be between $20 and $30 per cow.

Fifty Years Ago

January 1, 1970

Heavy snowfall highlighted events in Pomeroy for 1969. The story of the big snow began on December 27 when fourteen inches of snow fell. On December 30 ten inches were added to that already on the ground and the mercury skidded to twenty-seven degrees below 0 in Pomeroy, reaching forty below at some spots near the Snake River.

The number of babies born at Garfield County Memorial Hospital in 1969 dropped to twenty-one, tied with 1965 for the lowest number of births in any one year.

Average salaries for beginning teachers in Washington were up $290 from $6,246 in 1968 to $6,536 according to information from Eastern Washington State College.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 4, 1945

Frank Robinson, owner of the Sommerville Club house sold the business, effective January 1, to Lyle Craig of Lewiston. Robinson purchased the business from Fred Sommerville about six months ago.

The Pomeroy Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the annual March of Dimes campaign in Garfield County for the raising of the county’s quota.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 3, 1920

Now that the high cost of living has transferred the old lines about a life of “love and kisses” from a song into a practical actuality, the prospect of such unsubstantial a form of wedded bliss appears to carry little appeal in Garfield County at least. The county records show that marriage licenses during 1919 were issued to only 27 couples, as against 41 in 1918 and 42 the year before. At the same time divorces, numbering nine in 1917 and only four in 1918, climbed to 10 in 1919. The figures include only marriage licenses and divorce decrees issued in Garfield County.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 5, 1895

Thomas McBride has fine grass pasture, good both winter and summer, to let at 75 cents.

C.A. Lundy & Co. report having shipped 70,000 bushels of grain since Dec. 8.

The recent heavy snowfall on the frozen ground makes sleighing good, and from present indications the same condition of good roads and good sleighing is liable to last for some time. Our citizens seem to have made up their minds to get all the fun possible out of the snow while it lasts. Sleigh bells can be heard at almost any hour of the day or night, and the small boy with his hand sled is as happy, energetic and persistent as a fly in a sugar bowl.

At a special meeting of the Pomeroy Fire department on last Friday evening, a committee was appointed to confer with the city council relative to repairing and cleaning out the city reservoir. It is feared that the moss and weeds will obstruct the pipe so that water cannot be obtained when needed.

The wife of James Bankson died of peritonitis, at her home near Peola, Wednesday evening, after an illness of five weeks. She leaves a husband and two or three small children, the youngest being only 18 months of age. Mrs. Bankson was an excellent woman, a good wife, a kind and affectionate mother, and loved by all who knew her. The grief-stricken husband and little children have the sincere sympathy of their neighbors and friends.

It has been suggested that some of our enterprising young men might make a good thing by fitting up Berkley & Key’s cook house and travel over the county and rent it for a dance hall.

As a hack load of young people from Mayview and Ilia were returning from the dance at Pomeroy last Thursday, their team became frightened, throwing John Ginger out and causing Miss Pearl Wade to jump. Before the team was controlled by Al Wade, who was in the back, the wheel had passed over Ginger, without injury, however, Miss Wade’s left elbow is seriously sprained by her fall upon the frozen ground.