Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

 

March 4, 2021



Ten Years Ago

March 2, 2011

Pomeroy Pirate girls’ basketball seasoned ended in the first round at the State 1B tournament, losing 54-32 to Columbia-Hunters.

Garfield County’s new deputy, Mike Melcher, was the top student overall among 28 officers recently graduated from the Basic Law Enforcement Academy.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 6, 1996

The 14th annual All-Pomeroy Basketball Tournament will be held this weekend in the high school gym with eight teams expected to participate.

Girls’ basketball coach Jim Greene is scheduled to receive a team-administered crewcut during a Friday assembly that he promised them for making it to the state tournament.

Fifty Years Ago

March 4, 1971

Pomeroy secured the Southeast “A” basketball championship on Friday with a 61-51 win over Waitsburg. Shortly after the tournament ended, a late season snowstorm closed the highway, leaving all but the intrepid few who left for home immediately following the game stranded in Dayton, where the game was played.

Garfield County’s official population in the 1970 census was 2,911, down 2.2 percent from the 1960 figure of 2,976.

Paul Miller was elected new principal of Pomeroy High School, replacing Richard Gray, who is retiring.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 28, 1946

The Pomeroy Pirates won the Southeastern Washington sub-district B basketball tournament, defeating the St. Patrick’s Irish, Walla Walla, in two overtime periods by a score of 37 to 35. The crowd is said to have been the largest ever to assemble in the high school gym. Fans were even seated on the floor along the edges of the playing court.

Pomeroy’s Main Street, for the past several nights, has been darker than a “stack of black cats.” All of the light bulbs, with the exception of one, in the city’s Main street lighting system have burned out and so far they cannot be replaced. The city placed an order for a number of these light bulbs several months ago, but to date they have failed to arrive.

Four inter-school boxing bouts between the Clarkston Bantams and the Pomeroy Pirates will be staged in the local high school gym. Pirate pugilists include George Ledgerwood, Stanley Wolf, Rodney Kimble and Phil Crawford.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 5, 1921

School correspondence: Rumor has it that some of the teachers had a fight. We are sorry we didn’t see it. Will somebody please tell us when it happened? This is the first we knew of it.

Baseball and Track are taking the interest of the boys during the hours after school. It is planned to have a league formed by a few schools such as Pomeroy, Dayton, Waitsburg and others.

The Pomeroy Commercial Club has secured nearly 100 person to assist in repairing the Marengo grade, which seems to have been neglected by Columbia County in an effort to draw trade to Dayton.

Plans for the local 1921 baseball season are underway. If arrangements can be made, the Pomeroy club this year may become a member of the “Trolley League” composed of Lewiston, Pullman, Colfax and other towns north of the Snake river.

Rev. D.E. George, pastor of the Methodist Church in Pomeroy thirty-six years ago, has been preaching 59 years and is still actively engaged in ministerial work. Now in his seventy-ninth year, he rides his motorcycle from his home at Milton 20 miles to Lowden, where he holds a pastorate.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 29, 1896

Alfred Halterman is still very low but his physician and friends are more hopeful for his recovery at this writing.

An effort is being made to revive the Pomeroy baseball nine. What the boys mostly need is a grandstand. They say they can get along without a backstop.

A.M. Anderson, of Olympia, Dep. Commissioner of statistics for this state, was in town collecting data for a pamphlet which will contain articles from the different counties setting forth their resources and inducements to immigrants.

The WASHINGTONIAN is informed that a lot of petty thieving has been going on in the upper part of town the past few weeks. C. Obenland has lost several pounds of dried meat, a suit of underwear and a saw-buck. A saddle and bridle, a pair of spurs and some canned fruit have been stolen from Mr. Dyche, while L.P. Mulkey has lost several sacks of chop. These depredations are getting numerous and it is thought home talent is doing the business. It is to be hoped that these midnight prowlers will be apprehended before carrying their nefarious trade too far.

Farmers in Ping Gulch are all in a whoopish-hurrah! to see who will get their crop in first.

The boys of this neighborhood all seem to ride speedy horses, but we hardly think horse racing or baseball is just the thing for Sunday pastime.

The masquerade ball at Peola Hall was a grand success. A good supper was served by Mrs. Fitzgerald, which was heartily enjoyed by all. After supper the dancers returned to the hall and tripped the “light fantastic” until 5 o’clock in the morning, the best of good cheer prevailing. The universal verdict is that it was the best dance of season.

 
 

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