Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 13, 2011

Ground-breaking started last week at the site of the 32-unit Pataha Creek RV Park on Port Way, on the south side of the creek behind the Pomeroy Ranger District’s office. Twenty spaces will accommodate RVs up to 50 feet long, and 12 spaces will serve smaller rigs.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 17, 1996

An emergency grass-field burning ban ruling by the state Department of Ecology and approved by Democrat Governor Mike Lowry could mean Dye Seed Ranch, a major bluegrass seed processor and the biggest private employer in Garfield County, could have a stormy future.

Tucannon Rd. No 47 on the Pomeroy Ranger District is still closed to general traffic beyond Camp Wooten, with only administrative traffic and landowners allowed. Numerous trail systems are closed because of flood damage or they remain inaccessible.

Fifty Years Ago

April 8, 1971

Steers owned by Randy and Kathy Kausche, brother and sister, were judged champion steers in the FFA and 4-H divisions at the Pomeroy Junior Livestock Preview.

Concrete pouring at Lower Granite Lock and Dam is expected to exceed 20,000 cubic yards per week for the first time.

Pomeroy Music Boosters annual Spring Variety Show this weekend is one of the group’s fund-raising sources for music scholarships and purchases of additional band and choir uniforms.

New regulations effective July 1 make it virtually impossible for anyone under age of 21 to drive a farm truck and could cause a decided hardship to some farm or ranch owners.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 11, 1946

Extensive improvements are being made to the interior of the Emerson-Hull company store this week. The balcony is being extended 30 feet over the main floor and, when completed, will give the grocery department additional floor space as well as other departments in the store. The new balcony will give the ladies’ ready-to-wear department more room in which to operate. Some departments now maintained on the main floor will be moved to the second floor. Two stairways will lead to the balcony, on the east and west side of the main floor.

A decorative steel fence, 1,100 feet in length and supported by iron posts set in concrete, was placed about Holy Rosary Cemetery by a large crew of volunteers. Other improvements have been made about the graveyard property with the last year, all adding beauty to God’s acre.

As has been the custom for many years, business houses in Pomeroy will be closed on Good Friday for a period of three hours from 12 noon to 3:00 p.m. for church services.

One Hundred Years Ago

April, 1921

Fred Lowery has introduced passenger and light package auto bus service between Pomeroy and Lewiston, known as No. 7 Taxi & Transportation Co. Trips are made daily from Lewiston at 11:30 a.m., arriving in Pomeroy at 2 p.m. and leaving for Lewiston at 3 p.m.

The 1921 baseball season opens in Pomeroy when the city team will play the Dayton aggregation on the local ballpark. Negotiations are underway for games with Waitsburg, Lewiston and Whitman county teams.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 11, 1896

For the benefit of all concerned, Tom Burlingame hereby gives notice that he will cross the Snake River with herds of cattle enroute to Montana, on the 16th, 25th, and 30th of this month. Altogether he will ship 1,200 head. An order for 33 cars has been placed with the G.N. to convey them from Uniontown, where they will be put on board the train.

E.G. Powell has just received from his old home in North Carolina about 200 pounds of “natural leaf” tobacco.

Remember, the train now arrives at 9:15 a.m. and leaves at 5 p.m. Mail closes at 4:30, at which time the mail leaves for the depot.

Hon. S.G. Cosgrove went to Asotin this week and, by dint of hard work, succeeded in getting the Board of County Commissioners to issue an order to repay this county the money expended by it in the Myers case.

J.M. Reid has resumed work on his fish trap and expects soon to be catching some fine salmon.

The salmon are commencing to run up the Tukanon Creek again.

Wm. Leonard captured six coyotes, all in one den last week. The capture caused him a very serious runaway, but Billy got his game.

Those little pests of squirrels are out with full force and, if there is not something done to exterminate them soon, there will be small chance for crops. Now is the time, farmers, to make a raid.

The people of Peola would like to have some smart preacher come around and wake them up once in a while.

Grant Jinkins is still hauling wood to Lewiston. It is the only thing a man can do to keep the wolf from the door.

Geo. Storey, of Pomeroy, paid Peola a visit on Saturday with a young gentleman companion. The young ladies are wondering “who that nice young man is?” Come again Geo.

R.R. Santo is seen quite frequently riding around in his new buggy. Mr. S. says he knew there was money in sheep. “See?”