Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 21, 2011

A classical Tea was enjoyed by forty-nine guests and members of the P.E.O. Club from Pomeroy, Clarkston, Lewiston and Dayton.

Three 500kv transformers for the Bonneville Power Administration substation arrived at Central Ferry.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 24, 1996

A recent traffic stop in Pomeroy eventually led to an arrest on drug charges and confiscation of marijuana plants, growing equipment and firearms from a home in the city. The sheriff said the incident was the fifth in ten days involving drugs in the county.

Pomeroy Mayor Don Stellwagon fired public works director Rob Cameron last week saying it was because the two “weren’t seeing eye-to-eye.” The mayor said no legal issues were involved and the situation occurred because he and City Council were not being kept informed on what they should know.

Fifty Years Ago

April 22, 1971

About 100 area farmers and interested parties attended the Wheat Growers meeting Monday night to see what could be done about stopping federal safety regulations on farm trucks, some already in effect.

The Office of Emergency Planning approved federal and emergency assistance for Pomeroy totaling $56,787 for flood relief.

A speaker at the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting said a local development corporation should be established in Pomeroy so that the corporation will be ready to find financing when new businesses express interest in the community.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 18, 1946

During vacation two new electric ranges were installed in the high school cafeteria. One is a large fry top with two large hot tops and an oven. The other consists of two large unit ovens one on top of the other. This now furnishes ample space for all types of cooking in the cafeteria without having to use stoves in the Home Economics Department. In the past, the cafeteria cooks had to use several of those stoves in the preparation of each meal. This tended to be a bit confusing to the classes who might also be trying to use the stoves.

School clocks are again running and bells ringing on the minute with the installation of a new master clock. The life of the old clock was supposed to be for twenty years, but it outlived its promises and lasted for more than thirty years.

The Protestant youth of Pomeroy are sponsoring a sunrise Easter service at the golf links at 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, followed by an Easter breakfast at the Methodist church at 7:00 a.m. The public is cordially invited.

Two county road construction projects, known as the Darland and Fairview roads and costing $15,040, will be started this month. Both roads, east of Pomeroy, are to be graded and graveled.

The deputy state fire marshal met with representatives of the Garfield County granges organizations and Fire Chief Leslie Krouse to talk over the proposition of organizing the county into a fire district, in compliance with state law.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 23, 1921

Pomeroy business houses are to close this afternoon when the local baseball team meets Nick Williams’ Moose Jaw club of the Canadian league. A spectacular game is promised by the local management.

A complaint was filed last fall by C.W. Cotton in the name of the Mayview Farmers’ Union alleging discrimination by the Pacific Coast Elevator Co., charging the grain company dealt unfairly by moving certain crops ahead of other crops that should have received first attention.

W.J. Rummens recently bought a lot of yearling calves at 50 cents more than he sold them for last fall. “This illustrates,” he said, “the way the cattle business is going. The man who bought these calves from me had to winter them for 51 cents apiece and I paid too much for them at that.”

The foundation for the Methodist Church to be erected at Third and High streets has been completed, and after more grading is done, will be covered to await the beginning of construction on the building itself.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 18, 1896

Harry St. George and R.E. Allen Thursday received several tons of ice for use in the “Club House” the coming summer. The ice came from Loon Lake and cost delivered in this place about ten dollars per ton.

It is reported that parties living along the Tukanon have placed nets or traps across the creek in such a manner as to prevent the fish running upstream. Such an obstruction is unlawful and the offenders should be prosecuted. Formerly, in this section of country, the illegal butchery of fish was no uncommon thing, but now there seems to be a general disposition on the part of the public to see that the law is enforced.

Ice was frozen a quarter of an inch thick, in several places on Pataha Flat, the morning of April 15th. At Meadow Gulch snow and hail fell until the ground was white.

Leap Year adventures among the young ladies may be all right under certain circumstances, but the way a pair of Pomeroy’s soiled doves have been visiting the bachelor camps in the Falling Springs vicinity recently is a disgrace to the community. Somebody needs looking after.