Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

May 4, 2011

Garfield County Sheriff’s deputies responded Sunday afternoon to 911 calls from fishermen who found a body on the shore of the Snake River between Willow Landing and Central Ferry. There was no identification on the body. Idaho State Police have taken over the investigation because that department is investigating two missing person’s cases, and this could match the identity of one of those cases.

Lonnie and Inez Cannon of Pomeroy won KHQ-TV and The Davenport Hotel’s “Marital Moments” photo contest held during the month of April.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 8, 1996

Pomeroy High School claimed its first-ever league championship in girls’ softball with a come-from-behind 18-17 win over Asotin last week. The girls sewed up the 1996 Blue Mountain League pennant with an 11-1 league record and have a 16-2 overall mark.

Pomeroy postal carriers will participate in an annual food drive in support of the Garfield County Food Bank this week. Mail carriers will pick up non-perishable food items left in rural mail boxes. Patrons who pick up their mail at the Post Office may leave items there.

Fifty Years Ago

May 6, 1971

On May 20, 1911, a young man from Pomeroy was admitted to the bar by the state Supreme Court. Sixty years later that man—C.A. “Alex” McCabe—is still practicing here.

Gary Bye was selected “Aggie-of-the-Year” at the 12th annual Ag awards dinner program at Washington State University.

A large turnout watched 75 contestants from all over the area at the Skyriders 4-H Club annual Horse Show at the fairgrounds.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 2, 1946

Blue Mountain Canneries, Inc., announced new wage schedule for employees for both farm work and factory. Common farm labor ceiling is 85 cents an hour. New factory rate for women is a minimum of 81 cents an hour and men in the factory the new minimum is 95 cents an hour, with time and a half after 56 hours in any work week. This is a substantial increase over wage rates of former years. In 1934 the wage rate for both men and women was 27½¢ an hour.

Kenneth Price has been selected as one of the four Washington state 4-H club members to attend the National 4-H Club Camp in Washington, D.C., considered the highest honor any 4-H club member can win.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 7, 1921

Nearly 400 people turned out for the thrilling baseball game last Sunday, when the local club defeated the Knights of Columbus organization of the Walla Walla twilight league, 11 to 10.

Three thousand sacks of wheat were lost when a warehouse at Chard station burned to the ground last Saturday.

Both the Senior and Sophomore plays drew capacity houses at the Seeley Theatre. The high school plays have become annual events of much importance in Pomeroy

The punch-board in the “lower’ clubhouse was stripped of its valuables and left as plain and unattractive as any ordinary board, by someone who entered through a window Sunday night. A $20-goldpiece, three $5-goldpieces, two Kodaks and a lady’s brooch, were taken. The till, containing more money, was not molested. The window pane which had been removed to gain admittance to the building was carried away, indicating that the thief intended to leave no fingerprints. So far no clue has been discovered.

Complaint is again made of thefts of flowers from the yards about town. Two beds of tulips were stripped of blooms and the plants trampled down in W.A. DeBow’s yard. Mr. DeBow is looking for shotgun, he says.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 2, 1896

Sunday night a thief entered Hon. W.L. Freeman’s cellar and carried off a side of bacon.

The other night some sneak thief stole a number of cans of fruit from Mr. Irvin’s cellar. The next morning a can of fruit belonging to someone else was found near the cellar. The supposition is that the fellow had also visited other cellars and that he had become too heavily loaded to get away with all his plunder.

Tuesday Mrs. Carolan, who lives up near Pataha, was taken before Justice Ayers and sentenced to three hours in jail for stealing a butcher knife from the Chinese gardener Wo Hop. Owing to the fact the defendant had no counsel, the penalty imposed was a light one. Petty thefts are getting altogether too numerous in this vicinity of late. The authorities are determined to stop this law-breaking business if possible, and all good people will say Godspeed—let the good work go on.

All tuition money and money due on diplomas must be paid to the clerk at once. Commencement exercises will be held in Seeley’s Opera House, Thursday evening, May 28th, 1896. General admission 10¢; reserved seats 25¢.

Ten days ago, William Holland, living on the Snake river, found a horse floating with a thirty-five dollar saddle on with the name of C.F. Elis written on the seat. There was a good bridle with the rein over the horn of saddle, 50 lbs. of potatoes, bacon, flour, seven shirts and two pairs of pants lashed to saddle with hair rope. The horse was of fair size, color sorrel, no brand visible.