Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

 

August 26, 2021



Ten Years Ago

August 24, 2011

With about half the 2011 harvest completed in Garfield County, it’s shaping up as an outstanding year for producers.

In the past five years to six years, the county has seen an increase in hard red wheat planting, but PGG general manager Bob Cox thinks there will be movement back to more white wheat plantings.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 28, 1996

Neighbors assisting with tractors and discs once again received praise for keeping a field fire last week from getting out of control when an electrical short in a combine caused a fire in fields on Chapel Hill Rd., 20 miles north of Pomeroy that burned four to five acres of wheat and 20 acres of stubble.

Garfield County now has three Master Gardeners, with Joe and Alynda Benson joining Kris Klaveano in volunteering their expertise through the county extension office.


Fifty Years Ago

August 26, 1971

Wheat started going on the ground in two piles in Pomeroy on Friday. Some 140,000 bushels were on the ground Wednesday, and more is being piled. Some grain is still being received at Central Ferry where about 185,000 bushels are now in two piles. Dodge has about 40,000 on the ground. Merle Baldwin, PGG manager, said 200,000 to 300,000 more bushels could be expected, mostly at Pomeroy.

The Jaycee’s beard-growing contest is leading to a fairly wild growth among a number of residents. Several dozen sport excess facial hair of some sort.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 22, 1946

All county residents are urged to participate in the exhibits at the fair. Five large army tents, 16 feet by 50 feet, have been erected to house the community booths, agricultural, home economics, and 4-H exhibits. Three of these large tents will be used to house the livestock. A mammoth parade is planned prior to the first rodeo conducted in Pomeroy.

Twenty forest fires flared up in scattered wooded areas in the Pomeroy District of the Umatilla National Forest following Tuesday night’s electric storm. The storm, unaccompanied by rain, kindled fires in a two or three mile strip of tinder-dry timberland and pastures. Fire-fighting crews totaling about 45 men were rushed to the scene.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 27, 1921

The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Judkins fell into a well on the Judkins farm Wednesday afternoon and was drowned. Life was extinct when, after a search for the boy his little body was taken from the water. The well is 35 feet deep and is covered with a trap-door, which the child is supposed to have raised.

An automobile left Saturday at Hamilton’s service station is now in the hands of the sheriff. A stranger drove up and asked to have water put in and left the engine running. The stranger then disappeared and after two hours the engine was stopped and later the car was turned over to the sheriff.

Only three teachers’ contracts had been signed for the district schools of Garfield County as of Saturday night.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 29, 1896

T.E. Benbow, our popular wagon maker, is laid up this week with sore eyes.

Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Teal’s camp, resulting in great destruction of timber.

A new engine belonging to Perry Noyer upset and rolled down off a grade on Union Flat the other day. Mr. Noyer says almost every piece about the whole machine, except the glass water-gauge, was broken.

Sheriff Baldwin returned home Monday from the W.O.W. meeting at Helena, Mont. He won the chopping contest against W.C. Hawley, President of the Willamette University, cutting 6 ¾ inches into a log 25 ½ inches in diameter in three minutes. Prof. Hawley is the champion chopper of Oregon and was never before beaten.

Meadow Gulch Dist. No. 28 wants a good teacher for the fall term. Only those of good character, with previous experience, need apply. Wages about $25 or $30 per month.

The Hay Widder Club gave one of their usually happy feasts at Chief Obenland’s last Sunday p.m. The spread consisted of a liberal supply of potatoes, bacon, ice cream, two sacks of onions, melons, etc. The banquet board literally groaned under the weight of good things, yet only a few bacon rinds and onion skins told the sad story of the siege when the feast was over.

 
 

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