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Ten Years Ago

March 19, 2014

Ann Stevenson and her family tried for more than seven years to get her daughter Stephanie Blachly to move back to Texas from Pomeroy. Stephanie had moved here after marrying, started a family, and wasn't going to return to the Lone Star State. So Ann and her family decided that if they couldn't get Stephanie back with them, they'd go to her. As a result, the city will have a new restaurant, featuring genuine Tex-Mex cooking, in the former Steak House building. The family plans to open Madre's Mexican Restaurant and Cantina by the end of March.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 24, 1999

My final observation on the misuse of language is one that we all probably make, but one that could cause each of us a lot of problems, to the point of life and death even. I refer to the inaccurate interchanging of the letter 'O' with the non-number '0'. Our area code here for phone numbers is pronounced five-zero-nine, not five-oh-nine. The problem is that sometime in the future, there might be need to have a five-oh-nine area code, and then there will be confusion.

Fifty Years Ago

March 21, 1974

Seeley Theatre reopened for the 1974 season on St. Patrick's Day, Sunday, with two Disney productions, "Cinderella" and "Charley and the Angel." Always popular with the children, both were shown on Sunday and Monday nights. This Friday and Saturday, Seeley will present 20th Century Fox's "Emperor of the North," which was filmed in the Cottage Grove, Oregon, area.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 24, 1949

State Patrolman Clarence Ellis and Columbia County Deputy Sheriff H. Bauman, of Dayton, returned with two armed bandits, captured Sunday at Missoula, Mont., for the Delaney service station robbery last Friday morning. The two armed men held up Mrs. Harold Dye at Delaney, some 20 miles west of Pomeroy.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 24, 1924

Frank Fitzgerald-I would like to have a little space to apologize for my part of what I did in voting against the government handling wheat, that made Mr. Lambie so angry. I believe then and I believe yet that if the government was to set a price on wheat, that every acre in the U.S. that can grow black-eyed peas would be put into wheat. And isn't it a fact that what the government buys is paid through taxation and I think the little mite above what we are getting would be gobbled up through taxation from which we are groaning now.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 18, 1899

Peola-F.G. Morrison came up from the lower country one day last week with a fine blooded horse colt. C. White, who is a regular Sam Jones on horse flesh, says "by mighty, it's the finest colt I have seen in a coon's age."

Gould City-This correspondent is quite puny this week, but we lay it to that embalmed beef which we continue to get about twice a week through the mail. If we could have a change of meat or do without altogether one might feel better.