Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

May 14, 2014

Two of the state legislators from District 9 attended Garfield County Hospital District’s open house last week Wednesday, mingling with hospital administrators and staff, and community members. Hospital district chief executive officer Andrew Craigie said that he and the legislators shared a concern for the sustainability of rural hospitals. “We agree that rural health systems need to be creative and flexible in how they meet the needs of their communities,” Andrew said.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 19, 1999

Against the St. John-Endicott Eagles, Pomeroy Pirate girls’ softball team scored four runs in the first inning with Dawn Kimble hitting an RBI triple and Katie Ruchert getting an RBI double. In the second inning, Ruchert hit a two-run home run over the leftfield fence, becoming only the fourth player ever to clear it in the past 10 years. Prescott’s Katie Buehler was the first to go over the left-field fence in 1997, and Kimble and Katie Jo McGreevy made the distance over the fence last year.

Fifty Years Ago

May 16, 1974

Department of Agriculture Director Stewart Bledsoe announced today that his agency will be granting the Department of Game $50,000 to initiate a behavioral manipulation study to control livestock depredation by coyotes. Direct Bledsoe and Game Director Carl Crouse will be meeting with state livestock associations in the near future to determine appropriate areas in which to set up study and control programs.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 19, 1949

Don Babcock, driver for the Speer Log Co., which sells logs to Guthrie Mills, Inc., escaped from death last Thursday noon on the upper Pataha Creek Road near the Charles Baldwin farm. Babcock was driving his big truck up a hill empty into the forest, when his carburetor got hot, and the gas line fouled up. He attempted to use his brakes going backward down the hill, and they failed him. Babcock rode with the truck down a 150-foot embankment, where the truck turned over for the third time. He suffered cuts and bruises, and was taken to Memorial hospital, where he was released Wednesday.

One Hundred Years Ago

January, 1924

Ralph Waller, slayer of Alfred Waldman and Ida Waldman, calmly received the verdict of the jury last Tuesday, finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the death penalty. A smile was on the prisoner’s face when he left the courtroom in the custody of the officers, sustaining the attitude of indifference to his fate which he has shown throughout the time of his arrest and trial.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 13, 1899

Alpowa Anecdotes-It is most feelingly regretted that we have had near and remote enemies surreptitiously operating in the late serious interference with the mail service in this community by inducing the P.O. Department to discontinue mail service on that part of the route east of the Alpowa post office. These dastardly, sneaking enemies to private interests and public enterprises are immeasurably lower down in the scale of decency and civility and manliness than the libidinous libertines and highway hobos.