Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

January 13, 2010

Voters in Pomeroy School District will decide in February whether or not to approve a $4,490,000 bond for modernization of the high school. Passage would mean the state would provide 4.9 million in funding for the project, expected to total 9.5 million.

Starting with the 2010-11 school year, Pomeroy High School will be classified as a 1B school and compete in that classification. The biggest change for the school district is that it will field an 8-man football team instead of the 11-man teams it has always formed.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 18, 1995

Garfield County voters will be asked in an election in February to approve a levy request of $396,000 by the Pomeroy School District.

Local thawing conditions caused Garfield County Road Department to post Emergency Load Restrictions on most paved roads in the county.

After thirty years as owner of Home Mart, Pomeroy’s only remaining furniture and appliance store, Loren Porter has retired and sold the business to Mike Deal, who has been employed there for fourteen years.

Fifty Years Ago

January 15, 1970

Cattle rustling in still considered a problem to ranchers here, said Garfield County Cattlemen’s Association president Neil Keatts at a recent board meeting. More than normal numbers of cattle have been lost this year and ways to prevent rustling in the county were discussed.

An upcoming important meeting will probably determine the fate of the Garfield County Red Cross organization and its programs. Interest in the Red Cross here has been on the wane in recent years.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 18, 1945

A group of about 50 registrants for military service between the ages of 18 and 26 years of age currently classified in 2-C by the Selective Service board because of agricultural occupations left here Tuesday morning to be given their pre-induction examination. This is the largest group to leave Pomeroy at a single time on a similar mission. The cases of those who are found to be qualified for service will be reviewed by the local board.

A cooperative anti-inflation campaign between grocers and consumers has been launched here, announced Gus Lybecker, community service member of the War Price and Rationing Board. Housewives were urged to watch grocer’s windows for a comparison of costs under price control at the present time.

One Hundred Years Ago

January16, 1920

There were 29 deaths in Garfield County during 1919, compared with 33 during the previous year. The records list no deaths of persons between one and 37 years of age. Seventeen were of persons of 60 and over; five died at ages between 37 and 56. One death at five months was listed, another at 10 months, and the remaining seven were of infants.

Revere Hotel special Sunday dinner, Jan. 11, 1920: Price $1.00. Soup, Consomme St. Julienne; Appetizer, Lobster Cocktail; Relishes, Ripe Olives and Sweet Pickles; Choice of Roast Young Turkey with Cranberry sauce or Prime ribs of beef Au jus; Vegetables, Sugar corn and Potatoes O’Brien; Dessert, Cherry Souffle a la Davenport.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 19, 1895

Hon. S.G. Cosgrove is at Olympia working for a reduction in freight rates. No man in the state could do more for the cause.

A charming feature of the elocutionary entertainment at the opera house Thursday night will be the scarf drill by seven young ladies in dainty costumes.

The census shows that Frank Jones’ Christmas present was a boy of eleven pounds weight. No wonder Frank was so incapacitated that he couldn’t get downtown to report the youngster’s arrival.

A certain young man from Tukanon borrowed a Dayton fellow’s girl to take sleighriding a few days ago. All went well until, when nearing Dayton, a dog jumped out at the horses, frightening them who, in consequence of the careless way they were being driven, succeed in making their escape. When the parties recovered themselves enough to realize where they were they found that as the sleigh they weren’t in it, but as the snow they were fairly in it. The young man and the borrowed girl were seen walking into town early the next morning. Moral: Boys if you haven’t a girl of your own to sleighride, don’t borrow one.

The stage met with an accident on the grade above Pataha Wednesday night. The driver and one passenger were severely hurt.

An attempt was made last Friday to have a dance over L.N. Wade’s shop but by midnight a number of the crowd had absorbed enough whiskey and patent medicine to get up a fight which began in the ballroom, ending as usual in a drunken brawl on the outside, which broke up the dance. Not until these dances are conducted by someone who will not allow a man under the influence of liquor to enter the ballroom under any circumstances can we hope for anything better.

Venison has been quite plentiful in Pomeroy the past few weeks, retailing in the markets at from 10 to 12 cents. Otto Long has secured a dozen or more fine deer this winter, and other hunters have been quite successful.