Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 10, 2010

Pomeroy School District’s $4.49 million bond request for modernization of the high school building has apparently passed with 60.77% approval. As of Friday, the count was 581 yes votes to 375 no votes.

Cable television customers in Pomeroy will have service discontinued February 22, according to Charter Communications, and apparently there aren’t any measures that can be taken to prevent the service stoppage or restoring cable television service. The city has had problems with collecting the monthly cable utility tax payment from Almega Cable since the company took over the franchise in October 2008.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 8, 1995

Mary Dye, Republican state committeewoman, has been elected vice-chairwoman of the Republican party.

Pomeroy Police Chief Dave Boyer, after discussion and approval by Garfield County Sheriff Larry Bowles, will begin using off-duty county deputies in reserve city police office roles.

Fifty Years Ago

February 5, 1970

The second in a series of meetings designed to retain and perpetuate interest in a local museum will be held next week in the Holy Rosary school building.

Snow measurement at Spruce Springs in the Blue Mountains showed 68 inches of the white stuff on January 29, deep but no record.

Garfield County’s first traffic fatality of 1970 occurred January 29, when 22-year-old Alan Marc Smith of California was killed instantly when he was thrown from the van he was driving. The vehicle was westbound and went end-over-end when it left the road eight miles east of Pomeroy on Highway 12 near the intersection of Nebuhr road.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 8, 1945

About 125 homes and business houses are without garbage collection service since Bob Nelson’s trucking service that has collected garbage here for several years, definitely quit last week after threatening to several times in the past. Nelson had been prevented from raising his collection rates in the face of higher wages and living costs by O.P.A. restrictions. This service is of such importance to the general health of the citizens of Pomeroy that the city council spent a portion of the time this week attempting to solve the problem. There is nothing compulsory about maintaining this service, paid for by the individuals who took advantage of it.

The dental office of Dr. R.W. Frick on the second floor of the Farmers National Bank building is to be completely remodeled starting this week.

A return match between the Clarkston Bantams and Pomeroy Pirate boxing teams will be staged in the high school gymnasium Saturday evening with 10 bouts scheduled.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 7, 1920

Local people have flocked to southern points and the California coast is lined with wanderers from Garfield County.

A modern photoplayer has been installed in the Grand theatre by Manager Turner. The organ is mechanical in operation, motor driven, and includes all sorts of orchestra effects which with the pipe organ attachment, are used at the will of the operator.

Attendance in both high school and grades during the last two weeks has been less than 50 percent of normal, the decline being caused by the influenza epidemic. Only four teachers reported for duty Monday morning. The high school, which had been closed throughout last week because of damage done to the heating system by the recent freshets, opened again Monday with an attendance only 48 percent of normal.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 9, 1895

Taxes are now payable and if paid before the 15th of this month a rebate of 2 percent will be allowed.

I.N. Banning came down from the mountains last week, where he spent the winter hunting and trapping. He killed 8 deer but didn’t make a fortune trapping.

The lodging department of the St. George Hotel has received a thorough renovating this week. The old carpets have been replaced with new ones, paint has been applied where needed, and the rooms are to be repapered throughout.

Dr. Black wishes to announce to his friends and patrons, and the public generally, that he is fitting up his office, and will do an office practice and attend calls in the city.

Messrs. Frank and Will Kettenbach, of the Lewiston National Bank, were in Pataha this week. We may have a National bank in Pataha.

There was a spirited trotting match on the race track Friday. The grey horse won by an open length.

A special meeting of the trustees of Union Chapel and of the Pataha Prairie Cemetery Association was held at the Chapel on Monday. Arrangements were made by the cemetery board to have a grove put out in the spring and ordered that the sexton dig all graves in the future, for which he is to receive three dollars.

Ask Charley about the perfume on the muff at chapel Thursday night.

A bicyclist was fined $2.50 at Dayton the other day for riding on Main street sidewalk.