Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 17, 2010

Pirate wrestlers placed third at Regional and ten will advance to State. Klytin Bott, Scott Wolf and Justin Aldrich won their weight class championships.

By donating $1.00 to the relief effort for Haiti’s earthquake victims, Pomeroy students get to wear a hat during school hours for a day.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 15, 1995

Pomeroy School District patrons approved a $396,000 one-year maintenance and operations levy that included addition of an elementary administrator-curriculum person.

Pomeroy High School senior Tom Herres won his weight class at the Southeast Regional tournament and will wrestle in the Mat Classic 1995 state championship meet at the Tacoma Dome.

A winter storm that passed through southeastern Washington dropped six inches of snow on Pomeroy and surrounding areas of the county. Temperatures dipped into the teens and lower.

Fifty Years Ago

February 12, 1970

A pioneer ranch family with a large and interesting registered Polled Hereford cow-calf operation has been named 1970 Garfield Cattlemen of the Year. Picked for the honor were Wayne Beale and sons, Tracy and Roger, and the families of the three men.

Praise and credit to her late husband, her family and her farm manager were given in substantial quantities by Mrs. Vernon Bye when she recently accepted the title of 1970 Conservation Farmer of the Year for the Pomeroy Soil and Water Conservation District.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 15, 1945

This year Pomeroy will again host the Southeastern Washington sub-district basketball tournament. Involved are teams from Asotin, Anatone, Clarkston, Dayton, and Pomeroy. First- and second-place winners will go to the district tournament at Colfax. General admission prices will be 41 cents, and a $1.50 season ticket will get you into the entire series.

High school football players receiving letters: Allen McCann, Wilbur Gingerich, Vern Mast, Gilbert Sharpe, Gordon Burt, Norman Lybecker, Oren King, Jack Waldher, Harold Waldher, Pete Watson, Vern Jones, Alvin Landkammer, Robert Koller, Kenneth Price, Bob McKeirnan and Bob Hartung. Gordon Burt won the alumni inspirational award and Bob McKeirnan was named best blocker and tackler by his teammates.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 14, 1920

The local game association is completing arrangements with the Columbia county organization of sportsmen for an inter-county contest in the destruction of predatory birds and animals, commencing March 1 and continuing until September 7, 1920. The losing association, according to the agreement between the two bodies, will “furnish an entertainment and dinner to the winners on the Tucannon near the ranger station on September 19. All contestants to participate, and the losers to pay the freight.”

“Those who didn’t have it, have it now”—this report of physicians on the influenza situation made early in the week remains practically accurate. But the change from foggy dampness to clear, sharp cold weather brought considerable relief, and particularly in the city of Pomeroy there has been a steady decline of new cases.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 16, 1895

The postmaster was kept pretty busy all day Thursday distributing Valentines.

The Vancouver Independent has definite views about state commissioners. It says: “Washington neither needs nor wants a lot of commission, with a lot of members to go trotting about the state transacting numerous imaginary and useless duties.”

The following advertisement recently appeared in a London journal. The absence of a hyphen makes a startling condition of affairs: “Mr. and Mrs. Levi have cast off clothing of every description and invite your inspection.”

John Hilliard is laid up with a badly hammed up leg, the effect of monkeying with a bunch-grass cayuse.

Mr. Will Bruce was the champion speller at Marengo Saturday, winning an easy victory over the Pomeroy champion.

We have a little stir in the Mayview district just now, caused by our directors having promised our spring term of school to the same teacher who taught last fall. Petitions to our directors for and against the employing of said teacher have been circulated. We believe a teacher perfectly competent to teach our school can be employed for $45 per month. At any rate we know of those who are said to be good teachers teaching for that amount. The teacher who has received the highest wages ever paid at Ilia, Chapel or Mayview now offers to teach for $45 per month.

Dep. U.S. Marshal J.F. Parker, of the Walla Walla Statesman, was in Pomeroy Thursday night, having come over from Pullman to serve papers on parties he had expected to find at that place. The Col. says Garfield County roads are the best in the country. He became infatuated with our fine sample of oats, raised by Bill Victor, and insisted that we secure two or three sacks of the seed for him.