Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

March 10, 2010

Garfield County will move personnel and offices, except for the Sheriff’s Department, to two rooms in the south end of Pomeroy Elementary School during the renovation period projected to last up to a year.

Boot Scootin’ Boogie is the theme for the 2010 Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards Banquet at Spinners Hall.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 15, 1995

The new facility above the grandstand on the home side of the football field will feature a booth for the game announcer, a room for the visiting team’s film crew and/or broadcast team, and a box for the Pomeroy film crew. Five private boxes will complete the structure.

Garfield County Hospital District will have a physical therapist at the hospital five days a week, and beginning within a month, heart patients will be able to receive pre- and post-operative services and other tests locally.

Fifty Years Ago

March 12, 1970

Vearl Johnson, Pomeroy restaurant owner who has made the operation of the ambulance his pet project since the service was started as a community affair in 1968, was named 1969 Citizen of the Year.

At last! The first baby of 1970 for Garfield County, Melody Kay McClanahan, arrived at the hospital on March 10.

First drowning on the newly-formed Little Goose pool occurred March 8 at Central Ferry when a 17-year-old Navajo youth from Arizona apparently jumped from a boat and then failed to make it to shore.

March 16 is the date set for opening of the new Central Ferry Bridge to restricted traffic. The demolished old steel bridge spans will remain on the bottom of the Snake River. Water over these sections will be at a minimum of 25-feet to provide adequate navigational clearance.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 15, 1945

A convertible coupe carrying four soldiers, a sailor and three young women giving Clarkston as their home address left the state highway early Sunday morning near the E.E. Knettle farm west of Pomeroy, scattering members of the armed forces and the three women promiscuously about and while not seriously injuring any one of the eight persons riding in the small car they were all more or less shaken up.

General Tractor Repair will be the new name of the firm of James Scoggin, Orville Laughery and Riley Yeoman.

Wynne Stallcop injured his right foot painfully when he accidentally stumbled while carrying a floor sander weighing about 150 pounds and tumbled down the entire flight of the stairs at his home.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 13, 1920

Judge M.F. Gose was unanimously endorsed as a candidate for state senator to fill the unexpired term made vacant by the resignation of E.V. Kuykendall.

The price of penitentiary grain sacks will be 16 ½ cents each. Last year the price was set at 18 cents. The allotment for Garfield County has not yet been received here, but it will probably be in the neighborhood of 30,000.

Farmers National Bank has bought the J.R. Stevenson building on Main Street. It will be remodeled with the west room fitted up for the banking business while Mr. Stevenson will continue his hardware business in the east room. The second floor will be fitted up for offices. The location is one of the best in the city.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 9, 1895

What’s become of the band?

Doc. Spedden wears a pretty badly disfigured face these days, the result of being kicked by a horse.

Dr. D.F. Storey has leased the St. George dining room and the Buster House is a thing of the past.

The following letters remain uncalled for in the post office at Pomeroy at this date: Messrs. Lee and Miller.

J.H. Walker will leave for the Chicago markets with 1200 fat sheep and a carload of horses. G.F. Jackson will start at the same time with about 1200 mutton sheep.

Harry St. George has an expensive Edison telephone on the way from New York, with which he will entertain the people of Pomeroy and neighboring towns.

W.E. Greene has 40 head of brood mares and 45 head of mules from 1 to 4-year-olds, for sale at prices ranging from $15 to $45.

The Baptist church has purchased two lots of Newt Estes, at the corner of 5th and Columbia streets, and will erect a church building thereon as soon as possible. The location is an excellent one.

N.D. Knettle purchased 31,000 bushels of wheat last Saturday. Prices paid ranged from 32 ¼ for club to 34 ½ for bluestem f.o.b.

C.W. Hansen has opened up a photograph gallery upstairs over Allen & Adams grocery store, where he says he will stay just as long as the business pays and no longer.

The Y’s will give a fad social at the home of Mrs. Oleson Monday evening. Ladies are all expected to represent some fad, and an enjoyable time is anticipated.