Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

March 17, 2010

Pomeroy Council 1460 of the Knights of Columbus celebrated its 100th anniversary Saturday at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Jim Herres was honored for his 52 years of service as council recording secretary, the longest service in that position in the history of the Knights of Columbus worldwide.

Pataha Flour Mill will hose the Spokane Melody Singers in an evening of music. The ensemble began in 1924 of senior-age men from the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 22, 1995

A community-wide meeting to set health care goals in Garfield County will be held at the Catholic School building in Pomeroy. The meeting is in conjunction with the health care survey mailed to residents by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Because of an error at the printers in Seattle, several pages of the Garfield County surveys were switched with those meant for the Columbia County survey.

Ten girls will compete this weekend for the title of 1995-96 Pomeroy Junior Miss.

Fifty Years Ago

March 19, 1970

Withholding of county property tax payments as a means of protest will be considered at a meeting called for this week for the purpose of organizing Garfield County Taxpayers Association. In voicing his beliefs on the present tax situation, local resident Amos Bartlow said: “No nation has ever survived with the tax percentage we are required to pay just now. It is your fight and your concern Mr. Taxpayer, and you must fight or capitulate. Let’s do what we can to preserve our liberty.”

Annual Community Service will be held on Good Friday at the Methodist Church.

Attendance by a large crowd of auction goers as in the past is expected to make a success of the annual Camp Fire and Cub Scout auction to be held at Pomeroy Jaycee hall.

A new car for the county engineer was purchased recently by the county commissioners. The winning bid of $2740 was entered by Burke Bros. on a 1970 Plymouth.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 22, 1945

The Commercial Club voted to recommend that all business houses shall remain closed from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on Good Friday.

The Girl’s Club will present their style show on Friday in the high school auditorium. The program will present clothing in three divisions: pre-school children, French refugees and high school campus styles.

It is the intention of the city to grade and surface all the alleys in town, provided property owners will move all their property, such as wood piles, ash piles, and other collections or accumulations that now clutter up many of the alleys. No alleys will be worked on unless cleaned up good enough to permit the use of road equipment clear through the block.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 20, 1920

The Methodist congregation will erect both church building and parsonage on its recently acquired Columbia street property, which contain two full lots. The old church site is for sale.

Members of the Thomas J. Graham Post enlivened their meeting Tuesday evening with a smoker and some interesting boxing followed by a luncheon and election of officers. Participating in the bouts of two and three rounds were: Malone and Oliver, May and Farance, Kralman and Becker, Amos Bartlow and Harry Bartlow, Herman Bartlow and Paul. In addition to the above, the program included bouts by six high school boys handicapped with a can on the left hand instead of a glove.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 16, 1895

The mercury registered one degree above zero at Peola Wednesday morning and stood about 15 above in this city.

There has been a slight rise in the price of beef cattle the past few days, and from present indications the advance will continue until a paying figure to the producer is reached. Five outside buyers were negotiating with Messrs. Mulkey and Dammon for their herd of 60 stall-fed animals. They were finally purchased by Tacoma butchers at 2 ½ cts for cows and 3 cts for steers. Frank Morrison sold two carts of stall-fed steers the same day a Chicago buyer at his own price, 3 cts per pound.

Harry St. George has received that phonograph and is now dealing out music at 5c. per tune. He will visit Starbuck and then go to Lewiston, and from there go to Cottonwood, Grangeville and other interior points.

The last city council was elected as a reform board,`with a distinct understanding that expenses should be kept down to the lowest limit. We trust they will carry out the wishes of those who elected them.

The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church will have a sale of bonnets and aprons in the near future. Lunch will be served and a grand good time is expected. Those who miss this leave a great blank space on their pleasure calendar.

C.W. Cotton’s school at Chapel will close on the 22nd, at which time the people of the district are invited to bring dinners and spend the afternoon listening to the closing exercises of the students and having a good social time.