Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

June 2, 2010

PHS Class of 2010 will graduate 29 members on June 5th.

Pomeroy Spinners Club presented 78 new helmets to the school football program, the culmination of a fundraising effort to provide safer equipment for Pirate players called “SHIPS” (Safer Helmets in Pomeroy).

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 7, 1995

31 graduates of Pomeroy High School’s Class of 1995 received their diplomas at last Sunday’s graduation.

Covered wagon races down Main Street on Pioneer Day will replace the groundhog races shut down by PETA two years ago.

Mark and Tracy Linebarger have purchased the Revere Hotel from Zack Lueck and Alverna Godineza and are in the process of taking the historic building down to the basic skeleton on the main floor.

Fifty Years Ago

June 4, 1970

Three Washington State University seniors from Pomeroy, Douglas Bell, John Gates and William Parlet, have been initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, national liberal arts scholastic honorary society.

What can be described as the biggest money heist in the history of Pomeroy occurred last Friday before noon when some clever crooks lifted $6,000 from the safe at Martin’s Super Duper Market. Believed to be responsible was a trio consisting of two men and a woman. The woman played a shopper needing lots of help while the men opened the safe in the back office and took the money sack. Aiding the thieves, but only by coincidence, was a power outage which occurred at the time they were in the store. Two men and a woman resembling the descriptions of the suspects were picked up by Lewiston police but released before an arrest warrant could be issued from Garfield County.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 7, 1945

George Kimble yesterday received a personal letter from General Douglas MacArthur, informing him that his son, Private Roy E. Kimble, who was with the armed forces on the Philippine Islands during the dark days of Bataan and Corregidor, died in a Japanese prison camp after the fall of these two stubbornly defended forts.

S/Sgt. Harold Wright, is recovering at McCaw’s hospital in Walla Walla. While only a German prisoner for four months, he weighed less than 100 pounds when he was liberated. His normal weight is 165 pounds.

Work has begun on the new Krouse Machine Shop. The $10,000 building of concrete and glass will replace the present wooden structure build by the late H.C. Krouse, founder of the business 64 years ago, in 1904.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 5, 1920

“Don’t be surprised if women are running the country, and heading up all business, professional and political activities, within a very few years,” warned W.J. Hindley of Spokane in his address to the graduating class of Pomeroy High School at the commencement exercises held in the Seeley theatre. His assessment was based on the observation that the number of girls graduating far exceeded the boys throughout the state.

After discussing a number of complaints that flowers were being stolen or trampled upon and gardens injured by ruthless plunderers, the Pomeroy Commercial Club decided a reward of $25 will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any person stealing flowers from any flower garden in the city.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 1, 1895

Quite a number of Pomeroy people attended the races that began at Lewiston this week. Several fine strings of running horses passed through this city earlier, bound for Lewiston, and upwards of 40 horse are now in training there.

The fellow who lost a pipe stem may recover same by returning to W.H. Kimbrough the eleven sacks of wheat he stole last winter.

The school board of the Skyhock district are after a couple of boys for destroying property belonging to the school. One of these youngsters, it is said, is an all-round bad boy, and has given the school directors considerable trouble heretofore. There must be something wrong with a domestic restraint which makes it possible for boys to go about destroying public and private property, posting obscene notices, etc., and it might be profitable to enquire into their home lives and ascertain to what extent the parents are responsible.

Although the old “vets” mustered only about a score of men for their parade on Decoration Day, they marched as grandly as if there had been thousands of them. But the large crowd of spectators on this occasion shows that though the ranks of the old soldiers are fast thinning out, the memory and gratitude of our people will live until republics are no more and the earth is rolled together like a scroll.

Wednesday, June 5th, is the annual Decoration Day for the Pataha Flat cemetery. There will be services at the Chapel and everyone is invited to attend and assist in beautifying the graves of departed friends.