Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

August 11, 2010

Members of Garfield County Health Foundation presented a check for $26,000 to Garfield County Hospital District to assist in purchasing of a new portable x-ray machine.

Pomeroy Swim Team captured the County Meet championship for the fourth consecutive year. After swimming to an undefeated regular eight-meet season, Pomeroy sent 37 swimmers to the County Meet in Colfax and swam away with the team trophy with a score of 431½.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 16, 1995

Mike McKeirnan, 16, was listed in serious condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital with injuries he received when the grain truck he was driving left the roadway and rolled twice Saturday afternoon.

Crews from Poe Asphalt completed installation of curbs along 15th Street last week, but the final asphalt overlay on the street will be delayed until after harvest.

1995 crops in Washington State could set records for quality and yield, according to the latest Crop Production Report.

Fifty Years Ago

August 13, 1970

Massey Bell, long-time resident of Garfield County and Pomeroy School custodian, died Thursday evening at Garfield County Memorial Hospital from injuries suffered a few hours earlier when the loaded grain truck he was driving left a wheat field road and rolled over several times to the bottom of a steep canyon.

A 22-year-old smoke-jumper was brought to the hospital in Pomeroy by helicopter Sunday afternoon after he sustained back and ankle injuries while parachuting to a forest fire at the forks of the Wenaha River 18 air miles west of Troy, Ore., when his parachute caught in a tree and he fell to the ground.

A quantity of supplies from the chemistry department of Pomeroy high school were stolen Thursday evening after entry was obtained by removing a window pane near the front door, then breaking the padlock off of the chemistry department’s supply room door. Items taken included hydrometers, marijuana awareness packs, rolls of copper wire and a bottle of sodium nitrate.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 9, 1945

Washington car owners might as well get out the mop and water bucket. License Director Harry Huse recently said 1946 license for passenger cars will consist of a single windshield sticker, the same as the state issued in the plateless years of 1943 and 1944. The state rounded up enough steel two years ago to put out single plates for 1945 but when it came time to order for 1946, the Germans were bulging into Belgium and military requirements cornered nearly all of the available metal.

118 Mexican nationals employed here since July 5 by Blue Mountain Canneries, harvesting and processing peas at the company’s Pomeroy plant, left Tuesday evening in trucks for Dayton where they were joined by 57 others of their nationality and boarded a special train for Marysville, Calif. The group left many a dollar with local merchants during their short stay in the city.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 14, 1920

Through the Wenaha Game Association, an effort is being made to secure state aid in a project to build a dam across the Pataha Creek and make a fish pond in the forest reserve just beyond the south line of the C.M. Baldwin pasture.

The crowds assembled at several popular camping-places on the mountain Sunday resembled the rush to a Fourth of July celebration, a pioneer picnic or a baseball game in Pomeroy. Scores of cars were parked along the road where huckleberries were found in abundance by those who cared to pick them. A storm which began to brew about 5 o’clock sent many of the cars scurrying down the brown road to the edge of the timber and thence by the various routes to all parts of the heated valley below.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 10, 1895

It is said that there is less water in the Pataha Creek and in the spring everywhere in this county than has been known at this season for many years.

F.N. Zinn brought to this office a box of most excellent dewberries of his own raising. They are of the most delicious taste and flavor and are the largest we ever saw. We are certainly in a berry raising region, whatever else may be said of the country.

For every twenty-five cents received in trade, Jimmy Lasityr, the barber, gives his customers a ticket entitling the holder to a chance on a twenty-dollar suit of clothes. A $20.00 suit is something of a novelty these times; it will be well to call for your ticket after getting shaved.

You can get an all-wool suit for $5.00 at S. Kaspar’s.

Owing to hard times, Jimmy Lasityr has decided to reduce the price of shaves to 15 cents.