Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

October 6, 2010

President of Puget Sound Energy Kimberly Harris came to Pomeroy last week to cut the ceremonial ribbon at the fairgrounds opening the Lower Snake River Wind Project. She also presented a $10,000 check to the commissioners as a contribution toward the county’s courthouse rehabilitation project.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 11, 1995

Garfield Hospital District hopes to replace the almost-50-year-old boiler with a cooling tower and nine heat pumps, as well as the electrical wiring, by passage of a $495,000, five-year bond request on the November general election ballot.

The 1995 Garfield County Fair 4-H and FFA Market Sale again had a record-breaking year as auctioneer Delbert Niebel pounded the gavel for 97 steers, hogs and sheep. The first market sale in 1981 had a total of 31 animals sold.

Fifty Years Ago

October 8, 1970

The county has nine bridges judged unsafe for legal roads and replacement costs have been estimated at $116,000. In addition the county has one arterial bridge of less than 20 feet wide and its replacement cost has been given at $11,500.

State Senator Hubert Donahue of Dayton reports that Senator Henry Jackson will send a staff member here along with an engineer to confer with farmers and BPA officials regarding the problems with the proposed Bonneville Power Administration lines through Garfield County farmlands.

Pomeroy’s new $30,000 fire truck which will help retain the present No. 6 fire rating of the city arrived here Thursday from California.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 4, 1945

Food buys this week at Emerson-Hull Co. include: Snowdrift shortening, 3 lb. jar, 69¢; Hill Bros. coffee, 2 lb. jar, 63¢; and Rose peanut butter, 1 pound, 39¢.

The first unit of a $10,000 concrete building, 40x70 feet, being constructed by the Krouse Machine Shop is just about completed. The new building will replace one of the oldest business buildings on Main street, the old shop built by H.C. Krouse in 1904.

Construction work has also started on the new fireproof building for the Pomeroy Tractor company at the corner of Main and Fifth.

One Hundred Years Ago

October, 1920

C.P. Ellis, an extensive breeder of silver-black foxes at Winnipeg, Canada, arrived in Pomeroy with a male and female pair, which Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Armstrong bought while visiting the Ellis fox farm last spring.

The “Simplicity Six,” a new automobile built by Simplicity Motors in Seattle, is being demonstrated here. The outstanding feature making this car differ from other makes is a device by which the gearshift operates automatically from pressure applied to a foot pedal. Those who have investigated the car agree it is exceptionally fine in appearance, easily handled and comfortable.

One hundred sixteen persons registered at the auto park during August and September this year, down from 328 persons registered in corresponding months last year.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 5, 1895

Some sneaking thief broke into John Burford’s cellar on Main street the other night and stole a dozen cans of fruit.

The proprietors of the Red Elephant livery stable have added a feed and wagon yard for the accommodation of their patrons.

W.J. Spillman, of the Pullman Agricultural College, was in this part purchasing some choice milk cows to be used at the agricultural college. He succeeded in securing nine head from the herds of J.J. Bently, A.B. Allen, Jos. Morrell and W. Niebel, paying from $20 to $40 per head, and crossed the river with them last Tuesday.

It will soon be cool and disagreeable. Go to Central Drug Store and get window glass and fix up your broken windows. Better attend to it at once and avoid colds and sore throats—prevention beats cures.

Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer is, unquestionably, the best preservative of the hair. It is also curative of dandruff, tetter, and all scalp conditions.

Deputy Sheriff Dickson went to Pullman Saturday and arrested John Myers, who was wanted for making an assault on Frank Rach some weeks ago. Myers was brought to town and tried in Justice Brown’s court. He was fined $1 and costs which he paid.

Sheriff Baldwin left for Spokane Tuesday, having been summoned as a witness in the case of the State against James Kelley. Kelley was with the gang of thieves arrested at Marengo a few weeks ago, and was turned over to the Spokane authorities, there being no evidence to hold him for trial in this county. He expects to prove by our sheriff that he was not trying to “skip the country” when arrested.

Mr. S.S. Russel is teaching our school for the neat little sum of sixty dollars per month.