Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

November 17, 2010

Pomeroy City Council members voted to appoint G. Paul Miller to fill the vacancy left with the resignation of Mike Akers.

Pirate girls were knocked out of the State volleyball tournament following one win and two losses.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 22, 1995

Christmas in downtown Pomeroy has its traditional kickoff Friday evening when the lights come on and Santa Claus comes to town, courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce.

The annual Community Thanksgiving Service, held by the Pomeroy Ministerial Association, will be held at the Pomeroy Methodist Church. The Garfield County Transportation van will be available.

Fifty Years Ago

November 19, 1970

The Pirates did it! That fighting bunch of PHS students which make up the 1970 football team put the lid on an undefeated season when they defeated the Bulldogs 24-0 in a Veteran’s Day afternoon contest at Dayton, the first such season for Pomeroy since 1921.

Brothers Bill and Dick Wolf, partners in the B&D Cattle Co., have been named Conservation Farmers of the Year by the Pomeroy Soil and Water Conservation District.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 22, 1945

With a bulldozer operated by Kenneth Poe of Clarkston leading the way, 58 elk hunters, ranging in age from 15 to 70 years, including four women, 21 trucks and cars were liberated from the Mt. Misery sector, 33 miles south of Pomeroy in the Blue mountains, after having been snowbound for more than ten days, the party reaching Clearwater ranger station about noon on Monday. The distance between Mt. Misery and Clearwater station is nine miles and this stretch of road proved to be the most difficult to negotiate as the caravan ran into snow 20 feet deep. The party had little difficulty in making the trip from Clearwater to Pomeroy, a distance of 24 miles.

The Ortin Scoggin, Harry Kraemer and Dick Koller families welcomed two sets of twin grandchildren: boys, Erwin and Marvin, born to Howard and Norma (Scoggin) Koller; and a boy and girl, born to Raymond and Geraldine (Kraemer) Koller.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 19, 1920

A definite step for the construction of a fine church was taken by the Methodist official board. Estimated cost of the building is $20,000 and of the equipment $5,000.

The New Seeley Theatre celebrates the beginning of Claude Thompson’s 18th year as a theatre manager in Pomeroy with a full week of exciting movies, accompanied by Prof. Cooke on the Wurlitzer.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 16, 1895

Dep. Marshal Sherrill has been making some needed improvement to the walks about town, putting in new boards and giving the old ones a general nailing down.

Harry St. George arrived home Monday from a successful two months’ trip with his phonograph.

The ladies of Faith Rebekah Lodge are arranging to give a grand Thanksgiving ball in Seeley’s Opera House. The fact that the Rebekahs have this matter in hand is a sufficient guarantee that it will be a brilliant social event.

The most prominent event in this line ever recorded in the city was the ball given by the ladies of Faith Lodge some years ago.

The ladies of the Baptist church will serve an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner, beginning at 12 p.m. and lasting till 9 o’clock, in the Tyrrel building, Main street. The ladies are working in a good cause and should be liberally patronized.

Last night the Ousley brothers’ fine registered bull was run over and killed by the incoming train. A valuable cow was also badly crippled and had to be shot. The trucks were derailed, causing some delay.

A Thanksgiving turkey shoot the day before Thanksgiving is one of the attractions for Pomeroy. It is under the management of E.G. Powell, who extends a most cordial invitation to sportsmen everywhere.

Sam Shawley and Lew Tidwell arrived home Wednesday from a chase after the Kamiah post office robbers. They traced the men through Dayton, Walla Walla and Pendleton, but lost their trail at Hay Stacks, 125 miles beyond Pendleton.

The low stage of the water in wells during the last summer has rendered it unwholesome, and people should use every precaution to prevent sickness through the use of impure water. This condition will probably be changed for the better when the wells are replenished and brought back to their normal conditions.