Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

December 1, 2010

Pomeroy High School Senior Project students are raffling off a Susan G. Komen Pink Christmas Tree as a fundraiser.

Pomeroy Spinners Club will once again have a special box for letters to Santa in the Pomeroy Post Office.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 6 1995

If there is anybody in Pomeroy who can say he’s “been there, did that,” it has to be Fr. James Bean, the new pastor at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Pomeroy. Aside from crisscrossing the country as a U.S. Army dependent in his youth and serving in Vietnam as a chaplain, the retired Army major lived in Europe for many years.

The 8th annual FFA Alumni Silent Auction and spaghetti feed will feature a grand prize of two Northwest Airlines flight vouchers valued at $3,000.

Fifty Years Ago

December 3, 1970

For 49 years the Pomeroy high school football squad of 1921 held the record as the only PHS team having an undefeated and untied season. The record fell this year and three members of the 1921 team—Bob Beale, Elmer Shelton and Cecil Mast—were proud to attend the Kiwanis banquet honoring the 1970 squad.

A salmon and steelhead fingerling trapping and transport system at Little Goose Dam has been authorized as a joint effort research project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 6, 1945

The two attractive fir trees on the courthouse lawn have been decorated with clusters of colored lights for the holiday season. The work and electricity is being donated to the community by Pacific Power & Light company. The six colored street stringers strung across Main street before the war would have again been placed in position this year had it been possible to obtain colored bulbs.

Ray Purcell, on the USS Dixie now anchored in Shanghai Harbor, sent a copy of the China edition of the U.S. armed forces newspaper The Stars and Stripes back home to family. The paper carried a front-page story of the 58 elk hunters who were snowbound in the Blue mountains southeast of Pomeroy in the Mt. Misery district.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 11, 1920

The screen offerings of Bill Hart and the literary attempts of B.M. Bower may have been responsible—or it may have been just general cussedness. Anyway, George Clark is nursing a battered face and bruised body and his brother is thankful for a fleet pair of legs. The two Clarks, in company with W.E. Bishop and Howard Stradley, journeyed last week to the unposted Drumheller farm on Crab Creek for a duck hunt. Shortly after the party divided into two pairs, the Clark brothers were ridden down by a couple of mounted, bad-man cowboys, and the listed injuries resulted. Their guns were taken by the marauders, who have not yet been apprehended.

Miss Ida Behlau won the contest for the most popular young lady at the Catholic Fair Saturday evening. Miss Cecelia Buckley took second place and Miss Mildred Coston third.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 30, 1895

Harry McQueen has several hundred pounds of nice, pure lard for sale. It is put up in ten pound buckets and will be offered at the lowest market price.

Marshal Lakin carries the club in Pomeroy again. Having disposed of his property in Garfield he has returned with the intention of serving out his time as marshal of this city.

Arrangements are being made for a grand coyote chase Nov. 30. Everybody with their dogs and guns are invited to engage in the pursuit.

The King boys during the last year have killed 45 coyotes, 7 wildcats and 15 coons. If anyone has beaten this record we would be glad to hear from him.

Grandma Dickson, near Gould City, whose one side was partially paralyzed some three weeks ago, is improving, though her permanent recovery is somewhat doubtful, owing to her advanced age—sixty-eight years.

There is a good deal of complaint that the wood haulers have a peculiar method of cording their wood, so that a cord will measure a cord and a half. From the looks of some of the piles about town, we fear there is some ground for the complaint. Where a good-sized dog can run through a wood pile, it is time to interview the stacker. We think that our wood haulers ought to stack wood so that coarse dogs and calves could not go through anyhow. It pays to be honest in measuring wood, hay or calico. Do as you would be done, and nobody can complain.