Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

May 25, 2011

Pomeroy will take nineteen athletes to State 1B track meet next week. Two Pirate golfers and one alternate will attend the state golf tournament.

Memorial Day holiday activities this year in the Umatilla National Forest could be difficult or impossible as access to many sites is limited due to mountain snowpack and flood damage earlier in the year.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 29, 1996

Garfield County Community Action Development Team is turning to the community to help bring back the mural of the county on a grain elevator on the east end of Pomeroy. The original mural was on a grain tank that was removed across from Arrow Machinery last year.

Pomeroy School District patrons passed a $3.26 million bond last week for the remodeling of the elementary school and improvements at the high school.

The Pirate softball team posted a 1-2 record in its first state appearance.

Mayview Grange Hall will host the annual Mayview Grange picnic on June 2.

Fifty Years Ago

May 27, 1971

Triangle Automotive, Inc. and Ells Bartlow of Barlow Tractor & Implement Co. are merging their two firms into Able Tractor And Implement Co.

Commencement exercises for 75 Pomeroy high school graduates will be held Friday evening.

The nostalgia of the old-fashioned circus under the Big Top, combined with modern day know-how and thoroughly polished performances, is in store for children of all ages when the De Wayne Bros. Circus, one of the few remaining tented circuses still traveling across America and Canada, comes to Pomeroy June 4.

A relic from the past—an old dormitory-baggage car once used on crack Union Pacific passenger trains—is in Pomeroy this week. Now used by the communication radio department, UP Car 903162, the “Harriman” type car will be several days while work is being done in Lewiston on UP’s microwave system.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 23, 1946

37 boys and girls will graduate from Pomeroy high school on Tuesday evening, May 28.

A mobilized equipment exhibit consisting of some 40 units, 100 men and 10 officers will arrive in Pomeroy Monday. The men will be quartered in the Blue Mountain Canneries dormitory. On Tuesday, an exhibit featuring combat equipment used in World War II, from each branch of the service, will be on display at the city park to demonstrate the new equipment and high standard of personnel of the peacetime army.

Ray Hartung, of the state highway department, display at the Sommerville club a box of nails, nuts, bolts, wire—in fact everything from soup to nuts, picked up by his electro-magnet on a three mile stretch of road, Sweeney gulch to the top of the hill. In the collection of junk that weighed about 50 pounds, was a railroad spike and model-T Ford ignition key. Had the road been bladed after running the electro-magnet over it additional material would have been picked up. The magnet is so strong it has been known to pull a cold chisel from beneath the hard surface of the roadbed.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 28, 1921

The puppy silver-black fox which J.A. Armstrong was trying to raise away from its mother, chilled during the recent rain and died. The loss is several hundred dollars.

“Members of the Wenaha Game Protective Association, have you forgotten that there is a contest on between the sportsmen of Columbia county and ourselves? If you don’t want to pay for that feed on the Tucannon this fall, get out and bag some squirrels, magpies, crows, weasels, hawks, coyotes or rattlesnakes. Bring in the wing, foot or tail to F.F. Strain and see that the points are credited to your account.”

Sunday, June 5 has been designated as “Magpie Day,” when a general hunt will be made for these birds.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 23, 1896

Curiosity Supper, at Union Chapel, Tuesday evening, May 26, for the benefit of the church, everybody invited. Come and bring plenty of small change.

The price of flour is one dollar lower on the barrel than it was at this time last week, yet the wheel still “rolls round” in the Pomeroy mill.

Lost, strayed or stolen—4-year-old backstop. Last seen moving east from the baseball grounds in lower part of town. Information of its whereabouts will be thankfully received by the baseball gang.

The sports and pastimes of Ancient Rome are vividly revived in Bond Brothers’ Hippodrome, and will astonish and delight at Pomeroy on May 29.

Those wishing to leave small children and babies on May 29 and 30, may do so by taking them to the convent, where they will receive good care. All day $1.00; from 1 to 7 o’clock, 50 cents; pay in advance. There will also be lunch served for 15 cents.

Road Supervisors Horton and Ford are improving the condition of the roads this week and arranging to put in a new 30-foot bridge about two miles above Pataha City.

The King boys and H. Vannice and our old “spoilt-eyed-brindle coon dog”, Bowlegs, and the rest of the dogs, Sporty, Curley, Bower, Roscoe and Furgeson, succeeded in digging 13 coyotes out of one den Friday. Who can beat it?