Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 28, 2011

Temporary stop signs were installed on Columbia St. at 9th St., eastbound and westbound and will remain in place through the high school construction. Flashing lights on signs on Main St. east and west of 10th St., will operate before school and after school, indicating a speed limit of 20 mph.

Operations team for the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project will begin occupying the new operations and maintenance building at 39 Falling Springs Road on October 1.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 2, 1996

Three men in possession of a stolen flatbed truck with two Kawasaki four-wheelers on it were apprehended after the vehicle became disabled near Marengo Grade on Hwy. 12.

Installation is nearing completion of storm drain lines on the 6th St. project and curbs from Main St. to south of the bridge over Pataha Creek. The crew is running slightly behind schedule because of the city’s decision to install a new water main between Main St. and Pataha. The $30,000 water line wasn’t included in the contract for the project and the city must fund it independently.

Fifty Years Ago

September 30, 1971

Quite a number of Garfield County residents were present at Walla Walla or Hanford when President Richard Nixon visited Saturday.

Indian pictograph carvings in two rocks along the Snake River near Lower Granite damsite have been nominated to the state Register of Historic Places. The smaller of the two pictographs weights 300 lbs. and has been removed from the site. The bigger rock, weighing approximately six tons, is now under 37 feet of water and plans have been made to get it out.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 26, 1946

Two Clarkston youths, school pals, 9 and 10 years old, had their runaway adventure of seeing the world bought to an abrupt end Monday afternoon in west Pomeroy when they were taken in charge by Sheriff William Ground. He was tipped off to the adventuresome boys by a lady who after talking to them believed they were running away from home. The lads were hatless and one was shirtless. The boys were hitch-hiking and were using the shirt to wave down motorists passing them on the highway. They said they left Clarkston after the morning recess and had little difficulty in making it to Pomeroy, having been given a ride soon after they left their home town.

Beginning October 1, air mail postage rates on letters weighing an ounce or less will be reduced from eight cents to five cents by the post office department.

The Butler Motor company delivered a four-door deluxe sedan to W.L. Meyers Wednesday. Mr. Meyers placed his order for this particular model of car more than three years ago.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 24, 1921

The north Marengo hill claimed another victim Tuesday, when Miss May Tuffer, 50 years old, jumped out of a car as it left the grade at the curve just beyond the water tank, about one-fourth of the way down the hill and was instantly killed. The driver, Allison Hilton, and his two little sisters, who remained in the car until they were thrown out, escaped serious injury. Apparently the universal housing gave way which freed the brake and it was impossible either to stop or hold the car in the road around the steep, sharp curve. It was necessary to pull the car out with a block and tackle as the way was too rocky and steep to admit the use of horses. The machine, a disc-wheel Columbia, is a total wreck.

With the largest enrollment in the history of the school pulling together P.H.S. ought to do more this year than ever before. A few students do not appear to have come with the idea of doing their best while here. These few have been in evidence so far only in cases of tardiness.

Friday evening, September 23, has been set for the time of the Freshman initiation. Mr. Hart reports a good turnout for football and good progress on the part of the boys in playing. The players are beginning to deny themselves some of the things that break training.

The grade school grounds are being further improved by the addition of teeter boards and parallel bars.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 3, 1896

M.F. Gose returned last Friday from Enterprise, Ore., where he went to defend a young man charged with poisoning sheep. Mr. Gose showed that if a crime had been committed, it was in this state, and not in Oregon, as alleged by the prosecution, thereby placing the case beyond the jurisdictional power of the court.

Mrs. W.G. Victor has over 100 turkeys, as many chickens and a number of ducks, in consequence of which Mr. Victor is frequently reminded that she will make more from her poultry than he from his wheat crop.

The Oliver Bros. were on the Pataha Flat this week and brought home 100 bushels of the Mediterranean wheat to experiment on at Falling Springs.