Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

October 19, 2011

Pomeroy High School’s Tory Knebel and Diana Burt were in the top four in the 5th annual Warrior Athletic Association’s High School Awards presented October 12.

Pomeroy Christian Church will host a 125th Anniversary celebration on Sunday, October 23. There will be a special Sunday school program at 8:45 a.m. and Worship Service at 10 a.m. Dinner will be at 11:30 a.m. A reception will begin at 12:30 p.m., followed by a musical program including the Golden Girls and the Revelation.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 23, 1996

Because of early winter storms in mountain passes, studded tires could be used beginning October 18th on Washington highways, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Studded tires are usually not approved for use until November 1.

The October meeting of the Holy Rosary Altar Society was held at the home of Orleatha Gasseling with CeCe Meyers as co-hostess. Among other things, plans for the November 5 Election Day Salad Bar were discussed.

Fifty Years Ago

October 21, 1971

“I could have sold ten ranges if I’d known it was coming” said County Treasurer Dave Taylor last week. Taylor was speaking about the results of an E.W. classified ad which read “For Sale – Electric Range, Kenmore Classic, 4-burner, double oven, glass door, rotisserie unit in top oven... Please call before Saturday, 843-1531” Unfortunately, Mrs. Ken Tupper, who moved to Walla Walla this week placed the ad and the telephone number should have been 843-1530.

Homecoming week starts Tuesday with “Stomp Um and Chomp Um Day” – everyone wears sweat shirts to school.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 24, 1946

In spite of the fact that it is common knowledge that there are no perfect men these days it is not uncommon to hear a man referred to as a perfect fool.

Individual people and firms donated money to make it possible for Rodney Kimble and Jim Gwinn to attend the national Future Farmers of America meeting and the American Royal Livestock show at Kansas City, Missouri, this week.

Word has been received from the war department that the army is now ready to present S/Sergeant J. Russell’s war awards to his mother Mrs. Jack Russell, residing on the Tucannon. Sergeant Russell, 32, died in a German prison camp in France of wounds he received in battle on September 18, 1944.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 22, 1921

One of the big novelties in “It Might Happen to You,” the Artclass Pictures Corporation feature which comes to the Seeley Tuesday and Wednesday is a jazz band composed entirely of monkeys. In addition to forming the orchestra for the big banquet scenes, the simians band engage in a fight, the points of which have been cleverly brought out by the producers through the use of cleverly worded subtitles.

Another rainstorm is brewing, a situation which is regarded with general satisfaction. More rain is needed to bring the wheat up on light soil.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 22, 1921

Mr. Houser bought 12,000 bushels of wheat last Saturday, paying 55c per bushel. Wheat has sold at 60c since, but is off several cents on the bushel at this time.

It is a sad commentary upon American politics that the greatest and best men of the country must pass through the fiery ordeal of personal calumny in order to quench the insatiable greed of political jackals and character assassins. Shame on the men who still persist in the sewer methods in politics.