Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten years ago

March 21, 2012

Thanks to the generosity and consideration of a Pomeroy High School student, patients at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Spokane will have a little bit of comfort. PHS freshman Savannah Ruark will donate her collection of 180 Beanie Babies to the hospital. The 15-year-old had the idea to donate her stuffed animals after a classmate received treatment there.

A two-year project at Holy Rosary Catholic Church culminated last week with the installation of five glass panels representing the Catholic Church’s Five Luminous Mysteries on a wall of the reconciliation room.

Twenty-five years ago

March 19, 1997

Barbara McClanahan, who started in the Garfield County Extension Office as a substitute secretary in 1967, will retire March 19. In almost 29 years, she has seen 4-H members grow up, become parents and become 4-H leaders with their own children.

Bonneville Power Administration has provided additional funds for conservation and habitat restoration projects inside the Pataha Creek Model Watershed. The grant supplying these funds must be appropriated to specific projects or practices by Aug. 1, according to Duane Bartels of the watershed project. This date is to allow for contract writing and other needed documentation.

Fifty years ago

March 16, 1972

Garfield County Republicans favored the Nixon-Agnew ticket and Democrats, Senator Henry Jackson, for president, at precinct caucuses last week in Pomeroy and other locations in the country.

Washington and Idaho Old Time Fiddlers will be here Saturday, March 18 to present their sixth annual concert for Garfield County, reports Gilbert Dickson, co-chairman of the concert.

Seventy-five years ago

March 20, 1947

Davie E. Davenport received a wire from his wife, the former Barbara Wooles, of Barry, South Wales, England, from Montreal this morning announcing that she had safely arrived in the Canadian city and would arrive in Vancouver, B.C. on Sunday morning. Mr. Davenport plans to meet his wife and nine-months-old baby, Yvette Ann, in Vancouver Sunday. Mr. Davenport met his wife while serving with the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion in England during the recent war. They were married in Barry, South Wales, in 1945.

Private Harold Waldher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Waldher, of Pomeroy, with a group of 14 other boys recently left Geiger field in an airplane for Randolph Field, Texas, where the boys took their final test for cadet training. Waldher successfully passed the examination, according to word received by his parents. He will start training with the July class.

One hundred years ago

March 18, 1922

The site selected for the swimming pool is in the northwest corner of the athletic grounds, according to Mrs. H.H. Cardwell, president of the civic club and of the pool committee. After thoroughly considering the matter, it was decided that this would be the best location. It is pointed out that the spot is sheltered and protected from the wind that often sweeps the tract of land at the head of the spring. There will be an additional advantage in keeping all the activities together, so that it will require less police service to take care of them.

J.A. Freeborn, who was doing business in Pomeroy again early in the week, declared this to be the liveliest town of its size in the country. “You are always doing something in Pomeroy,” said Mr. Freeborn, “and your people will have only to tour the country as I do to see how much better off they are than the people in many other places.” Mr. Freeborn is a commercial traveling man and has been doing business in Pomeroy for 13 years.