Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten years ago

July 25, 2015

Angie’s Dance Studio will hold a recital Thursday, August 2, at the Holy Rosary Catholic School. Performers include Esther Scoggin, Shaylyn Roosevelt, Emily Wolf, Teresa Meyers, Ally Bott, Pearl Blachly, Naomi Scoggin, Ashton Halverson, Heidi Heytvelt, Alyssa Wolf, and Chloe Mayfield. Also, Olivia Meyers, Teagan Steele, Jaden Steele, Westelle Scoggin, Taylor Beale, Gracie Dansereau, Madison Bingman, Elizabeth Ruchert, Clara Jentz, KayLee Schmidt, Katie Boyer, Laynee Herres, Hannah Bagby, Karis Townley, Stacia Bowen, Chloe Bingman, and Isabel Burke. Also, Brandie Russell, Taylor Vorderbrueggen, Payton Delgado, Mary Jentz, Isabella Field, Kiersten Bartles, Delaney Mathews, Remy Delgado, Victoria DesJardin, Molly Warren, Carmen Fruh, Sarah Scoggin, and Merritt Scoggin.

Twenty-five years ago

July 30, 1997

Residents have the opportunity to be part of a group of over 200 who will attend a Seattle Mariners’ home game to show community support for a baseball field grant application of $75,000 grant offered by the Mariners’ organization and Boeing

The Pomeroy High School Cheerleaders recently received top awards at the USA Gonzaga Cheer Camp: Overall Superior Award and Overall Hardest Working Award, and blue ribbons in stunting, unity, cheer performance, and dance. Tricia Denny made the All-Star USA Team and can travel with the USA Team to Paris. PHS Cheerleaders received the spirit stick.

Fifty years ago

July 27, 1972

Dave Taylor, Jr., Garfield County treasurer, has on display a set of coffee mugs put out by Queen City Savings of Seattle showing a composite picture of early day buildings throughout Washington State, including one from Pomeroy. The Pomeroy building shown is the Hirsch Merchandise store, with the second floor occupied by the Masonic lodge hall. C.A. McCabe believes the building was located on Main street between the present Seventh and Eighth streets, prior to the 1900 fire.

Seventy-five years ago

July 31, 1947

The American Legion club was burglarized, $30 having been taken from a 25-cent slot machine. Other machines standing nearby were not molested or anything else about the place taken. How the robber entered the building is a mystery to the Legion club officials who upon investigation found none of the doors entering the premises to be jimmied or the lock having been tampered with. The club room when the robbery was discovered was found in perfect order with the exception that the back door was found ajar and the glass enclosing the jack pot in the slot machine broken. After “winning” the jack pot, it is believed the thief made his exit by way of the back door.

The Blue Mountain Canneries, Inc., completed its 1947 pea harvesting and processing operations in Garfield County Sunday afternoon following a 30 days’ run during which time cannery officials say they harvested, from a standpoint of quality, the finest pack of peas they have been privileged to process since locating in Pomeroy. While the pack was not as large as in former years, the quality was far above average.

One hundred years ago

July 29, 1922

The practice of writing names, addresses, dates and in other ways defacing the signs has become so universal that specific actions is now necessary to stop such practice. All forest officers are being instructed to report cases of mutilation of signs and to arrest the offenders wherever possible. The most recent case was of a sign which was defaced within two or three days after it had been posted. The ranger immediately sent a list of the names and addresses to the forest supervisor at Pendleton.

Local fruit and vegetable dealers expect to have plenty of peaches this year of excellent quality and at prices a little lower than inferior peaches were sold for last year. The river peach crop is reported to be exceptionally fine, the first good crop in four years. Apples and peach plums have been in the market several days, the plums selling at 35¢ a basket and apples four pounds for 25¢. California watermelons are again in the market. A truckload brought from Lewiston last Saturday sold here at five cents a pound. California cantaloupes have been selling at 10 to 12½¢ each.