Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 17, 2013

Editorial-Nine years ago this month, I was in Russia for the most memorable and life-changing beginning of spring in my life with David and Alia Webb of Pomeroy, Doug Fleming of Cathlamet, Wash., and Rod Countyman of Monroe, Wash., where I met Sveta and Galya, two friends of Alia's. David and Alia had provided long-distance introductions in fall of 2003. I had no thoughts of visiting Galya or Russia but just before the Webbs were to leave on their third visit to Perm, Galya invited me to visit her in Perm and wrote that I would be her guest and she would be happy to be my guide while I was in her city.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 15, 1998

A Nampa, Idaho, real estate development company has approached the Port of Garfield to purchase port district property at the west of Pomeroy for a 26-unit apartment complex. Clay McReynolds, chief legal counsel for Koa Development, Inc., told Council members the port had "tentative agreed to sell the property," which is on the site of the old Green Giant cannery at the west end of High St. However, Port manager Lora Lund said Monday that the Port's board was still negotiating with the company on a 50-year lease, the terms of which weren't available.

Eight Pomeroy High School students were recently inducted as new members of the National Honor Society: senior Drew Houser; juniors Kristin Maltby, Katie Jo McGreevy, Chad Pierce, and Viviane Schueler; sophomores Joseph E. Cox, Mandy McKinley and Danielle Wolf. The initiation of these students was celebrated at a ceremony March 18 at the Elks' Lodge in Walla Walla.

Fifty Years Ago

April 12, 1973

Nearly 22,000 trout can be expected for area anglers fishing the Tucannon impoundments when fishing season opens Sunday. Most will be Rainbows, but some Eastern Brook are also being planted. Clarence Mayes, Tucannon Fish Hatchery superintendent since last July, released the following figures for plants on the Tucannon lakes in Columbia County: Blue Lake 4,500, Deer 1,800, Rainbow 3,200, Watson 2,200, Beaver 1,500, Big Four 2,500, Curl 2,000, all Rainbows, and Spring 4,000 Eastern Brook.

An Orofino, Idaho, woman and her granddaughter escaped injury last Thursday afternoon when the Ford Bronco in which they were riding flipped over on its side after it struck a parked car in front of Cardwell's in downtown Pomeroy. The accident, seen or heard by many people in the downtown area, occurred at about 12:32 p.m. as Mrs. Margaret S. Marston was eastbound on Main Street enroute to Orofino.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 15, 1948

The best of meat, Junior Livestock Show beef, will be available to everyone in the county. The Pomeroy Junior Chamber of Commerce is interested in the boys and girls from the county who will exhibit and sell their steers in Spokane. It is the Junior Chamber's hopes that every one of these calves can be purchased for consumption in the local community. With this hope and desire in mind, a selling campaign will be conducted during the next two weeks, selling beeves in quarters, halves or whole beef. The steers can be slaughtered in Spokane and the carcass shipped here for the individual's own use.

Lucian Burns, president of the Federation of Garfield County Organizations, calls attention that up to this morning but a single project has been proposed for sponsorship by the federation. If there are other community projects to be proposed details should be outlined in writing or in person to Mrs. Lawrence Slater.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 14, 1922

Garfield county's crack rifle shots-and ambitious visitors as well-are looking forward to a lively contest at the merchandise shoot to be held by the Pomeroy Rifle Club on the range at the Dudley Strain place next Sunday. An attractive list of prizes has been hung and the events, arranged under the direction of M.H. Stewart, range officer, will be open for any kind of gun, with or without sling. No sights are barred except those containing glass.

Local sportsmen will have to blue pencil the calendar this year to keep track of the hunting season. On Chinese pheasants, for example, it will be lawful to kill a bag on October 2, but not on the third and fourth; on October 5 these birds will have to hide again, while on the sixth they will be protected. Then on the [October] 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 19, 21, 23 26 and 28, they will be legal game.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 16, 1898

The squabble and free fight that occurred in Congress Wednesday, on presentation of the foreign relations committee's report, was a disgrace to the United States. That representatives should quarrel and fight like dogs, over so serious a matter as our trouble with Spain, shows their unfitness for the office they occupy. They should be promptly arraigned before the house, and publicly censured, to show the world that the people do not endorse turning the halls of congress into a bedlam, with fighting, scrambling and calling of names.

In the general cleaning up incident to the glorious spring season, it might be well for the drivers of garbage wagons to re-arrange the unsightly piles of old cans, manure and other rubbish and filth which adorn the grounds below town. A few piles of it scattered about in a picturesque arrangement might add greatly to the appearance of the beautiful grounds, but the landscape artist who designed the present arrangement was not exactly up-to-date. There are too many different piles.