Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

May 1, 2013

Pomeroy Spinners plan to begin the facelift on the outside of Maple Hall. Siding is being installed on the west side of the building as well as on the gable ends.

Pomeroy School Board hired current high school principal Doug LaMunyan as the district's next superintendent and principal for the elementary and high schools..

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 29, 1998

Diane Prince, Pomeroy High School science teacher, received the Educator of the Year award from the Grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington. Announcement of the award was made April 16 at the Masonic Junior Achievement Awards program in Waitsburg. Steve Kazda, secretary of Pomeroy's Evening Star Lodge No. 30, and Principal Jim Kowalkowski nominated Mrs. Prince "for her outstanding teaching at Pomeroy High School."

If the residents of Pomeroy and Garfield County want to attract tourists, developing the area's historical and cultural attractions will be a key. "That's what you have to work on," tourism marketer and developer Roger Brooks told an audience of about 20 at Thursday's workshop on developing tourism here.

Fifty Years Ago

April 26, 1973

A special Kiwanis luncheon Monday honored former Prisoner-of-War Captain James Shively. Shively had earlier talked to a large crowd of Pomeroy School students. Shively noted that he is a native of Eastern Washington and was a 1960 graduate of West Valley High School in Spokane. A graduate of the Air Force Academy, he was flying F-105 bombing missions over North Vietnam from a base in Thailand when he was shot down after a mission in 1965.

The new Lineman-Agent for Pacific Power & Light in Pomeroy will be James (Scotty) Dryden. He will be replacing retiring Claude DeShirley.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 29, 1948

This region has been in the grip of a cold wave all week with vegetation of all types suffering. Snow began falling in Pomeroy early this morning, the flakes however, disappearing quickly. On the higher levels snow is lying on the ground. A wag described the weather perfectly in these words: "Have you purchased you wife's Christmas present yet?"

Ed Young was medalist with a 68 in the ladder qualifying tournament played on the local golf course Saturday and Sunday. Lewis Williams was runner-up with a 69.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 28, 1922

In the county track meet and class meet of the Pomeroy high school held at the ball park Saturday afternoon, the Pataha boys and girls easily won the grade events and the seniors took the class contest by a margin of 11 points. The Pataha girls won every grade contest in which they entered except for the fifty-yard dash, which went to the Pomeroy school.

An animated rat exterminator in the shape of three white-haired, pink-eyed ferrets was placed Monday in the Burch-Adams Co. basement. The little animals were shipped here from Ohio and will be tried out by their keeper, Emil Haberdank, as a means of rat prevention in the basement of the local stores. Damage amounting to hundreds of dollars has been done in the last year by rats which continue to increase, being seemingly too sly for the gun and the ordinary trap.

One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 30, 1898

Since the beginning of the war with Spain, and the consequent discussion of the speed of war vessels, the question is frequently asked: what is a knot? A knot is a geographical mile of 6086 feet-806 feet longer than the mile commonly used to measure distances.

Hence when a vessel has a speed of twenty knots is capable of going twenty-three miles an hour. Some of the torpedo boat destroyers can attain the remarkable speed of thirty-five miles an hour-faster than most express trains.

On Tuesday evening an unsatisfactory meeting of Company E of the National Guard was held, but before noon the following day 52 men had signified a desire to go to the front. The boys were not given a chance to enlist, however, the quota of men for this state having been made up before the Captain's telegram reached the governor. New orders were received Wednesday evening instructing Captain St. George to fill up the company and maintain the home guard.