Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

June 12, 2013

The first kids' class at the Blue Mountain Artisan Guild Art Center will be Tuesday, June 18. The theme of the class is "Geometric Decoupage". BMAG classes for kids will be held every Tuesday through the summer for students age 5 to 8th grade. High school students are welcome to come and help or they can also do the project if they want to, according to guild president Mary Flerchinger. Kids are always free at the Center.

The Denny Ashby Library invites young readers to "go-pher" a good book this summer and join the library's summer reading program-Dig into Reading! The library will be open special hours on Friday to kickoff registration. Stop by the library to register and win a fun t-shirt or other fun prize. The program will run through August 29.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 10, 1998

Garfield County Pioneer Association is sponsoring the appearance of Terry Raff, "The Singing Mountain Man" in a program Friday, June 12, in the Pomeroy High School cafetorium. A native of Nampa, Raff began performing as a child, learning from his father many of the little-known western songs he now sings. He is a self-taught guitar player and his song list is mainly old wester cowboy songs and ballads. His program also includes telling stories and reciting cowboy poetry.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars always set a headstone for all veterans. The government furnishes the headstone. Then volunteers from our local VFW take the headstone, some sand and cement and a wheelbarrow to use to mix the cement and set the headstone. Johnny Capwell, Dolph Parris and Alvin Landkammer have been volunteering to do the headstone installation here. A few days before Memorial Day this year these men took a headstone up to the Weilands. It had been engraved "Richard John Weiland, Capt. U.S. Army-WWII, Aug. 25, 1919-Sept. 5, 1997, Surgeon and Medical Doctor."

Fifty Years Ago

June 14, 1973

The gas shortage situation has changed several times in Pomeroy in the last few weeks, but for the most part the situation meant some minor shortages for some stations, and increasing prices for fuel. Pomeroy Grange Supply and Rich's 76 service experienced some shortage problems, and as a result the Grange closed its retail pumps for two half-days and a full day and Richard Burke of the 76 station noted he had been on about an 85 per cent quota.

Linda Kay Brown and Carolyn Dye are among the students participating in the "People to People High School Student Ambassador" program in June and July this month. The two Pomeroy girls left Spokane on Tuesday, June 12 with other members of their group, under the direction of Scott and Sara R. Rohwer, leaders, from Rosalia. They are scheduled to return on July 26.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 10, 1948

The Garfield County Pioneer association will make the customary award of pioneer chairs next Saturday at the pioneer meeting. Those believing themselves entitled to a chair should report to the chair committee consisting of Chester Victor, Gertrude Fitzsimmons, W.B. Morris and John Ledgerwood. Chairs are awarded to the oldest continuous residents of the county, man and woman, who are members of the association in good standing, and who have not been previously awarded chairs.

Waldrip & Ross, of Spokane, who were awarded three separate contracts for the oiling of state highways by the state highway department, including the Dodge-Pomeroy road, 12 miles, for $79,210.15, began spreading oil on the Dodge-Pomeroy section Wednesday morning. The Spokane contracting firm expects to complete their oiling job in this county in about seven days. Cecil Waldrip, of Waldrip & Ross, is a former Pomeroy boy, son of the late Perry Waldrip and Mrs. Waldrip. The father of Mr. Waldrip was employed for many years by the county road department.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 9, 1923

"Big horses are in great demand," said Dr. A.J. Powell yesterday in speaking of the present horse shortage. "Recently, Mr. Gaffney, a timber man from the Marble Creek section, was in Lewiston looking for forty heavy horses, but could not find any for sale and, finally, had to hire some. Heavy teams of horses around 1,600 pound in weight each sell for $550 and there is good money in breeding heavy stock." What Dr. Powell says of the local situation is verified by reports from other localities.

The state highway department this year will start the work of posting the names of all state highways along the roads. The last legislature numbered the roads to correspond with the numbers given on the federal aid maps and these numbers will be used in the new signs. Attention will be called to the fact that the road on which the sign appears is both built and maintained by the state highway department.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 11, 1898

The contest between Spain and the United States, whether long or short, will profoundly affect the history of civilization. Even at this early date its effects are foreshadowed in many directions. In the heat of war national affinities are developed and antipathies generated; new alignments of policies are made that affect governments, commerce, civilization, and even morals and religion, it may be, for all time. The antipathy that for years has existed between the United States and England has seemingly melted away in a moment, and the two countries are more firmly bound together than they could be by any written compact.

Falling Springs-The Oliver Bros. are plowing up 80 acres of spring sown grain to destroy the wild lettuce in the field. This looks like a waste of good property, but it denotes advanced methods in farming just the same.