Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 11, 2013

Spinners News-August was fairly slow for Spinners in terms of events and functions. Many members were busy with harvest and other summer work. We did help Town and Country by offering bar services August 9 and 10 for its Elvis Impersonator Shows. A few Spinners die-hards have already been focusing on the fair! The Spinners baked potato booth is a historic icon at the Garfield County Fair. It is also one of our Spinner's biggest fundraisers for the year, so we appreciate everyone that supports our organization and visits our booth for a potato or pizza.

Twenty Five Years Ago

September 9, 1998

Pomeroy School District has three new staff members but two of them have already spent years walking through the halls of Pirate-ville. The only true newcomer to the district is high school mathematics teacher Evelyn McCoard, who comes here after 13 years in the Harrington schools. Gerald Miller, who is filling in the high school library while Lillian Heytvelt takes a year's leave of absence, went through all his school years here and graduated from PHS in 1979. Kelly Hovrud Knebel, who is the new kindergarten teacher, also went to PHS and graduated in 1985.

Fifty Years Ago

September 6, 1973

Another apparent arson fire occurred Thursday as Pomeroy firemen controlled a blaze on the south hill at about two acres. Fire Chief Jim McCabe said he doesn't see how a fifth fire on the same site could have started accidentally. McCabe also requests that farmers who are going to do controlled burning contact the fire department first, because the fire department usually receives reports of a fire whenever someone burns grass.

Seventy Five Years Ago

September 9, 1948

Garfield County law enforcement staff has one of the best records of any staff in the state. The force includes Pomeroy Chief of Police Tom Bunch and Night Officer Glen Manning, Sheriff Bill Ground and Deputy W.E. Scribner, and State Patrolmen Clarence "Pop" Ellis and Reece Hepler.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 8, 1923

While some farmers are planning to operate binders instead of continuing the use of headers and separators or combines as a means of harvesting their grain. D.H. McGreevy, a pioneer in the binder process, in considering a change to the combine. Mr. McGreevy has operated a binder and small separator continuously since 1910. He says he still believes in the binder for the economy if labor of the right kind could be hired. But opportunities to loaf on the job are too plentiful in shocking and hauling the bundles. On the combine a man has his job coming right along and must do it or quit, Mr. McGreevy says.

One Hundred Twenty Five Years Ago

September 10, 1898

Last Tuesday W.W. Dickson, with his little girl and Myrtle Wilson, were taking a ride in a cart. The animal, suddenly and apparently without cause, became frightened and unmanageable, throwing Mr. D. from the cart. The horse ran a quarter of a mile and through a fence where the two girls were thrown out. The Dickson girl escaped with only slight injury, but little Myrtle is frightfully bruised about the face and head. She is expected to recover. It is the old story of the family horse that was "so gentle", but it's little less than a miracle that the girls were not killed.