Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 18, 2013

2013 Garfield County Fair and Rodeo Queen Taylor Prince and Princess Emily Wolf greeted Fair Parade watchers Friday afternoon under bright, sunny skies. The Fair court won the award for Best Equine Entry in the parade. The warm weather, with the temperatures in the mid-90s, didn't discourage attendance at the Fair throughout the weekend, according to reports.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 16, 1998

The Garfield County Memorial Hospital will receive $39,254 in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding through the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990, for renovation of the emergency room at the hospital. The City of Pomeroy received a $6,700 grant from the Forest Service's Rural Community Assistance Program to build a covered picnic area in the City Park on Arlington St. The grant is for materials only and Terri Jeffreys, of the Community Action Team and the Pomeroy Ranger District staff, said that the volunteer labor for the structure will be the basis of the in-kind match for the grant.

Fifty Years Ago

September 13, 1973

Park benches from around the Pacific Northwest including Pomeroy will grace the site of EXPO '74, the 1974 World's Fair. Over 20 cities and communities from the states of Washington, Idaho and Montana, and the Canadian province of British Columbia, have offered to loan their park benches to the City of Spokane to provide rest areas on the 100 acres of the World's Fair.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 16, 1948

Garfield County voters by a skimpy margin of 26 votes, not county 31 absentee ballots, gave the city and county the go-ahead sign on building the new $76,000 city-county fire station on Main Street at the special election held with the state and county primary election Tuesday. Bids for the new, modern fire station are expected to be let immediately, according to unofficial word from the courthouse Wednesday.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 15, 1923

H.F. Eggibenett stirred up a commotion in the tourist park Friday night, which brought the men out in their pajamas, and sent a number of easterners scurrying to the brush through fear that wild Indians had invaded the camp. The trouble started when Eggibenett struck a porcupine with his arm, believing it to be a dog. Lots of the quills lodged and not all had been extracted when he left the camp next morning, according to Park Officer Nicholson.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 17, 1898

Two young Daytonites were arrested Friday evening of last week by Marshal Burlingame, on the charge of disturbing the peace in the upper part of town. It seems that the boys are fond of excitement, and conceived the brilliant idea of exercising their lungs for the entertainment of the public. The dogs of the neighborhood joined in the melee, and it is said their howling harmonized perfectly with the efforts of their two-legged brothers.