Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 25, 2013

The Centennial Celebration of Pomeroy's Seeley Theatre and Opera House will be held this weekend, with activities at the theater building and on 7th Street throughout that afternoon and evening. Pomeroy Community Center, which owns the facility, and the Seeley Theatre Committee, which is overseeing its restoration, are coordinating activities for the 100th birthday party. Highlighting the day is the Seeley Music Festival that will feature 10 local, alumni, and out-of-town acts on the Seeley stage.

Twenty Five Years Ago

September 23, 1998

Delbert Niebel, the Garfield County Fair market Sale auctioneer since 1981, was almost speechless when the sign naming the sale arena in his honor was unveiled before Saturday's auction. Fair board president Kay Koller said that in Delbert's years as auctioneer, he helped generate over $450,000 in sales for county 4-H and FFA producers. True professional that he is, Delbert quickly regained his composure and spent the rest of the afternoon auctioning off over 90 sale animals.

Fifty Years Ago

September 20, 1973

The Denny Ashby Library opened Tuesday under the supervision of the newly appointed librarian, Mrs. George Rowden. For the first time in many years, the library will have morning hours on Saturday morning. The library board on behalf of the citizens of Garfield County wishes to thank Mrs. Pat Wernecke, former librarian, for twelve years of very faithful service to the library.

Seventy Five Years Ago

September 23, 1948

Viewing some of the wildest broncs ever seen in a rodeo arena, some 5,000 thrill-filled fans went away from the Eastern Washington Livestock Show and Rodeo Saturday and Sunday declaring the entire show was the best amateur performance they had ever seen. For sheer thrills and wild horses, the fair board's local show far outdistanced famed professional rodeos including the Lewiston Roundup and others. The record throng at the new fairgrounds saw local cowpokes, most of them from the county's own ranches, ride the wild broncs through fences and into corrals.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 22, 1923

Running at full speed down Arlington Street, Wednesday, a pair of horses belonging to Howard Scoggin hit a county motor truck at the front of Dwight Nye's residence, one breaking its neck and dying almost instantly. The other horse was not injured. Before hitting the truck they ran into Claude Bagby's dray. The dray team started to run and kicked the front wood work into splinters and the folks of the neighborhood were treated to a scene quite as stirring as a three-ring circus. George Scoggin, who was driving the Scoggin team, said the dead horse had been an excellent work animal.

One Hundred and Twenty Five Years Ago

September 24, 1898

Mr. J.Q. Fitzsimmons was aroused from his slumber one night last week by the fierce barking of the dog at the door, and found a coyote that had been chased by the dog from the hennery had taken a position on the doorstep from which place he was himself from attack. When Mr. Fitzsimmons opened the door Mr. Coyote took it for a friendly invitation to come in and darted inside and ran in to the bedroom occupied by the ladies. They did not dispute his right of possession and tumbled over each other in their haste to get out, but Mr. Fitzsimmons objected to such an intrusion and soon put an end to the life of the nocturnal intruder.