Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

October 9, 2013

The homecoming royalty were introduced: Homecoming Queen Neosha Ren and Mr. Football Cody LaMunyan; Senior Princess Annakah Schuroff and her escort Wyatt Hyer; Junior Princess Rafaella Regoni-Macera and her escort Taylor Lewis; Sophomore Princess Ally Bott and her escort Riley Bott; and Freshman Princess Lora Lyle and her escort Tyler McGreevy.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1998

Timothy Bishop, executive director of the Downtown Walla Walla Foundation, advised those attending a downtown revitalization meeting at the Senior Center last week that the business community could benefit from using the four points of the "Main Street Approach" to boosting the downtown economy. The approach calls for organization, promotion, design and economic restructuring by the business community to increase attractiveness to tourists "while preserving a sense of place and history."

Fifty Years Ago

October 4, 1973

Sale of the John Byers ranch to Klaveano Ranches, Inc. went on the county records on Sept. 20 with payment of one per cent real estate tax. Selling price of the properties was listed as $609,000. Sellers were John W. and Dorothy Lou Byers and the buyer was listed as Klaveano Ranches, Inc., of Pomeroy. Involved are 1357 acres of improved land, 1026 acres of pasture land, a home and farm buildings.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1948

Citizens of Pomeroy were loud in their praise this week of the suggestion that the city ball park should be named "Lybecker Field" in honor of Superintendent Gus Lybecker, who played such a prominent part in the development of the lighted park, which has been rated as good as a Class B league baseball park found in cities of Yakima, Walla Walla, Spokane, and Lewiston, Idaho. The story of Supt. Lybecker's part in the field is well known, although some people may not know yet that he set his alarm clock at two-hour intervals all summer so that he could get up and change the sprinklers on the turf while it was growing from seed.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 6, 1923

Final arrangements were perfected this week by which C.M. Vassar becomes sole owner of the business which was started here by Vassar & Sons more than a quarter of a century ago. His father, the late J.O. Vassar, after doing business as a dealing in furniture and undertaker's supplies in Pomeroy three years in the early nineties, moved with his family to Anacortes, but returned and engaged in business, both in Pomeroy and Lewiston, with his two sons, then grown to manhood.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 8, 1898

Superior court has been in session in Pomeroy this week, with Judge Godman on the bench. The attention of the court up to the time of this writing, Thursday noon, has been occupied by criminal cases. In the case of the State vs. Hank Long, charged with assault with a deadly instrument, the defendant was acquitted. This action was brought against Long for assaulting Frank Snodderly with a whip-handle.