Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

November 13, 2013

In an exciting, five-set match, the Pomeroy Pirate volleyball team earned a State 1B volleyball tournament berth by defeating defending State champions Tekoa-Oakesdale at Clarkston High School. Pomeroy will play Klickitat in the first round of State tournament on Friday, Nov. 15, in Yakima's Sun Dome.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 11, 1998

For the fourth time in the past five years, the Pomeroy High School boys' cross-country team has won the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington State Class B academic championship. The team had a grade point average of 3.868, its highest ever. The Pirate runners had won the academic championship in 1994, 1995, and 1996.

Fifty Years Ago

November 8, 1973

Pomeroy children took full advantage of the first snowfall of the season last week as snow men, women, and children went up all over town. The first snow, on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, played havoc with motorists on the Alpowa Grade and on country roads, however. Drifting snow and new storms have caused serious problems in connection with the annual elk hunt which began Monday.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 11, 1948

Approximately $30,000 for a contract for remodeling the courthouse will be let by the Board of County Commissioners Monday, December 6 in the courthouse, Cecil Kinder, county engineer, said. Almost the whole interior of the courthouse will be revamped by the contract, Kinder said. The outline of work to be covered: remodeling of basement apartment; new floor, walls, and ceiling for the county jail; refinishing walls on the main and second floor with wallboard; cover ceilings with acoustic tile and floors with asphalt tile. The courthouse was built in 1902 and very little work has been done since its completion.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 10, 1923

Forty-one persons grazed cattle and horses in the national forest district under the supervision of the Peola Livestock Association, according to a report made to the annual meeting here Saturday. Twenty of these belonged to the Pomeroy division, nine to the Peola division and the rest to the Tucannon division, the report shows.

By request of the local forest officers, T.P. Mallory of Bartlett, Ore., made a 25-mile trip to erase his name from where he had written it on a sign board near Mt. Misery.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 12, 1898

Pomeroy is situated near the geographical center of the county, and is the seat of government of Garfield County as well as the metropolis. Pomeroy is a live, progressive city, with a population of 1,200 wide awake, prosperous, happy, and contented people, surrounded by the comforts of life. The O.R.&N. furnishes excellent transportation to port cities of the Northwest, the best markets in the United States.