Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

January 22, 2014

For the 26th year, the National Geographic Society is holding the National Geographic Bee for students in the 4th through 8th grades in thousands of schools across the United States and in the five US territories, as well as in the Department of Defense Schools around the world. Evan Bartels, a 6th grader, was the winner of the Pomeroy Elementary Bee held January 9, 2014.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 20, 1999

Pomeroy Junior Miss Kristen Maltby is in Pullman this week to participate in the state Junior Miss program. Preliminary programs will be held Thursday and Friday and the finals are on Saturday, all at the Gladdish Community Center Auditorium in Pullman. Kristen is among 36 Washington high school seniors competing for the state crown and scholarships totaling $10,000.

Fifty Years Ago

January 24, 1974

Weight restrictions are now in effect on many Garfield County Roads, following the recent thaw which left them soft and susceptible to damage. According to Ernest Helke of the road department, permits may be issued on some sections of road deemed acceptable for travel. But no vehicle over the posted restricted weight is allowed on the road without a permit. The roads are patrolled by the county sheriff's department.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 20, 1949

The county is becoming fed up on the reports of the activities of this and that spy ring operating within government circles and dispensing to their masters the information they seek. What the man in the towns and cities and in the rural areas wants to know is why isn't something done about it? Of what use is it to spend the time of costly committees for weeks and months merely to discover that this or that disloyal person has pilfered government files for a few pieces of silver and then dismiss the matter and look for a new spoor to follow to the same end?

One Hundred Years Ago

January 19, 1923

W.F.H. Montgomery of Montgomery brothers, fox merchants and breeders of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and Prince Edwards Island, delivered nine foxes here Monday, of which F.N. Zinn bought two pairs, C.M. Vassar one pair and J.H. Gimlin two females and one male. The price paid for the lot was $4,600. This brings a new strain of the silver fox into this community, as these are the first purchases from this farm.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 21, 1899

Another of our citizens was held up one-night last week. He was not exactly held up either, because when he saw a fellow "laying" for him on either side of the foot-bridge across the Pataha on 3rd Street, he wisely concluded to hold up the strangers. So, when the order, "line up" rang out on the falling twilight, the hobos executed the command in good order, both standing on one side of the walk, faces outward. The narrow footbridge on 3rd street affords tempting facilities for the sand-bagger to ply his trade.