Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 19, 2014

Stephanie Reisdorph was the featured soloist at Friday's Valentine's Day program at the Senior Center. She entertained an audience of about 50 luncheon guests. The Golden Girls led a sing-along of popular sweetheart songs from the past. Members are LaDonna Stallcop, Barbara McClanahan, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, Hazel Crawford, Jennie Odell, and Carla Heytvelt. Juyne Bowles played accompaniment on the piano.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 17, 1999

In her first year on the circuit, Angela Whittaker of Pomeroy captured the Washington State Snowmobile Racing Association's 1999 Snocross women's championship in the women's 440 cc and open classes. Angela claimed the titles Sunday, Feb. 7, and also brought home a huge traveling trophy for winning the Washington Cup women's race, during the circuit's final weekend at Lake Wenatchee. In the five race dates in January and February, Angela raced in both the pro 440 and open classes. In 440, she posted two firsts, two seconds, and a did-not-finish. In open, she finished the season with three firsts and two thirds. There were up to 11 women racing in her classes.

Fifty Years Ago

February 21, 1974

Marion Beale was the first property owner to pay his taxes in Garfield County in 1974. Beale was waiting when County Treasurer David Taylor and Deputy Treasurer Gloria Burke opened the office Friday morning. Tax statements went out late Thursday afternoon. He has been the first for a number of the last several years.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 17, 1949

A real city fire truck is the way local people describe and point with pride to their new Kenworth 750-gallon pumper fire truck built especially for Pomeroy's volunteer fire department by Gray Fire Apparatus of Lewiston, Idaho. The huge truck dwarfs the fire department's other trucks. The truck is being temporarily housed in the Pomeroy Warehouse & Feed Co. until the new $60,000 fire station is completed.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 16, 1924

Mrs. Hattie Dickson, secretary of the Rebekah Harmony club, has received the following letter from J.O. Seligmann, secretary general of the "Franternite Franco-Americaine," a society to care for the war orphans of France: "Dear madam: Is it too late to let you know how very grateful we are for the generous way you have given to our cause? We heard that Lucien Serazin no longer needs help. The widow married again, the situation has improved. We wonder whether you would be willing to help another child. We have so many still in distressing conditions and where your aid and interest would mean so much."

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 18, 1899

The railroad rustlers at Olympia should send postal cards at once to the able statesmen of the senate apprising them that the quota of votes will soon be obtained, and that by coming early they will avoid the rush and the possibility of being cut off from the pie counter.