Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 26, 2014

Pomeroy resident and neon sign expert David Webb is offering the city a gift that he believes will attract tourists, turn downtown into a desirable movie set, and bring in new business. He wants to hang possibly a dozen vintage neon signs, all of them built pre-World War II, restored and functioning, in downtown Pomeroy. He will loan building owners the signs at no cost, and install them at no cost. David is calling his project "Pomeroy City Walk."

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 24, 1999

Imagine a stick one meter long. Cut it into a million equal slices. Take one of those slices and cut it into a thousand equal slices. You've entered the microscopic world that Pomeroy High School senior Charles Shawley has been privileged enough to explore. He is doing so in an independent advanced study arranged for him by PHS science teacher Diane Prince at Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Tri-Cities.

Fifty Years Ago

February 28, 1974

Rod Carey, manager of Pomeroy Office of Old National Bank of Washington, was named 1973 Pomeroy Citizen of the Year Monday night at the annual event sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Carey, a past president of Kiwanis, was feted for his efforts for the Pomeroy Boosters, of which he was president for two years, the committee of concerned citizens for quality education and his work and leadership for the football field concession stand.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 24, 1949

"After being away eight months, I almost feel like a war bride again," laughed pretty Mrs. Russell (Barbara) Pierce, when she got settled again at her Pomeroy home early this week. And mighty glad to see her again was her husband, Russell Pierce, mechanic at McKeirnan Hardware & Implement Co., who drove to Spokane and welcomed his wife at 3:45 a.m. Sunday morning as she got off a Chicago train that was several hours late. She left Pomeroy and her husband last May to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Barstow, and her school-teacher sister and her younger brother, who is a student in Chesham, 30 miles out of London. Expecting to return last fall, one of the famous English fogs-dark and murky and lasting nine days-prevented her ship from sailing, and then a seamen's strike on the Queen boats held up her passage again.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 24, 1924

Ross Duniphan brought down from Mt. Misery and shipped by Monday's train to the Spokane fox farm eight martens, which he had taken in traps. Mr. Duniphan said the prices received for these animals are about $50 for the males and $100 for females. The hides range in value from $12 to $100, he says.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 25, 1899

The fire bell tower was completely demolished by the wind storm last week, and a new tower will have to be erected. There is some talk of hanging the bell over the City Hall.

The report that Allen & Adams would move their stock of groceries into the Hirsch building is not true. Mr. Adams says they have no intention of making such a move.