Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

March 26, 2014

Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce honored its 2014 Hometown Heroes at the annual banquet and program Saturday at Spinners maple Hall. Dick Martin received the Lifetime Achievement award, recognizing him for more than three decades involvement with the Spinners Club, and with the JCCs prior to that, and serving with the Shrine Club. The retired captain with the Garfield County Fire Department was honored for his decades of service w2ith the department, as well as for his dedication to serving as a rural route carrier for Pomeroy's post office.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 31, 1999

Ivy Isaacson is "chairmaning" an Easter hat contest to be held at the Senior Center just after dinner on Friday, April 2. There is no sex discrimination in this contest. The men are to wear hats, too. There will be two classes in the contest. One class will be of any hat that the contestant liked and the other class will be a self-designed one, preferably a comedy hat. There will be a first prize in each class.

Fifty Years Ago

March 28, 1974

The Pomeroy chapter of the Future Homemakers of America attended Region IV's Recognition Day meeting at St. John on March 23. Those attending were Laura Dickson, state officer candidate; Mary Bowles, Christy Kimble, Ardis Pierce, Chris Mandrell, Vicky Bierle, Tina Johnson, Tracy Gibson, Kathy Kausche, Debbie Gasseling, Shelly Burt, Lois Fieder, Lisa Waldher and Eileen McGrann.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 31, 1949

Volunteers are needed on Saturday, April 2, to complete the livestock barn at the Garfield County Fairgrounds. The 120x32 foot building must be ready for the Junior Livestock show on April 23, Dick Brown, chairman, said today. Pouring of concrete will be done Saturday beginning at 8 a.m., and many workers are needed for the big job. "We need a dozen men up there Saturday to help us," Brown said, "and as it will be an all-day job we should get started on the project early." The completion of the new livestock shed will be the second permanent building at the fairgrounds.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 31, 1924

Pomeroy is assured a baseball season equal to any in the palmy days of the past, if arrangements now being made by both the high school team and the city aggregation are completed. A more pleasing ball park than before is promised. The park committee of the city council has arrangements to furnish material for an attractive lattice fence to divide the ball grounds from the city park, construction work to be done by the volunteer labor provided by the two baseball clubs.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 25, 1899

Lyndsay, the tragedian, has cancelled his engagement. So his ads, which appear on another page of this paper may be taken as on the tragedians huge jokes. If Mr. Lyndsay perpetrates many more such "cheap john" tricks on the press gang of Pomeroy he will get himself advertised as a second rate comedian.