Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 2, 2014

Supporters of David Webb's plan to install neon signs in the downtown area will present a request for a variance of the city's sign ordinance to Pomeroy city council at its meeting Tuesday. Cody Jones, who will represent David at the meeting because "I'm not a politician," David said, will present a petition with signatures of business and property owners asking for variances to sections of the ordinance relating to prohibited signs, construction and design standards, historic district and historic register signs, and non-conforming signs.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 7, 1999

If things go according to John and Beverly Gordon's plans, sometime next summer Pomeroy will be the home of the largest independent bookstore with a Hwy. 12 address west of the Mississippi. The Gordons are the new owners of the Revere Hotel building on the corner of Main St. and 7th. Sometime in April, they will have the offices to the publishing division of Castlemoyle Books completed.

Fifty Years Ago

April 4, 1974

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Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 7, 1949

Wayne D. Overholser, native of Pomeroy, today celebrates the publication of "West of the Rimrock," by The McMillan company. Mr. Overholser was born in Pomeroy in 1906, the son of a pioneer who came here as a boy in 1876, and he is related to L.N. Knettle and Everett Knettle of Pomeroy. During the past ten years Mr. Overholser has had almost 200 western and detective stories published. McMillan did his first full length book, "Buckaroo's Code," in 1947.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 7, 1924

In view of establishing a state fish hatchery a survey of the Tucannon will be made in June. John S. Cobb, director of fisheries of the University of Washington, will make the survey determining the food value of the stream and its suitability for raising different kinds of fish. Should it be favorable the hatchery will be maintained by the state and used to stock the streams in the locality.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 1, 1899

Early Saturday morning a pious looking old gentleman of rather a seedy appearance arrived in town and made a few purchases at some of the stores, saying he had money in the bank and would pay when the bank opened for business. Among other things he got several plugs of tobacco some of which was taken to a saloon and pawned for whiskey. After filling up on whiskey the fellow started out on another raid and staggered around from one store to another trying to steal and carry away almost everything, he could get his hands on. We understand he was given leg bail Saturday night. This means nothing more or less than that every town he strikes will be hectored by his miserable thieving practices until he is properly dealt with by the authorities.