Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 23, 2014

John Begley told an audience of Pomeroy economic development and business people that his company's pulp mill operation in Starbuck, now in the permitting stage, would employ up to 150 when operations begin in 2015. Begley is co-owner of Columbia Pulp, which will use wheat straw as the raw input for production of pulp that would be cheaper than, and used in place of, wood pulp. He said the company has not yet approached Garfield County producers regarding collecting straw.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 28, 1999

Lillian Heytvelt has been hired as city librarian by the board of trustees of Denny Ashby Memorial Library. A 1986 graduate of Pomeroy High School and a 1992 graduate of University of Idaho, Lillian has been a librarian in Cambridge, Idaho, and district librarian for the Pomeroy School District.

Fifty Years Ago

April 25, 1974

Union Pacific Railroad's last operating steam locomotive, No. 8444 and its train will pass over the Joso Bridge at Lyons Ferry this Friday, April 26, shortly after 8:45 a.m. No. 8444, which was built in 1944 and has been maintained by UP for a number of years solely for special excursions, was overhauled last year so it will be available for continued service in the years to come. However, this summer it will be on display at Expo '74 as part of UP's contribution to the fair.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 28, 1949

Garfield County people, suffering many summers without a ball team, can come out and initiate the baseball season when their Pomeroy Pioneers, in brand new uniforms, play Troy, Iado team at the local park. With Mayor Jay Foster on deck to toss the first pitch of the first game, and some other pre-game ceremonies set, the Pioneers will take the field and seek their third straight league victory of the young season.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 28, 1924

An animated rat exterminator in the shape of three white-haired, pink-eyed ferrets was placed Monday in the Burch-Adams Co. basement. The little animals were shipped here from Ohio and will be tried out by their keeper, Emil Haberdank, as a means of rat prevention in the basement of the local stores. Damage amounting to hundreds of dollars has been done in the last year by rats which continue to increase, being seemingly too sly for the gun and the ordinary trap.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 22, 1899

Edward B. Dobbs, the Manila correspondent of the Columbia Chronicle, makes the following personal mention of the members of Co. F: Lieut. Booker is in command of the company and is still the same jolly good fellow he always was. He says we will be home when we get there. Artificer Jackson is always kicking about the boys using his tools and not returning them. "Gen." Jackson is also in the photograph business and has quite a collection of 4x5 views. Private Patterson longs for the hills of the Grand Ronde and a good drink of Blue Mountain water.