Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

July 9, 2014

Washington State University Plant Pest Diagnostician Karen Ward will offer "First Detector" Training for area residents who work with plants, insects, or weeds on a regular basis. The emphasis of the First Detector program is to train local volunteers to help recognize new weeds, plant diseases or insect species that are not yet introduced in the area; or to be able to identify new species while they are still controllable.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 7, 1999

Pomeroy's Denny Ashby Memorial Library and librarian Lillian Heytvelt will help Garfield County students take a bite out of boredom this summer. In "Reading is a Picnic" participants will choose a goal of 500 or 1,000 steps to correspond to the number of pages they plan to read, or have read to them, during the summer program. Four special programs for preschoolers and beginning readers will be held Wednesday mornings starting in mid-July. These programs will include a story time with a special guest reader, and a small craft or picnic-related activity.

Fifty Years Ago

July 4, 1974

With "promised land bound" on the back of their wagon and a dog trailing behind, playing havoc with traffic, Roland and Connie Church and their daughters, members of the Amish faith, departed Pomeroy Monday morning after spending the weekend at Garfield County Fairgrounds. The Church family are on a missionary tour of the United States, traveling for more than two years already and probably a lot longer before they return to their home in Maine. And they are doing it in a covered wagon that's about ten feet long, six feet wide and pulled with three horses.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 7, 1949

Plans were announced today by Mr. and Mrs. Hawley Huyette of Pomeroy for a modern, new Richfield service station and drive-in fountain and restaurant in East Pomeroy on the highway to cost between $12,000 and $16,000. The new commercial development will be built on land formerly owned by Lett Wisenor, almost directly across from the new concrete elevator, recently constructed by Pomeroy Grain Growers, Inc.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 5, 1924

The celebration began with roller skate races for boys under 12 years, at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, on Main Street, and was followed by a girls' skate race, skidoo races, bicycle races and other juvenile contests which won the applause of hundreds who lined the streets. The town was properly decorated with the new flags erected by the American Legion, and never before looked so attractively patriotic.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 1, 1899

An exchange has found the meanest man on earth. He sold his son-in-law half interest in a cow and insisted that it was the front half sold, calmly appropriated all the milk, while he forced the young man to feed and water the cow twice a day. The cow recently hooked the old man who is now suing the son-in-law for damages.