Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

August 13, 2014

It would probably be safe to say that, at age 26, Sarah Crossfield has seen more of the world than most of her Pomeroy peers. Besides teaching in Europe for a year, and in Singapore for two years, the 2006 graduate of Pomeroy High has visited, among other locales, the base camp of Mt. Everest.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 11, 1999

Jim Kowalkowski, Pomeroy School District's new superintendent, believes his philosophy of putting a strong focus on the needs of students is part of the reason why the board moved him up from the high school principal's office. Jim had been the principal for grades 7-12 and had made his interest in the position known when then-superintendent Terry Brandon indicated to the board this spring that he was seeking a position with a larger district.

Fifty Years Ago

August 8, 1974

The Skyriders 4-H Club this spring and summer have been continuing painting projects at the Garfield County Fairgrounds. Painted have been the horse arena fence, bleachers and horse stalls. The project will continue in the future. Shown are Cozy Kimble, Shelley Burt, Cindi Bartels, Joanna Slaybaugh, Christy Kimble, Ginger Boyd, Mikel Potts, Mart Dennings, and Richard Ewing.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 11, 1949

Herb Gillis, who at one time was employed at McKeirnan Bros., and who left Pomeroy in 1917 to enlist in World War I, was back in the city this week on his first visit since leaving 32 years ago. The retired hardware merchant of Winnipeg, Manitoba, read with interest his name in the East Washingtonian of last week, which appeared in Judge E.V. Kuykendall's history of Garfield County during World War I. Gillis was mentioned as volunteering for army service.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 9, 1924

Owners of foxes with pens in Pomeroy countered the proposed city ordinance which would ban the keeping of the animals in the city limits, at the council meeting Tuesday night, when a committee appeared with a proposed substitute ordinance which would also expel all cows, chickens and dogs from the same districts. The fox raisers argues that other animals and poultry were as much of a nuisance as foxes, and that, to be consistent, an ordinance prohibiting foxes in the city would have to include domestic animals as well.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 12, 1899

Messrs E.R. Brady, F.J. Stephens, Dr. Clark Black, Dud Strain and Ben Kerby, bear the proud distinction of being the only Pomeroy expedition of hunters to capture a real live bear. They brought home with them a cub which weighs forty pounds and is supposed to be about 6 weeks old. He was carried from the place of his capture on the Lolo creek to Pomeroy, a distance of 125 miles, on a pack horse. By the time the party reached home his bearship had acquired the art of graceful riding to a surprising degree, and seemed to rather enjoy his elevated perch on the horse's back.