Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

August 20, 2014

For the first time ever, clergy from a Pomeroy church will also serve the congregation of a second church in the city. The Rev. Bob Totten and Deacon Kay Totten moved to Pomeroy at the end of March to take over the pastorship of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. In June, they were contacted by the bishop of the Methodist Church district in this area regarding pastoring United Methodist Church in Pomeroy. They began serving both churches the first week in July.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 25, 1999

Garfield County's jail will undergo a little remodeling to eliminate the route a prisoner used a couple of weeks ago to escape from the cells in the Courthouse basement. Sheriff Larry Bowles said local welder Wally Brenner will seal the crawl space above an enclosure with sheet metal, where a 3-foot by 4-foot piece of plywood was pried off between the Navy Brig that is used as an enclosure and the basement ceiling.

Fifty Years Ago

August 22, 1974

While digging out a stump on the property recently purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Behlau, Earnie Brunson unearthed quite a collection of old bottles. One has raised letters written on the glass "M.A. Black Dispensing Druggist East End Drug Store Corner Main and Fourth St., Pomeroy, Wash." According to Edith Hill, Fourth St. is now 8th St. Another bottle goes back to the old Medicine Show days: Dr. Kilmer's Swamproot-Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure-Binghampton, New York, U.S.A.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 25, 1949

When the younger students return to the state school for the blind, Vancouver, this fall, they will probably be just as thrilled as were these children with this six-year-old Shetland pony which was donated to the school Monday. The pony was presented by Billy, Janet and Carol Whitmore, of Pomeroy, children of Mrs. Lewis Whitmore.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 23, 1924

J.N. Anderson has invented an iron base intended to be attached to fence posts or poles. It is of light, simple construction fitted with an anchor plate and a brace plate in such a way as to hold it firmly in the ground. Mr. Anderson believes this will be especially useful and economical in supporting fence posts, and telephone poles. He expects to buy the material in carload lots and do the manufacturing himself.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 19, 1899

Now that "the windows of heaven" have been opened and the rain has fallen upon the just and the unjust alike," some of the farmers are worrying lest their grain may be injured in the stack. There is no way of preventing damage to grain standing in the field, but where grain has been headed and properly stacked there should be nothing to worry over. But farmers who persist in stacking their grain in a loose, slovenly manner, will of course suffer some loss if the rains continue long. In too many instances the wise precaution of good stacking has been omitted-hence the worry.