Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 3, 2014

The Ice Bucket phenomena that has been sweeping the U.S. since early this spring reached Pomeroy on Sunday, Aug. 31, with the Christian Church's event that featured a couple dozen residents getting doused with near-freezing temperature water to raise money for ALS research. Polly Scott of the church said the congregation wished to honor church member Jim Baker, who is an ALS patient, with the challenge.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 8, 1999

New Pomeroy High School Librarian Peggy Sieveke found out that what goes around comes around. Born and raised in Whitman County, Mrs. Sieveke (pronounced Civic) graduated from Tekoa High School and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in secondary education from Washington State University. Her husband John Sieveke is a third-generation farmer in Tekoa. After they were married, he served in the U.S. Navy aboard an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War while she taught 5th grade in Oakesdale. After two years in the Navy, they returned to Tekoa and John farmed with his father.

Fifty Years Ago

September 5, 1974

A tall Texan, four youngsters, and a locally well-known group headline the Garfield County Fair stage shows, to be held Saturday and Sunday of the fair weekend. R.C. Bannon, a six-foot, two-inch singer from Dallas, Tex., performs with his back up group Ice under the name "R.C. with Ice." They will play at the fair on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. On Sunday, the Crossroads Quartet will appear with special guests, The Country Bugs.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 8, 1949

A spark from a hammer caused a fire that burned a chicken house and three acres of grass Wednesday afternoon on the Kenneth Kimble ranch in the Peola Ridge area. Kimble was working on a weed sprayer that he had been using sodium chlorate in. A spark from his hammer set it on fire, and the flames spread over the three acres and burned the chicken house before the county rural fire department could stop it.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 6, 1924

Questions relative to the selection of seed wheat and the methods of treating the seed to prevent smut are now up for discussion, while the growers for the most part wait for rain to put the ground in condition for seeding. Some farmers who have tried the copper carbonate or "dry" treatment believe it much more profitable than treatment with vitriol or formaldehyde, known as the "wet" treatment.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 26, 1899

Last Tuesday, in company with M.F. Gose, we made a short visit to Tomas Ronan's stock farm on Meadow Gulch. Mr. Ronan had a bunch of 45 or 50 head of his fashionable bred trotters in the corral and was delighted to explain their different blood lines as he traced each back to one of the well-known sires: Antrim, Alexis Arronax, or Meredith. It is worthy of attention that the suckling colts and yearlings are so plainly marked that any good judge of horse flesh can name the sire by examining the product.