Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

September 10, 2014

From WSU College of Education-Diane Franks has moxie. She's not afraid to take a risk and, as a teacher, engage in instruction that makes many feel uncomfortable. She has embraced the messiness of learning science. Because of this, the 7th-and-8th-grade teacher in the Pomeroy School District is this year's recipient of the Ferrucci Distinguished Educator Award.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 15, 1999

Pomeroy Pony Punchers will honor Lucille Boyd, one of the organization's charter members and its secretary-treasurer for the first 10 years of the group's existence, during the 1999 Garfield County Fair. Lucille will ride in Friday's parade in Jay Frank's draft horse-drawn rig and she will also be driven into the rodeo arena prior to the start of the Pony Punchers' Rodeo on Sunday.

Fifty Years Ago

September 12, 1974

The new Central Ferry State Park, dedicated but not opened during the summer, finally opened to the public last Friday at 6:30 a.m. The park opened without any fanfare-the barricade and "closed" signs were taken down and state park signs installed one mile each way from the entrance on State Highway 127. The signs are located near the Pomeroy Grain Growers road south of the road, and near the end of the Corps of Engineers-rebuilt and widened sections of the road on the north side of the Snake River.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 15, 1949

It took the state game department under Gene Fennimore, district superintendent of the game department, and Roy Clark, game protector, 12 hours to catch 4,000 bass from two to 12 inches in size out of the Snake River near Clarkston last Thursday. Using a 100-foot seine net to make their catch, bass weren't the only fish caught. Quantities of suckers, squawfish, shiners and carp came up in the big net. The bass are to be planted in the lower Touchet river.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 13, 1924

In response to letters written to the members of the Timothy memorial committee by G.W. Jewett, Mrs. James E. Babb, of Lewiston, writes the following: "It seems to me there should be a representative from the U.S. army present, since it was to them he rendered such fine service, say four soldiers one a bugler, and have the meeting close with taps and salute of guns over Timothy's grave. This may not be proper except over a soldier's grave, but you will know."

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 9, 1899

The headers about Ping are laid by for the season. One header crew has obtained a pet title because of the large number of acres headed in a given time. There is some diversity of opinion among the boys as to which crew the title rightfully belongs to. Ancel Smith and John Buford each experienced the discomforts of a runaway last week. Result, two broken buggy tongues. Yes, Ancel, we "will have that in the paper!"