Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

December 10, 2014

Pomeroy High School head track coach Adam VanVogt was named the 2014 1B Washington State Track Coach of the Year by the Washington State Coaches Association. The Pirate boys' track team was the 2014 boys' State 1B champions at the State meet in May last year. VanVogt was the association's State B Coach of the Year in 2003 when the Pomeroy boys' team won the State championship that year. VanVogt was also the 2003 District 9 Coach of the Year.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 15, 1999

Contrary to an article this summer in the Seattle Times that portrayed Pomeroy as just barely into the computer age and thus unaffected by any possible Y2K disasters, Garfield County is just as reliant on electricity, water and a waste disposal systems as the big cities. The good news is that Pomeroy residents should be just as secure as those in more metropolitan areas and, in some instances, even more so.

Fifty Years Ago

December 12, 1974

Pomeroy Church of the Nazarene urges you to attend their presentation of John W. Peterson's latest Christmas Cantata "King of Kings" on Dec. 22, 1975, in the Church of the Nazarene. Peterson's Christmas cantatas, Easter cantatas, and his musicals have brought blessings to multitudes in assemblies, in churches, in concert halls, on recordings, over the radio and television.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 15, 1949

Who is the luckiest man in Pomeroy? Sports-minded persons would not hesitate a moment. Harry Adams would be their answer. Not being satisfied in winning three turkeys for $1.50 at the Legion turkey shoot held just before Thanksgiving, Adams, now being called "Lucky" by those not having such luck, is the possessor of another and far better prize. He has not one, two or three tickets but four on the 30-yard line to the Rose Bowl football classic, the biggest "bowl" event in the United States.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 13, 1924

Information of value to persons operating farmer telephone lines is contained in a report of a field investigation of the farmer lines east of Pomeroy, to the state public service commission. Complaints of difficulties encountered by subscribers filed with the state department caused the director, E.V. Kuykendall, to request the investigation. A memorandum covering the salient points in the investigation with recommendations on 'clearing' trouble, was forwarded to J.T. Ledgerwood, and is submitted for publication.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 9, 1899

Dr. Vogel, the eye specialist who used to make regular quarterly visits to Pomeroy, was beaten almost to death at Lexington, Ore., one night last week. It is said he made a remark about a married woman, Mrs. Jack Lane, and her sister, to the effect that they were the only good dancers at a certain ball in Lexington. A young man named Otto Summers then knocked him down and he and Jack Lane gave him an unmerciful beating. Vogel left at midnight and walked to Douglas, 16 miles away, without hat or coat.