Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

December 24, 2014

Cort LaMunyan, representing the LaMunyan family, received a plaque of appreciation last week Monday from Susan Rauch of the St. Joseph Diabetes Foundation in Lewiston. Cort had presented the foundation a check for $2,018.78, the proceeds from the girls’ basketball jamboree organized by the family. Cort also presented Bob Cox of the Pomeroy Shrine Club a check for $784 earned through a boys’ basketball jamboree the family organized.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 29, 1999

Pomeroy didn’t escape without some vandalism during the holiday season. The most noticeable incident was the destruction of lights decorating the gazebo in the City Park, apparently the night of Dec. 23 or early morning Dec. 24. Pomeroy Police had three other instances of Christmas light vandalism formally reported and a couple of others mentioned to them. Vandals cut Christmas light wires in all the above instances, and removed lights at one other home. The vandalism took place Dec. 22 or 23. Police Chief Dave Boyer said he thought the destruction was caused by “two or three kids walking around.”

Fifty Years Ago

December 26, 1974

Mary Helen Whittaker was the big winner of the Pomeroy Bonus Bucks drawing Saturday afternoon as she won the 250-buck package. The drawing climaxed another in a series of Christmas drawings put on by a number of Pomeroy merchants, under the auspices of the Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 29, 1949

Mrs. Abbie Thompson, who has operated the Seeley theatre since September of 1925, sold her business and equipment to Seeley Allen, of Pomeroy, effective as of January 1, 1950, she reported this morning. The price paid for the property was not made public. Mrs. Thompson and her husband, Claude A. Thompson, deceased, were engaged in the entertainment business in Pomeroy from 1907 to the time of his death in the fall of 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson engaged in the silent motion picture business in 1909, operating in those days in the old opera house.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 27, 1924

Despite the heavy drain on the city water supply, caused by the necessity for running faucets through the nights to prevent freezing of pipes during the cold wave, the city water supply has lowered only one inch, according to Mayor H.C. Krouse. The water drain is heavy, and during similar cold spells in the past has lowered the reserves to a dangerous point, but recently augmented supply, according to city officials, provides quantities so far in excess of normal winter needs that no danger is now anticipated from too heavy use.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 23, 1899

In noting the fact that North Dakota is now ten years old “The Bismark Tribune” says: “But yesterday we had the sod shack, the ox team, the prairie schooner and the warwhoop of the untamed redman; today we have soirees, musicals, pink teas and functions, and we have golfers in plaid cloaks and Populists with whiskers.”