Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

January 7, 2025

The first snowfall of 2015 in Pomeroy made a quick appearance and a quicker exit over the weekend. Residents awoke Saturday morning to a blanket of white about two inches on the streets. The rest of Saturday saw minimal addition to the snow on the ground. The snowfall resumed Saturday night and into the morning hours with an additional two to three inches accumulating. But the temperature began rising Sunday afternoon and, with an accompanying warm wind, reduced the white stuff to wet by Monday morning.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 12, 2000

Colton Therrian, a Pomeroy Elementary School 6th grader, won the district's Geography Bee on Thursday, edging out 8th grader Brycen Bye. As winner of the school's fifth annual Geography Bee, Colton will take a written test, from which up to 100 of the top scorers in Washington will be selected to compete for the state championship April 7.

Fifty Years Ago

January 9, 1975

A revised petition is circulating this week with regards to the question of should Pataha have a sewer system? Even as the petition is circulated, divided opinion has surfaces. Sharply increased cost estimates also enter the picture. The petition started circulating Thursday night before a public meeting at the court house, attended by some 42 persons, including about 30 Pataha residents.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 12, 1950

Meeting in the Maple Hall Tuesday evening at a dutch luncheon the Pomeroy Junior Chamber of Commerce discussed "Operation Economy" and heard several letters from the state organization read concerning that project. Chairman Wayne Fondahn said it is a war on red tape, waste and duplication existing in the federal government as shown by the Hoover Commission report. The project is the number one job of all the Jaycee chapters throughout the United States.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 10, 1925

A group of members of the Methodist Church this week finished installing the lath work in the basement of the new building, leaving only the plastering of the basement to be completed before the building is finished. Work throughout has been done wherever possible by contributed labor, the construction taking several years. Among those working in the basement were James Oliver, Rev. F.N. Morton, M.W. Fitzsimmons, C.B. Fitzimmons, D.L. Manning, Glenn Manning, J.B. Dunlap, Roy Oliver, Asbury Oliver and Archie Holmes.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 6, 1900

The poet Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of paper and by writing a poem on it, make it worth $65,000-that's genius. Vanderbilt can write a few words on a piece of paper and make it worth four million dollars-that's capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp on it an "eagle bird" and make it worth $20-that's money. The writer of these notes can write a check for eighty million dollars, but it would not be worth a dime-that's tough.