Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

January 21, 2025

Surrounded by family and classmates, Pomeroy High School senior Savannah Ruark signed a letter of intent on Friday to play volleyball at Walla Walla Community College. She will play middle hitter for the Warriors. A member of the Pirate varsity volleyball team all 4 years of high school, Savannah and her teammates won the State 1B championship this past season.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 26, 2000

With the increased amount of CRP acres in western Garfield County, there are less and less acres of farmland in the Dodge area. For the 2000 crop, it looks like there will be only one farmer left farming in the Dodge area who would deliver to the Dodge elevator. After talking with the remaining farmer, Pomeroy Grain Growers has decided to close the Dodge elevator. The elevator has done a very good job for us over the years. But with its nearness to the river and the CRP program, its time is over.

Fifty Years Ago

January 23, 1975

In a mighty heave that sent water up over the telephone wires and shook the ground, about 100 feet of the retaining wall on the south side of Pataha Creek, between 9th and 10th streets toppled into the creek Tuesday, Jan. 11. City Police Chief Jack Bunch and Public Works Director Max Rich saw it happen. They were walking along Pataha Street, behind the wall and had just walked along the same 100 feet. Fortunately Bunch and Rich were clear of the section of wall that fell over.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 26, 1950

With the break in the weather, elk hunters again took to the fields-and the air. Sunday Duane Burns, Elton Brown and Lee Flerchinger flew over the Blue mountians to see if they could spot any elk. The air was rough because of the wind, and the plane had to remain aloft from 1000 to 1500 feet. This was too high for spotting, and the trio saw no elk. Plane used was a Stinson ski-plane from the Zimmerly Air Transport at Clarkston.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 31, 1925

A structure of steel and concrete, to cost about $3,500, will replace the present bridge over the Pataha creek on Eleventh street at the city park, according to a decision reached by the council at special meeting held Wednesday evening. The bridge will have a footwalk on each side. A foot bridge washed out be recent freshets at the McBride place, near the freight depot, will be rebuilt.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 20, 1900

Everybody on Meadow Gulch has the "well" fever. James Wise dug fifty-two feet and got fifteen feet of water. John Beck has dug thirty-one feet and has got about a foot of water, but it going on down to either get more or lose what he has. John Burns is digging, but we have not learned with what success. John Beck is one ahead of the great city of Pomeroy. He boasts of as good an electric light as can be found in any city, and all of his own manufacture.