Pomeroy Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

July 31, 2013

The Spinners took on sanding and painting the picnic tables and benches, and serving tables, at the City Park as a summer project, according to Larry Ledgerwood, president of the service organization. The club returned eight of the refurbished tables back to the park the weekend of July 20 and 21. "They were pretty weathered," Larry said. "We have four more to do, but they were in better shape than the ones we started with."

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 29, 1998

Harold and Helen Shepherd lived quietly here in Pomeroy and gave no indication that a foundation that bears their names would assist individuals and organizations in four counties in eastern Washington, and become the biggest benefactor recently of Pomeroy non-profit groups. The list of organizations that have requested and received financial assistance from the Harold and Helen Shepherd Foundation reads like the signs on the outskirts of Pomeroy: Service Club, Pomeroy School District, City of Pomeroy, Denny Ashby Memorial Library, Civic Theatre, to name a few.

Fifty Years Ago

July 26, 1973

Coreage Corp or Bellevue, a designer and builder f Medical facilities, has been awarded a $3,500 contract to do preliminary plans and studies for the proposed 40 bed extended care addition to the hospital. The firm, represented at a meeting last Friday by Pat Lalley and Eugene Lynn, will provide preliminary plans and an artist rendition of the proposed addition.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 29, 1948

"Real" casualties of the "July freeze of '48" were the scores of Bahamian workers in the pea fields. Lowell Richter, field supervisor, brought one back to the bunkhouse on Tuesday after he had complained: "Get me home, boss, I'm freezing to death." Many workers were suffering from the damp weather in the fields Tuesday. Many have confided that the nights are much too cold in Pomeroy to their liking.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 28, 1923

Bert Harrington and his wife and two-year-old son were in camp over Monday and Tuesday night. Mr. Harrington keeps a shoe store in Portland. He was born on a ranch at the head of the Alpowa and reared there. He served in the English army during the war and was wounded in the foot by a bullet. Upon leaving the hospital, he married his nurse, a Welsh woman, and declares he does not regret his war experience, as he got his wife out of it.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 31, 1898

Commendable enterprise is being shown by the men who lost their buildings in the recent fire. The Henley Bros. have a new business office and warehouse nearly completed, and Chas. Morrison is already hammering iron in his new shop, while O.H. Long, the wagon maker, has fitted up permanent quarters in the rear of Mr. Morrison's building.