From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

December 30, 2009

The Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced the awarding of $42.8 million in grants to protect and restore salmon populations to communities across Washington.

The Dayton branch of American Association of University Women will fund 85% of the cost for a Columbia County middle school girl to attend WSU”s Cougar Quest week-long academic summer camp.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 28, 1994

The Columbia County Senior Citizens’ Center will soon have new quarters. At their December 19 regular meeting, the County Board of Commissioners voted to purchase the Odd Fellows Hall on North 3rd Street, for conversion to use as a new Senior Center.

Fifty Years Ago

December 25, 1969

The Bulldog Den, popular recreation center for teenagers at 225 East Main, was closed Sunday, December 14, by Roland Eidam, who has been called to Pendleton, Ore., to manage a larger recreation center owned by his father, Paul Eidam.

Explosion Clears Reservoir Behind Lower Monumental. Three concrete piers in the Snake River at Riparia, part of the Union Pacific’s former railroad bridge, vanished in monstrous explosion Friday, December 12. L. A. Southall of E. I. DuPont Co. supervised the placing of the 4,000 pounds of explosive. The explosion was reported to have thrown some of the debris 200 to 300 feet into the air. Only victims included one eight-foot sturgeon, four steelhead and many catfish.

Robert Terry Laughery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Deb Laughery, is in his senior year at the college of veterinary medicine at Washington State University and will receive his degree next spring.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 28, 1944

Fort Benning, Ga. Dennis A Matthews of Dayton, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States upon successful Completion of the officer candidate course at the Infantry School. Lt. Matthews is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis A Matthews and is a graduate of Dayton High School.

Another mile stone in one of Dayton’s most important business establishment was reached Wednesday when J.J. Edwards and L.G. Edwards announcement to the effect that the Edwards, Inc., department store had been sold to the Anderson company.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 31, 1919

GIRLS! Start the New Year Right, Bring your friend, husband or daddy to the Leap Year Dance, Weinhard Hall Saturday Jan. 3rd at 9 p.m. Dancing-90¢. War Tax-9¢.

Were Any of You “Stung?” Two men have been arrested at Pendleton after cleaning up thousands of dollars in the northwest by selling “smuggled Siberian furs.” The expensive furs, proved on close examination to have been jackrabbits, house cats, and skillfully “camouflaged.” The police estimated the men took in from $30,000 $40,000 in the northwest.

The De Lavel Cream Separator. The advantages of a De Lavel Cream Separator over any other creaming method or separator are so great that everyone who has cream to separate, from the milk of one cow to that of a thousand.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 29, 1894

Fatal Railroad Accident occurred Saturday morning, three miles from Bolles Junction. The Spokane-bound train, running at an ordinary rate of speed and pulled by a double header, when rounding the curve near Menoken left the track. Engineer Robert Walker was scalded to death, Fireman Sutton was thrown about thirty feet breaking his leg, Engineer Jessee injured his arm, and Fireman Stuart was not injured.