From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

February 17, 2010

Several representatives from Dayton Days, as well as people representing Waitsburg Days of Real Sports, the Walla Walla Spring Race Meet and the Kennewick race track were in Olympia to address funding for each facility for the 2010 spring season.

Columbia County voter approved the three levies, one for the hospital district, and two levies for the school district for one year at $1.29 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February, 1995

Melissa Hughes, 14, a home-schooled freshman, served as a legislative page in the Washington State House of Representatives January 30 to February 3, Hughes was sponsored by Rep. Dave Mastin, D-Walla Walla and is the daughter of Greg and Jeanne Morton.

On Sunday, February 12, five girls tried out for the Royalty Court for Dayton Days. Kim Johnson, daughter of Diane and Marty Johnson of Walla Walla, was selected as Queen, the two Princess for this year’s Court are Mitzi Magill, daughter of Dan and Sy Magill of Starbuck, and Jennifer Bosley, daughter of Connie and Walter Bosley of Walla Walla.

The Wenaha Gallery, located at 219 West Main, Dayton, has been selected as one of the authorized dealers to offer fine art, limited edition prints from The Greenwich Workshop, the North American leader in print publishing.

Fifty Years Ago

February 19, 1970

Champion Bowlers of the WES Lanes women’s team won the 1969-70 team title for the Dayton Women’s Bowling Association. Bowling team members are Vera Webber, Betty Head, Holly Moore, Blanche Hechtner and Marilyn Reddish.

Miss Lisa Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy Russell of the Tucannon district, is the first place senior winner in the 1970 Hallmark Cards Art Talent Contest for High school seniors sponsored locally by Skyline Juniors Club through the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Other senior winners were Jill Bramhall and Janie Ramirez.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 15, 1945

The Tom Reed ranch at Dittemore was sold to Roy Startin and the transaction will take out of the district one of the oldest families in the neighborhood and return it one that lived there for 12 years.

County Supt. Raymond Berry has been named chairman of the drive to be held here during the week of February 18 to 25 to secure good used clothing for our Russian allies. The suffering in Russia is acute for lack of warm garments, shoes and bedding and, unless help is immediately forthcoming, millions will die from cold and exposure.

A Spokane radio station announced that a plane from the Walla Walla air base (presumably a bomber) was presumed to have crash landed somewhere in the Blue Mountains. Frank Mock on Robinette Mountain reported he heard a plane go over his place and later heard what sounded like an explosion.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 18, 1920

Washington, Seven thousand Armenians have been massacred in Syria in a new attack by Turkish and Kurd troops, according to advices received by the Armenian national union through official channels. The foes number 50,000 men which have advanced to Bahtche.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 16, 1895

J. K. Rainwater returned from his Lewiston Flat farm. Lewiston is full of people who do not know what they are there for as the reservation has not been thrown open as yet, neither have the Indians been paid off.