From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 3, 2010

March features fund raising with “Donations Month” in Dayton. A surprise Bluegrass fund raising event and Celtic Moon Musical performances for the Liberty Theater, Pheasants Forever banquet and the County Fair dessert to announce the theme, events and the Columbia County Fair hostesses Samura Miller, Cortney McHaffie, Taylor DeRuwe and Cheyenne Bell to start the year.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 1, 1995

The Dayton Bulldogs won the District 9 Championship and the Number 1 District Seed to this week’s State “B” basketball tournament in the Spokane Coliseum. Players Justin Steinhoff, Bud Lyonnais, Will Hutchens, Ryan Rundell, Jeff Skeeter, Tom Howard, Robert Carlton, Mike Gembala, Matt Talbott, Jeremy Hubbard, Clay Hutchens, John Skidmore, and Assistant Coaches: Tony Calleryo and Terry Nealey, and Coach Jay Webber returned home with the District 9 Championship Trophy.

The Blue Mountain Rocketeers boasts a registered membership of 20. Our youngest member is 6 years old, the oldest is 59, living proof that the hobby of model rocketry is one which appeals to all ages!

Fifty Years Ago

March 5, 1970

Joe Stratton, well-known Daytonite, ended a 28-year career as a farm tractor mechanic on February 27, when he retired. Stratton began his career in Walla Walla when he was associated with Braden Tractor for five years, before he moved to Dayton where is was with Stone Machinery Co. for 23 years.

Army Private First Class Larry R. Basham, son of Mrs. William Templin, Starbuck, was assigned to the 2d Infantry Division in Korea as a light-weapons infantryman.

Lt. and Mrs. Terrence Herion (the former Susan Bickelhaupt) left last week for Fort Eustis, Va., where he has received his first assignment with the U.S. Army.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 1, 1945

The greatest engineering feat in the annals of the United States army was the completion of the Stilwell Road through Burma, by Brig. Gen. Lewis A Peek, his American engineers and the thousands of native laborers. Not only was the road constructed, air fields built, mountains and jungles conquered, the monsoons defeated, raging rivers bridged, malaria was licked in solving the task as General Peek and his men enslaved against time, nature and the Japanese.

Following is a prospectus of the Junior Livestock show to be held in Dayton spring, as given by Raymond Lorenza at the Father and Son banquet of the FFA. The Dayton chapter of Future Farmers plan to sponsor a District livestock show here at the Dayton fairgrounds just before the Junior Livestock Show in Spokane, which will take place early in May. We plan to have the Walla Walla and Waitsburg chapters here with well over a hundred head of steers, sheep and hogs.

Local Soldier Fighting In Italy: With the Fifth Army Division, Pvt. Leo C. Stearns, medical aid man, is fighting in Italy’s Appenines before the Po Valley with the 362nd Infantry regiment, which broke through the Gothic line in one of the highest and best defended sectors.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 3, 1920

The United States has had a sharp lesson of the folly of the indiscriminate admission of aliens. The examination of newcomers on the docks in this country can never be thorough enough to throw out undesirables.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 2, 1895

A. Williams, the cigar manufacturer a very fine sample of tobacco in his store which he raised in his garden last year. Mr. Williams says that as fine tobacco can be raised in this country as in any other country.