From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

April 28, 2010

Mary Calanche is the proprietor of one of Dayton’s newest stores located on East Main Street. The shop features quality artisan goods all crated by local or regional craftsmen and women.

Heavy equipment has been moved in to be ready for the May start of the Second Street project.

April 2l, 1995

Riparian project on the Patit expands the student horizons. Jeff Coulter’s Sixth Grade class inventoried plants, birds, insects, and wildlife along the two miles of creek that runs from behind the Seneca/Green Giant Trailer park east to the Patit Bridge.

Fifty Years Ago

April 30, 1970

Stinnette, Evers Head ’70 Dayton High Graduates. Stephen Stinnette, with a grade point 3.90 is the valedictorian of the 1970 class at Dayton High School, and Miss Kathy Evers, with a grade point of 3.87 is the salutatorian according to an announcement from Principal Bruce Keith.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 20, 1945

Gerald Stearns, 18, was unconscious, or semi-conscious, from Friday evening until Sunday morning as a result of having been thrown from his horse in the road running past the Elmer Elkins place, just above Star.

Apply for canning sugar any time after May 1, 1945. Fill out your forms and attach a “Spare Stamp 13” from War Ration Book Four for each member of the family.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 28, 1920

The Prescott Hotel Corporation was organized Monday night following a meeting of the Commercial Club when plan for a hotel was presented the erection for the structure for the sum of approximately $30,000.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 27, 1895

The board of penitentiary directors have reduced the price of wool bags to twenty-five cents each. The same sold at thirty-two each last year.