From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

May 12, 2010

The Running T Ranch, hosting the Columbia County Cattlemen’s annual spring banquet, the Dayton Days Coronation, two weddings and a big birthday party, is a jewel located along the North Touchet Road. The owners Tim White, an electrician, contractor and property developer, and his daughter Michelle White, coordinate weekend events.

The Dayton School District School Board selected Andy Maheras from Walla Walla to succeed Jude Cornaggia as the new secondary principal in Dayton.

The Lewis and Clark walk Thursday attracted about 60 walkers who made the three-mile trek to the campsite on Patit Road.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 10, 1995

Andy Anderson, for over 41 years worked for Columbia Rural Electrification Association, and RediKilowatt, was honored, toasted and lightly roasted on his last active day on the job or in his yellow truck.

Fifty Years Ago

May 14, 1970

Cindi Moore is Second Feminine Jockey to Ride at Track. Cindi Moore, 17-year-old female Jockey and former Dayton High School student, is schedule to appear at the 52nd Dayton Days as a rider for the pari-mutual races.

Sale of stock for the proposed Skyline Basin, Inc., the ski recreation area 21 miles south east of Dayton, started earlier this week with an offering of 455,000 shares at $3 per share.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 10, 1945

For nearly ten months the world was momentarily expecting the news officially announced Tuesday morning, May Eighth: “Germany has unconditionally surrendered”.

Writing from a fox hole, Gene Parsons, somewhere on Okinawa, addressed the following letter to his folks, Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Parsons. “Hi Mom and Dad, not much time to write sitting in a fox hole dodging bullets, eating C-rations, wishing I was home doing chores.”

One Hundred Years Ago

May 12, 1920

Hank Echleburner, the genial herder, moving a bunch of mother cows with young calves that had to be transported in the “chuck” wagon up a road in the South Touchet area, tramped the road smooth so it is a fair road for the autoists now.

Visalia, Cal. May 6--- King Korndyke Pontiac 20th, pedigreed Holstein bull, was sold for $12,000 at an auction of blooded stock at the W.J. Higdon ranch.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 11, 1895

J.B. Davis brought us a sample of barley from Dr. Miller’s ranch, that is about three feet high and is already headed out. The crop will be ready to harvest before the hot, weather gets fairly started.