From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

May 19, 2010

Wenaha Gallery presents Greenwich Workshop artist Rod Frederick. Rod Frederick was destined to become the prolific wildlife/landscape artist he is today. Frederick majored in art and minored in biology at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.

The Port of Columbia’s marketing effort for Blue Mountain Station, its long term business development project, was given a boost Wednesday when it was awarded a Challenge Grant of $8,000 by Pacific Power.

Austin Heinrich and Amy Schlenz were chosen as the recipients of the 2010 PEO Citizenship Award.

The American flag was tipped over Main Street to welcome Mike Ehredt, who saluted all Iraq heroes, some 4,386 veterans.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 17, 1995

Jeremy Hubbard and Stephanie Schreck were chosen as the recipients of the 1995 PEO Citizenship Award. The award certificates were presented by Mary Ellen Juris, a check for $150 to each will be presented at graduation.

Fifty Years Ago

May 21, 1970

Miss Lisa Russell, a senior at Dayton High School, has been offered and has accepted a fine arts scholarship at Fort Wright College in Spokane. The art scholarship in the amount of $100 is awarded to students who have shown outstanding talent in the field of fine arts.

Kris Juris of Dayton and Kip Culley of Prescott are hostess and host for the 1970 Columbia County Fair on September 10-11-12, with Cheryl Leid and Kelly Donohue, both of Dayton, to serve as assistant hostess and host.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 24, 1945

The War Department used Indians for Sending Secret Orders on Okinawa. When secret orders had given over the phone to number of Navajo Indians that were stationed with Oklahoma’s 45th division would pass the messages from one to another in their native Navajo language. Practically nobody in the world understands Navajo except another Navajo.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 20, 1920

Roy Cahill and E.C. Smith have decided to lay a concrete walk in front of their residences on Fifth Street. Concrete sidewalks will also soon replace the remaining wooden walks on the east side of Sixth Street on Syndicate Hill to the city boundary.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 18, 1895

Some Tariff Figures for Farmer: This is not a demagogic statement, because it is true and easily proven, robbery was done by the democratic tariff law and is easy to prove it from the records made up by the democrats.