From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 30, 2010

Summer Recreation Program off to a great start with a total 48 youth, grades K-6th are registered in the program, an increase of 30 youth over the 2009 program.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 28, 1995

Dick Ingram Jr. was honored Thursday night at the 66th Annual Grain Grower Stockholder’s meeting. Manager Don Himmelberger presented Dick with a commemorative gift for his seven years of service on the board of directors of the cooperative.

Holly Wiener, Carrie Avery and Rachelle Nodine, all seniors at Dayton High School, will be competing in the Washington State Miss American Coed Pageant. The Pageant will be held on July 21-22 at the Everett Pacific Hotel in Everett, Wash.

Fifty Years Ago

July 2, 1970

Phillip Wayne Kelley, 15, missing since Sunday afternoon, June 28, after a one-car auto wreck, was found shortly after 1 a.m. July 1, at the Kenneth Newby cabin, 18 miles southeast of Dayton on the Wolf Fork by Deputy Sheriff Dick Jackson and John Hinchliff.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 28, 1945

The following communication from Mrs. N. Turner will be good news to many in this community. Lyons Ferry went A.W.O.L. from her home port for a few days rest on the 29th of May. A plane was wired out from Martin’s Flying field, Walla Walla, to locate the runaway. She was spotted about 25 miles down the river and towed back up river by Captain Lappalanto.

Premier Stalin, of Russia, in an address to the Soviet Union, castigated Germany and Japan as aggressor nations. His talk renewed speculation that the Soviet Union will make available some of its resources to the Allies of the Pacific war.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 30, 1920

Columbia County was assigned by the near East Relief, the caring of Armenian children. The cost of caring for one child is sixty dollars a year. The past week eight more children have been adopted by the following, each taking one child. Leslie Wright; Draper Club, Congregational Mission Society; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Thronson; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Weatherford; Women Relief Corps; Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Dickinson; and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Bowman.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 29, 1895

Many farmers whose grain gave promise of a fine crop three weeks ago are now cancelling orders for sacks which they had given out. It looks awful blue for those who put in only spring grain.

William Blower’s son John, living near Turner, was running a disk harrow last Saturday when he was accidently thrown from the seat in front of the harrow and run over, a disk cutting the boy’s hip about 6 inches long and 2 1/2 inches deep. One of the horses was completely hamstrung and had to be killed.