From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

July 7, 2010

The concepts for Blue Mountain Station are becoming more fleshed out with a new landscape illustration from USKH.

Four Shillings Short to perform at Dayton Library’s Delany Room, “Around the world in 30 instruments.”

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 5, 1995

A reminder to travelers on the Walla Walla Ranger District Umatilla National Forest, is that motorized travel off roads is prohibited.

The Dayton 4-H Wranglers are sponsoring a Dressage Forum with Diane Royce at the Columbia County Fairgrounds.

Fifty Years Ago

July 9, 1970

D.M. “Del” Avery, formerly of Pasco, is Dayton’s newest businessman as he assumed ownership and operation of the Mission Tavern, 254 E. Main, from John and Ione Hummel.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 5, 1945

Service Men To Get Farm Money. The Farm Security Administration has authorized by Congress to lend $25,000,000 in the next 12 months to returning servicemen who want to buy family-size farms, and will start making these earmarked loans on July 2.

Areas where trucks are urgently needed to prevent impairment of farm production will be allocated reasonable quantities of available surplus trucks under a sales procedure announced recently by the Office of Surplus Property, Department of Commerce, and the War Food Administration.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 3, 1920

Shipment of between four million and five million pounds of sugar received in Chicago by way of Canada were billed to packers and canners and to wholesalers at as low as nine and nine one-half cents a pound. United States district attorney’s assistants declared if wholesalers are paying only 9 and 9 ½ cents a pound, the retail price should not be higher than eleven cents.

Evidence is multiplying that the recent gasoline shortage was a purely fictitious one, cleverly managed by the coast gasoline companies acting in collusion, for the purpose of securing exorbitant prices for their prices.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 6, 1895

While building a barn for Fred Gritman. W. L. Jackson was handed up a two-by-four to step on. He stepped on it and fell to the floor fourteen feet below. He is now laid up with a bruised heel.

The saddle pony and street-car horse have gone and it seems to be Dobbins’ turn next. The Western Electrician tells its readers of a plow driven by an electric motor at Halle, Germany, which turns four furrows at a time, and as deep as desired.