From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

August 4, 2010

Medal of Honor recipient Retired Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall of Port Orchard, Wash., who was awarded the nation’s highest military honor for his bravery, will key note the Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day in Chehalis. He was portrayed in the 2002 movie “We Were Soldiers”.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 2, 1995

Two 1995 Dayton High School graduates, Will Hutchens, son of Bob and Anita Hutchens, and Mardell Lockard, daughter of Dennis Lockard and Joan Lockard, been awarded $1,000 each from the Glenn Terrell Presidential Scholarship.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture has recently filed emergency rules to help prevent animals with Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) from entering Washington State. Veterinarians recently confirmed cases of the disease in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, affecting horses, cattle, swine and sometimes sheep, goat, and wildlife. Humans can display influenza-like symptoms.

Fifty Years Ago

August 6, 1970

The Dayton Museum, located in the basement of Dayton Memorial Library, is now open to the public each Thursday afternoon, but more volunteers are needed to staff the project.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 2, 1945

With the months from June to September being the season when the ever-present threat of an infantile paralysis epidemic becomes more ominous, the National Foundation has compiled “When Polio Strikes” a bulletin of suggestions to help fight the spread of poliomyelitis, such as maintain community sanitation at a high level at all times and do not swim in polluted water.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 31, 1920

One of the most destructive fires to occur on our main street started in the boiler room in the rear of the steam laundry building about midnight. Mr. W.H. Kingman and Jack Shangle, who operate the new chemical engine, were called out but the fire had gained such headway the chemicals were of no use. The business of Dr. C. H. Day and G. A. Kirchner suffered the greatest losses.

Just received a new shipment of Automatic Electric Washing Machines. Buy at Suffields before they are all gone.

Wages High and Plenty of Men Available for Work. Header-box drivers, $4.50 to $5; loaders $5 to $6; sack jiggers, $5 to $6; hoe down $6 to $8; combine drivers $8 to $10; cooks $4 to $7; derrick driers and strawbucks $4; waterbucks $5 to $8 per day.

Touchet Hills grain average 25 bushels/acre. Number one club wheat has dropped to $2.35 for August delivery.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 3, 1895

The treasury officials are making preparations for the first payment to the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho of $600,000 due them under the treaty for ceded lands.

While riding a horse, the 13-year old son of Ben Magill was thrown, then kicked on the knee. Dr. Van Patten treated the badly bruised knee.