From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

December 10, 2010

Mary Reeves, a 2000 Dayton High School graduate, is attending the University of Washington where she is a standout member of the rowing team. Reeves, a senior this year, has competed in rowing all four years.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December, 12, 1995

We Are Celebrating! Uncle Deb Laughery is 80 years young. Join us Sunday, December 10.

Congratulations 7th and 8th grade honor roll students, During the first quarter of school, 83 seventh and eighth grade students have achieved a grade point average of 3.0 - 4.0. All 7th and 8th grade honor roll students will be eligible for a trip to Ski Bluewood, December 20.

Fifty Years Ago

December 6, 1970

Cut ‘N’ Wrap Firm Opened. Darrel McCauley, owner-operator of Dayton Cut ‘N’ Wrap, is open and functioning and is located at 406 East Main, specializes in custom cutting and wrapping of farm-raised meat animals.

Larry Groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Groom, assumed duties December 1, as patrolman in the Police Department of the City of Colfax.

Lt. Bill Douglas, USN, son of Mrs. Isabelle Douglas, assigned to the nuclear-powered submarine Lewis & Clark, returned from a three month cruise to Charleston, S.C., where he, his wife and children reside.

Miss Kay Spoonemore, senior at Dayton High School, was crowned 1971 Touchet Valley Junior Miss November 28, and during the fourth annual pageant sponsored by Dayton Jaycees. Spoonemore is now eligible for the Washington State Pageant to be held in Pullman.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 5, 1945

Just about every business Main Street was represented at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and took part in drafting a brief to be presented to the state board of Labor and Industries. In 1923 a law was passed by the state legislature creating a labor board to have the power to establish a minimum wage, maximum hours, working conditions. Recently left-wingers placed a demand that 75 cent an hour minimum wage be set for women and minors in retail trade,

Major Leslie Zimmerman, an Army chaplain, began his first pastorate as pastor of the Dayton Christian Church, talked for more than two hours, before an enthusiastic crowd of his experiences while interned for many years in a Jap Prison Camp.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 8, 1920

South Touchet News; Lawrence Bernard visited the Keve family on Jasper Mt. last week and found them still digging spuds. The John Seagraves family have moved to town for the winter.

Francis Hatfield, Shelly Swinehart and Lawrence Bernard, Fred Dakin and Elmer Elkins are cutting wood on their homestead with gasoline wood saws.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 5, 1895

Pine Grove News. It is reported the Lon Hatley and N. Carter have purchased a sawmill in the Palouse country.

Mr. F. Cantril has purchased a shingle machine and a thirteen-horsepower steam engine, which he is setting up on his property at the foot of the mountain.

From Dr. Pietryzcki we learn that there are three well-developed cases of varioloid (small pox) in this county at the present time. The patients were removed to their own place on the hill and every precaution taken to prevent its spread. It was suspected to be chicken pox, of which quite a number of cases are reported throughout the county.