From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

December29, 2010

2010 Shopping Spree Winners: Melissa Lindley, $100, Eddie Tewalt $50, Lois Barton $50, Lauri McKinley $50. Tim Yate $50.

Patti Jo Cooper, sharing her love for dance and movement, is opening “The Studio” located at 151 E. Main with classes beginning January 4.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 27, 1995

The Blue Mountain Eagles Auxiliary raised money through Jimmy Durante Fun Day and other events this past year and as a result $1,000 was presented to the Dayton School’s Special Education Department, Madam President Claudia Brazington presented the check to Becky Geisen.

Dayton Crushers, 8th grade AAU girl,s participated in a six-week fall league consisting of 35 eight grade teams broke down into 7 leagues, took first place in Yakima Valley “Fall” league.

Fifty Years Ago

December 31, 1970

John Carson, superintendent of schools for Columbia County since 1964, will be among four superintendents honored Sunday afternoon, January 10, 1971, as they step into retirement. The reception honoring superintendents of Columbia, Garfield and Walla Walla Counties will be held in the Wa-Hi Commons building in Walla Walla. Because of the distance, Asotin County will not attend.

Joe Groom, well-known farmer in the Huntsville area, is now associated with JHEN Development Real Estate in Walla Walla as a real estate salesman.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 27, 1945

Veterans of Foreign Wars Sign up Forty for Charter: Jim Turner, former resident of this county, was in Dayton this week soliciting membership for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a veterans’ organization that has not heretofore been represented in Dayton.

Miss Faith Peringer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Virgil Peringer, of Belmont, and Wilfred Thorn, son of the late James Thorn and Mrs. Thorn of this city, were married at the country home of the bride’s parents Christmas day at high noon.

Safeway’s Last Minute New Year’s Party Suggestions. Blanched Peanuts 8-oz can $.25 Mincemeat 2-lb. jar $.48, Cigarettes 2 pkgs. $.37 Ctn. $1.53, Beef Steaks, rib cut $.32lb. Chops $.38lb, Woodbury’s Facial Soap 3 bars $.32.

Choose its Fine Pre-War Quality Corby’s fine whiskey, produced in the U.S.A. under the supervision of expert Canadian blender, 86 Proof-68.4% Grain Neutral Spirits.

One Hundred Years Ago

December, 1920

Ferry No Longer Free: The Ferry at Burbank is again making regular crossing of the Snake River, but not as a free ferry as heretofore. For some time the ferry has been maintained as a free ferry, the operating expenses, salaries, etc., being paid jointly by Franklin and Walla Walla Counties.

The Falkenberg gift store in the Bridge Building is, for the Fifteenth Christmas season, very much alive and alert. “Despite the bad influence the flu was supposed to work on business two years ago and the handicap last season of the excessive cold,” the store has added another attractive line of merchandise.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 28, 1895

Starbuck News: The Methodists are now building a church which will likely not be completed until spring.

Covello News: R. E. Whetstone & Co. shipped a lot of dead turkeys to Seattle last Saturday, minus feathers.

The new constitution of Utah commissioners has been examined by the president and Attorney General Harman and the President will issue his proclamation January 4 next, declaring Utah a state of the Union.