From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

January 5, 2011

Experienced barbers Ray and Angie Romero are ready to open newly furnished Ray’s Barbershop.

Doctor Andrew Paul MD is a board-certified Family Practice physician and will begin working at Columbia Family Clinic January 10.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 3, 1996

National recognition is gained when five Dayton law enforcement officers shaved their heads in support of Sheriff Jim LaTour, who was diagnosed with cancer and has had to go through chemotherapy.

Paul A. Spera, Commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, has announced the award of a Golden Anniversary Citation to VFW Post 5549, Dayton, and the post will be fifty years old on January 11, 1996.

Fifty Years Ago

January 7, 1971

Stolen Merchandise Recovery Friday Leads to Arrest. Five burglaries in Dayton, Prescott, Waitsburg and rural Columbia County were solved by the Dayton Police Department officers with the arrest of three young Dayton residents. Arrested and charged with second degree burglary are Sharlene Long, 20; Victor Pedersen, 19: and Robert Lee Guinn Jr., 20.

A building program for the First United Methodist Church of Dayton which dates back to May 1954, will be culminated Sunday, January 10, as a service of Dedication is held to signify retirement of all indebtedness.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 3, 1946

Flood Waters Get Dangerously High: Luckily Rain Stopped. Water on the upper North Touchet was pretty rough and took the approaches to a bridge near the former Chipmuck place of Dayton’s G.W. McCauley. A little more water and the city and county and residents would be in favor of the proposed channel work the army engineers want do from Star school to the mouth of the Patit.

Navy Man, Jay Rayburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Rayburn, feels like he was riding home with Santa Claus. Jay had been in the service two years and spent 14 months in the Pacific with an amphibious personnel assault ship. His major combat experience was the invasion of Okinawa.

The Nation-Wide Victory Clothing Collection Starts, with more than a hundred million wearable used garments of all types are wanted to assuage the critical need in Europe.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 5, 1921

Chinese Evade Law: San Francisco, “Transit” to Cuba and the Lafollette Seaman’s Act are providing Chinese with ways of entering California and other states, according to Commissioner of Immigration, Edw. White. Under the Lafollette Act, shore leave may not be denied Chinese. Commissioner White stated that many come ashore in San Francisco and do not return to the ships which brought them from China.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 4, 1896

OTTAWA—As the increased rates of duties levied under the new tariff bill proposed by Congress will operate against Canadian exports, it is maintained here that a retaliatory raise of the Canadian tariff should be made.

Recently there was celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the four days’ fight between the whites and the Indians of the Walla Walla valley, which commenced December 7, 1855. The celebration took place at Frenchtown, being the site of the battle ground, with twelve Indian war veterans who participated in the fight.