From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

February 23, 2011

Casino Night fund raiser coming to town March 5. The folks at the theater need to raise some capital for their new projector so a group of volunteers will be dealing cards, throwing dice and spinning the wheels in a variety of games of chance.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 28, 1996

Record-breaking monies from the Day Estate for 1996 was a record-breaking $90,700. Identical checks to be received by the school and hospital districts. The funds are intended to supplement their regular budgets.

Slowly, slowly getting back to normal after the flood, tons and tons of flood mud to get scooped up and hauled plus the millions of dollars in damage to get repaired.

Fifty Years Ago

February, 1971

Miss Martha McKinley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McKinley of Waitsburg, a former student of Dayton High School, is serving as a senate page for Senator Hubert Donohue.

Pam Sunderland placed second in the Fourth Area Oratory Contest sponsored by the American Legion in Colfax February 24. The winner of the contest is Tom Ledgerwood of Clarkston.

Miss Sherri Grubb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Grubb, has been selected to participate in the 1971 European concert tour of the Young Americans in Concert, an organization of high school age youth sponsored by the Universal Academy for Music.

Wilfred and Faith Thorn Named 1971 Cattleman of Year and will be honored May 20, at the annual Honor Day program and barbecue sponsored by the Columbia County Livestock Association and Cow Belles Auxiliary.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 28, 1946

Three Dayton boys, Hally Earl Hatfield, 17, Kenneth Dale Tewalt, and Donald Hadley Wilson, enlisted together for the U.S. Navy and will go through their recruit training at San Diego, Calif., for eight weeks.

Hundreds of British war brides and their babies have arrived in the United States by ships, to join their husbands and fathers.

Construction started Wednesday on the elevator of the Columbia County Grain Growers at Delany station. The job is being done by Hogenson Construction Company of Minneapolis and will have the capacity of 170,000 bushels.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 26, 1921

By flagging a fast train with matches before daybreak, this morning George Burns, age 35, probably prevented himself from bleeding to death after both legs had been cut off beneath another train.

$5 poll Tax Bill Passed. Tax of One Cent Per Gallon on Gasoline Provided by Proposed Law. Three million dollars in new taxes will be collected annually from the people of the state of Washington in addition to those raised by the state levy if two measures passed by the senate today became law.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 29, 1896

Stevenson and Adams announce this week that they are ready for business and will buy butter, eggs, and chickens. They also keep for sale, feed, flour and hay. Give the boys your patronage and encourage them in business, for a commission store will be a great help to the customer, fruit-grower, and gardener. Their business is in Kellogg’s Brick, Main Street.

A large number of farmers residing in the north part of the county gathered at the Court House last Saturday to discuss the matter of the county commissioners making an appropriation to assist them in exterminating the squirrels that threaten to completely destroy the growing crops of that section.