From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 23, 2011

The Columbia County Rural Library District announced their participation in the Washington State Library’s Libraries at “Light Speed” broadband fiber optic project.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 20, 1996

Retired teacher and Coach John Stockton, presented to the Dayton High School Alumni Association a check for $1,000 in memory of Merl Laughery.

Fifty Years Ago

March 25, 1971

Winners of the contest to provide an emblem for Columbia County Search & Rescue Unit are: Jeff Brodhead, Debbie Kirk and Cindy Leid. Wally Payne, chairman of the unit, and Mrs. Cecil Sharpe, Dayton Public School art instructor, assisted the contestants.

Mary Burnette, sang first soprano, and Ann Whipple, played first-chair flute in the Southeast Washington Music Educators’ Associatio Honor Band and Honor Chorus,.

Sherri Grubb and Ann Whipple will be going to Pacific University at Forest Grove, Oregon, to take part in the annual Music in May Festival.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 21, 1946

Wallace McCauley, returned veteran, has gone into partnership with his dad, Eldon McCauley, in the operation of the service station at the corner of Main and Second. Wallace was 22 months in the European theater, and went to into Normandy D-day plus 10 and was wounded, then served in Belgium.

Claude A. McQuary recently in Baguie, Luzon, summer capital and playground of the Philippines, entered the army February 15, 1945 for overseas duty.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 16, 1921

KANSAS CITY’S LITTLE ITALY. Three hundred men were arrested, thousands of dollars’ worth of liquor and drugs seized and hundreds of guns, knives and much ammunition found today in police raids in Kansas City’s “Little Italy.”

FARMERS NEED HELP. Farm Products Must Go Up and Others Come Down to Bring Results.

An appeal for “every good citizen” to do what he can to help farmers through the period of depression,

A telegram received by Dr. W. W. Day, announced the death of little Howard McCauley at Rochester, Minn., Monday night following and operation for the removal of a tumor at the base of his brain. The child was the only son of Dr. and Mrs. George McCauley of this city.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 21, 1896

St. Paul, Minnesota: Dr. David Day Passes Away. The City Loses in the Death of Dr. Day, one of its First Practicing Physicians and an Eminent and Respected Citizen. Three brothers survive Dr. Day. Two live in Washington and one in Oregon. Dr. J.H. Day, now of Washington, and an elder brother of the deceased, at one time practiced medicine in this city.