From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

April 20, 2011

At the ground-breaking ceremony of the Blue Mountain Station Friday, April 15. Port Manager Jennie Dickinson announced the Port of Columbia will be building a USDA meat processing facility.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 17, 1996

The PTSO-sponsored Carnival event is scheduled for Saturday, April 27 in the high school gym. It has funded projects such as the yearly Pacific Science Center Van, playground additions, library books, encyclopedias, scholarships, and many other school projects.

DHS Senior Band member Carrie Avery was awarded the Sousa Award from Band/Chorus Director Carolyn Rundell.

.Fifty Years Ago

April 21, 1971

Ann Whipple, Valedictorian, and Jay Schafer, Salutatorian, lead the 1971 graduating class of 61 seniors at Dayton high School.

Lewis Machine Shop Sale Slated for April 29. Bert Lewis, owner of the machine shop for nearly 35 years of business in Dayton, revealed this week that ill health is forcing closure of the business and auctioning of equipment and supplies.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 18, 1946

Civilian Dale Hutchens, wife and infant daughter arrived home, having flown from the Middle West, terminaing his four and a half years with the Army in St. Louis. Hutchens was one of the first Columbia County boys to get into the service, enlisting in August, 1941.

County Auditor Holt Boone is obtaining rights of way for a county-state highway running from the city limits up to the Touchet to the old Abels place, now owned by Clark Finkle. It isn’t a new job the highway department has in mind, the present road is older than the settlers living beside it and the Federals.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 20, 1921

About 800 people from Dayton, Pomeroy, and Tucanon enjoyed Sunday at the Oscar King ranch on Tucanon, where old time Bucking was staged in the corral that was a stage coach station in territorial days.

Questions submitted by Governor Hart and several prosecuting attorneys. Attorney General L. L. Thompson today filed a set of rulings on doubtful points in the Act of 1921 under which a poll tax of $5 is now due and payable by every resident of the state over 21 and under 50 years of age.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 18, 1896

It is reported that W. H. Babcock on Saturday made a sale of 150,000 bushels of wheat at 60 cents per bushel.

One of Geo. Welch’s men had a way with a plow team on Tuesday. The plow was reduced to atoms, ditto, or almost.