From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

May 4, 2011

Seventeen Dayton Elementary School students in grades 4 and 5 participated in the 2011 Blue Mountain Speech Competition at the Liberty Theater. Tanya and Mike Breaux chaired the program, various 4-H groups provided refreshments, Katie Leid was emcee, Chandra Richardson and Wes Leid were judges. Jalen Sturgill received a Judge’s Choice Award, Tatumn Laughery and Terran Villaro received top “First” blue ribbons.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 1, 1996

Age limit for Juvenile Ponds: Todd Vandivert, Columbia County Fish and Wildlife Agent, referred to the regulation by City Ordinance on the juvenile ponds stating that people over the age of twelve cannot fish the juvenile ponds. The State law passed by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife sets the age under fifteen years.

Fifty Years Ago

May 6, 1971

$45,640 CHECK, an advance on flood disaster aid approved for Columbia County, was presented May 3, to Vernon Marll, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, with additional money approved for flood maintenance control.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 2, 1946

Filing certificates of honorable discharge from the Army of the United States were Charles Munden, Dayle Rainwater and Glen N. Davidson.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O’Neil announce the engagement of their daughter Dorothy to Charles S. Mead III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Mead Jr.

Mrs. Jim Hillhouse had word the first of the week that her son, Harold Slack, had been chosen one of the navy men who will have a part in the forthcoming world-intriguing naval tests of the atomic bomb in the southwest Pacific.

Washington State is getting more soil conservation districts: Two new districts were recently organized, several more are in the process of being organized, two old districts are being enlarged, reports Paul C. McDrew, soil conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service

One Hundred Years Ago

April 27, 1921

James Turner was badly hurt Saturday afternoon when two disc teams at the Louis James farm ran away and piled up. The boy was caught beneath a disc and one limb was cut to the bone.

A number of Dayton people attended a picnic on the Snake River Sunday, where they were joined by friends from Colfax and Starbuck. Those from here were J.L. Wallace, Claude Swegle, C.N. Boyd, W. L. Walls, George Jackson and Add Cahill, and families.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 6, 1896

A contract will be let for hauling from three to four thousand ties from the Robinett Mountain to Dayton. Must be delivered by the first day of July, inquire of William Rost, one-half mile west of Grupe’s mill, Robinett Mountain.

John F. Jackson and Ray Brouiliett expected to make a trip into British Columbia, going via Spokane, taking several cases of eggs to sell in the mines.