From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 1, 2011

Dayton Days, Inc. met May 24 to decide the fate of the 2011 Dayton Days due to the equine herpes virus (EHV-I) outbreak. According to officials, it was decided at the meeting to cancel all rodeo events scheduled for the weekend. Counties with confirmed EHV-I included Thurston, Spokane, Chelan, Asotin and Whitman.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 29 1996

Dayton Alumni Association has authorized, based on further donations, Project Coordinator Gene Turner to begin construction on the all-weather track.

Monday morning’s weather provided a great turnout for the Touchet River Run. Over 180 males and females of all ages participated.

Fifty Years Ago

June 3, 1971

One-hundred one and a half year of teaching are represented by a trio of Dayton Elementary School teachers, who are retiring this year. The three who have served the children of the Dayton school for 54 of the 101½ years total, are Clarence McNair, Dean of teachers and the seventh-eight grade math instructor, Mrs. R.R. Gowing, taught third grade for 20 years and Mrs. L.V. (Myrtle) Ledum, who taught second grade for the past five years, she previously taught in Delaware, Ellensburg and Kittitas.

Donnie Lake Dedicated, a new 200 x 200 ft. recreational lake on the Tucannon was formally dedicated, June 1. A rock monument holding a bronze plaque has been placed at the shoreline of Donnie Lake, in memory of Donald William Turnell, son of Ranger Bob and Mrs. Tunell, who was born October 16, 1965 and died May 17, 1969.

Lt. Col. Gene Turner of Dayton, pilot in the United States Air Force, received the Air Medal for Meritorious Achievement while flying under hazardous combat conditions in the Southeast Asia. He was an aircraft commander/pilot of a C-141 Star Lifter transport.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May30, 1946

Emergency Food Collection Underway, $192 For Famine Relief was voted by the Kiwanis Club members towards the general emergency famine relief program being carried on in this country. A committee set up and chairmanned by Loren Dumas, will feed two children for one year through this Kiwanis pledge.

Queen Janis Henriod and Belva Heinrich, Margaret Fletcher, Ann Dingle and Leora Warren will reign on the 1946 Dayton Days Court.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 3, 1921

The emergency tariff-bill was signed late today by President Harding, and the new law effective tomorrow. It will be effective for a six-months’ period on most farm products and carries a provision designed to prevent the dumping of foreign goods in this country.

Columbia River Structure Must Be Financed by June 1. The amount to be secured was about $40,000, of this sum $8,000 assigned to Pasco, $7,000 to Kennewick and Walla Walla promised the balance.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 30, 1896

While working among the logs at Grupe’s Mill on Robinett Mountain, A. Walsh got caught by a rolling log, breaking his right leg below the knee and was taken to Columbia Hospital. Dr. McLachlan reduced the fracture.

H. J. Torrance has a car-load of Cumberland coal for sale, best in the world for blacksmithing.

The work on the Patrick road is progressing fairly well. This road when completed will shorten the route to Dayton by about 13 miles.

Ben Magill and son have taken claims on the Tukanon and the Pan Jab.