From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

An ancestor of Kevin Carson, author of “THE LONG JOURNEY OF NEZ PERCE,” a battle history from Cottonwood to Bear Paw, fought in the Nez Perce War.

Late Thursday evening, Robby McEloy suffered a gunshot wound to his head, he was rushed to the Dayton General Hospital and then airlifted to Kadlec Hospital in Richland Washington where he underwent emergency surgery for a near fatal wound.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 14, 1996

Sunday, August 4, the Dayton Swim Team traveled to Colfax to bring home their fifth Jerry Cluckey Memorial Tournament title. The Dayton swim team scored 617 points. Second place team, Colfax, scored less than half of Dayton’s points with 304.

The Blue Mountain Rocketeers announce its second annual model rocketry competition event ROLLING THUNDER, will take place September 21, 1996, at the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office arms training range located five miles north of Dayton on Smith Hollow Road.

Fifty Years Ago

August 19, 1971

A possible control program for an estimated 10,000 acres of yellow star thistle in Columbia County suggested by County Agent Arthur Sunderland before the board of County Commissioners.

Giant Sets New ‘Grass, Pea Record The Green Giant Company, Dayton plant recorded the largest case pack of asparagus in the history of the local plant operation. Pea processing of the Early June variety was completed at 140 per cent of budget, the sweet variety of green pea completed the local season at 170 per cent for the Dayton-Waitsburg plants.

.Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 15, 1946

County Superintendent of Schools Raymond Berry announces that all teachers for the rural schools have been contracted except one for the four primary grades at Star. Mrs. Johnson, will teach the higher grades in the Star school. District 1, Columbia, Mrs. Mattie Cochran, principal, Mrs. Eunice Washa, Huntsville, Mrs. Dorothy Hartley and Mrs. Gertrude Moore. No. 13, Marengo, Mrs. Isabelle Douglas. No. 22 Pine Grove, Mrs. Cora Nulph. No. 35 Starbuck. No. 53, Grupe Mrs. Rachel Cochran.

Six Thousand Turkeys One Man’s Effort to Serve World. Kenneth started the year with 7,200 “day-old” birds; today he has 3,500 of them four months old and 3,000 of 12 weeks old.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 8, 1921

The release of all American prisoners in Russia may be expected within a few days, according to Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison, of Baltimore, who spent many months in prison at Moscow, and was released under the protection of Senator France of Maryland.

Within three months the highway between Pendleton and La Grande will be completed, the Pendleton side leading to La Grande is paved to the summit, the balance of the road to La Grande is graded and graveled, connecting with the Columbia highway to Portland and any part of Washington.

The worst grain fire of the season took place Saturday afternoon when the outfit of the Patten Bros. caught fire from a smut explosion, burning 40 acres of standing grain, 200 sacks of threshed wheat and the machinery.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 15, 1896

Adam Forpaugh and Sells Bros. Circus, which visited Dayton Wednesday, was the grandest affair ever held under a canvas in this county.

Miss Nannie Rainwater, Misses Gertie and Carrie Magill and Henry Patrick and family are huckleberrying in the vicinity of Huckberry Mountain. They went by pack train.