From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 14, 2011

Two Dayton teens, Carter Currin and James Costello, spent three weeks this summer volunteering at a Young Life Camp in Oregon at Young Life’s Washington Family Ranch located in Antelope, Ore. The ranch opened in 1999 and is one of 25 Young Life camps in the United States and Canada.

American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of the Blue Mountains 2011 event is expecting 21 teams and 300 participants, to be held Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning Sept. 18.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 11, 1996

Bill Groom Jr. is the recipient of this year’s Blue Mountain Eagle Aerie #2618 vocational scholarship of $1,000.

New director, Sofie Arebalos, will begin her duties as interim director of Project Timothy Christian Service Center. Mrs. Arebalos has been involved in volunteer work with Project Timothy for several years and is bi-lingual in Spanish and English and will be able to effectively address the needs of the community.

Fifty Years Ago

September 16, 1971

Airman Tim Delp, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Delp, has completed recruit training at Lackland Air Force base, Tex.

Pvt. Jerry Pounds, son of Mrs. Gene (Janet) Patton, completed a 14-week automotive repair course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Attendance at the three-day 81st annual Columbia County Fair numbered 4,462, second-best mark but below 1970 record of 5,468.

North Touchet Job Starts. Steelman-Duff wins $158,536 Contract. The project starts at the rock quarry, seven miles south of Dayton and extends about ten miles south to the Abels Bridge across the Touchet. The two-lane road will be re-aligned to improve line-of-sight and will be paved.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 12, 1946

John Clouston, Pendleton, assistant supervisor of the Umatilla National Forest, was in Dayton to inform Columbia county stockmen of changes in grazing schedules mapped out by forest service people. Mr. Clouston’s program calls for the abandonment of the Touchet watershed by the stockmen. The forest service man complained that the tops of the ridges were without grass. Joe Abels says he knew these mountains 65 years ago and that the same ridges were then barren-they are rocky.

The first football game of the season will be to dedicate the Lighting of the Stadium Field. The Bulldogs’ starting lineup has five lettermen: Agee, Campbell, Von Cadow, Startin and Martin.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 10, 1921

With application by Everett C. Ellis for appointment as special administrator of Mrs. Kate M. Mahoney’s estate, counsel for the heirs of the murdered woman announced today that the will would be filed late today or tomorrow. The will cuts off James E. Mahoney, husband of the dead woman, who is in jail charged with her murder.

The band stand at Pietrzycki Park, was destroyed by fire, probably caused by some youngsters smoking there Wednesday afternoon.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 12, 1896

The Kansas Dept. of Ag indicates Kansas has gained less than 2,000 people in the last year. There are about 125,000 families and there were about 10,000 babies born in Kansas, and yet so many people have left the state the natural increase is cut down to less than 2,000 net.