From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 21, 2011

Jaron Button, 2011 Dayton High School graduate, after completing recruit training in San Diego, was awarded top meritorious award in his platoon and was offered to continue training to become a Security Specialist and the position of White House Guard to protect the Commander-in Chief, the President of the United States.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 18, 1996

Liberty Theater restoration details outlined: Funds needed. For the last year and a half, the theater restoration committee has been working with the Board of Directors and many dedicated volunteers and the project looks like it is a go.

Disaster Response Services finish the job. The CRWRC (Christian Reformed World Relief Committee) has finished the job that they set out to do: help people of Columbia County recover from flood damage. The Final Nail Ceremony to celebrate of completion of a reconstruction job, was held at Holly Anderson’s.

Fifty Years Ago

September 23, 1971

Dianne Eaton Tops Judges. Dianne Eaton topped Columbia County 4-H club members participating in the 4-H Livestock Judging Contest at the 81st annual Columbia County Fair last Saturday, September 11.

David Thorn has been awarded undergraduate honors at Whitman College in Walla Walla for his high academic achievement during the 1970-71 school year.

The 1971 Spokane Junior Livestock Show Steer Carcass of Merit results point up the fact that Columbia County has some good cattle. Lauri’s and Randy James ranked 1st and 5th in the overall carcass classification. The crossbreeding program Skip Mead, ranked 4th, Perry Patrick ranked 7th, Kathy Ashley ranked 13th, and finishing in the top 20 was Lester Eaton III.

Joe McCown, farmer in the Alto District of Columbia County, was appointed to the Board of County Commissioners September 22, in unanimous action by Commissioners Vernon Marll and Roy Cadman. The appointment fills the vacancy created by the September 1 resignation of Jim Cresswell, who has moved from the county.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 19, 1946

Max A. Johnson, 22, was fatally injured in an accident on the bridge near the Tucannon service station Monday shortly after 1 p.m. The young man was driving a gas truck and trailer for the Lee & Estes Transport Co.

Mrs. C.H. Day, who first became a resident of Dayton in 1877, celebrated her ninety-third birthday at her home September 12. Mrs. Day, who was Lora Rees, was a frequent visitor here in her early girlhood to visit her sister, the late Mrs. William Hendershott. It was on her third visit she was married to the late C. H. Day.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 14, 1921

COUNTY AGENT IS WANTED! List of Farmers Petition Commissioners to Retain a County Agent. Last spring, after the controversy regarding the advisability of retaining an agricultural agent on the payrolls of Columbia County, the commissioners agreed to discontinue the local office. A petition signed by a large number of our prominent farmers was presented asking that funds for the maintenance of this department be included in the 1922 budget.

September 17, 1921

Hon. John Brining is making a number of improvements at the hospital in the construction of a wash house with a concrete floor and several changes in the plumbing system,

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 19, 1896

A McKinley Club was organized at Covello, Tuesday evening, with twenty-three members. All citizens who wish to vote for McKinley and sound money are respectfully invited to attend.

For $8.90 the O.R. & N. Col will take you to Portland and return. Excursion leaves Dayton at 9:15 p.m. Thursday and return from Portland Sunday evening.