From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

January 11, 2012

Kirsten Schober, Liberty Theater manager, accepted a $3,000 check from Pacific Power Regional Manager Bill Clemens. Kirsten explains that this will go toward the digital projector fund and helps get additional matching grant moneys as well.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 8, 1997

The first hours of the New Year were extremely warm and just past 4:00 a.m., Patit Creek jumped its banks and high water came over the south bank between Second and First Street, sending flood waters down First Street. Monday, December 30 started with 14 inches of snow covering the valley and raining. The Touchet River above Baileysburg was washing away the bridge approach and the orchard bridge with the Touchet River was out of its banks.

Fifty Years Ago

January 13, 1972

Miss Kristine Juris, a senior, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Juris, has been named second-place winner of a $100 Elks’ Youth Leadership Award for 1972. Wesley Clizer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clizer, former Daytonites, was named winner of one of the $250 first-place awards in the contest.

Ninety-four m.p.h. Gust Recorded Tuesday, Utilities, Marina hardest Hit. Wind, with one gust early Tuesday afternoon clocked at 94 miles per hour, took its toll in the community and county, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, January 9-10-11. Several gusts were in the 70-80 miles per hour range with numerous wind blasts in the 60 miles per hour. The intensity of the winds was compared to the 1962 Columbus Day storm when winds were clocked at 95 m.p.h.

.Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 9, 1947

BOXING TONIGHT! High School Gym. Annual All-High Smoker, “D” Club vs F.F.A. Club, Ten Good Fights, Two Comedy Events, Two Junior High Preliminaries, Plenty of Action, Every Fight to a Decision. Ringside 75¢, Bleacher and Balcony, Adult 60¢, Students 40¢.

Speeding telephone expansion in dozens of rural areas throughout Washington, this new steel wire-developed--by Bell Telephone Laboratories—is so strong the number of poles needed can be cut almost in half, poles were generally placed less than 250 feet apart, with the new steel wire the distance can be extended to 400 feet or more. This makes for far faster construction.

Early last summer we had a story telling of the 6,500 head of turkeys Kenneth Broadhead put on the market. This week Kenneth is coming to the end of the season’s work and is marketing a mere 1,800 head. Kenneth hasn’t all his eggs in one basket, as he has been in the bee business the past three years and now has 26 bee hives which produce from five to twenty gallons of honey per hive.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 7, 1922

Fine Residence for Syndicate Hill- As soon as spring opens there is excellent prospect for the erection of another fine residence on Syndicate Hill. Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Broughton recently purchased from Hon. John Brining lots 1 and 2, block 6 in the Syndicate Hill addition, making the property 120 by 130 feet, with plans for an 11-room residence at the cost in the neighborhood of $10,000.

A rabbit drive is planned for Sunday, January 14, on Willow Creek and Dry Hollow, where the rabbits are so thick that they are genuine menace to the growing crops. Shotguns only will be allowed.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 9, 1897

Prof. Martines Located Another Ledge on the Tukanon—Heals The Afflicted, Tells Fortunes. There is very little to be said this week in regard to developments in the Tukanon mining district, excepting that there are numerous prospectors in the country looking for ledges. Waterman and Curl have made eight or nine locations and sent specimens of quartz, taken from the face of the ledge, to an assayer in Denver. Henry Patrick is confident that Waterman and Curl found a rich deposit of copper and perhaps other minerals.