From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

February 15, 2012

Columbia County deputies arrested a man in Dayton while investigating a report of burglary at a local Dayton church. Daniel L. Baxter, 34, was captured while attempting to flee from deputies following their discovery of his hiding police in the basement of the empty house owned by the church.

February 19, 2012, is the 67th anniversary of the Battle for Iwo Jima and the 17th reunion for five of the twelve original local veterans, and the presence of a member of the Naval Intelligence group at the time, to meet at the Sterling Café in Walla Walla.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 19, 1997

Torel McGregor, 1996 graduate of DHS, and Cristen Cox of Newport, Ore., currently stationed with the U.S. Navy in Pensacola, Fla., were married February 8, 1997.

Fifty Years Ago

February 24, 1972

SAIGON (U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam) Petty First Class Danny J. Hereford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Hereford of Pendleton, Ore., has reported for duty in the Republic of Vietnam. Hereford is currently serving as an advisor to the Vietnamese Navy at Intermediate Support Base, Long Xuyen. Hereford is a former Dayton student up to the sixth grade, while his father was employed as a mechanic with the former Pools Motor, completing his education in Pendleton.

Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Ronald Griffen, a 1970 graduate of Waitsburg High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Griffen of Waitsburg, graduated from basic training at the Coast Guard Training and Supply Center at Alameda, Calif.

The Dayton Chapter Future Farmers of America took second place with a score of 2,680 out of a possible 3,000 points. Pomeroy placed first with a score of 2,748 at the Pomeroy Crops Judging contest at Pomeroy.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 20, 1947

Cadet Richard E. Dunlap, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunlap, is currently performing for the United States Military Academy fencing team. He has earned the reputation of being one of the Academy’s most talented swordsmen. While at Fordham University, he conquered his opponent by a score of 3-0. Dunlap holds the esteemed position of Cadet-in-Charge of West Point’s renowned 150-voice choir.

The Old New Hope School property, located in the Southwest quarter of Section 16, Township 10, Range 39. Sealed bids to be in hand of Clerk Maurice Roe, by March 5, 1947, School District No. 2 Columbia County.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 15, 1922

There will be a free motor school Thursday and Friday, February the twenty-third and fourth, under the auspices of Nilsson & Son and County Agent J.M. Lewis at Nilsson’s store building. Charts and parts of over 40 different machines will be shown and compete instructions will be given.

Fred Roecher, circulation manager of the Walla Walla Bulletin, on his way back from Pomeroy, has made arrangements for the Bulletin to be received there daily from the Pomeroy-Lewiston stage and put out by carrier servicer.

New Mountain Road, the Patrick trail road, will be improved and regraded this year. The Commissioners have given $500 toward the improvement and the government will give the balance. When completed, the residents will find the distance to Dayton cut in half.

The Walla Walla Fruit Growers, Inc. are to commence at once on warehouses at Huntsville across the line in Columbia County and at Stateline between Walla Walla and Milton. Construction is to be rushed to have the structures finished in readiness for the late spring pack.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 20, 1897

Thomas A Edison is about to give to the world another discovery as wonderful in its way as the fluoroscope, by means of which he puts the “X” rays to practical use in revealing the bony structure of the body.