From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 7, 2012

An education program inspired the United Methodist Women to sew 50 pillowcases into dresses for girls in a Kenya orphanage. Those making the dresses were Myra Mann, Marsha Strand, Jacque Sonderman and Jan Gerlitz.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 5, 1997

Dayton’s boys’ basketball team had the highest grade point average of all Class A Teams in the State. Team members are Micheal Gembala, Robert Carlton, Tim Alves, Clay Hutchens, Nathan Cummings, Joe Howard, Nick Benavides Tom Howard, Blain Bell, Jake Culley, Marco Martinez, Coach Toy Callero, and Assistant Coach Terry Nealey.

Fifty Years Ago

March 9, 1972

Jim Fletcher of the Dayton FFA Chapter won first place in the Central Valley Crops contest held March 4. He made a total of 985 points out of a possible 1,000 to win, setting a record high for the Central Valley contest, with other team members Mary Lee Martin, and Mary Sue Evers. The Dayton team placed second overall with 2,777.

Michael Agenbroad, senior at Dayton High School, received the rank of Eagle Scout to highlight the annual Boy Scout Troop 332 banquet and court of honor March 4.

Lauri James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark James, member of Dayton Barn Yard 4-H Club, was notified this week that she was the winner of the Angus Steer of Merit of carcass evaluation award at the 1971 Spokane Junior Livestock Show.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 6, 1947

Maize, that’s Mrs. Mead’s saddle mare, has kept the folks guessing all winter. Was she to become a mother, come spring, or was it premature middle age sag? The matter was settled-but definitely-Saturday morning when Maize came in with the rest of the horses and tagging alongside was a wobbly legged sorrel colt with a bald face.

Columbia County went over the top on its Red Cross drive by Saturday noon, March 1. We were the second county in the state of Washington and the fifth county in the entire Pacific area to reach its quota.

One Hundred Years Ago

Tom Floyd and George Roe were arrested in Starbuck Wednesday morning for breaking into Pearson’s warehouse and stealing hams and bacon, they sold the meat to Chinese restaurant keepers for 3 cents per pound. The white men were bound over for trial at the March term of the Superior Court. The Chinese were given a hearing in Dayton, but it could not be proven that they were in any way implicated in the stealing and were dismissed.

Leon Booker, son of Mrs. C. A. Booker, has been employee of the Standard Oil Co. at Tampico, Mexico, ever since he was mustered out of military service has been transferred to South America and is on his way to that country.

James Patent Turner died at the Brining hospital after an illness of a year or more. He was born in Missouri and came to this section with his family in 1865, coming by team across the plains.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 27, 1897

Chas. Swegle, living on and owning the old mission claim of Marcus Whitman, four miles southwest of Walla Walla, has agreed to deed a seventeen acre tract of land surrounding the spot where rest the remains of martyred hero of the northwest, his loyal wife and eleven others on condition that a fitting monument be erected there within a year.