From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 28, 2012

Lease agreements and landscaping dominates Port of Columbia meeting. Irrigation and landscaping plans progressed for eight acres at the east end of Blue Mountain Station. The BMS marketing consultants attended a Natural Expo and developed 20 new leads and reported of those, 505 are realistic enough to pursue.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 26, 1997

Weight Watchers knows that losing weight should fit the way you live your life…not the other way around. The Freedom Plan helps you learn how to lose the weight you need to lose without complicating your busy life. Attend the Organizational meeting April 2.

What a Sunday night show! Comet Hale-Bopp at the brightest yet very visible as the lunar eclipse dimmed the night sky, with the eclipse peeking in and out of the broken cloud cover.

Fifty Years Ago

March 30, 1972

Academic Class Leader Miss Kristine Juris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Juris, leads the 1972 graduates with a seven-semester grade point average of 3.66. Miss Diana Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Thompson, earned salutatorian honors with her grade point of 3.63.

Carnation corsages and certificates were presented to five nurses, Mrs. Donal (Joanna) Tate, RN; Mrs. Glen (Alene) Morasch, RN; Mrs. Wilfred (Betty) Wessels, RN; Mrs. Gene (Fern) Reser, and director of nurses and Miss Christine Loveland, LPN, at General Hospital last week by Dr. Donald Pittman, chief of the medical staff, to recognize their recent completion of an intensive course in coronary care.

Miss Pam Sunderland was declared first-place winner in the Bernina Sewing Contest for high school age girls in the local competition held March 27 under the sponsorship of Benevolentia Club. Second place local winner was Kristy Boggs and third place Sherri Osborne. The sewing contest is a project of the Washington State Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Larry Harting, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Harting, was discharged from the U. S. Army on March 20 after completing a three-year enlistment and is now employed as a mechanic for a heavy equipment company in Baytown, Tex.

Marine Cpl. Bill L. Segraves, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Segraves, recently completed a specialized aviation maintenance course at the Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, Calif.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 27, 1947

W. A. Nelson, district manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, was in Dayton and told that the toll line between Dayton and Walla Walla was being enlarged and hoped to have this particular job competed sometime in April. Service on this connection has not been too good since the end of the war.

Twenty-five race horses are training at the Waitsburg tracks in preparation for the spring race meets being held in this area during the month of May.

County Auditor Holt Boone presented to the Kiwanis Club a story about the history of the county. Originally this section of the country was first incorporated as Walla Walla County, and took in all of eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and one-quarter of Montana. Columbia County was formed 1875. It included what is now Garfield and Asotin counties. Later Garfield separated from Columbia and included Asotin and still later Asotin cut off a slice of territory and called it Asotin County. When Columbia County was incorporated without Garfield, a contest developed between Dayton vs. Marengo as to where the county seat should be.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 22, 1922

Washington, March 20—All American troops will be out of Germany by July1, under orders issued by Secretary Weeks, at the direction of President Harding. About 2000 officers and men are directly affected as the remainder of Major General Allen’s command in the Coblenz bridgehead zone on the Rhine already were under orders home.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 27, 1897

While running in the yard Tuesday afternoon, Leo Waterman fell, biting his tongue nearly off. Dr. Day was called and sewed the tongue together. The little fellow stood the operation manfully.