From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

April 18, 2012

Rookie “Ranching Robotics” placed first at the Spokane FRC Regional contest held in Cheney, advancing them to the national level FIRST Robotics Competition Championship for high school age students held at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louse, Mo. where 400 robots are expected to compete.

Robot team member are James Costello, Alex Eaton, Lincoln Riley and Demetri Tziouvaras.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 16, 1997

Patit Creek Antiques and More located at 408 E. Main Street, opened this past week. New owner and operator, Pam Granath, will join several other business offering weekend hours.

Fifty Years Ago

April 20, 1972

Pvt. Dick Hurst, a graduate of class of 1969, son of Mayor and Mrs. Rex Hurst, arrived home from Fort Ord, Calif., after completing ten weeks of basic training, before reporting to Fort Devens, Mass., for training with the Army security agency.

Valeri Howard of the Upper Whetstone Fleeces was high point judge for Columbia County 4-Hers, with a score of 355.1 out of a possible 400, during the Pomeroy Livestock Show held April 8.

Miss Lisa Russell of Dayton has been named the official inspector in this area for the National Grade Horse Association of Denver, Colo. The function of the NGHA is to collect, record and preserve the pedigrees of grade horses of exceptional quality and ability; publish a stud book and registry.

Sixty-nine migrant pupils are currently enrolled at Dayton Schools in the Migrant Student Program which opened classes April 10, according to Principal Jack Coble of Dayton Elementary School who is administering the program. The total enrollment is expected to reach about 85 children.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 17, 1947

Miss Sylvia DeRuwe and Muriel Ogden, student nurses at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane recently received their caps and military capes at an impressive capping ceremonies and have successfully passed in their progress toward graduation and becoming registered nurses.

John Harting expects to go to Cutbank, Mont., to look over the summer range where he and Mervin DeRuwe pasture thousands of ewes and lambs during the late spring and summer. Hartings pasture about 7,000 sheep and DeRuwe’s 7,400 and will take more than 30 cars to transport their stock.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 15, 1922

Crowds of Portland people flock daily to the banks of the Sandy River about 14 miles from Portland to fish for smelt, which are now running in that stream.

Wm. Eaton, of Pullman, is in the city, and feeling fine after an operation, but is here to look after his brother John, a resident of Eckler Mountain who is in serious condition.

Bert F. Owsley was charged with grand larceny in new information filed yesterday, his bonds were raised at once to $5,000, that he and Fay Broughton stole 650 sacks of wheat from the Farmers’ Union warehouse at Berryman station.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 12, 1897

April 8, about 9 o’clock, two little girls of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin, aged 3 and 6 years, while attempting to cross the Tukanon on a foot-log lost their balance, fell in and were drowned. Their bodies were lodged a few rods below in the branches of some trees which Mr. Martin had fallen in the stream for the purpose of turning the channel.