From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

May 23, 2012

Thanks to the local American Legion, Old Glory now waves above the Dayton Youth Activity Complex located just south of Dayton General Hospital. On May 16, Softball and Little League players gathered with parents and coaches as Boy Scout Troop 332 unfolded a flag donated by the American Legion and raised it on the flag pole.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 21, 1997

Dora Reeves received the Columbia Empire Polled Hereford Association Award. Her Grand Champion FFA Steer was sired by a registered Polled Hereford bull and out of a Hereford dam, which qualified her for $500 extra premium money sponsored by the Columbia Empire Polled Hereford Association.

Rodeo arena project is off-shoot of 4-H Wranglers, located on Payne Hollow road at the Charles Barron Sr. ranch. The members have been busy constructing an arena to ride in and practice their skills of calf roping, break away roping goat tying barrel racing and pole bending. Local farmers David McKinley of Double D Farms, and Allen Laib donated the use of their equipment, and along with several volunteers working several hours, assisted in the completion of the project.

Fifty Years Ago

May 25, 1972

Harold Schultz, 12-year-old sixth grader at Dayton Elementary School, has won second place state honors in the intermediate division of the 1972 Keep Washington Green poster contest. His art education instructor is Mrs. Cecil (Avon) Sharpe.

The 1972 Dayton Days Court is Queen Karen Reddish, Princess Beverly Koschmeder, Princess Janet Hall, Flag Bears Cindy Startin, and Sherri Bales.

Charles Stewart, 13-year-old Boy Scout from Pasco is sage as he walked into the Dallas Lang rural home on Starveout Ridge, after spending nearly two days lost in the rough foothill country of the Maloney Mountain area.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 22, 1947

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunlap are leaving Sunday for West Point to attend the graduation of their son, Dick Dunlap, from the United States Military Academy.

Kae Turner and Joanne Criss are two girls who have been selected to attend Girls State at Bellingham, one girl is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, the other by Kiwanis club and will be held at the Western Washington College of Education.

Duane Kitterman a junior at Dayton high school, has been chosen to represent the local school at Boys’ State, three alternates selected are Ray Elder, Don Bales, and Marion Butler and are sponsored by the American Legion.

Miss Peggy Rodrick, daughter of Frank and Mrs. Rodrick, was crowned as the Dayton Days Queen, by Maurice Roe at the Coronation Ball at the Fairgrounds Pavilion.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 24, 1922

Frank has been kept busy exterminating rattlesnakes this spring. He found 17 in a den on the hillside and was kept busy jumping out of their way while shooting them with his six gun. While going along a trail later he heard another one sing under his boots and leaped five feet in the air landing in the brush before returning to dispatch it.

The Columbia Basin Project Outlined by Dr. O. J. Keating and what it will mean to the northwest in general and Walla Walla County in particular, was presented to the Commercial club at a luncheon at the Dacres. The project is planned to irrigate 1,753,000 acres of which 30,000 are in Walla Walla County and is six times as large as the area irrigated in Yakima County, which is the third largest producing county in the United States.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 22, 1897

That one case of scarlet fever scared this Burg clear out of root. In fact it will never grow any more. At this date no one pokes his or her or its head outside the door. When first the dread disease was discovered by a personage of experience; the poor patient and others were treated to a long list of deaths, graveyards and whole companies of corpses, scaring the patient herself nearly out of her Sunday dress.

The sugar-beet seed, about 10,000 pounds having been sent out to farmers in about four-fifths of the states for purely experimental purposes, which has been distributed by the agricultural department is practically exhausted.