From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 20, 2012

Record number 374 registered wheeled vehicles lining Main Street and bank parking lots attended the 2012 All Wheels Weekend. The official Chronicle count of all vehicles totaled 413 that is one more than the existing record. The count does include bicycles, motorcycles, and all things wheeled except baby strollers and lawn dragsters, which would add about 100 more to count.

Concessionaires of the campground, Jim and Angela MacArthur, announced the submission of a real estate application to the Corp of Engineers requesting installation of three prefabricated KOA cabins at the campground.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 18, 1997

Christine Schuck, a 1997 Dayton High School graduate, and daughter of Carolyn and Mark Schuck, has been awarded a $1,000 Glenn Terrell Honorable Mention Award to attend Washington State University. She plans to study biology and music at WSU.

Ryan Meissner, a 1997 graduate of Dayton High School, was chosen by the Washington State High School Football Coaches Association to play in the 3rd annual East-West all-star football game.

Fifty Years Ago

Pamela Sunderland and Polly Cowen will be among 16 young people selected from throughout Washington State to represent the state at the 51st National 4-H Congress to be held in Chicago, Illinois.

Glen Mitchell, director of music at Dayton Public Schools, has resigned his local position and accepted a teaching post at Auburn High School for the 1972-73 year. He will direct two concert bands, a stage band, a guitar class, and a general music class.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 19, 1947

Last week the C- D said, the state examiner who was going over the city books recommended to the city that it collect from Dayton’s nine churches approximate $1,000 each in back water rent. When G.P. Lockwood, the examiner, saw that in print, he rushed in to get a correction. The true figures are $119 for each church, in the past the churches have been getting city water for $1 a year. The hospital water rent, the corrected figures should read $776 back water rent which has accumulated since 1936.

A large band of ewes and lambs belonging to the Arthur Trudgeon herds, which winter near Starbuck, moved to summer range in the Blue Mountains, leaving early Monday morning and made Godman Springs that night.

The carnival that was here for Dayton Days lost a couple of oversized snakes. Monday one of them ventured out on his own and was attempting to cross the railroad track when the choo-choo came along and the snake, which was about seven feet long, lost its head--and its life.

Former Congressman Knute Hill visited Dayton asking the wheat growers of Washington and northern Idaho to donate wheat from the coming harvest to save a half million people of Europe from starving.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 21, 1922

The first threshing machine in the Walla Walla Valley was used in 1861 according to Dan Drumheller of Spokane. John A. Simms was due the honor of bringing the first threshing machine into the Walla Walla country, and it was perhaps the first one to enter the great region lying between The Cascades and The Rocky Mountains. It was bought of Knap, Burrell & Co. of Portland, Oregon, and transported to Walla Walla by boat and teams.

Mrs. M.E. Winder, whom is 69 years old, and came to the Willamette Valley by team when very young, went to La Grande to visit her daughter, Mrs. Edna Stephens, experienced her first trip by train.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 19, 1897

Pendleton, Oregon–The largest sale of wool recorded on the coast this year was made by Fred W. Hendley, who sold on commission 500,000 pounds raised at Echo, in this county. There were 1,200 sacks, and they filled 30 cars. The total amount paid was $35,000, which would give close to 7 cents a pound, the price was above what was received last year.

The United States government immigrant station, on Ellis Island, New York harbor, was destroyed by fire, with no loss of life.