From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 27, 2012

Fred Crowe, a retired professor from Oregon State University, who conducted research specializing in plant pathology, recently returned from Georgia where he shared his knowledge of growing garlic. Crowe was asked by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA) Farmer-to-Farmer to travel to the ex-USSR country of Georgia to assist farmers there in growing commercial garlic.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 25, 1997

Tim Bruegman was selected to be one of the graduating seniors at Eastern Washington University to receive the Mary Shield Wilson Award at Commencement. The award is among the most prestigious conferred by the university and is given for outstanding academic achievement and outstanding leadership. He is the son of Debra and Terry Bruegman and 1991 graduate of Dayton High School.

Washington State FBLA received notice from the national office of Future Business Leaders of American-Phi Beta Lamba, Inc. of the selection of Dayton High School FBLA’s community service project as one of ten scheduled for oral presentation to judges at the association’s national leadership conference in Anaheim, Calif.

June 29, 1972

Kelly Donohue, son of State Senator and Mrs. Hubert Donohue, received the $400 Union Pacific Railroad scholarship certificate at the recent Washington State Future Farmers of America Convention at Pullman. Donohue plans to study general agriculture at Washington State University.

Three long-time members, Ed Mackliet, shop superintendent for 21 years, Earl Smith, sign technician 16 years, and Gail Griffen, assistant county engineer and dean of the department’s employees 43 years, will step into retirement.

Clarence L. “Pop” Ellis, former Columbia County Sheriff and retired 25-year veteran with the Washington State Patrol, was honored by Blue Mountain Aerie No. 2618, FOE, and his fellow law enforcement officials.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 26, 1947

Pacific Telephone Co. filed a second request for rate increases since April, rate in most cities have not changed since 1919. The action was to compensate in part for wage rises granted as the result of terms of settlement of the recent telephone strike.

The Columbia County REA, Inc., announced that their application for a sub-station in the area of Dayton had been approved by the Bonneville Power Administration and that a 3,000 kva 115-12.5 sub-station will be built. Construction and energization of these facilities is contingent on the availability of funds set up by Congress.

Don Zink, former Starbuck boy, son of the late Walter and Mrs. Zink, is in partnership and has bought the Spokane Texaco station at Third and Maple and is the first large Texaco station on the left-hand side of the street.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 28, 1922

The final draft of the bill for the Columbia basin irrigation project will be made this week after a conference between the two senators, Jones and Poindexter, Representative Webster and Secretary of Interior Fall.

Due to engine failure, the areoplane piloted by Earl Titus and containing W. H. Fouts, as a passenger, crashed to earth from an altitude of about 40 feet. Both occupants of the machine escaped uninjured but the plane itself was badly damaged.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 26, 1897

Emma Kromer, a half-breed Indian girl, poverty-stricken and an inmate of the refuge home in this city, today fell heir to $35,000 through the death of a brother in California. She is the daughter of a Boston, Mass., white man named Kromer, who came West years ago to avoid a scandal in his family affairs and settled on 160 acres at Port Gardner, now the town site of Everett.