From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 5, 2012

4-H is often a tradition in agricultural families and for the Tardiff girls, Hallie and Sawyer that is true. Falling in the footsteps of their parents by showing 4-H steers at the Columbia County Fair this weekend.

Upon arriving at the hog pen, it is evident for the three sisters, Haley, Heidi and McKenzie and their hog project and it is largely a family affair.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 7, 1997

Little lamps fill local woman’s home. They line shelf after shelf after shelf, three, four, five deep. They are the light of Karen Owsley’s life. When Owsley moved back to Dayton recently, she brought along her love of collecting and her collection of miniature oil lamps.

In the primary election, September 16, three candidates will vie for the opportunity to run for the At Large position on the Dayton School District Board of Directors in this fall’s election. Bonnie T. Coffey, manager of Seafirst bank’s Dayton branch; G. Scott Marinella, attorney; and John Oakley, a local minister are the candidate in the upcoming primary.

Fifty Years Ago

September 4, 1972

Sewage Study authorized with the signing of a contract for a $32,500 Sewage Abatement Study in Columbia County to elimination of water pollution, by the Board of Columbia County Commissioners.

Don Bitner, 25-year-old Daytonite, was reported unconscious and in critical condition in Kadlec Hospital at Kennewick following a motorcycle accident September 3, one-half mile from Troy, Ore.

Robert J. McCauley of Auburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrel McCauley, began work September 1 as manager of the Washington State Dairy Herd Improvement Association.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 2, 1947

The first two carloads of wheat for relief from Washington are on the first lap of their trip overseas to feed starving people. Approximately 3,000 bushels of rich grain are from farms in the Connell section of Franklin County and Almota in Whitman county. Growers in Douglas, Grant and Lincoln counties also contributed. Grain is contributed through local churches for the “wheat relief” campaign, sponsored in this state by the Council of Churches.

James Robertson, internationally known astronomer who lives in Washington D.C., has been visiting Mrs. Broughton Sr., Mrs. H. G. Moe and his brother, Ton Robertson who lives in Nez Perce, Idaho. The Robertson family lived here in early days and the Robertson’s Fork on the Touchet River was named for them.

Mrs. W. B. Dingle (Cletys) was elected Vice President of the National American Legion Auxiliary, covering eight western states, Alaska and Hawaii. She was chosen for this position by the state Auxiliary convention in Spokane recently and won the election in New York without opposition.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 6, 1922

With the exception of hats and caps, any clothing worn by inmates of the state institutions will be made by the institution themselves. The Boys training school will produce shoes and clothing, the Girls’ school will produce dresses, stockings, socks and other clothing. The state penitentiary plants are turning out enough clothing for all the institutions.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 11, 1897

The United States Will Annex Dawson City. “It is announced here by a deputy United States marshal that the United States government is to make claim for a large portion of the Yukon gold fields which have heretofore been supposed to be in British territory, and that the territory which is claimed as being within Alaska includes Dawson City”

Horses For Army Use. “No horses in the world except the range horses of our Western states are fit for military purposes, the foregoing remark was made by Dr. William A Bruett, special commissioner of the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture.