From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 26, 2012

Columbia County Commissioners accepted the nine projects for the Umatilla National Forest selected by the Southeast Washington Resource Advisory Committee, totaling $39,400, to take place in 2013. They include Wenaha Tucannon Salting; Columbia Fire Noxious Weed Control; Little Tucannon Fence Removal; Meadow Creek ATV maintenance; Wenaha Tucannon Trail maintenance; Wenaha Tucannon noxious weed control and Camp Wooten Sixth Grade Environmental Learning. Total dollars available for allocation is approximately $40,672, the Resource Advisory Committee decided any unspent dollars would purchase paint for the Tucannon Guard Station.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 1, 1997

Tony Morrell, Environmental Manager with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and Columbia Conservation District’s Terry Bruegman reviewed the twelve projects on the Tucannon funded with the help of BPA dollars. The goal of a Model Watershed program is the restoration and preservation of fish and wildlife habitat.

Fifty Years Ago

September 28, 1972

The meats judging, identification and grading team of the Dayton High School FFA Chapter won first place in the Washington State Finals of the annual meats contest held at Washington State University in Pullman, September 23, and placed two members on the national team. Leading a field of 20 teams by nearly 100 points, the locals posted a team score of 1,054. Sue Evers, daughter of Ag Instructor and Mrs. Marv Evers, scored a total of 371 points to take top individual honors. She was followed by John Burnett, sophomore son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Burnett, in second place with 361.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 25, 1947

Local Boy, J. E. Bledsoe, an employee of Blue Mountain Canneries, Get American Legion Ford Station Wagon given away Friday night by the American Legion between halves of the Dayton-Lewiston football game. Proceeds from the Ford will be used in the construction of a proposed memorial building.

Robert Jackson of the Tucannon reports that his daughter, Virginia, prominent as a radio singer and soloist with nationally known bands, is now in the movies and will be seen here as soon as her first picture is released.

David A. Jaeger, four-year-old son of Mr. and Ms. Delmar Jaeger of Walla Walla, was instantly killed when the car in which he was riding collided with the side of the Touchet Bridge just west of the state park. This is the third county traffic fatality of the year, the other being two women, one killed near Huntsville and the other near Delany station.

One Hundred Years Ago

September 27, 1922

Miss Fay Hamm, who teaches in the Walla Walla High School, spent the weekend in Dayton visiting her parents, attorney and Mrs. H. E. Hamm.

Smith’s American Theater; 10c—All Week—25c, Monday, Only, “Voila Dana in THE MATCH BREAKER” and a Two-Reel Comedy. Tuesday-Wednesday “Tom Moore and Betty Compson in OVER THE BORDER,” Pathe News and a Comedy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 2, 1897

W. D. Huffman, of Diamond, Ore., has just made a sale of 10,000 pounds of wool art 12½¢ per pound.

The steamship Willamette sailed from Tacoma for Skagway and way ports. She will carry to the north all the freight that can be stored in her hold and piled upon her deck. The cargo will amount to 2,900 tons, comprising of 80 head of livestock, comprising of cattle, sheep and hogs, including of 300,000 feet of lumber.