From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

November 21, 2012

Wally and Marie McCauley were honored as long-time 4-H supporters of the local 4-H Program with the Friends of 4-H Award.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

The Dayton Branch of Coldwell Banker First Realtors officially opened its office at 217 E. Main, Monday, November 17. The real estate franchise is co-owned by Blaine Bickelhaupt and George Ras. Bickelhaupt will serve as branch manager.

Fifty Years Ago

November 23, 1972

Miss Mary Lou Ashley, a senior at Dayton High and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ashley, has been crowned the 1972-73 Wheat Queen for Columbia County.

The District, four-county, Asotin Garfield, Columbia and Walla Walla, Wheat Queen Contest featured talks by Miss Mickey Byers, Garfield County queen, and by Miss Mary Lou Ashley, Columbia county queen. Miss Mickey Byers was selected as District Queen and will represent the four counties.

Terry Steinhoff, son of Mrs. Sharlene Steinhoff, has been accepted as a freshman student at Palmer College of Chiropractic at Davenport, Ia. He will take a four and one-third academic-year course of study leading to the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.)

A foursome of Dayton Troop 332 Boy Scouts, Erik Colville, Mike Dingle, Mike Varney and Mark Colville received rank advancements from Star to Life Scouts. Ricky Hooper, advanced from First Class to Star rank.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 20, 1947

The Chamber of Commerce Monday night donated $25 to the United Church Relief program which is raising funds, clothing and grain for European relief. There was some contention that the Chamber should not be concerned with such matters but none there had the nerve to vote against the donation.

The recent opening of the cold-storage lockers of the Dayton Creamery and Ice Works revealed a supply of meat carcasses for the starving citizens of Columbia County. Jim Morris will be the meat cutter and Dean Robins is the driver of the milk truck.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Butler of Blue Earth, Minn., visiting Mr. Butler's brother, Orville Butler, were amazed at the hills farmed in this territory and ask "How do you stay on them?"

One Hundred Years Ago

November, 1922

Assurances were given Governor Parker of Louisiana by President Harding that federal interests were involved in the alleged activities of the Ku Klux Klan in that state. The federal authorities were ready to extend full co-operation in reply to a request by the governor for government help in cutting off from the organization in Louisiana the support and encouragement it was receiving from the outside.

Rabbi Julius A. Leibert, at his weekly service at the Temple Emanu-El last night, opened the campaign against the enactment in Washington of the Oregon law against private and parochial schools termed by him the "Oregon orgy." Proponents of the Oregon idea had opened headquarter in Seattle and are about to begin an organized effort to put over the idea in this state.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 20, 1897

The Quaker doctors were not very successful in Waitsburg. That town was taken in to a fair-you-well by a fakir a few weeks ago, since which the residents are suspicious of all traveling medicine shows.

Ratification of the Hawaiian annexation treaty by the United States Senate is assured the administration has made a poll of that body, and as a result President McKinley thinks that more than two-thirds of the senators will vote for ratification.