From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

February 20, 2013

A new operating agreement to the Palouse River & Coulee City railroad, owned by the Port of Columbia is being proposed by Watco Companies, Inc. Watco uses the line for twelve customers, naming Seneca and Northwest Grain Growers, and the line is also used to store railroad cars.

Dayton City Council accepted a donation of $599.29 from the Dayton Skate Club, the funds are to be designated for the installation of a new additional gate on the pool side of the skate park. If any money remains, the club requests funds be used to purchase a bike rack for the skate park.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 18, 1978

The Dayton Historical Depot Society was recently given a number of historically significant items from the estate of Eleanor Miller. One of the items was a doll which Mrs. Miller found under the Christmas tree in 1918 when she was six years old. It has a porcelain head and a jointed composition body and is clothed in a two-piece dress and slip made by Eleanor's mother, sporting a string of blue beads.

At the Sixth Annual State High School Math Championship in Blaine, Wash., Dayton's High School's Jeremy Thorn place first and Toby Latin placed seventh in 11t/12th grade individual tests, and Jonathan Thorn placed third, Mary Reeves placed sixth in the individual test for ninth and tenth grades.

Fifty Years Ago

February 22, 1973

Bulldog wrestler Sean Casseday is the first district wrestling champion in the 108-pound division in recent history of DHS mat action following the tournament at Colfax. Other wrestlers taking part are Greg Perkins, Dwayne Goff, Perry Patrick, Devin Casseday, Bill Larsen, Dan Lambert, Brian Munden, Jim Simmons, Osam Inoue, John Burnette, Kevin Carson. Coach Don Baker will take eight qualifying wrestlers, the two Cassedays, Lambert, Munden, Simmons, Inoue, Burnette and Carson to the Regional Tourney.

Concern about forest damage from infestation by the Tussock moth continues heavy in Columbia County with latest work that the U.S. Forest Service considers the use of DDT as "unacceptable." The Council on Environmental Quality, recommended three measures to minimize resources losses to the timber-killing tussock moth, intensive salvage logging in affected areas; aerial spraying with the chemical Zectran, reforestation.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

February 12, 1948

The U.S. Navy recruiting office announced the enlistment of Glen Preston Stedman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben P. Stedman, and Leslie Glen Keen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah P. Keen.

Cattle Rustlers Dress Out Cow. Some time Saturday night bold-face individual or individuals killed and dressed out one of Harry Linden's, Pomeroy, Wash., registered three-year-old Hereford cows. Within 20 feet of the state highway, they carted off two hind quarters and the shoulders of the animal, leaving the remainder of the unskinned carcass lying on the ground.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 17, 1923

The United States contains 12,000 square miles of unused peat land, and area more than 10 times that of Rhode Island, capable of yielding 14,000,000,000 tons of fuel at a cost of $1.50 to $5 a ton, according to a comprehensive bulletin issued by the United States geological survey.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 19, 1898

A prediction that in the future a regular passenger air service will bring New York to within 12 hours of London, was made by Major-General William Sefton Brancker, addressing the 3rd annual air conference.