From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 6, 2013

Dayton High School has 22 Future Business Leaders America students preparing for travel to Spokane to compete in business events and campaign for state office positions. Instructor Rob Moore, who has served as the local chapter advisor for 25 years, is assisting the members in the preparation of their presentations for the competitions. Taylor Frame, a sophomore, is putting together a 30-page report of the local chapter for the business report competition, which is only a state event.

The Public Safety Committee of the Dayton City Council proposes to launch a city-wide education program to assist in reducing the number of feral cats in city neighborhoods.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 4, 1998

Susan McElroy, a 1996 Dayton High School graduate, is one of the two Walla Walla Community College students named to the 1998 All-Washington Academic Team. McElroy has maintained a 3.97 GPA, is majoring in languages and is employed by the Dayton Chronicle. Each of the 58 members selected for the 1998 All-Washington Academic Team was recognized for his or her achievement.

The Dayton Historic Depot has been chosen by the Washington Commission for the Humanities to host the local showing of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition "Produce for Victory: Poster on the American Home Front, 1941-1945."

Fifty Years Ago

March 8, 1973

Four young men of Dayton Troop 332, Boy Scouts of America, Mike Hoon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoon; Mark and Erik Colville, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Colville, and Robert Beatty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beatty, became Eagle Scouts in a special ceremony. This is the largest single group to reach the Eagle rank in the community in many years.

Miguel A. "Mike" Booker, son of the late Leon C. Booker, filed a petition in Columbia County Superior Court seeking to remove the National Bank of Commerce of Seattle as executor of his late father's estate and have himself appointed executor of the estate.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 4, 1948

The City Council was presented with the problem of raising $12,000 complete the essential work remaining to be done on the swimming pool. A public hearing on an ordinance will be held to decide whether the city shall issue emergency warrants to complete the work.

County Agent Bob Williams was in receipt of a letter the first of the week asking for immediate information on the availability of pasture or hay that might be used for the relief of California sheep and cattle men whose stock is starving. The severe drought is squeezing the life out of the livestock and livestock business in California and is begging for relief.

Rain Brings Flood Damage. Mayor Gus Hansen and Supt. Harvey Bamford told the city council the Touchet River above town has turned toward Second street and a few more hours of high water would have taken out a couple of dwellings and started the stream right down the street. Much city property along the creek from the Synder place to the city park was washed away, below town the waters are cutting into the fairgrounds.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 7, 1923

Seventy-nine miles of new telephone construction to cost approximately $222,000 has been started by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company with a small crew now working between Dayton and Colfax. This is the main Spokane-Portland toll line. In addition a new leg from the main line will be built 12 miles into Pomeroy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 5, 1898

The new dictatorship has decided to suppress the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. The decision was announced by Meline in the chamber of deputies. Four newspapers were notified that unless they cease discussing the Dreyfus campaign they will be rigorously prosecuted, a number of correspondents of foreign newspapers were warned that unless they abandon their hostile dispatches they will be expelled from France.