From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

MAY 8, 2013

Dayton High School seniors Samantha Harting and Kane Hackett were chosen as the recipients of the 2013 P.E.O. Citizenship Award. The award consists of a certificate presented by Cathy Lee-Haight, president of the chapter. Both recipients will receive a $300 check at graduation ceremonies.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 6, 1998

Carnegie Art Center announced its Annual Regional Juried Art Show with180 entries that were accepted out of 258 entries with nine selected for awards of the show. The juror of selection and awards was Erin Hayes, a ceramicist and Arts and Humanities Instructor at Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, WA. Local artists Deborah Baxter and Brenda Himmelberger, will be featured in the show.

Gary Scroeder, president-elect of the Dayton Kiwanis Club, presented David Wilkinson with the National Charter for the Dayton High School Key Club. The Key Club is the high school equivalent of Kiwanis service organization and is sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club.

The City of Dayton will reestablish a building code Board of Appeals, Mayor John Vachal informed the City Council after several complaints were received about difficulties citizens experienced in trying to work with City Building Inspector Brandt Kleist.

Fifty Years Ago

May 10, 1973

Navy Airman Apprentice Ronald W. Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, has completed the Aviation Structural Mechanic School, which maintains hydraulic systems, fuselages and wings aboard naval aircraft.

Kris Juris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Juris, has been selected as a member of the Cougarettes, the Washington State University drill team. Miss Juris was also chosen one of the five finalists in the Dream Girl contest of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity

Rev. James Taylor, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Dayton for the past seven years, is leaving the ministry to accept an offer to manage a cattle ranch at Weatherford, Texas, near Fort Worth.

Edward John Harri, son of Mrs. E.J. Harri and a graduate of Dayton High School, will be among 74 Washington students who will receive degrees from Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. He will receive a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from law school at the University.

Virginia Eslick, Cindy Startin, Mary Sue Evers, have received championship honors with their animals at the Junior Livestock Show in Spokane. Judged and sold at auction will be 350 steers, 400 lambs, and 400 swine

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 6, 1947

Information revealed at the county commissioners’ meeting, Starbuck is to get a dial telephone exchange. Roy McGee, local telephone trouble shooter, asked the commissioners asking to rent a portion of the county building in Starbuck for storage for equipment that will be used on the Starbuck job.

Richard Patrick, exhibiting a choice Duroc Jersey fat hog at Dayton Preshow, received a perfect score of 300 in the 4-H livestock judging contest, Dorothy Oliver was second with a score of 270.

John Clague owned and exhibited a Black Angus steer that took top honors at the Dayton Livestock Show.

Ernestine Peabody, 32 years a reporter and society editor of the Chronicle-Dispatch, died Thursday evening after a lingering illness. One matron said, none will miss her more than the management and reader of “her” paper. Between her and her late parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Peabody, there has been a Peabody on this paper since it was launched in April, 1878. “Pop” Peabody was here with its beginning, the two of them put in 70 years on the C-D staff.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 7, 1898

Bailey & Sons of this place, took their first load, over to Tukanon preparatory to putting in a shingle mill.

Many of this burg and hereabouts are taking their stock to the mountains for summer pasture.