From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

July 31, 2013

How many communities can say that 100% of their banks are managed by women? All four Dayton banks currently have a lady at the helm. Barb Miller of Sterling Savings, Bev Rising of Banner Bank; Judi Brooks of Bank of America, and Andi Holmberg of American West Bank.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 29, 1998

Tribal ownership of the Rainwater Ranch on the South Touchet in Columbia County will have no negative effects on the county or its residents, according to Allen B. Childs, Wildlife Program Biologist with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, brought to the Columbia County Commissioners and a group of local citizens. The tribes propose to purchase the property using funding provided by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) through contracts under the Interim Washington Wildlife Mitigation Agreement.

Fifty Years Ago

August 2, 1973

The only serious injury sustained in one of the worst fires ever seen in Columbia County in a number of years was to Albert Laib, who was attempting to save his home. About noon a fire was reported on the Joe Groom property, outside of Huntsville, Winds of 34 to 40 m.p.h. jumped to Ken Smith, Waitsburg, jumped Highway 12, on the Doug Lambert property, swept uncontrolled northeasterly some 10 to 12 miles to the Tucannon river, taking over 16 hours before it was under control. It was estimated to have burned 20 thousand acres.

It was confirmed through the main trust office of the Seattle First National Bank in Spokane the Delaney Trust Fund here in Dayton has received $60,708 from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)

Fort Lewis, Wash. Cadet Frank J. Kenyon, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kenyon, has received practical work in military leadership at the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps advanced summer camp. Cadet Kenyon, a student at Gonzaga University, Spokane was one of some 7,200 students attending Army ROTC training.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 28, 1948

The first "swimming pool" in to attract swimmers from the pioneer swimming "holes' in the creek was built by Dr. W.W. Day and Supt. of Schools Alfred Livengood in 1917, hollowing out a "hole" of considerable size and filling it with water from the old mill race which ran where the Dayton Creamery is now located. Dayton's new pool is a climax to 21 years effort on the part of individuals and the public.

Funeral services with military honors by the Frank E. Bauer's post of the American Legion were held for Everett E. Searl, who was killed in action in 1944. The body of Everett Searl is the first of those killed in the war to be returned to Dayton. Mr. Searl was the son of Elmer Searl and the late Mrs. Searl.

The Liberty Theater promises a thrill for lovers of music with the motion picture, "New Orleans," featuring Louis Armstrong and his band, Woody Herman and his orchestra, and the original New Orleans Ragtime band, recreating the atmosphere of old Basin Street and the birth of jazz.

One Hundred Years Ago

August, 1923

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 2, 1898

Tom Samuel killed a rattlesnake in Robert Ping's door yard in Brooklyn, later that day another snake struck at one of J. W. Stevens' children in his yard in the same neighborhood. The snakes have been seen several times of late by the children in that vicinity.

Evans, Snyder, Buell & Co. a Chicago firm, shipped 26 car loads of sheep to Chicago. The sheep, consisting of 5218 head, were purchased from Blanchard's band on the Little Salmon River in the Blue mountains, about 40 miles from Dayton.