From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

August 14, 2013

Portland General Electric Company (PGE) renamed a portion of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm as The Tucannon River Wind Farm, located in the north area of Columbia County, spanning across an area of more the 20,000 acres. PGE officially purchased the development rights to Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm from Puget Sound Energy.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 12, 1998

Eight Dayton High School students, Cara Hudson, Claudia Martinez, Megan Jagelski, Makaela Takemura, Kayla Himmelberger, Kendra Demarks, Jamie Savage and Abby McKinley, will travel to Japan as part of an exchange program with Yamate High School in Yokahama, Japan.

HOT, HOT, HOT, temperatures continued to be sweltering this last week with most days topping at 100 degrees mark. Tuesday, the Seafirst thermometer sign hit 111 degrees. One hundred years ago the weather was topic for discussion. August 12, 1898, thermometers in various parts of the city registered from 101 to 110 in the shade.

Fifty Years Ago

August 16, 1973

Charles D. Kilbury, of the 16th district, announced that Waitsburg farmer, Alton Filan, has won his long running battle with the State Department of Game. Filan had been convicted of changing the course of Dry Creek, a violation of the state Hydraulics Act, and was fined. The Game Department now recognizes the unique problems of Walla Walla and Columbia Counties and the need of the farmers in these areas.

Gina Dalton, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dingle and Mrs. Earl Dunlap, was cited by a staff member of the Columbia Missourian for her ballet performance in the number, "Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky." Miss Dalton is a member of the Mid-Missouri Dance Theatre.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 12, 1948

1,500 pheasants were released in Columbia County by the stat game department William A. Wooten, state game protector for Columbia County. A large percentage of the 9-weeks-old were roosters as there will be no open season on hens this year.

Little Terry Lee McCauley, 10-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McCauley of Lewiston, was seriously scalded when he tipped over a hot plate on which coffee was boiling. He is the grandson of Mrs. Eldon McCauley.

Bob Foust and his father, Jack Foust, will open their new grocery store at 209 N. 5th, and will handle groceries, vegetables, soft drinks, and ice cream, and will remain open the evenings and on Sunday.

Six hundred permits will be issued for the 1948 controlled elk season in Area 1 which consists of Columbia, Garfield, Asotin, and Walla Walla counties. Applications must be received by the Department of Game, with a bag limit of (1) antlerless elk, cows or calves.

One Hundred Years Ago

August, 1923

No editions available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 12, 1898

R. M. Hester, who conducted the Palace Photograph Gallery in this city, returned from Alaska from Eagle City about 110 miles below Dawson City on the Yukon. Hester was in company with A. B. Hardwick of Pullman left with two horses and 3,000 pounds of food and clothing, landing in Skagway. He says there is unquestionable an immense amount of gold in Alaska, but takes hard, persistent work to get it out.

A Whitman county farmer intends to enforce the laws against everyone who allows the Chinese thistle to grow on their properties.

Dr. Pietrzycki's wheat crop will amount to about 11,000 sacks, about half of which is now harvested and threshed. Some of the wheat yielded as high as 35 bushels to the acre, which is considered good for the northern part of the county.