From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

August 21, 2013

Port of Columbia commissioners awarded the sewer project for the Blue Mountain Station East Lift Station sewer project on the Artisan Food Center to ML Albright & Sons of Lewiston for $182,591.08. The construction of the Blue Mountain Station Artisan Food Center has workers finishing sheeting the roof and the interior wall studs to frame in the individual spaces.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 19, 1998

The latest fish habitat restoration project on the Tucannon River, spear headed by Steve Martin, biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, is located on WDFW land. Bonneville Power Administration put up $20,000 to help fund the project with local residents Dan Culley and Dick Rubenser donated their equipment and time to perform most of the work.

The Columbia County Regional Health Foundation has offered its support to Deputy Rob Breland towards the purchase of a new K-9 unit. "Matching funds" of $3,500 have been granted by the Foundation's Board of Directors.

A $200,000 scholarship fund has been established by Mr. and Mrs. Don Fix of Fullerton, Calif., for benefit of graduates of Dayton High School, the Blue Mountain Area Foundation will administer the Fund. Mr. Fix is a Dayton graduate of 1949 and grew up in Dayton during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Fifty Years Ago

August 23, 1973

Nevin K. Laib, has been appointed a teaching assistant in English at Washington State University for the 1973-73 school year. Laib is a graduate student in English literature at WSU, and is working toward a doctor of philosophy degree. He also graduated from Whitman College, with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

The Forest Service officials, Wayne Kidwell, Washington State Game Department Red Mohney and Don Garrett, State Wooten Park Ranger Bob Turnell discovered a group of starving horses corralled and tied to trees above Camp Wooten on the Umatilla National Forest. The five horses, including a two-month-old colt, and two mules were located in a packer's camp without food or water for an estimated two weeks.

Marv Evers, local FFA advisor and vocational agriculture instructor, acted as official swine judge at the Southern California Exposition at Del Mar, one of the largest event of its type in the United States, the fairgrounds covering over three hundred thirty acres. His next swine judging commitment will be the Pacific Livestock Exhibition.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 19, 1948

Roy Hoon spent a mighty cold hour when the latch on a cold storage locker at the Dayton Creamery and Ice Works, where he is employed, broke and imprisoned him in the locker. The temperature in the locker was 7 degrees below zero and Roy was in his shirt sleeves. He grabbed a length of pipe and beat on the door for an hour before Jack Kitterman heard him and came to his rescue.

Miss Amy Ball, graduate of Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio, arrived in Dayton to take over her duties as county home agent, replacing Laurel McQuary who resigned in July.

W.M. Roe, manager of the Columbia Grain Growers, storage is still critical, growers have been hauling grain from Dodge and Pleasant View to Starbuck, several growers who normally haul to Delany are hauling to Whetstone since Delany is closed. If rail cars don't arrive they will be dumping on the ground.

The Dayton plant of the Blue Mountain Canneries closed the season after packing over a million cases of asparagus and peas. The total pack of the Pomeroy and Dayton plants was the highest in their history with the employment of nearly 1,200 people in both plants, approximately 300 were Mexicans from Texas, and other employees were largely college and high school students and locals.

One Hundred Years Ago

August, 1923

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One Hundred Twenty-Five Years A

August 19, 1898

Seriously ill a young man named Underwood, recently from Iowa, was brought to the County hospital sick with typhoid fever. He was employed with Vaughn & Lyman's threshing crew and had refused help until he suffered severe hemorrhages and the chances are against his recovery.