From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 18, 2013

A tour up the North Touchet will give visitors and locals the view of the Indian Head Shadow that is visible above the Warren Orchards for most of the year.

Dayton's Mayor Craig George, Mule Mania chairman Les Teel deliver a Mule Mania donation to the Dayton Food Bank. Teel also announced that Columbia REA purchased a hog at the Fair's Livestock sale and it is being cut and wrapped as a donation to the Food Bank. Laura Thorn and Aleta Schockleyas accepted the check.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 16, 1998

The 4-H Style Revue, the annual style show, will kick off the week of fair activities. Gold Award winners in modeling Heather Lambert, Whitney White, Audrey Bensel, Jennifer Terrazas and Gretchen Richter. Gold Award winners in construction is Kristin Richter, Jennifer Terrazas, Brooke Hoon and Gorrie Gagnon.

Founder's heir visits Dayton: Warren Ellis Day Jr., 73, is the great grandson of Jesse N. Day, who founded Dayton, and for whom it was named. Warren is the last male heir of Jesse Day's to carry the Day name. Day and his wife Peggy drove from their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as part of his continuing quest to track down family history.

A tip to the Forest Service led to the confiscation of three large marijuana plants. Columbia County Sheriff Jim La Tour reported that the sheriff's was contacted. Both organizations went to the scene on the Tucannon River where the sheriff's department pulled up and confiscated the six- to eight-foot-tall plants with an estimated value of $3,000 to $4,000.

Fifty Years Ago

September 21, 1973

Mrs. Robert (Beth) Webber received her associate degree as a registered nurse from Walla Walla Community College. Mrs. Webber graduated from Dayton High School and is employed at St. Mary Hospital as a pediatric nurse.

A hearing has been set for a petition from Orville Atteberry and Arden Archer, requesting that the part of Columbia County currently in the Pomeroy School District number 110, be transferred to the Dayton School District number 2. The parcel of property is about 180 acres, with an assessed valuation of $3,345.

The Dayton FFA Livestock Judging Team placed first at the livestock contest held in connection with the Annual Spokane Interstate show. The Dayton team scored 854 out of a possible 900 to win.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 16, 1948

Only $2.13 more buys a Duplex Roomette on one of the spanking new Pullmans now in service on the Northern Pacific Railway, North Coast Limited. Your own room completely-equipped with a form fitting sponge rubber seat, a 65-inch bed, complete wash bowl and toilet facilities, heat or air-conditioning controls, ice –water on tap. Call for Pullman reservations at Phone 235, Guy R. Fisher, Local Agent, 307 East Commercial, Dayton.

A post-war product fast becoming standard equipment in the kitchen is aluminum foil and is now available in most grocery stores, hardware stores, and locker plants.

All men between the ages of 18 and 26 must register in conforming to the requirements of the new draft law, said Samuel B. Oliver, member of the Columbia-Walla Walla counties draft board, including officers who had commissions in the reserves. Only those men who are now on active duty are exempt and will have to register when their tour of duty is complete.

One Hundred Years Ago

September, 1923

No available information.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 16, 1898

Superior Steel Ranges--Talk About There Being Better Stoves Than Superior Bridge Beach.

Every Potato slyly winks Its eye; Every Cabbage shakes Its head; Every Beet gets red in the face; Every Onion feels stronger; Every Oat Field is shocked; Rye strokes its beard; Corn sticks up its ear; Every foot of land kicks.