From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

October 9, 2013

Water "banking" could impact junior water right users. A lease agreement for a water management program that is currently in process could have consequence for local junior water right holders. Recently, the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership entered into an agreement with the Touchet Eastside Irrigation District and the Touchet Westside Irrigation District, both of Touchet, Washington, which will allow water to be reserved in trust and regulate in-stream flows on the lower portion of the Touchet River.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1998

Jeremy Thorn, a Dayton High School Senior, is among approximately 15,500 Semifinalists in the 44th annual National Merit Scholarship Program and will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 Merit Scholarship awards, worth over $28 million. Semifinalists are the highest scorers in each state and represent less than one percent of each state's high school graduating class.

Since late September some white-tailed deer in southeast Washington have been infected with a fatal disease linked to recent warm weather. According to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists, more than a hundred white-tailed deer have been found dead or dying from Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) mostly along the Snake River and its tributaries. The disease is not contagious from one animal to another and does not transfer to humans. It's carried by gnats that live in or near water and wet, muddy areas and is transmitted to deer that congregate at watering holes during hot, dry weather and will resolve its self with the first hard frost, which will kill the disease carrying gnats.

Fifty Years Ago

October 4, 1973

The continuation of the official board meeting on the Columbia County Tussock Moth infestation was held by the Columbia County Board, a non-official public meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to outline the degree of Tussock Moth infestation in the area, damage to infected timbered areas and related ecological factors and solutions to eradicate the insect menace that has effected nearly 50 percent of all timbered lands in southeastern Washington.

PUNT, PASS and KICK WINNERS–Eight Year Olds: 1st-Marty Groom; 2nd-Kevin Beckley; 3rd-Dale Headley. Nine Year Olds: 1st-Jerry Nettles; 2nd-Nathan Grove; 3rd-Buster Berdar. Ten Year Olds: 1st-Bud Herres; 2nd-David Blake; 3rd-Clark Paepke. Eleven Year Olds: 1st-Jess Nettles; 2nd-Ricky Huxoll; 3rd-John Delp Jr. Twelve Year Olds: 1st-Louie Baker; 2nd-Robert A. Tate; 3rd-Scott Huxoll. Thirteen Year Olds: 1st-Rocky Lopez; 2nd-Willie Tate; 3rd-Scott Davis.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1948

Jean Munroe, a freshman at Eastern Washington State College, is among thirty new members of the A Cappella choir and is in the first alto section of the sixty-voice choir, which is directed by William Lloyd Rowles, head of the division of music.

One of the biggest real estate deals made in Columbia County is being consummated this week wherein Joe Gote, Jr. is selling his holdings in this county in the Kellogg hollow district to Charles (Chuck) and Hal Mead. Brothers. The transfer covers 1,144 acres deeded land and also carries a lease on 288 acres of school land. The Gote land adjoins their father's, C. S. Mead, farming operations. Both these places were at one time parts of one big farm owned by the late Dr. Maurice Pietrzycki.

The Dayton 4-H club team, Ronald Douglas, George Oliver and Dorothy Oliver, with Glena Berry as alternate, participated in the contests at Yakima and tied with the Garfield County team for third place in the state-wide judging and are headed for the Pacific International.

One Hundred Years Ago

October, 1923

No existing newspapers.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 7, 1898

The Summerville, Blue Mountain and Walla Walla Railway Company are constructing a line in the direction of this city, Walla Walla, from Union, Oregon. P.I. Taylor, president and L.B. Rinehart, superintendent of construction, are in the city to further the interest of their road and will submit a proposition to the people of this city at a meeting of the Commercial Club. The capital stock of the company is $2,500,000, and about a third of the distance from Union to Walla Walla, 75 miles, is about completed.