From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

October 16, 2013

Concessionaires at KOA Lyons Ferry Marina Jim and Angela MacArthur provided an overview of the recreation season for Port of Columbia County Commissioners. The MacArthurs reported the facility is not meeting the minimum KOA standards including a laundromat and are asking the Commissioners to consider a 20- or 25-year lease. Investment in improvements such as cabins, playground and a laundry facility would then have enough time for a return on investment.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 22, 1998

Renowned wildlife artist Simon Combes presented a slide show of his "Cats" journeys at the Wenaha Gallery. Simon has been all over the world to get photos of the Great Cats of the World, including Siberia, Venezuela, Kenya, India, Mongolia, Thailand, the U.S. and the Serengeti plains of Africa.

Fifty Years Ago

October 11, 1973

John Grigsby, Medford, Ore., rancher and field representative for the National Association to Keep and Bear Arms (NAKBA) headquartered in Medford, rode into Dayton with the setting sun astride his Palomino horse, Dancer. A modern day Paul Revere, Grigsby was here to speak to the city on the firearms issue. "If we (American people) lose our firearms," he said, "it will be the end of our nation, the end of our liberties, the finish of everything."

Kansas City Bound-FFAers Dan Magill and Perry Patrick, Mary Sue Evers, Jerry Snyder and Mary Kerckhof will be leaving to attend the National Future Farmers of America Convention in Kansas City.

A new Dayton wood processing corporation, Columbia Cut Stock, Inc. signed a lease on the Lewis Building, the former Lewis Machine Shop recently purchased by the Columbia County Port District, according to Cecil Allbee, port commissioner.

The Columbia County Organization Committee passed a resolution approving transfer of the land from Pomeroy School District No. 110 to Dayton School District No. 2 at a public hearing in the Dayton Elementary School music room. The reason for the proposed land transfer were (1) geographical features (remote part of Columbia County) and (2) the unnecessary book work caused the county assessor's office, according to William H. Casteel, Columbia County Assessor, in processing the tax dollars on the land, amounting to $8.80.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 14, 1948

William O. Wildes, Jr., Pacific telephone company manager, announced that a full-time service representative is now on duty in the telephone building at 215 E. Clay Street. Mrs. Jean McCauley, who has been an operator, has been promoted to the position of service representative. She will accept payments of telephone bills and help customers with all of their telephone problems.

At least one hundred Columbia County farmers have their places posted wither for the spotted season with permission needed to trespass, or no hunting at all. Dewey Donohue, Columbia County candidate for the legislature, is one of those farmers who suffer often from the game or the hunters, having his dog shot.

The city bulldozer under the guidance of Roy Bell is really opening up the channel of the Touchet through Dayton with wide sloping banks and a clear channel to allow the runoff to come tearing through town. Braden Tractor Company has been hauling gravel out of the creek bed above the Main Street Bridge and this will make for a deeper channel.

Crippled children, regardless of race, creed or color, are given free treatment so they may become useful citizens of tomorrow. This and other Shrine hospitals in North America are supported by Shriners, calling upon the public only to assist by patronizing their various benefits. The Blue Mountain Shrine Club will sponsor its annual benefit football game, when Dayton's Bulldogs and the Blue Devils of Wa-Hi will meet on Walla Walla's Borleske Stadium.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 27, 1923

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 14, 1898

The Spanish Proposals for the cession of Puerto Rico and Guam Island to the United States and providing for the independence of Cuba will be discussed by the peace commission in Paris at its next session.

SITUATION SERIOUS-Indian Chiefs Sulk and Hide-Won't Treaty With Whites. Minneapolis-Federal and state authorities are not working in harmony towards quelling the Indian revolt. Governor Clough received the following wire from General Bacon: "The situation is bad the conference yesterday resulted in nothing, no Indian chiefs were there."