From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

December 4, 2013

Concert to provide canned goods for the Food Bank. Zella Powers, hoping to win a CD or other give away item, entered the contest for prizes by successfully calling into Ed Dailey's radio segment on KORD 102.7 FM. Dailey, who is a musician himself, hosts the Legends of Country on Sunday mornings, and provides a monthly benefit concert as one of his prizes. Zella's name was drawn for the benefit concert, which she donated to help raise food for the Columbia County Food Bank. David and Dianne McKinley received a thank-you gift from Spokane Seed of five pound packages of cleaned and sorted lentil and split peas, which they donated to the food bank. Since then, Spokane Seed donates 100 pounds each of lentil and split peas.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December, 1998

Hayden Hiebert, a 1997 graduate of Dayton High School, has the lead role in The Little Theatre of Walla Walla's production of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Hiebert stars as Eugene, a 14-year-old lustily coming into puberty during the Depression.

Two days before Thanksgiving, the Touchet Valley Arts Council, which is raising money to restore the Liberty Theater, received an additional reason to be thankful. A representative of the Murdoch Charitable Trust notified the group that it had just been granted a $100,000 Challenge Grant, matching grant.

Several 1958 Dayton High School Alumni and their friends embarked on a seven-day southern Caribbean cruise at a special price with $10 pledged to the Alumni Association for each booking. The group boarded the Monarch of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship with Port of call at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Fort-De-France, Martinique; Bridgetown, Barbados; St. John's Antiqua; Phillipsburg, St. Maarten.

Fifty Years Ago

December 6, 1973

Ruth Lange, 11, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Donald Lange, and a sixth grader at the local elementary school, is the Grand Prize winner in the annual 4-H Busy Bees Poster Contest, receiving $5 for her efforts. Only elementary grades 1-8 are eligible with 113 youths taking part in the event. Dale Foresee, PP&L branch manager, said PP&L will send certificates to all 113 participants.

Confrontation between the Columbia County's board of equalization and Westwood Land and Development Co. of California. In a statement summarizing the finds of the Board of Commissioners, Vern Marll, Lawrence Turner and Gene Robinson, Westwood purchased roughly 1,000 acres of land in the Patit from Ralph Startin and subdivided sections of it without filing platting procedures as proscribed by the county Platting Ordinance #72-1, adopted July 17, 'l72

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 2, 1948

Money from the sale of Christmas Seals to finance the work of the Columbia County Tuberculosis Association has been coming in slowly, according to Mrs. Doug Johnston, seal sale chairman. The sale of Christmas Seals is the only means the Tuberculosis Association employs in raising money to finance the year-round operation of the organization in its fight to stamp out the nation's seventh deadliest killer.

The boxing season opens December 11 with the Bulldog pugilists traveling to Pomeroy to tangle with the powerful Pirate squad. Several returning lettermen including Ronny Kenny, Truman Winnett, Wilbur Startin, Harvey Shale, Gene Tewalt, Duane McGee and Gale Davis; along with Harold Roy, Dean Mings, Dick Rodrick, Tommy Turner, Jay Hatfield, Arlie Eaton and Roger Morris will be on the team.

Twelve cars were furnished Columbia County Grain Growers' elevators, and we were lucky to get them, according to Manager M. W. Roe. Twenty-five per cent of the 1948 crop of Columbia county has been sold, at $2.01 ½ and will be loaded out at Turner, Whetstone and Dayton.

One Hundred Years Ago

December, 1923

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 3, 1898

The Christmas Ladies Home Journal prints the first of a series of page illustrations by W.L. Taylor, picturing some of the most notable people of Longfellow. Minnehaha and Hiawatha are given in the current issue, illustrating Longfellow's famous poem, "Hiawatha." The pictures are remarkably interesting and entirely satisfying and the series will be a really great achievement in illustration.