From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

January 15, 2014

With future recreation opportunities at Lyons Ferry Marina the Commissioners for the Port of Columbia approved goals for recreation presented by Manager Jennie Dickinson. Adoption of recreational goals will help the Port be eligible for grants through the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office. The Commissioners also accepted a Capital Industrial Facilities plan for the Port, which includes upgrades to the industrial buildings with items such as gutters and lighting.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 13, 1999

Jennie Dingle, Chamber Administrative Assistant, accepted a check from Bill Clemens of Pacific Power for the Job Quest 2000 Project. Jennie's position at the Chamber was made possible by Jack Williams and the Dayton Chronicle. The Chronicle is currently donating the full funding for the Administrative Assistant position.

Agreement reached on wheat field burning. The Washington Association of Wheat Growers, which represents 3,000 wheat grower members in the state, offered a cautious endorsement of the Washington Department of Ecology's Emissions reduction Program for cereal grain production. The program calls for farmers to voluntarily cut air pollution from field burning by at least 50 per cent over the next seven years.

Despite set-backs and hurdles, Steve and Jody Martin are continuing with their plans to create a local composting facility/business.

Fifty Years Ago

January 17, 1974

Navy Airman Recruit Robert O. Beatty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold R Beatty, has graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center at San Diego, Calif. Beatty's next assignment will be the Naval Air Station at Millington, Tenn.

U.S. Air Force Captain Philip S. Templin, 1963 graduate of Dayton High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Templin of Starbuck, has arrived for duty at Eglin AFB, Fla. Capt. Templin, a pilot, is assigned to a unit of the Tactical Air Command.

Roy Cadman, during the preliminary ground-breaking ceremonies on the site of the new Delany Memorial Building, is removing the Purple Beech tree planted by his late wife, Mary Allene, in honor of past Pioneer Association members. Mrs. Cadman, who has passed away, was also instrumental in the city's acquisition of the library.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 13, 1949

During Thursday night, a chinook broke the cold spell, with the chinook came the flood waters, the creeks weren't high but a large section of Dayton, south of Main Street including Third Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth streets had a high volume of water.

The flood waters coming down Third Street in such a volume that the usual drainage could not hand it, and found their way into the High School Ag and manual arts rooms with about six inches of water on the floor.

Thousands of gallons of water pouring from its ceiling, from a broken water pipe that had frozen during the night, saturating merchandise and had standing water had two inches deep on one side of the main floor of Lee Peregrine's Dayton Department Store, located in the Ankeny building.

There is a new government trapper on the job in this community after all predatory animals, chiefly interested in coyotes. Claude Brodhead's current coyote score is up to 13. If you are having trouble with coyotes, contact the trapper through the Farm Bureau.

One Hundred Years Ago

January, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 14, 1899

Rambler For 1899-Harry L. Keat of Spokane representing the Fred T. Meril Cycle Co. of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, is making arrangements to place the Rambler and Ideal wheels for 1899 upon the market.

A large shipment of ice was unloaded by twelve or fourteen men being employed in storing away 150 tons of ice in the Weinhard cold storage house. The blocks of ice two feet square and come from the North Powder River and the finest ice ever received in regard to its thickness.