From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

March 26, 2014

Mike Mathews, after serving 15 years on the Columbia County Planning Commission, is retiring. Mathews's involvement on the Planning commission took place during a period of change for the county and he feels his greatest contribution was providing oversight and input on the siting if the wind turbines in Columbia County.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 24, 1999

All three Dayton teams competing in the "Odyssey of the Mind" (OM) 1999 Mid-Columbia Regional Tournament won second-place ribbons for their divisions and problem categories. Over 250 students on 36 teams from the Mid-Columbia region competed to attend the state tournament to be held in Wenatchee. State winners will advance to the OM World Finals. Dayton Elementary sent 19 students on three teams and six kindergarten students went as a primary, non-competitive team.

Eighteen Dayton High School students were inducted into the Dayton Chapter of the National Honor Society. Washington State University President Samuel Smith was the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Blue Mountain Activities Association National Honor Society Initiation Banquet held at the Walla Walla Elks Lodge.

Columbia REA has awarded three post high school academic scholarships to Elizabeth L. Abbey, senior, Waitsburg High, who will receive the first Clark A. Brewington Memorial Scholarship, for $1,500 for the next four years, Jess Nathan Cornaggia and Jeremy Thorn, seniors at Dayton High, each receiving $1,000 for the next four years.

Fifty Years Ago

March 28, 1974

Georgia Engleson, Fourth Grade teacher for many years, in a letter to the school board, due to illness asked that she be relieved of her teaching duties for the balance of the school year and be issued a contract for the 1974-75 term.

W.A. "Tod" Davis, machinist in the Green Giant Farm Shop, was awarded a $50 certificate upon winning the "Suggestion Man of the Year" award. Previously, Davis received $400 for two workable ideas, one dealt with a sprocket hub on a pea combine, the other suggestion consisted of a ball bearing pressed into a sprocket to replace the hub and bronze bushing and shaft. Davis is concocting an asparagus knife handle that will resist breakage.

Log salvage, shaded fuel break system, private land easement permits and forest rehabilitation measures were major items covered during a highly important meeting on the potential fire hazard of tussock moth-destroyed timbered land in Columbia County. The Forest Service is conducting moth parasite egg virus studies to determine those acres, out of 6,000,000 infected in the county, southeastern Washington and northern Oregon that are in need of spraying with DDT.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 24, 1949

Deputy Sheriff Herschell Bauman and State Patrolman Clarence Ellis are expected to arrive home from a trip to Missoula, Mont., where they went to return the two alleged bandits who held up the Tucanon service station. The two bandits pulled a "stickup" on Mrs. Harold De, who was in charge of her husband's Tucanon service station, getting away with $12 or $14 and a tank of gas.

Big Alaska Road Job, for the Rogers Construction company. The "boys," Paul Conklin, Marion Miller and Ted Cadman, built a unique trailer to hold a thousand gallons of water, pumps to handle the water; a pair of electric hot-water heaters; a shower room and three lavatory basins. At the rear of trailer an installation of a diesel motor and generators will supply the electricity to heat the water and furnish electricity for the road construction camp Rogers Construction Company will have in Alaska.

One Hundred Years Ago

March, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 25, 1899

The Pirate Gang. H. J. Torrance has just received an invoice of plows called the "Pirate gang" which will greatly interest farmers who are looking for a first class and up-to-date gang. It is a 14-inch plow and has qualities superior too many other kinds introduced here.