From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

May 16, 2014

Will Hutchens, a 1995 graduate of Dayton High School, penned a book about Portland's coffee culture. In Caffeinated PDX, Hutchens outlines what he describes as the unique coffee culture of the Portland area coffee houses and what has been labeled as the third wave of the coffee industry.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 12, 1999

Four Dayton Elementary School EXPRO math teams attended the fourth annual competition Mathematics Olympiad held at Eastern Washington University. Sixth Grade Team 1: Andrew Rassbach, Tyrell Wessels, Scott Underwood, BJ Himmelberger. Sixth Grade 2: Evan Himmelberger, Brandon Cavazos, Will Ostrander, Adele McKinnon. Fifth Grade Team1: Samantha Richter, Cole Blessinger, Brian Tate, Melissa Spray. Fifth Grade Team 2: Tommy Lovell, Marcus Mead, Zak Kiefer, Teresa Rivas.

Local and regional model rocketry enthusiasts will be presented with a unique opportunity during the Blue Mountain Rocketeers Club launch. Representatives from All Hobbies of Puyallup, Wash., will be on hand all day with a large variety of mode, mid-power and high-power rocketry product for sale. The launch is located at BMR's Smith Hollow launch site and the public is invited to attend.

Fifty Years Ago

May 16, 1974

Joy Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith, and Stan Stockton, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stockton, were selected as winners from Dayton High School as Outstanding Junior girl and boy awards given by the Masonic Lodges of Southeastern Washington. The recipients were chosen as recipients from five girl and five boy finalists from Dayton High school.

Lisa Cunningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cunningham, received the Wohelo Medallion Award at the Grand Council Fire of the Dayton Council of Camp Fire Girls, presented by Mrs. Clinta Mellor, Camp Fire Council board member.

Columbia County's newest law enforcement officer is Washington State Patrol trooper, Walt B. Gobel, who replaced Trooper Bryon "Buck" Armstrong, recently transferred.

The Clark James family will be feted at the annual Cattleman's Honor Day Barbecue. The James family will be honored for their accomplishment in developing a top her of Angus cattle and for their community leadership with youth.

Dayton Days Parade Marshal, Art Bales and is Palomino walking horse Lady, and a caravan of 14 other riders planned a jaunt over to the Milton-Freewater Pea Festival to promote Dayton Days. Heading west out of Dayton, they never made their destination: a negative blood test for Equine Infectious Anemia for horses entering other states blocked their rendezvous.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May, 1949

Plans are now in the making for the formation of beginners' classes the grade and junior high schools. Class instruction will be free, and classes will begin next fall. A few school instruments will be available for those best qualified for them. A rental fee to cover the cost of overhauling the instruments.

The barberry shrubs are necessary in the life cycle of black stem rust, which is poison to wheat. In a co-operative movement to control the disease, USDA, the state Dept. of Ag. and the county are destroying all of the "common" variety of the barberry shrub. There is a difference between the common barberry and the harmless Japanese plant.

Earl Davenport, famous professional candy maker, will teach candy making in the home economics room of the high school. His class is being jointly sponsored by the home economics department of the Dayton high school and the Chronicle-Dispatch.

One Hundred Years Ago

May, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 13, 1899

I have used a Home Comfort steel Range for the past 10 years and it has given entire satisfaction with no trouble regulating the heat for both winter and summer. -Mrs. L. May.

A case of small pox was reported from Starbuck. Dr. Van Patten was dispatched to see the patient. The doctor inspected the patient and found him broken out on the forehead with a rash much resembling small pox. The doctor directed the patient be kept in quarantine in a tent near the bluff north of Starbuck and is guarded night and day.