From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 11, 2014

Staff members of Dayton School who are retiring at the conclusion of the school year are; Art teacher Debbie Baxter, 15 years; Denise Hoon, 35.4 years; Sharon Mendel 23.6 years; Suzi Hubbard, a paraprofessional, 20 years; Paul Ihle, 23.1 years; Steve McLean, Vo-Ag, 36.5 years; Del Avery, bus driver, 22 years and over a million miles. Together they have touched the lives of hundreds of local students for a combined total of 175.6 years.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 9, 1999

Jeptha Livingstone White, son of Mrs. Rebecca Martin, received the Valedictorian Plaque at the Marine Military Academy's Academic Awards Assembly. The award is received by the gradating senior cadet who has attended MMA the last three or more years with the highest grade point average. The Marine Military Academy was founded in 1965 as the only independent college preparatory school in the world based on the customs and traditions of the United States Marine Corps.

Regarding the reopening of the Liberty Theatre, recently awarded grants have just about overcome the huge financial cost of the restoration. The total budget for the project is over $600,000, which includes volunteer hours and the donation of the building by Nealey and Marinella, Attorneys at Law.

Frank Thomas and wife were in Dayton doing touch-ups to the Broughton Land and Eagles Club murals.

Fifty Years Ago

June 13, 1974

One senior and four junior members of the Dayton Chapter of FFA were awarded the coveted State Farmer Degree at an award presentation in Pullman. The State Farmer Degree is the highest awarded on the state level, those named constitute the top two percent of the total state enrollment. Dan Magill, a senior, John Burnette, Mark Thorn, Lorrie Oliver, and Randy James, all juniors, were named.

Two Dayton students, Lorrie Oliver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver, and Jeff Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Turner, were named to the FFA Band at the State Convention. Jeff's father Chuck, played in the National Band at Kansas City when he was a student in Vo-Ag.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 9, 1949

Mrs. Arthur Fleenor, with 10 students, Mrs. Evelyn Kruchek, with 20 students, and Mrs. H.Z. Brown, with 12 students, held their respective annual recitals at the Methodist Church.

"Wheel Inn" a roadside driving-in eating stand opened just off the state highway a half mile west of Dayton, was built and will be operated by Buck Payne with electric cooking facilities.

Little Miss Linda Alcorn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Alcorn, won first prize for the best singing on an amateur hour radio program over KUJ, Walla Walla. For Linda's first appearance the prize was $15, there will be four winners in a final contest.

Columbia County wheat farmers will probably have an opportunity to obtain crop insurance for 1950, according to Walter E. Knox, chairman of the county ACA. This new policy supersedes the old form which was abandoned in 1948 and has been in force the last two years.

Harvest on the Alaska peas of Blue Mountain Canneries started Monday at Waitsburg and some early variety in the Dayton area is being hauled to Waitsburg for processing, according to Mr. A. D. Radebaugh, general manager. The local plant in Dayton is still processing asparagus.

One Hundred Years Ago

June, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 10, 1899

The Sweepstakes Delain Marino Ram was bought at Omaha by R. A. Jackson for $250; was bred by A. T. Gamber of Ohio. This Ram is four years old and has won more First Prizes and Sweepstakes than any other ram in the United States. His live weight in full fleece is about 220 pounds. He was shorn this spring and his fleece weighs 371/4 pounds, long fine Delain Combing wool.

Mining claims on the Tukanon are becoming so valuable that parties owning them have refused $1,000 for one claim.