From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

July 16, 2014

Sharon I. Mathews of Dayton was recovered last Saturday from the Snake River, several miles downstream from their campsite on Geneva Bar, where she went missing during a family boating outing over the Fourth of July.

Jackie Ross "Jack" Williams, the former publisher of the Dayton Chronicle, passed away on July 8, 2014. Jack relocated to Dayton in 1978 and began a weekly publication called the Touchet Valley News. In 1981, he and his wife Maureen May purchased the Dayton Chronicle which Jack operated until June 11, 2014, when he officially retired.

Earl Jr. "Bud" and Marilyn Groom, D. H. S. Class of '55, have been honored as the 2014 Alumni Parade Marshals.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July14, 1999

Tot Spot receives funding. Children's Home Society of Washington receives funding from Foundation Northwest to help support Eastern Washington Programs. The Inland Northwest, Foundation Northwest granted Children's Home Society of Washington $1,500 for the Tot Sot program and migrant family services.

Keith Nealey, 1988 graduate D.H.S., is a computer graphics designer for KIRO Television in Seattle. Nealey's main responsibility is designing the background, lead-in titles and pictures for the news department.

Fifty Years Ago

July 18, 1974

Acquisition and restoration of the Union Pacific Railroad Depot came a step closer with the appointment of six local people of a newly formed non-profit corporation with those two goals in mind.

The recent treatment with DDT of nearly 41,000 acres of tussock moth infected forests in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho has been determined to be outstandingly successful, according to data released by the U.S. Forest Service.

July 24 is the day a new traffic law will become enforceable on Washington Highways. The new law requires that whenever a motorcycle or motor scooter is in motion upon a public highway, it will have its head and tail lamps lighted.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 14, 1949

The body of Thomas A Jones Jr., member of General Chenault's famous Flying Tigers, who was killed in China on May 8, 1942, was brought back to his home state, the funeral was to be held on Monday.

The block on South Fourth Street, about the 1500 block, where City Lumber and Coal Yard had a saw mill at one time, has been cleaned off and will be used, for building sites. The old mill burned a number of years ago and the ruins remained until recently.

Federal agriculture department surveys within Columbia County have shown within an area of 504.5 square miles, more than 107 bushes of harmful barberry plants have been found on six rural properties and have been destroyed. The common variety of the barberry is the host plant for the stem rust fungus which attacks our cereal grains.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has rereleased new $20 bills in the area, and seemed to be accepted by the people in general.

Monty Montgomery has received a shipment of the new 45 rpm long playing records from Decca, Capital, and Victor companies. The new type records are only seven and one-half inches in size, which virtually solves the storage problem. The cost is now running less than the old-style records.

One Hundred Years Ago

July, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 15, 1899

The smallpox patient has been discharged from the pest house, the tent and contents were burned. The physicians who attended this case and quarantined the same have the thanks of the community for saving the man and keeping the disease from spreading.

Pryor Bros and C. W. McCall have purchased a combined harvester for this year's crop. There are now five combined machines in this county.