From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

August 20, 2014

New Fire station in the works for Fire District 3, located on the Patit Road. Remodeling of the former Green Giant and Columbia REA shop is to begin in mid-September and be operational by the end of the year, according to District 3 Chief Rick Turner. Plans are to adapt the former farm shop into spaces for training, offices and living quarters for up to six live-in firefighters.

'Labor of Love' results in refurbished 109-year-old Maloney Mountain barn. The bunkhouse, another shop that stood on the working hay farm, and the house in which Eulalie Schreck grew up in and her mother was born in is no longer standing. The old Highland School, enrollment 20, which she attended, was located about a mile away.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 18, 1999

Got G.A.M.E.? Four girls, Heather Lambert, Sarah Gibbons, Brooke Hoon, and Sarah Cunnington, took their game to the street at the Peach Basket Classic 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament in Walla Walla and came home the champions. They also won the Dayton Hoopla, and were invited to play at the Muddy Frogwater Champion of Champions Mini-tournament. Teams from Dayton, College Place, Milton-Freewater, and Walla Walla are invited.

4-H youth, their leader and other community participants involved in the dog and horse clubs and fair projects, build their personal skills, as well as their animals' training over a period of many years. The dog clubs participated in the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show and are planning to participate in the Southeastern Washington Fair.

After putting in hours of feeding and caring every day to get their animals ready for the Columbia County Fair, is when the 4-H and FFA showman get paid for their efforts. It is often said, "Wow, those kids get $1.50 a pound for their animal when in the real world market is 50 cents a pound. Is that teaching our kids anything? After adding up all expenses, they will hopefully net at least minimum wage or break even at the Livestock Sale. Yes, it teaches responsibility, money management, record keeping and how to work in a show ring in a competitive setting to display their results.

Fifty Years Ago

August 22, 1974

Connie Fletcher, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Fletcher, competing against 156 contestants from 28 states and two Canadian provinces, placed in the finals in pole bending and barrel racing against 15 of the top horses as well as taking overall second in the barrels.

Harvest Bee Draws-23 Combines, 27 trucks, two tractors and disc, two stand-by fire trucks and other miscellaneous equipment and 123 area residents together, harvested 307 acres of wheat, which averaged 69 bushels per acre, in about four hours. There was no danger of break-downs nor gas shortage as related businesses had representatives there equipped to care for their needs at the Mike Thompson ranch. Roy Eslick and Jim Turner, co-chairmen for the harvest bee, made sure there was cool refreshments to help wash down the dust. Mike, who had been ill and passed away last week, had been a friend that always had time to help someone else when the need arose. Tim Donohues opened their home for the potluck dinner that followed the completion of the harvest.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 18, 1949

Local farmer Carl Penner has produced a dust-free grain elevator which he is now using in connection with Glenn Bickelhaupt and Ed Lawrence. This new equipment is now in operation at the Alto elevator near Waitsburg. As the wheat rolls down the chute, the suction is applied directly and sucks out all undesirable smut, light cob, straw, and almost all of the dust.

One Hundred Years Ago

August, 1924

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One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 19, 1899

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Charles Guse had the misfortune to suffer a painful accident while working with Zaring & Criffield's thresher located on the farm of Thomas Paul. Gus was oiling a shaft on a feeder, when the glove of the left hand was caught and the arm about the wrist was mashed, the bones splintered in such a way the lower part of the cannot be saved.