From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

September 10, 2014

Dayton High School's Future Business Leader of America (FBLA) representatives were hosted by the Dayton Kiwanis at the Delany Room in the Dayton Memorial Library. The FBLA organization members, Angie Dedloff, Angola Mascall, Matthew Warren, Taylor Frame, Keelin Hovrud, and FBLA Advisor Rob Moore, and Kiwanis President Joe Huether, recounted their experiences at the national convention in Nashville, Tenn., and activities they anticipate in the coming school year.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 8, 1999

Willie Wessels, whose first career was in farm equipment, has been caretaker of the Columbia County Fairgrounds for the past 11 years. Willie was employed in Lewiston, Id., by International Harvester before moving to Dayton where he worked as a mechanic and machinery salesman for Harvester Supply. Nearing retirement in 1988 he took on the job as the fairgrounds caretaker, which he was very good at and liked what he was doing.

If someone has a question about the Columbia County Fair, Gerri Richter, who has been involved in the Fair administration for 12 years, will know the answer. Geri served as treasurer for "at least the last six years."

Fifty Years Ago

September 12, 1974

Approximately 800 students from the Dayton School District will be attending a special concert by the Spokane Orchestra at Dayton Senior high school. The thirty-two member Spokane Orchestra, a select touring ensemble from the Spokane Symphony, has brought musical experiences to over a quarter of a million school children in eastern Washington school district since its beginning eight years ago.

Who's Who Among American High School Students honored Michael Jon McFarland, son of Jon and Kay McFarland of Fort Gordon, Ga., and Mary Kenyon, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Jack Kenyon, who were notified that they are to be featured in Who's Who Among American High School Students, 1973-74.

The Columbia County Grain Growers installed a new Reuters News Service teletype device that enables the CCGG to receive commodity price information from all over the nation, including Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City. The machine will relay needed information within 10 minutes, allowing marketing trends in the industry to be picked up instantaneously and relayed to the farmers. A bell will sound an alert if there is radical change or wild fluctuation in any one market.

Dayton School District No. 2, under provisions of the National School Lunch Act, offers free or reduced price meals and free milk to children from families determined unable to pay the full price ,according to the eligibility standards.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 8, 1949

Polio Drive is started with confidence that the entire community would give whole-hearted support to the polio emergency drive was expressed by Clifton McCauley, chairman of the Columbia County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Several members of the 4-H Barnyard Club, Jean Thompson, Glenna Berry, Karen Thronson, Dorothy Oliver, Joan Thronson, George Oliver and Charles Thronson, exhibited "Cricket," the 4-H Barnyard club's steer group project, donated by Charles Thronson, Senior 4-H leader, at the Eastern Washington fair at Walla Walla.

Claude Black got his rock crusher into operation and the boys have since been a busy bunch making little ones out of big ones. Most of the rock is going to individuals who want it for driveways, concrete or anything where crushed rock is used.

One Hundred Years Ago

September, 1924

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 9, 1899

Farmers, inspect the barley cleaner on the Northern Pacific Ry. and satisfy yourselves that this new method of cleaning barley and wheat for seed purposes is especially the machine for extracting wild oats, wheat, cockle and all other foul seeds, leaving the seed perfectly clean which will ensure the farmers a clean crop that will command the highest price. The citizens of Pomeroy are still figuring on getting power for their light plant from the Tucannon. If a ditch could be made in the earth, the expense of lumber will be saved and the plant will be established.