From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

November 19, 2014

Familiar faces at Elk Drug ride into retirement. Combined, their years of service add up to a number that's pretty close to the length of time Elk Drug has been in business. Paul Hendrickson, Kathy

Berg and Sherry Groom – will celebrate their retirement at a reception honoring their years of service.

Relay for Life chairwoman Delphine Bailey, accepted a check for $150, presented by Dayton Chronicle publishers Charlotte and Loyal Baker. The relay for Life raised about $26,000 for cancer research.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 17, 1999

Julia Marks, played requested gospel selections on her viola, during the recent dedication of the new stained glass window at the The Congregational Church. The beautiful window made by local artisan, Mona Himmelberger, depicts an angel and is located on the south side of the church.

Cecil Albert Sharpe, Jr., 72 years old, died November 10, in Lakewood, Wash. He was a second-generation newspaper editor and publisher, Sharpe owned or operated weekly newspapers in Oregon and Washington during a 45-year business career, spending 17 years as editor of the Dayton Chronicle.

Fifty Years Ago

November 21, 1974

Starbuck News: A new park is under construction at a site near the bridge in the city. The ground has been cleared and preparation for water lines and a permanent picnic table.

Clark James, President of the Dayton Booster Club, presented Mr. and Mrs. James Burke with the "Booster of the Year" plaque at a banquet given in their honor.

Laurie Ruchert has been hired as clerk-dispatcher for the combined city-county law enforcement offices here. She was hired by Walla Walla Blue Mountain Action Council's state funded DETA program and will assume her new duties immediately.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 17, 1949

One of the Northwest's truly outstanding amateur stage groups, the University of Washington's Touring Theater, presented two excellent performance on the high school stage under the sponsorship of the high school dramatics club. The group, who also appeared in Dayton last year, presented an afternoon performance of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," a play designed especially for grade school children.

Paving Possible with Parity Prices Prevailing. To oil the county roads on the oiling program requires about $300,000. Should we bond ourselves and pay for the oiling over a 20-year period? Or are we to find our pleasure in stagnant ways; bounce our life away on rough roads and then try to "take our savings with us."

Lawrence Jackie, Walla Walla, appeared before the Kiwanis Club as a public-relations speaker for the Veteran's Hospital in Walla Walla and how it affected the individual patient, calling attention to the fact that the Walla Walla hospital was primarily for treatment of tuberculosis, although about 20 beds were reserved for treatment of other emergency patients.

More than 328 elk have been taken out of the Dayton area, according to checking station figures by Game Protector, Bill Wooten, as the season closes. Local storage plants, Joe McQuary of McQuarys' and Elwood Hansen of the Dayton Creamery, reported they had a run on space and it was so crowded they couldn't walk through their plants. An unofficial source reported that over 1,100 elk were taken out of the four counties of this game district.

One Hundred Years Ago

November, 1924

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 18, 1899

Edison's First Check; Tom Edison completed his model of the now famous "ticker" he submitted it to the president of a telegraph company, who ask him to leave it for examination. Edison, who was out of money and his land lady had warned him for the last time, had decided to ask $5,000 for his invention. At the next interview his courage oozed away, the president asked if $40,000 would suit you.