From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

November 26, 2014

"The Town That Still Believes" The 2014 Christmas Season kicks off Friday and Saturday with Christmas bells ringing, hooves will be clopping and children oohing and aahing. The Dayton Community Christmas Tree will be carefully placed in the traditional spot on the Elk Drug corner by the crews from Pacific Power. The tree was donated by Broughton Land Company, and transported to town by Jake Adams and Justin Bly, and set up by Mark Jenkins and Keith Ingle, both local linemen out of the Walla Walla facility and Doug Hinds of Pomeroy.

Lemonade Day Launches at Dayton Middle School. Mr. McCann's Sixth Grade class hopes to learn how to start a business from scratch and work to make it a success. Lemonade Day was launched with presentation to the Dayton Middle School Sixth Grand classes taught by McCann, in collaboration with the Port of Columbia and the Washington Department of Commerce.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 24, 1999

The Kiwanis Annual Turkey Bingo garnered approximately $5,232 plus food bank donations at the Dayton Elementary School Multipurpose Room. The proceeds from this event have been designated to support the Senior Class, Swim Team, Key Club and Future Business Leaders of America.

Students from the Starbuck School District attended the annual Young People's Concept held at Cordiner Hall in Walla Walla. The Walla Walla Symphony, the oldest continuous playing symphony west of the Mississippi, performed a selection of "Music from Around the World."

Fifty Years Ago

November 28, 1974

The Treasury Department granted a "Jones Act" waiver permitting foreign vessels to haul fertilizer from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest, and the announcement was made in Oregon where President Ford and Senator Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) were campaigning.

Acting on a tip from an unnamed informant, Waitsburg Police Chief Bob Hornbuckle, with the assistance of three Walla Walla Sheriff's deputies, conducted an early morning search of a house, uncovering a large stash of marijuana resulting in citations against 19 people, including 10 from Dayton.

The Bonita Junior Club salutes Miss Carolyn Nelson, First grade teacher at the Dayton Elementary School, as their November "Teacher of the Month. The Bonita Junior Club felt that Miss Nelson exemplifies the best characteristics of what a first grade teacher should possess.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 24, 1949

Nearly two hundred farmers, business and professional men of Dayton "sat down together" at a banquet in the Star Club house. The farmers were "paying for the dinner." The quotation are the words of Wilfred Thorn, who presided and who declared that was the only way you could, at least on this one occasion tell a farmer from a business man. The Star Farm Bureau and Home Economics Club put on the dinner.

The Christmas Seal sale for the Columbia County T.B. association will begin, according to Don Stevens, spokesman for the group. No personal solicitation will be made for T.B. seals, and it is requested that donations be made by mail, with bonds from $5 to $25 are available for those who wish to contribute larger sums.

The Dayton high school twirling team members, Sherril Barr, leader; Janice Hall, Janis Fletcher, Dwyla Donohue, Jean Rogers and Karleen Farrens, have been performing at the football games.

One Hundred Years Ago

November, 1924

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 25, 1899

Grant Lowe went to Covella, accompanied by his little son and daughter, to get a load of chop and traded for a horse which he desired to take home with him. Going home he was obliged to drive the animal ahead of his team so allowed his seven-year-old son to drive a four-horse team. The wagon ran into a rut, the son fell from the seat and was run over by the loaded wagon, crushing the boy.