Ten Years Ago

November 10, 2010

C.W. & Friends, (Chelsea, Winston & Friends) is a new business at 139 E. Main St. The shop will offer dog grooming for all sizes as well as day care for your pampered pooch. Cindy Joy will be running the shop.

The Bluewood Race Team and staff have had an active summer training at Mount Hood, Ore. and Timberline Ski Resort,

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 8, 1995

The Blue Mountain Rocketeers are pleased to announce classes dealing with the basic design and construction of scratch-built model rockets.

With nearly 200 in attendance, the 4-H Achievement awards for 1995 were announced by emcees Roland Schirman and Janet Howard. Columbia County has 15 active 4-H clubs. Over 100 youth participated and 91 received completion pins Saturday night.

Columbia County can start recycling! There are two recycling sites in Dayton and one in Starbuck.

Fifty Years Ago

November 12, 1970

Sixty Christmas packages to Columbia County servicemen, both stateside and overseas, were placed in the mail Monday, November 9, by members of Dayton Eagles Auxiliary.

Enjoying Scholarship banquet and $200 checks from Union Pacific, Kathy Evers and Carl Boyd, they were among 19 outstanding Washington State University freshmen to collect scholarships from the railroad for achievements in 4-H or FFA projects during High School years.

Diane Woolen, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. William M. Woolen, has been awarded a scholarship through the Health Professions Scholarship Program at Washington State University in Pullman. She is one of 61 students who received scholarships and awards totaling $32,173.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 8, 1945

Lt. Janet Kitterman Tofte, of the Army Nurses’ Corps, has received her discharge and arrived home Monday morning from a post in California. Lt. Tofte entered the service while her husband was in Italy.

Memorial Services for Pfc. Bill Davis. A gold star was placed in the service flag of the Congregational Church Sunday morning for Pfc. Bill Davis of the United States Marine Corps, who lost his life in the sinking of the Indianapolis the night of July 30, 1945.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 6, 1920

An almost record-smashing electoral vote for Senator Harding topping the four hundred mark and Republican majorities of more than assured from virtually complete returns tonight from Tuesday’s elections.

Fred Hager and Judy Neil have opened a car exchange business in the west room of the Dayton Hardware building. They propose to exchange and repair cars, buy all kinds of car junk and metal.

The hunting party of which Orville Payne was a member, returned Tuesday from the mountains bringing the carcasses of three deer and a bear as evidence of their being entitled to class as nimrods.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 7, 1895

The great prize fight between Dave Campbell and Jack Dempsey was settled last Monday by Dempsey knocking Campbell out in the third round and spoiling his beauty by breaking his nose. Dempsey is an artist. He has done this community one great service, he has “knocked out” prize fighting here. He can do it another service by taking himself away, at his earliest convenience, taking the crowd of thugs and roughs gathered here will disperse.