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Ten Years Ago

November 24, 2010

The Christmas Kickoff in Dayton as “The Town That Still Believes” will be held Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving with the fun beginning Friday when businesses unlock their doors. The 32nd annual Dayton Chronicle Shopping Spree entries are available at several merchants and Dayton merchant script will be drawn December 17.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 22, 1995

The Dayton School District Board of Director unanimously voted to accept a $19,935 check from a fund set up by Reebok Corporation for the purpose of building an all-weather track. The Dayton High School Alumni Association has so far raised around $62,000 towards the project, including the Reebok money.

Fifty Years Ago

November 26, 1970

Wednesday morning’s snowfall may have been early, but it wasn’t too early for Darrel McCauley, owner-operator of the new Dayton Cut ’N Wrap store.

Karen Richter, 4-H club member of the Lucky Clovers Club, has been awarded a trip to the 49th National 4-H Congress to be held November 29- December 4 in Chicago, Ill. Miss Richter is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Richter.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 22, 1945

War Expands Uses of Cotton Products. The Army alone requires 11,000 separate cotton products. Items other than clothing which are in demand include insect nets, fuel hoses, self-sealing gas tanks and all of the surgical dressings for the wounded, 200 yards of cotton cloth used in the plastic parts of one of our bombers., bags for foodstuffs. In electric power and communications system 436,000 yards of sheeting were consumed.

Service Men News—1st Lt. Lester C. Floyd, discharged, served in Italy as a P-47 pilot, Submarine Chester USS, PC 814 Kale M. Powers, seaman, second class helped to “outmaneuver” a typhoon in Japanese waters, Pvt. Claude A McQuary, serving as a clerk with a chemical warfare unit near Manila.

Wincel Abel and Tom Watts rescued hunters located in the Twin Buttes area after they were stranded by a heavy snowfall. Game Protector W. T. Wooten estimated the trip would be a mile and a half from the Touchet “to the top of the ridge” and four miles from there to Goodman, 16 miles from Godman to Twin Buttes, and some little distance from there to the end of the roads, in snow brushing the horses bellies.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 17, 1920

Dublin, Ireland—Royal Constabulary Denounces Republican Army as Assassins. The military today raided about fifty houses of Irish Volunteers, notifying the occupants that the authorities had full particulars of their association with the republican army and intimated that they would be arrested unless they ceased association with that body.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

Mrs. Joseph Woods, aged 15 years, died at the county hospital in Walla Walla Tuesday, of typhoid fever, contracted while nursing Mrs. Snodgrass. The deceased is a daughter of Mort Whit, who lives in the country a few miles south of Walla Walla.