From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

January 12, 2011

Love and food and cooking drives Brad McMasters, now a new partner in the Weinhard Café at 258 East Main.

Representative Terry Nealey, a long-time attorney in a Dayton law office, has been chosen to serve on the House Judiciary Committee.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 10, 1996

Sheriff’s Department dog used to check lockers. According to school board policy, student lockers are the property of the school district and can be searched if necessary.

Due to the dedicated efforts of Georgina Kinyon, the Blue Mountain Rocketeers have secured a new meeting location for 1996. The fellowship hall of the Christian Church at South 3rd and Park Street has been approved for our use on a four-month trial basis.

Fifty Years Ago

January 14, 1971

Heart Transplant Successful. The heart of a 16-year-old Lori Lou Smith, daughter of Ned Smith of Fresno, Calif. and Mrs. Olin (Mary) Mooney of El Centro, Calif., was donated for transplant following her death January 4, to the recipient, a 36-year-old father of four.

William Edward Waltermire, first child of Mr. and Mrs. George William Waltermire, has been named winner of the First Baby Contest of 1971 for Columbia County.

A $200,000 Day Lodge is proposed for Skyline Ski Basin to be constructed at the Touchet Corrals site, 21 miles southeast of Dayton will include cafeteria, brown bag room, ski rental and ski repair facility, ski patrol headquarters and ski instruction school.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 10, 1946

This Saturday the Columbia County unit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will hold the annual dance benefit at Weinhard Hall. The music will be by the Dayton Hill Billies and an entertaining intermission program arranged by the pupils of Mrs. Ray Hughes’ dancing classes.

For the first time in the history of Dayton, there is going to be Veterans of Foreign Wars post here. It has been felt both by Veterans of the Spanish-American War and World War I that a post was needed in this city. With the influx of World War II veterans, action has been taken.

Plans that have been cooking with the American Legion, at a special meeting of Frank E. Bauer’s post, is to immediately open a club in the Weinhard building.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 8, 1921

Grazing Charges, applications for permits to graze live stock on the Wenaha division, Umatilla National Forest, for the season of 1921, must be filed in the office of the Federal Building, Pendleton, Ore., on or before February 15, 1921.

Doings on Upper Touchet. Through the kindness of Mr. James Stearns and his esteemed lady, the parents and children of Pine Grove School District No. 22 were invited to assist in decorating a Christmas tree with presents, there were assembled 53 persons including children,

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 11, 1896

Ten Cents buys a four-row genuine bristle tooth brush at Day’s.

The Little son of W. H. Eaton got his arm broken while playing about the house. Dr. Van Patten reduced the fracture.

The doctors report some very suspicious looking sore throats in the city. It will be well to use every precaution against diphtheria.

The family of J. A. Crom, of Huntsville has been severely afflicted with malarial fever for the past ten weeks.