Ten Years Ago

January 26, 2011

During a meeting on December 29, 2010, the Columbia County Commissioners transferred operations of the Columbia County E-911 to Bill Peters, Director of Columbia County Emergency Management. This was done in an effort to trim the county budget and overall costs.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 24, 1996

The Dayton School District Board of Directors voted to challenge the legality of a will which disinherited graduates of Dayton High School from receiving scholarship money as the late Glen Davidson had wanted. Davidson, who died august 1995, specified in a will that interest from the bulk of his estate be distributed as scholarship money to college-bound Dayton High School graduates.

Air Force Airman Matthew G. Coffey, son of Daniel T. and Bonnie T. Coffey and a 1994 graduate of DHS, has graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. Sam Antonio, Tex.

Fifty Years Ago

January 28, 1971

Capt. Jim Startin, U.S. Air Force, and his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Lancaster of Anchorage, Ak., left Dayton after visiting Mrs. Cora Hays, grandmother of Startin. Startin just returned from a year in Thailand is enroute to Germany.

Airman Ronald D. Magill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald S. Magill, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. Airman Magill attended Dayton High School and graduated in 1970 from Walla Walla High School.

Kay Spoonemore was the second runner-up in the Washington State Junior Miss Pageant at a three-day pageant in Pullman.

Miss Sherri Grubb, senior at Dayton High School, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Grubb, has been selected as a member of the 1971 All Northwest Choir which will perform in March at Boise, Idaho. Grubb was selected as a second soprano in the 450-voice choir out of 1,800 applicants in six western states. The DHS vocalist preformed in the 1970 All-State Choir.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 24, 1946

News has been received of the marriage January 5 of Pfc. Douglas McKinley, USA, and Miss Connie Olsen, daughter of Al Olson, McMinnville. The bridegroom is a son of Mrs. Fern McKinley of this city, and has been in military training for some time and still has a year’s service.

How to get your New Bendix Automatic Home Laundry. It washes, rinses, damp-dries cleans itself and shuts itself off—all without your lifting a finger and only takes four square feet of floor space. See at Dingles.

I see where atomic energy is supposed to do housework for us soon. Meanwhile, laundry’s got to be done, even with soap so hard to get. Remember, where there’s fat, there’s soap—so keep turning in USED Fats to help make more soap!

Work started the first of the week on digging the basement for the building which will be the Lutheran church on the corner of Third and Oak. Harry Willams seems to have the contract for this job.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 19, 1921

Bob Bowen, Walter Eaton and Bill Cristy broke the roads Saturday back as far as McCall’s.

The dynamo in the electric light plant having been repaired, the lights are again turned on.

Pickled pork and corned beef always are on hand at Young & Chandler’s.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 25, 1896

C.W. Sanders, George Chapman and Andy Pugh were in Dayton on Friday of last week, as witnesses for Mr. Cook in making final proof on his homestead.