Ten Years Ago

July 6, 2011

Health System is first in state to qualify for meaningful use. It started with the Columbia County Health System’s vision statement of “We strive to be a leader in rural healthcare and your partner for optimal health” and taking it into action.

Jackie Penner is the featured alumni artist at Wenaha Gallery and will be feted at an Artist’s Reception Alumni weekend at the gallery.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 3, 1996

Egypt, Japan, China, the Philippines and Pakistan were the top five importers of U.S. wheat in the marketing year ending May 31, 1996, according to prelaminary export statistics for the 1995-96 marketing year (June-May).

The Columbia County Hospital District Board of Commissioners accepted the bid from Structures West for the food service upgrade. Structures West bid of $83,721, just below the engineer’s estimate of $85,000. Tri M Construction of Richland bid the job at $107,882 well above the engineer’s estimate.

Fifty Years Ago

July 8, 1971

Registration Drive Open, Amendment Ratified; Change Adds New Age Group at Polls. All 18, 19, 20-year-olds can now register to vote in all federal, state and local elections, effective June 30, when the state of Ohio became the 38th state necessary to complete the ratification of the amendment to the constitution of the United States.

Marvin Evers, vocational agriculture instructor at Dayton High School, was recently re-elected to the office of president of the Washington State Advisory Committee for Vocational Agriculture.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 4, 1946

A fleet of six new Northern Pacific streamline passenger trains is being built for fast transcontinental service through the Northwest. Powered by a 4,500-horse-power diesel locomotive, each train will be made up of coaches, a coach-lounge, sleeping cars dining car and mail and baggage cars. Running time between North Pacific Coast and Chicago: approximately 45 hours.

Both the East Fork trail to Aneroid Lake and the West Fork trail to Horse Lake are now open from the Wallowa Lake resort and pack parties are taken into the higher Wallowa’s for fishing, when the season opened June 15.

Birth Certificates May Be Secured. Even though they may have been born in pioneer days, native Washingtonians who have no birth certificates on file may apply for one through “delayed registration.” The evidence by the applicant may be based on a signed affidavit by a doctor, midwife, a person having knowledge of the birth records more than five years old.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 2, 1921

Dent Hunt will have a big picnic on his 40 acres on the creek, six miles from Dayton on the 4th. He and sons are fixing up the grounds which they have named Union Park. There will be addresses in the morning, dancing on a platform in the afternoon and evening with good music, good camping, fishing, spring water, and ice cream stands, everyone invited.

Ben Dickinson reports that in the early part of the week, one of his best pack mules was found dead near his camp at Godman Springs, and was half eaten up. A cougar is thought to responsible for the crime.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 4, 1896

Miss Fannie Day completed a term of school last Friday on Starveout Ridge. A picnic was held on the last day attended by the school, the residents of that district and twenty-five visitors. The patrons of the school are more than satisfied with Miss Day and she has been tendered the school for another term.

Ought To See the Other Fellow—Mr. Neal and M. Thomson had a dispute over political questions while working at the flume dump. Thompson struck Neal with a stick of wood breaking a bone in his right hand. Neal was asked if he had Thompson arrested: “Arrested” said Neal, “what do I want to have him arrested for I got satisfaction right there and then.