From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

July 27, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011, a multi-agency team including the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the U. S. Forest Service and the Washington State Patrol’s marijuana eradication team recovered approximately 2,000 marijuana plants from a suspected Mexican national grow in the upper Tucannon River drainage.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 24, 1996

A great swim meet at the Dayton pool on July 20, stated swim coach Bob Trudgeon. “On that day, 17 records were set and nine of those were by Dayton Swimmers: Curtis LaTour, T.J. Scott, Micheal Laughery, Rachel Coulter, Cassie Jahns, Melanie Simmons, Lacey Gallaher, Makaela Takemura, and Jennifer Terazas.

Lisa Voth and Justin Jording, both incoming juniors at Dayton High School, placed in the Future Business Leaders of America National Competition held in Washington D.C., July 7-12. Voth placed fourth in Introduction of Business Communications and Jording place ninth in Parliamentary Procedures.

Fifty Years Ago

July 29, 1971

Mike Agenbroad 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen D. Agenbroad and a senior at Dayton High School this fall, has been notified that he has been selected for inclusion in Merit’s Who’s Who among American High School students, 1970-71.

David Schreck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schreck, will be among college and university students from eastern Washington who will join a group of 100 traveling to Italy this fall to begin a year of study at Gonzaga University’s branch campus in Florence.

Captain Philip S. Templin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Templin of Starbuck, pilot of a UC-123 Provider aircraft, is part of a special U.S. Air Force task force assisting federal and state health officials in their battle against a rapidly spreading outbreak of sleeping sickness among horses in Texas.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 25, 1946

Temperature Goes On Soaring Rampage. Those who have been kicking all spring about the unseasonably cool weather had no reason for this line of complaint Friday and Saturday. Walking down the shady side of Main Street, Saturday afternoon could read the thermometer at Dingle’s and see it registering 102.

The heat of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday had top men of Blue Mountain Canneries, Inc., worried, they could fairly see their peas scalding in the pod. The decision was that the heat had not hurt the crop and the yield and quality continues to be good.

Prelude Second A-Bomb Test; Aboard USS APPALACHIAN OPERATIONS CROSSROADS. Second or Baker test of the atomic bomb in Bikini lagoon, now tentatively set for July 25, will be like dynamiting fish in a pond.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 23, 1921

The Legion wants you at the platform dance tonight. General admission 10 cents, dancing 50 cents.

A Delco lighting system has recently been installed at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stonecipher in Spring Valley. The house, new barn and garage are fully lighted in addition to the cream separator and washing machine are attached to run by power.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 25, 1896

Bower’s ice wagon runs every day ice 1 cent per pound. The ice wagon goes out every other day. Leave orders at the Dayton Brewery.

Mr. Henry Patrick had quite a fright last Saturday night when he ran on a rattler, about 100 yards he ran into another. He managed to escape, but had a bottle of prepared yeast in his rear pocket, the cork became loosened and it commended to fizz and he was sure one had him.