Ten Years Ago

August 10, 2011

Heath Barnes is now the grain sales coordinator for the local Grain Growers Co-op having recently been hired to replace Ted Lowe. Heath has twelve years’ related experience in the wheat industry and several years ago had worked with Mitch Payne.

The Evening at the Depot was a resounding success as well over 150 people attending the fund raising auction.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 7, 1996

Panjab/Meadow Creek Fire received big help, over 200 firefighters came to fight the blaze. The lightning-caused fire in the Umatilla National Forest burned over 60 acres of forest land. Jim Turner, Information Officer for the Blue Mountain Fire Team, stated Friday night the fire was contained and Saturday evening it was controlled.

Mark Alan Hatfield, a 1990 graduate of Dayton High School, was killed in a vehicle rollover accident August 4.

Fifty Years Ago

August 12, 1971

Fred B. Radebaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Radebaugh, received the Bronze Star medal on May 28, 1971, for meritorious achievement in ground operation against hostile forces in the Republic forces in the Republic of Vietnam while serving with the U.S. Army.

Law Enforcement Teletype installed in Police Office. The new unit for communications will be shared by the police and sheriff’s departments. The two departments are sharing the $75 monthly cost of leased lines as well as expenses for ribbons and paper.

Wayne and Alice Harvey, formerly of Clarkston, are new owners-operators of WES Lanes in Dayton. Major remodeling is planned to add space for billiard tables.

The Fifth Farm-City Swap last Friday, Saturday and Sunday can only be described as a complete success as 42 families from the Puget Sound area of western Washington were guests of Dayton and Waitsburg area farm families. Over 600 families and their hosts attended the barbecue potluck and the track show.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 8, 1946

The U. S. Marine Corps notified Carl L. Hemmelgarn of this city, the ashes of his son, the late S. Sgt. Paul F. Hemmelgarn, USMC, have been found and will be returned to this country upon his request. Paul, 29, was on Wake Island when captured by the Japanese and taken prisoner.

Believed to have been started by a smoking fisherman, the Herb Marll farm home and farm shop and equipment in Rogers Gulch was completely destroyed by fire.

One-Hundred Years Ago

July 30, 1921

The J. L. Dumas Orchard Co. has sold the Pomona apple crop, which is estimated at between 50 and 60 carloads, or between 30,000 and 40,000 boxes, to the Dennison Fruit Co. of Walla Walla at $1.25 per box.

The grain market has shown considerable depression this week and not a pound of wheat has been selling, everyone waiting for a dollar. Club wheat is quoted at 95 cents and Red at 91.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 8, 1896

Auto Accident at Star. A Paige driven by T. W. McDonald of Lead, South Dakota, and a Ford in which Dave Taylor of Waitsburg was riding, collided on the Star Bridge.

The first field of grain reported to be first class is that of John Rist, just above the city. He expects to have about 4,000 bushels.