Ten Years Ago

February 29, 2012

Colleen Delp serves on the State Youth Advisor Council. Delp, a senior at Dayton High School, joined other youth lobbyists in Olympia to support bills important to youth and to meet with legislators.

Dayton High School Future Business Leaders of America chapter members garnered a total of 67 awards during the annual Winter Conference held Monday, February 13 in Richland. Chapter adviser Rob Moore took 34 members to the competition with 13 earning first place awards and 32 members qualifying for the state conference in Seattle, April 11-14.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 26, 1997

Jeffrey K. Mittelmen was sentenced last Thursday to 60 days in jail, with 30 days converted to 240 hours of community service. Mittelmen, who embezzled money from Don and Irene Low and their estate in the amount of $80,929.77 must pay it back plus the $7,500 fee he was being paid to administer the funds, for a total of $88,429.77.

Bob Shields recounts his Oprah Winfrey experience, and has been featured in the National Enquirer and numerous other newspapers for his mammoth diary. The diary is now over 38 million words in typed entries, which contains “everything I do, eat, wear, read, and go….just everything” and will be housed in Manuscripts/Archives of the Holland Library of Washington State University.

The Dayton Chapter of Kiwanis donated $500 to the Blue Mountain Rocketeers Club for local projects for kids. Bingo Chairman Kim Lyonnais presented the check to Tim Quigg, Rocketeer Advisor.

Fifty Years Ago

March 2, 1972

For the first time in recent years, student musicians from four area high schools, Prescott, Waitsburg, Pomeroy and Dayton, will join forces to present a Three-County Music Festival to be held Thursday evening, March 9, in the Dayton High school gymnasium. Music directors participating will be Glen Mitchell, Dayton; John Hafner, Prescott; Pete Fenton, Waitsburg; and Darold Kludt in Pomeroy.

Sgt. Chester Powers, Dayton Police Department has just completed eight weeks of specialized training in law enforcement. Cooperating agencies in the training program are: Washington State patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General, and the Washington Association of Sheriff and Police Chiefs.

Michael Agenbroad, senior at Dayton High School, has been named a second place winner in the Elks Lodge most valuable student contest. Agenbroad is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Agenbroad.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March, 1947

Excavating for the basement of the new St. Joseph’s parish house on First Street, workers uncovered the bones of a person long dead. Drs. W.W. Day, county health officer, and Wesley V. Frick were called to view the remains as was Sheriff E.E. Warwick and John Watson of Rogg and Watson funeral directors. No official statement was made.

Lambs Born to Modern World. A trip up and down the Pataha the other night, at the Jackson place, where Felix DeRuwe use to have his headquarters, electric flood lights had the surroundings lit up like a carnival grounds the reason being it was John Haring lambing grounds. It was reported that day John had 1,800 new lambs on hand and others coming. A dozen men working in shifts, strolled through the band of ‘expectant’ ewes, sorting out those with new-born lambs. The scene is as old as history-except for one detail, the scene was lighted up with electricity instead of the moon, or kerosene lanterns.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 1, 1922

Washington, Feb. 27—The constitutionality of the Women’s Suffrage or Nineteenth Amendment, was sustained today by the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision rendered by Justice Brandies. The challenge came from the state of Maryland, where Oscar Leser and others sought to prevent the registration of two women as qualified voters in Baltimore.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

February 27, 1897

Tom Floyd and George Roe were arrested in Starbuck, Wednesday morning for breaking into Pearson’s warehouse and stealing hams and bacon. They sold the meat to Chinese restaurant keepers for 3¢ per pound. It is reported that there is a reward for Floyd of $1,500 for robbing cars in California.