Ten Years Ago

April 4, 2012

Hospital emergency room upgrade on track with $150,000 funding from Columbia County Rural Electric Association. Les Teel, CEO of Columbia REA stated “The $150,000 of funding that CREA was able to secure for this project is very important to helping sustain the future of the Dayton Hospital.”

Technology is on the rise at the Columbia County Rural Library District. Library patrons can now access eBooks from the Washington Anytime Library through eReaders, such as a Kindle, according to Janet Lyons, library director.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 2, 1997

Dora Reeves, a senior at Dayton High School, has been chosen to represent Dayton Days Inc. as the 1997-98 Dayton Days Queen.

The Eckler Mountain elk herd made an appearance on the hillside along the North Touchet Road last Friday afternoon. The large herd of approximately 93 Rocky Mountain elk were very impressive at such close range.

Fifty Years Ago

April 6, 1972

Roy J. Mears returned to Dayton to assume managership of the local C. R. Anthony department store. Mears was Dayton store manager from January 1958 to March 1970, when he was promoted and transferred to Pasco to open a new store there.

A. J. Swaim of Eastern Oregon College of Education at LaGrande and Peggy Fullerton of Blue Mountain Community College at Pendleton, Ore., were named all-around cowboy and all-around cowgirl, respectively, following the three-day regional National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association competition held at the fairgrounds in Dayton.

Three youthful artists, Dan Bledsoe, eighth grader, junior division; Carol Laymance, fifth grader, intermediate division, and Greg Fullerton, third grader, primary division; were judged local winners in the Keep Washington Green poster contest from among 219 posters.

Miss Karen Reddish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Reddish and freshman at Dayton High School, received the crown as queen of the 1972 Dayton Days celebration during the Coronation Ball Saturday evening, April 1, at the fairgrounds pavilion. Princesses for the 1972 court will be Miss Janet Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hall of Starbuck, and Miss Beverly Koshchmeder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Koschmeder.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 3, 1947

Miss Thelma Morris of this city was one of nine preliminary students in the spring class of St. Luke’s School of Nursing, Spokane, to receive her nurse’s cap and military cape.

Cecil Coverdale was on the street with equipment just received from Tacoma by auto freight which he will use in a new business venture, that of custom spraying for morning glory and other noxious weeds.

Elmer Clark, who has been associated with the drug store business on Main Street since 1898 and has long been a favorite salesman with old timers and newcomers alike, retired from active business life the first of the month.

The Big Dipper will be closed Easter Sunday, so get your bulk ice cream Saturday.

Large selection of radios, Majestic, Sentinel, Motorola, many other famous makes. Table model combinations, cabinet models, $24.50 to $229.50. Criss’ Furniture.

For sale by the sack or ton, mountain-grown Netted Gem seed potatoes. See or write Fay Bennett, Rt. 3 Eckler Mt.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 5, 1922

South Touchet News: The Creekers have had a Tate Town School for some time and now Strodeville is booming, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nelsons of Walla Walla being the latest arrivals to put up a tent house on the Strode place.

Old Uncle Joe Abels of North Touchet visited Main Street, for the first time since he holed up last fall, said he had lived here 60 years and had never before seen a winter like this.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 3, 1897

Lieutenant Peary recently laid a plan for Artic research before the council of the American Geographical Society. The plan includes the reaching of the North Pole. It was heartily endorsed by the council, and subscriptions toward its accomplishment promised.

A sawmill and box factory is being erected near the Great Northern depot in Wenatchee. This location will be convenient for fruit shippers as they can unload their fruit, and take on a load of boxes for the return trip.