Ten Years Ago

July 11 , 2012

Nearly two miles of both sides of South Patit Creek outside Dayton are new permanently protected as the result of a conservation easement held by Blue Mountain Land Trust.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 9, 1997

Deregulation may end the two-bit pay-phone call. As part of a decision designed to promote competition in the pay-phone business, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has prohibited states from regulating the coin charge for local pay-phone calls.

The Depot would like to recognize Kenneth and Shirley Golliher, Muff Donohue, and Phyllis Schreck for their outstanding commitment to the community by volunteering at the Depot.

The Dayton School District’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to offer a superintendent’s contract to current high school principal, Van Cummings. If Cummins accepts the one year offer, he will replace Steve Chestnut, who has accept a position in Moses Lake.

Fifty Years Ago

July 13, 1972

Pvt. Dale Munden, son of Mrs. Bill Hopwood and Rex Munden of Pasco, is now in basic training with the U.S. Army at Fort Ord, California. After eight weeks pf basic, he will report in Maryland for technical training.

James R. Hinchliff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Hinchliff, is home on leave from the U.S. Army after completing basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He will leave July 21 to attend welding school at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Brittney Lee Perrigin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Perrigin, is winner of the Columbia County Cowbells Father’s Day baby contest.

A self-service gasoline station will be opening soon to serve community motorists, according to I. E. “Sherb” Cummings, who will manage the new business. Owned by Safeway Inc., the new station is located on the north side of Highway 12 just west of the Dayton city limits.

Mrs. M. K. (Meredith) Huwe, 18-year-employee of the National Bank of Commerce, was elected recently as an assistant cashier. She was one of 11 chosen for the advancement and is one of 28 women in the state holding the title.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 10, 1947

The Dayton Baptist church, second oldest church in the state, is observing the 75th anniversary of its organization on July 13. They will also re-dedicate the new parsonage which is nearly completed.

The new rates being asked by the telephone company for switchboard service for farmer-owned lines came in for criticism at a meeting of the executive board of the Columbia County Farm Bureau. It was pointed out that the increase was in the neighborhood of 300 per cent, and some said that in some instances the increase was 400 per cent.

At a meeting of the stockholders of Blue Mountain Canneries, Inc., a deal was consummated where in the local company merged with the Minnesota Valley Canning company. Headquarters of the latter company are at Le Sueur, Minnesota.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 13, 1922

C.N. Badgley has installed a new $1,000 Snooker pool table at his pool hall which is the finest thing of its kind anywhere in this part of the country.

Definite indications that Great Britain intends to begin service on her war debts in this country this fall, was seen by local bankers today in the arrival of gold bars valued at $2,500.000 on the steamer Berengaria, for the account of the British treasury and announcement that another similar shipment is under way. The sum of $125,000,000 will be due the United States this October as interest on the British war debt.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 10, 1897

In many of the factories of Germany, the women are not permitted to wear corsets during work hours.

Pittsburg: As a result of the failure of the joint wage conference of the Amaigamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Manufacturers to agree upon a scale at the Youngstown conference, all the union mills closed down today and between 75,000 and 85,000 men are idle.