From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

August 1, 2012

North Front Street reconstruction and bridge replacement project were top of the Six Year Transportation Improvement Plan list adopted by the City Council.

The wedding of Brooke Ashley Hoon and Joseph Dru Van Ausdle on June 30 was announced.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 6, 1997

Columbia County Fair Premium Book sponsors are part of a contest in which local residents search for a little lamb that is lost from Little Bo Peep’s flock. Locating the lamb enters the finder in a drawing for free fair gate passes.

Dayton Fitness is a new business started by Michelle Myrick at 116. N. 3rd.

Joe Spoonemore, director of special projects for facilities management at WSU, is the new president-elect of the international Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers.

Fifty Years Ago

August 3, 1972

Apparently for the first time ever, the Dayton City Pool was used for a service of baptism by immersion. A plumbing problem at the First Christian Church prompted Rev. Hal Watkins to move the ceremony for Miss Deborah (Debbie) Sturdevant, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Sturdevant of Portland, Ore., who were visiting Debbie’s grandmother, Mrs. Gib Munden.

Ten individuals seeking public office have filed at the Courthouse, including three women.

Fair hostesses are Rhonda Eades, Sharlie Whitmore and Hosts are Brian Munden and Ritchie Gibson.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

July 31, 1947

The 1947 pack of Blue Mountain Canneries, Inc., ended about noon Sunday, July 27. A May drought ruined about half the crop if early Alaska peas. But the sweets, from whence comes the famous Green Giants, were a bumper crop.

Frank B. Clark, teacher of mathematics and sciences and basketball coach in the Pomeroy high school resigned his position Monday to accept the principalship of the Dayton High School.

Sunday, July 27, marked the 40th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Marll, “Society Items” by Ernestine Peabody, Editor. Tel. 101, reported.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 2, 1922

Union Pacific Rail Road promoted “The Lure of Ocean Beaches” along the Oregon Coast via a “most wonderful trip down through the Columbia River Gorge.”

Ranch blazes prove costly. Two farm fires Sunday caused damage over $15,000. A blaze on the Wiley Laster ranch near Huntsville destroyed a barn, a blacksmith shop and 75 acres of wheat and Mr. Lasater suffered a broken arm. Fire on the Dan Donovan property near Valley Grove burned two barns, a machine shed, granary and about 75 tons of hay.

Mrs. C.A. Booker spent last week at the Ross Smith farm near Dayton.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 7, 1897

While the whole world is excited over the gold discoveries in the North, sight has been lost of another discovery that promises to be of great value: a lake of almost pure petroleum.

Messages without wires. Inventor Marconi talks of his new telegraph. Inventor of the “wireless telegraph,” has reached Sondan, where a trial of the invention will be made. The greatest distance which we have been able to transmit messages by telegraph without wires is 12 miles, but that by no means is the limit of the instruments.

John Agee’s Residence. One of the finest and most complete residences in Columbia County will soon be finished on the Tukanon. It is the residence of John Agge, which was planned and its construction is being superintended by W.H. Burrows. Carpenters employed are A. Odell, Geo. Dorr, A. H. Kribs and Ev Eager. A. Harms built the stone foundation and Clay Kuhn is doing the painting.