Ten Years Ago

August 8, 2012

Iola Bramhall and Jill Ingram, a Mother-Daughter Art Exhibit, will be on public display at the Weinhard Hotel.

Karen Huwe shot a Hole in One on the par 3 ninth hole at Touchet Valley Golf Course on July 31, witnessed by Kathy Mason, Pam Conover and Stephanie Wooderchak.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 13, 1997

Bumpercrop Inc. owner Nancy Turner complained that the United Parcel Service strike “has shut us down.”

E-911 at Columbia County Dispatch is being implement, yet is over budget, costing $540,000 more than the original estimate of $128,000. The new E911 system will immediately display the caller’s phone number and address, said E911 Coordinator Roger Trump.

Touchet Valley Little League All Stars included Kyle Moore, Joe Herbst, Nathan Fletcher, Kyle Jones-Savage, Diego Trevino, Jason Laughery, Adrian Mitma, Dustin Cloin, Travis Mason, Charlie Mead, Michael Pounds, Cole Lindsey, B.J. Himmelberger, Brandon Cole, Gabe Kiefel, Billie Ritchie and Marty Ahmann.

Fifty Years Ago

August 10, 1972

A combine of Eugene Haase rolled and burned August 4 on the Mike Thomas farm 20 miles north of Dayton. Haase was not injured thanks to the steel cab on the machine, which was also credited for saving another local combine driver, Ronald Douglas, who was cutting on the Dick Young ranch July 27.

Representative Vaughn Hubbard announced that he would not seek re-election.

Four minor harvest field fires called District 3 fire fighters, but all were of a minor nature with losses held to one- or two-acre patches.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 7, 1947

The work of unloading one of the last loads of Green Giant peas to come in for the 1947 pack was pictured in the Chronicle, including: Alvin Richter, Bill Lyman and Townsend Jackson.

New sizing machine to be used by Erbes and Dumas, and it’s being shipped from San Francisco, Calif. The packing plant is located on Front and Commercial.

Main Street is boasting a bright new corner this week, with the completion of painting and cementing at the Washington Chief service station at Second and Main run by Eldon McCauley and son Wallace.

Lt. Dick Dunlap, U.S. Army, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunlap, since his graduation from West Point, left Monday for Ft. Riley, Kan.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 9, 1922

Columbia Market, Phone 115, offers specialties of Home-Made Hams, Bacon and Lard, plus High Grade Fish and Oysters. See King & Low, Proprietors.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Danielson of this county, Sunday, August 6th.

W.T. Wooten, county game warden, has received word that 90,000 rainbow trout for planting in Columbia county streams will be available this week.

Good mountain farm for sale: 203 acres on Robinett Mountain, 9 miles from Dayton. 90 acres in cultivation. Good house and barn and outbuildings. Forty dollars per acre.

Washington, Aug. 10–The recent decline in gasoline prices was a natural consequence of the fall in the price of crude oil and was not an effort to make “a showing” in advance of the senate investigation into the gasoline price situation, John D. Clark of Denver, vice-president of the Midwest Refining Company, testified today at the senate gasoline investigation.

Rufus G. Newland, until 18 years ago a farmer near Dayton, die at the Masonic home near Puyallup, just fifty days over 100 years of age. He was a member of the first Washington Territorial Legislature and in 1880 was speaker of the House.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 14, 1897

Deputy Deck and Sheriff Knobloch will be respected long years after the Calamity howlers wail is subdued by an indignant public.

Misses Ida and Dora Harting made Miss Maude Shaw a pleasant call the other night.

Mr. John Biggins was in this burg last Sunday. He has been residing in North Yakima. He was formerly a resident of this place.