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Ten Years Ago

October 10, 2012

Kevin Carson, author of the just-released book “The Long Journey of the Nez Perce,” was at the Wenaha Gallery to discuss his work and to autograph copies of his book. Kevin will take a break from signing books to give a presentation about his research on Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people’s heroic march “from Cottonwood to Bear Paw.”

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 8, 1997

Rev. Mary Sue Evers, a Dayton native who is currently pastor of the Hubbard United Church of Christ and Aurora Presbyterian Church in Aurora, Ore., was among eight clergy who have been named Charles E. Merrill Fellows this year at Harvard Divinity School.

Fifty Years Ago

October 7, 1972

Blue Mountain Bakery will reopen in the near future to serve the community, it was announced this week from Ross and Helen James, owners-operators of the bakery in Dayton. James has rented the building at 440 E. Main, recently occupied by Mill Stream Bowling Alley and former site of the Mill Stream Dairy.

Police Cost Survey Shows Dayton at 4 cents Per Day, for protection within the city of Dayton for each resident, according to figures compiled from the 1972 Law Enforcement Survey prepared by the State Attorney General. Compared with nine cities of similar population in eastern Washington, Dayton ranks sixth for law enforcement costs.

Navy Lt. Glen P. Stedman, USN, was retired from active duty with the U.S. Navy after 25 year in ceremonies conducted September 29, at the Naval Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nev. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Stedman, and will be making his home in Dayton with his wife and two children.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 9, 1947

No Relief for Car Shortage. Local car dealers say they see no relief in sight for the car shortage. The steel shortage is still given as the reason. Most of the dealers are getting a fair volume of delivery of commercial cars, but the passenger car situation is bad. The Black Market is getting a great play in the large centers.

O. Horning, who has been in the laundry and cleaning business in Dayton more than 21 years, sold his business, the City Cleaners, to J.W. Rouse, lately of Prosser. Mr. Rouse, the new owner, is an experienced cleaner and has been in the business for several years.

An announcement was made at the Columbia County Grain Growers office that freight rates on wheat to the coast had been increased 10 percent. According to manger Maurice Roe, the increase was equivalent to one and a half cents per bushel. The local market on wheat was $2.43, a cent off the peak for the season then revised his quotation 1½¢ downward.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 7, 1922

When Mrs. Warren Webb decided to retire from business, it seemed that Dayton was going to be without a hospital. Mrs. Madge Bradish bought Mrs. Webb’s equipment, and Hon. John Brining agreed to install a furnace, have the entire interior repapered and painted, wholly up-dating the facility.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 9, 1897

The Edison Projecting Kenetoscope Will exhibit at Dayton opera house Saturday night, October 9. This marvelous instrument projects apparently living figures and actual scenes upon a screen 12 feet square, bringing before the eye an exact life-size reproduction of life-motion with all its accompanying effects of light shade and expression. Reserved seats 50¢. General admission 35¢. Children 25¢.