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Ten Years Ago

January 9, 2013

Dayton's Band Program gets a generous boost: American West Bank manager, Andie Holmberg, presented Scott Carson, Music/band teacher of the Dayton School's band program, a check for $1,000. After enjoying the Elementary School's Christmas concert, Holmberg asked some teachers "how the bank could help?" The unanimous response was to help the music program.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 7, 1998

"It was the experience of a lifetime." That is how Cecil Fletcher summed up his Rose Bowl experience. He and his wife Betty Ann were just two of the loyal Cougar fans to make the pilgrimage to Pasadena to see Coach Mike Price and the rest of the Cougs on the field in Pasadena. We went to the Cougar Pep Rally and had seats right up front by the team.

Fifty Years Ago

January 11, 1973

Chad Dustin Gasaway, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. David Gasaway, arrived on the scene January 7, to claim the title as the winner of the 1973 First Baby Contest.

Mike Agenbroad, student at Eastern Washington State College in Cheney, son of Owen and Jan Agenbroad, received perfect All-A grades. Others named on the honor roll were; Pene L. Agenbroad, Judith A. Bickler, Diana J. Bowen, Diana K Harting, Deborah L. Howe, Marcus J. Mellor, Kelly N. Qualls, Kathleen K. Sinkbell and Bruce B. Turner.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

January 8, 1948

Chicago: Millions Worth of Russian Treasures Smuggled Into United States. Four or five million dollars' worth of crown jewels of the Russian Czars lies buried in the grave of James Jones, an American seaman, in the National Cemetery at Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. They were smuggled into the country by a band of New York men who obtained them in Vladivostok in 1920.

The new 1948 series F-5 Ford 1 ½-ton, 134-inch wheelbase truck with a nine-foot stake body was shown to the public by the Ford Motor Company. The new truck represents the first postwar products of Ford and is offered in a wider range of models and capacities than ever before.

Certificates of honorable discharge from the United States army were filed by Glenn Bamford and Robert Hudson.

George D. Cordray, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cordray, has completed recruit training at the naval training center, San Diego, Calif., and has advanced to seaman, second class.

Kenneth Tewalt, who has spent the past year or so in the navy, has received his discharge and is home.

Richard Pool, who has been with the army in Japan, was expected to arrive home.

One Hundred Years Ago

January 6, 1923

Several days ago a cart in which Mrs. Harry Moran, of Pine Grove, was driving her children to school broke down and the screams of one of the children frightened the horse, dragging Mrs. Moran some distance and slightly injuring her arm.

WOMEN DISRESPECTFUL! Refusal of President to Hear Protest Stirs Them. Members of the Molly Pitcher Club, some of them prominent society and club women, indulged in a period of hissing when it was announced that President Harding had declined to meet a delegation to lay before him the club's arguments for repeal of the prohibition amendment.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

January 8, 1898

See the beautiful bright red child's rockers for 90 cents each, have the finest cups and saucers for 25 cents ever brought to Dayton at Samuel Bros.

About one hundred people attended a New Year's Eve dance at John Swanson's place on the Patit. Everybody had a splendid time on Mr. Swanson. Fine floor for dancing.

Willis Thronson, age 72, who brought his family to this county 27 years ago from California, settling on what is now known as the Keystone farm, two miles east of Covello, died and will be buried in the Covello cemetery. Three sons and a daughter survived him.