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Ten Years Ago

September 11, 2013

Students at Dayton Elementary School have a new piece of equipment on the playground. To help purchase the piece of new play equipment, students participated in a Read-A-Thon fundraiser. Other financial assistance came from the PTSO, donations from Elk Drug, Rock Hill Concrete, Barker Inc. and Wind Works. PTSO also received a grant from the Blue Mountain Community Foundation. Several parents donated their labor to erect the structure.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

George Wood died after a six-month illness, we having lost a strong, capable leader and a fair man who contributed much to this county as a County Commissioner, and as a leader of the Washington Wheat Growers. He set the trend locally in forestry and many young trees are growing on acres and acres of Columbia County.

Slain County Sheriff to be Honored. Columbia County Sheriff James D. Smith, born in Joliet, Ill., in 1863, was elected sheriff of Columbia County in 1898 and again in 1900. He then served as City Marshal of Starbuck and then Deputy Sheriff for the County until his death, when he was murdered in the Starbuck Jail on October 28 by a prisoner named Emile Pfaff, who was wanted in Adams County on a charge of highway robbery.

Fifty Years Ago

September 13, 1973

Word was received from Senator Huber Donohue (D 9th District) that members of the Senate Ecology Committee are planning to meet with representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to appeal for release of DDT sprays for killing the tussock moth infestation in southeastern Washington.

New Owner's of Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fager of Spokane, have bought the Sears Agency store from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Grubb.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 9, 1948

Prof. H.W. Baldwin, 30, the cosmic ray research worker who was killed when his parachute failed to open after he had jumped from a burning B-29, was born in Dayton. His father, Henry W. Baldwin, was the manager of the men's clothing department of the Edwards-Hindle store (now C.C. Andersons). Relatives still living in Dayton are an aunt, Mrs. George Thompson, and a cousin, Frank J. Thompson.

Approaching winter in Europe strikes terror to the millions of half-starved, rag-clad inhabitants of a bomb-wrecked land. In cooperation with the Ministerial Association, the Dayton schools will aid in the used clothing drive for Europe's needy children. The Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will handle the sorting and packing of the clothes.

Top individual honors in 4-H livestock judging at the Southeastern Washington Fair went to George and Dorothy Oliver, children of Mr. and Joe Oliver. George's First place score of 665 points was out of possible 800. Dorothy placed with 650 points.

One Hundred Years Ago

September, 1923

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One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

September 9, 1898

Killing Weather East, New York. Fifty dead and over 100 prostrations is one day's record of the heat in old New York. The highest point reached by the thermometer today was at 92 degrees with the humidity average at 85 per cent.

Chicago, Sept. 3: Three dead, six critically ill and 13 additional prostrations is the heat record for the day, being the hottest of the five days, where the mercury has been over 90, registering at 93 degrees.

Mrs. Frank W. Bauers died Monday at her home in the Railroad addition, of congestion of the brain at the age of 29 years, 11 months and 14 days, leaving a husband and six children, the youngest not six months old.

Mrs. James Johnson died at her home on Robinett Mountain Saturday evening of brain trouble, aged 49 years, four months and three days. Mrs. Johnson was one of the pioneer women of Columbia County, and lived on the mountain for many years. She was survived by a husband and several children.