From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 4, 2014

A Clash between Cayuse and army troops defined the Battle of 1858. Military journals reveal that there was a local clash in 1858 between the Cayuse Indians and Company F, of the Ninth Infantry at the confluence of the Patit Creek and the Touchet River, not far from where the bridge for Main Street/Highway 12 now crosses the river. The Cavalry was escorting government supplies from Fort Walla Walla to troops stationed north of the Snake River and was camp overnight on the river bank.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 2, 1999

Daniel D. Groom was awarded the Howard Payne Undergraduate Research Award for the best seminar from Washington State University. The award is accompanied by a $250 scholarship. Groom's seminar was titled "Selling the Farm Tractor, 1910-1930: Tractor Brands, methods of Marketing and the Failure to Sell to the Average Farmer in Whitman County." Groom is a 1991 graduate of Dayton High School and is the son of Ronald and Marilyn Groom.

State Representative Dave Mastin was presented a plaque recognizing his efforts toward conservation after he was able to restore funding for our area's projects. Mastin was critical of the State Senate and the Governor as they eliminated funding for the People for Salmon project in Walla Walla County as well as monies for other eastern Washington partners.

Fifty Years Ago

June 6, 1974

Sgt. Ron Magill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Magill, will be assigned to the Combat Support Troops in Thailand. The Magills have been stationed in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

The 88-year-old Columbia County Courthouse, reportedly the oldest such courthouse in the state, built in 1886, has been requested by Columbia County Commissioner Chairman Vernon Marll to be listed as an historical site. A meeting with Mr. Hanson with the State Archelology and Historic Preservation Commission, to discuss whether or not the building could be so listed.

The Forest Service crews will be making final preparation for the start of the tussock moth spray project to spray approximately 70,000 acres. Altogether, nearly 400,000 acres will be sprayed in southeastern Washington, northeast Oregon and northeast Idaho.

The Cessna 182 piloted by Richard Roth last heard from on April 23, was found by Gene Maynard, June 3 while he was building fence on the Wolf side, east slope, of Newby Mountain on the George Syrovy land. The location was just about three miles from Mountain Home Park.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 2, 1949

Dayton Days Court Queen Patricia, Princesses Peggy Johnson, Doramae Spalinger, Donna Dudley and Nellie Anderson, will make their first appearance since the coronation was at Waitsburg's Days of Real Sport.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jordan, of Kennewick and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Lindley and son Jerry, of Sun Valley, Idaho, are the new operators of the Munroe and Sons florist business. The new owners have been working with the Munroes the past month and have changed the name to be known as the Dayton Floral.

One Hundred Years Ago

June, 1924

No information available.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 3, 1899

The Brooklyn Eagle thinks that Kentucky will go prohibition next year just because microbes have been discovered in whisky. Does anybody suppose Kentucky is going back on her most cherished tradition on account of a little thing like that?

Burr Hughs at Manila writes that the boys received a cablegram advising them not to re-enlist. This will be news to a great many citizens of Dayton who are not aware that such a telegram was sent.