From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 5, 2013

Jessica Tate, president of Dayton High School's chapter of National Honor Society, presented a check for $507 to Barbara Gibson for the Dayton Senior Center. Jessica appreciated all the community members that supported the Senior Center through Honor Society's "Flamingo Fundraiser."

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 3, 1998

The Law Offices of Nealey and Marinella generously donated the Dayton Liberty Theater Building, including the balcony area to the Touchet Valley Arts Council. With the full ownership of the Liberty Theater building, the Touchet Valley Arts Council can move forward with the fund raising activities to complete the renovation of the building.

Dayton Senior High School graduated 58 students at its commencement ceremony, with over $95,000 in scholarships were awarded during the ceremony. The valedictorians for the DHS Class of 1998 were Jake Culley and Lisa Ellen Voth. Keith Thomas Howard is salutatorian.

Fifty Years Ago

June 7, 1973

The Columbia County Grange hosted eight foreign librarians, who toured the area, visiting many of the different farm test plots, Little Goose Dam, logging on Eckler Mountain and Green Giant test plots.

Mary Sue Evers, Becky Hatfield and Lois Dickinson, Dayton High School FFA students, will receive the State Farmer degree, the highest Washington FFA degree, at the annual Convention. The degree is presented annually to only two per cent of the total state FFA membership, with 124 receiving the degree this year.

Three of Dayton's finest track stars, Mark Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson, Joe Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, and Mike Varney, son of Mr. Mrs. Roy Varney, qualified at the District Eight Junior Olympics preliminary track meet in Walla Walla, for the state Junior Olympic meet to be held in Spokane.

A half-million-dollar aerial spray project was launched by the Forest Service against the Douglas-fir tussock moth. DDT won't be used, instead, four other insecticides, all considered safer the DDT, will be tested.

Debbie Marll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Marll, will attend Evergreen Girls State on the campus of Central Washington State College at Ellensburg. Marll is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 42, and will be one of 406 girls attending.

Carmen DeRuwe, Kristy Boggs, Becky Startin and Robin Patrick, members of the Lucky Clover 4-H Club, will be among 600 Washington teenagers attending the annual State conference on the Washington State University campus.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 3, 1948

Lloyd Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Johnson, arrived home from two years spent with the army in Germany. When ask about conditions in Germany, he answered that they were without any coal in the winter of 1946, and attended school in cold class rooms and lived in cold barracks.

Director of Girls State, Mrs. W. B. (Cletys) Dingle, picked four girls, Hazel Dudley, Katherine Nelson, Shirley Morris, Joanne Bateman, from Dayton High School a have a part in Girls State on the campus of Washington State College. Their participation is made possible by the sponsorship of the American Legion Auxiliary, founders of Girls State; the Kiwanis club and the Dayton Junior Chamber of Commerce.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 4, 1898

Military Movement on Cuba Has Been Started by the Orders of the War Department. About 25 of the biggest and fast ships that will accommodate about 80,000 men, will transport the troops for the short voyage from the Gulf ports to Cuba.

The fleet of transports will converge at Key West to pass under a convoy of the warships which Admiral Sampson has provided in ensure the safety of the troops from an attack from the Spanish.