From the Dayton Chronicle archives

Ten Years Ago

June 26, 2013

Wesley Hoskins, who graduated from Dayton High School in 1940, went off to college then served in the military in WWII, became a practicing physician and surgeon then retired. Hoskins wrote a book "An Organic Childhood," set in the roaring Twenties, the market crash and the Great Depression, describing how it was growing up before indoor plumbing, electric lights, and other modern conveniences and growing the majority of all foods on the Whetstone family farm.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 24, 1998

Like mushrooms sprouting up after a June rainstorm, tents popped up everywhere, filling Dayton's Little League fields and the City Park. They would be home for the night to the 1,100 or so bicyclists and crew as part of the FTE Big Ride to benefit the American Lung Association. The cyclists left Seattle on a 3,254 mile, cross-country trek which will culminate in Washington, D.C. Each of the riders were required to have at least $6,000 in pledges to participate in the largest cross-country cycling event in history.

Fifty Years Ago

June 23, 1973

The re-roofing work has been done on the main pavilion building at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. The $1,800 job, is being financed by the Columbia County Fair board. Marin Roofing Co., of Walla Walla is contractor for the job.

The Columbia County fairgrounds under to fair boards program of improvement is getting a few repairs, new shrubs and the Garden Club planted some flowers, to get a higher rating from the state, and therefore more money.

Tuesday evening, June 26, a combine accident sent driver of the combine, Barbara Beachman, to Dayton General Hospital with injuries. The drive line in the Green Giant combine might have broken, according to field personnel, causing the combine to roll down the hill and roll over.

Mrs. Jeanne Kesterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindesmith, has been accepted at Syracuse University to study for her doctorate in Experimental Psychology.

"Threats of fuel shortages later this summer have wheat grower running scared," Jack DeWitt, president Washington Association of Wheat Growers, testified Monday before the Legislative Joint Committee of Transportation and Utilities. "The thought of wheat fields standing unharvested, exposed to the elements, while combines wait for fuel is a little unnerving. Harvest this year is important not only to the farmer but to the consumer."

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 24, 1948

Brahma Bulls Are Popular. Harry Rainwater has acquired a Brahma bull which he is going to use on his yearling Hereford heifers for the first time this year. According to the "dope," a calf sired by a Brahma bull is thinner at birth than the big huskies from a Hereford bull and grows faster than the straight breed. Sam Grant, Frank Cruthers, both of Prescott, and Joe Grote also imported Brahma bulls.

Roy and Roland Dunning, who recently sold their herd of Herefords, are now getting a start in purebred Shorthorns.

Mrs. Mae Turner called in from Lyons Ferry to report that the ferry was back in operation again. It has been shut down a month due to high water in the Snake River.

M. S. Thompson, who has been dairy farming on South Touchet the past three years on what old-timers known as the Joe Rose Place, has sold the farm land, livestock and equipment at auction. Thompson is going into the pea hay business.

Mrs. Hazel Robinson, postmaster at Starbuck, recently broke all records by being the first fourth-class postmaster ever to be elected president of a state postmasters' association.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 24, 1923

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 25, 1898

A cable between the United States and Hawaii may soon be laid. The prospect of annexation has revived new interest in the project.

Spanish prisoners, estimated at from 25,000 to 50,000, captured during the Santiago campaign will be removed from Cuba.

Spanish power is crumbling in the Philippines. General Pena and 1,000 Spanish soldiers have surrendered at Santa Cruz, similar surrenders have occurred at other places.

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