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Store

The store, located at the west end of town, is owned by Mark & Elayne Reasoner. The gorcery section of this store was the original store, owned by Billy Stewart, Bert Cummings, E.L. Knox, and Theron Knox. New additions were built on in later years.

During the time it was under the ownership of Bert Cummings, there was a service station and a post office included in the building on the north side.

When the school that was erected behind the Shell Service Station was destroyed by fire in 1905, and during the time the stone building was being constructed in 1924, classes were held above the store>

The Dayville community held some of their Christmas programs above the store, and it was the community dance hall for many years. This also served as a meeting place for the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary.

Dayville Hotel

Andy Litch, a bachelor, built the first part of the building on the site once occupied by a saloon. He planned to use it for a store. Lumber was stored in the unfinished building then.

State coaches and freight wagons brought business to the hotel, their drivers and passengers needing rooms and meals. Their teams were cared for at the barn across the road.

Gladys Munjar was one of the various people to run the hotel. She ran it at least three different periods and managed the Coffee Cup Cafe during the intervals.

After World War I, Margaret Glover bought the building and Bob Ervin built a sizeable addition to form the T-shaped building we know now. She moved her business several blocks east from where she had been running Glover's Cottage to the enlarged hotel building. She ran Glover's Hotel there until 1927 when she retired from 32 years in the hotel business.

Eugene Roope, a Dayville sheep and cattle rancher, acquired the building through a mortage and rented it to several managers. When he retired from ranching, he lived in a cabin behind the hotel.

In 1960, after 17 years there, Aleen Grindstaff sold the hotel to Mr. And Mrs. Shull of Portland, who operated it until after his death, when she retired due to illness and died. Since the Shulls' daughters closed the hotel, it has been idle.

The building across the street from the Texaco station was once The Cottage Hotel, built by Ben Franklin and owned by Mrs. M.E. Glover. In later years Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chinouth purchased the hotel, and continued to operate it. They built the building now known as the Blue Mountain Tavern and operated it as a general store until purchasing the Jones store building which burned May 28, 1968.

Racing Stables

The remains of the racing stables are located at the floor of the schoolhouse hill. There were 8 stalls for the horses and races were held every Sunday on a one-half mile course on a branch of the South Fork Road. These were built in approximately 1900 by Hi Munjar, Sr.

Church

In 1915, the present church on the hill was built on ground donated by Billy Stewart. The church was organized on Feb. 01, 1913 in one of the older schools, with 31 persons present.

The present pulpit was built and donated to the church by Floyd Officer, father of Mrs. Murray.

Community Hall

The Community Hall was built in 1920 by shareholders of the community. In earlier years Bill Peterson gave silent pictures with the piano being played by Vern Shipman. After World War II, Sam and Rod Martin showed movies in the hall.

Before the gymnasium was built, the hall was used for basketball games, school plays, Christmas programs, chautauquas, & vaudevilles. During the war, it was used as a box factory.

Saloon

The old saloon, which stands next to the Chevron station, was built by Misener and Cannon from Mitchell, who ran it for a few years in the early 1900's. It was later run by Bud Greenwall, Sheffield, & McNulty.

Later, it was turned into a shoe repair shop, and back into a tavern by Otis Mascall.

Post Office

Dayville's old post office was probably one of the best traveled in the country. Built in Spanish Gulch, 15 miles west of Dayville, in 1878, the structure was torn down and rebuilt at Calem, several miles further away. When that community became a ghost town, the building was again torn down and the lumber used to rebuild at Dayville in about 1900.

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