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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
3
Daily Aberdeen items note Miss Eva Selmer moving to San Francisco and multiple residents visiting Seattle Portland and Boise. Church revival meets, clubs host gatherings, births and illnesses, and civic meetings discuss park plans. Evans Drug Co features goods and remedies. railroad depot work continues. Titanic wreck casualty mentioned. Local names include Hartwell Dole Hart Mrs. Hartwell and Crain family.
The funeral of Thomas Larkin and his wife was held after an on site high mass at St Marys Church. Interment followed in Fern Hill cemetery where the parents rest together. Their absent sons John and Edward arrived Aberdeen Sunday night for the service. Mrs Larkin had died years earlier and was buried at Olympia.
The Christian Science Church located on First Street near Broadway offers Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church services at 11 a.m. Wednesday evening services are at 8 p.m. The Reading Room at 231 Finch Building is open daily except Sundays from 1 20 to 5 p.m.
Subscribers served by city carriers who do not receive the Herald on Monday and Thursday by 6 PM should call City Messenger Co at Phone 5931. The publisher will arrange immediate delivery of a copy.
Grays Harbor pushed for a steamship link to San Francisco as Wilson Bros. & Co. of Aberdeen begin building a 50 passenger packet steamer in San Francisco. The vessel should run an eight day service and complete the Aberdeen to San Francisco voyage in about 50 hours.
Aberdeen has decided to join the Washington State League and will open the season at Electric Park next Thursday. Manager Tom Kelley left for Seattle and Portland to recruit top players, with Geo. F. Nye named financial agent handling the subscription list. Kelley expects a full team ready by Monday.
Word arrived of W. H. Church death at his parents home in Chamberlain after injuries from a ladder fall two years ago. He had worked as foreman for the Grays Harbor Gas Company for several years, resigned recently, and returned home to recuperate, with his passing a shock to many friends.
Samuel Miller, a mining operator in Alaska, closed a deal yesterday to buy a 150 by 130 foot property at the southwest corner of Broadway and Heron Street for 52000. The site, now with buildings, houses the California Wine House, Snyder Hotel, Grays Harbor Gas Company and the German Bakery.
Mrs Savina Mighilerini died last Sunday at age 34 after a long illness. She was the wife of A Mighilerini, a well known contractor residing in Fairview addition, and leaves a daughter six and a son three. The husband planned to send her back to Switzerland when she died. The funeral was held Tuesday at Whiteside undertaking.
Five crew members of the new whaling steamer Aberdeen, launched last week in Seattle, sailed yesterday to Grays Harbor with Miss Dorothy Bourgette to bring the vessel into commission. The Aberdeen will join two existing steamers, making a three ship fleet operating from the Grays Harbor station.
Pioneer Chehalis county resident Mrs. C. C. Combs arrived home in Elma after visiting her niece Mrs. Charles R. Sayers. Combs has lived in Elma for nearly thirty five years.
A small classified note announces a great variety of paper novels and other reading matter available at Evans Drug Co.
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