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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1910
Page
5
Montesano daily notes cover visits and business from A. J. Stewart, W. Lanning, C. B. Weatherwax, and other residents. Items report illnesses, entertainments, forthcoming paving, club meetings, sales, and personnel movements with Aberdeen, Portland, and Muskegon connections. The record also tracks births, deaths, weddings, and public notices including city finances and property transactions.
A woman advertises availability for day or hour labor stating contact phone 802 65 38t 5 T Slater of Walla Walla visited Aberdeen Tuesday. Other items note travel, visits, and local engagements among residents and visitors including Mrs R B Bryan in Oregon and Mayor Benn attending a Seattle republican committee meeting.
Northern Pacific railway announces changes effective next Sunday May 1 in Aberdeen. The afternoon eastbound train shifts from 8 40 to 2 15. Two daily trains to Moclips depart Aberdeen at 8 45 a m and 2 55 p m. The Cosmopolis bound train departs at 3 00 p m instead of 4 00.
J. J. Ryan of Grays Harbor Boiler Works departs next Wednesday to Goose Creek Alaska to supervise the Portland Alaska Gold Dredging Co where he serves as president. Last year his group moved a large dredger from Portland to their claims but operations were delayed. They anticipate a sizable clean-up this season.
Wishkah lodge Knights of Pythias prepares for the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan installation on May 6. Only two temples of this order exist in the state, located in Seattle and Spokane.
Edward Sanberg was arrested yesterday for stealing logs from the Young and Hoover boom on the Wishkah river. Suspicions of log thieves have lingered as a watch was set and he was caught in the act. He will go to trial before Judge Bush tomorrow.
The Chamber of Commerce will meet next Monday night in the city council room to discuss several matters including the home building problem aided by the Aberdeen Savings and Loan Association. Full attendance urged for members and prospective members to energize Aberdeen's upbuilding efforts.
Secretary Powell of the Chamber of Commerce asks city clergymen to urge congregations to be counted in the census. The plan aims to reach those missed by regular enumerators and ensure accurate totals, with public notice through church pulpits. The Herald covers the initiative.
City Detective Church boarded the barkentine John C Myer on arrival from San Pedro and arrested sailor Otto Graff on telegraphic police request. Graff is charged with burglarizing the National hotel in San Pedro and a gold watch and other property were found in his possession. He is about 30 andheld in the city jail awaiting San Pedro officer arrival.
Aberdeen businessmen warmly endorse a proper Fourth of July celebration. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting next Monday night a special committee will be appointed to arrange the event.
Construction on the Union Pacific Cosmopolis station is nearly enclosed and rushed for completion before the first passenger train to the harbor. Preparations include active track laying with ties distributed from Cosmopolis toward the South Aberdeen line and work moving rapidly from the east. After Cosmopolis, a second station near Montesano in Wynoochee will begin.
Union Pacific workers laid several hundred feet of track at Cosmpolis night to gain waterfront access and connect with the Grays Harbor Commercial mill siding. The move encroaches on Northern Pacific land around the mill and enables rail links to the Harriman line main track.
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