Washington Press Association selects Mount Vernon for next meeting
The twenty-fifth annual convention ends at Pacific Beach with Mount Vernon named as the next gathering site. Officers include President Fred Ornes and John L. Wilson as orator, with a reception and banquets in Aberdeen and Cosmopolis.
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Washington Press Association
Pacific Beach
Mount Vernon
Fred Ornes
Mount Vernon Argus
Arthur A. Smith
Port Angeles’ Tribune- Times
Fred Spear
Waterville Press
Louis Jacobin
Concrete Enterprise
G. F. McClane
Castle Rock Advocate
Thomas Crawford
Centralia Chronicle
John L. Wilson
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Albert Johnson
Hougiam Washingtonian
E. E. Beard
Vancouver Columbian
F. A. Hazeltine
South Bend Journal
W. B. Jessup
Bremerton Searchlight
J. B. Best
Everett Herald
Edith Tozier Wethered
Tacoma
George H. Emerson
Mr. Emerson
Clarence V. White
Seattle
Hogiam
Aberdeen
Cosmopolis
Grays Harbor
E. C. Miller
Chamber of Commerce
Miller
Deed H. Mayor
J. J. Carney
Aberdeen Herald
Frank B. Cole
West Coast Lumberman
Mt. Vernon
Hoquiam Washingtonian
Electric Park
Nye
Allen Dougherty
State Industrial School
Abetdeen Considers Commission Form of City Government
Petitions circulated urge Mayor Parks to call a special election within 60 days to vote on organizing Aberdeen under a commission form. Law sets a primary for mayor and four commissioners, with two top mayoral and four top commissioners advancing to the special election. Salaries proposed total 6400 yearly, aiming to professionalize city management.
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Parks
Aberdeen
Commission
Herald
Democratic Leaders Strong on Wool Tariff Revision
In Washington on August 4, Democratic leaders in the House say they have enough votes to override President Taft’s veto on the wool tariff revision. Representative Underwood and Senator La Follette led a two hour subcommittee session to draft a compromise wool tariff to be sent to the president, with the free list bill also moving to the same conference committee.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Taft
Underwood
House
la Follette
Narrow escape as train strikes bull during editors’ trip
Special train carrying the State Press association from Hoquiam to Pacific Beach collided with a large bull owned by George Glanders of Hoquiam at a dangerous curve. The engine was derailed and the editors narrowly escaped a serious mishap.
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State Press Association
Hoquiam
Pacific Beach
George Glanders
Opening Of Land Denied Claims On Restorations
Washington announces that reports of seventy million acres of coal land to be restored to entry are false. Director George Otis Smith says the claim originated from Seattle and reflects a misinterpreted interview. He notes surveys will classify and appraise remaining coal lands as Congress funds allow.
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Washington, D. C
Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
Seattle
Smith
W. R. Calvert
Placcarded Train to Advertise Grays Harbor
A 30 car lumber train departs for Des Moines Indiana to advertise Grays Harbor. The shipment totals 900000 feet and was ordered last Saturday. Aberdeen Chamber and Hoquiam Commercial Club arrange banners for placards along the cars.
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Grays Harbor
Des Moines
Pacific Coast
Harbor
Commercial Club of
Hoquiam
Chamber of Commerce of
Aberdeen
Quiniault Ranchers Plan Slashing of Road to Dry It Out
Hoquiam Aug 6 Quiniault valley ranchers intend to slash the right of way from Quinisault to Hoquiam to allow sun and air to dry the muddy route and will start after harvest. They claim $20,000 would make a first class auto road though timber and growth hinder drying. They allege county aid delays and cite unsuccessful state aid efforts by Quinsault postmaster R L Higley seeking funds of 40 000 and 17 000.
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Hoquiam
Quiniault Valley
Quinsault
Humptulips City
P. S. Combs
Quinsault Lake District
Mr. Combs
Humptulips
W. H. Abel
R. L. Higley
Olympia
Seattle Voters to Decide Single Tax on Land Values
Seattle Aug 5 The judiciary committee of the city council decides to submit a charter amendment on the single tax for land values to voters next March. Councilman Austin E Griffiths proposed studying single tax methods and revising tax raises with a plan to raise levy while exempting improved property from taxation.
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Seattle
Judiciary Committee
Council
Austin E. Griffiths
Griffiths
Dedication of Court House Aims to Unite County
Mayor Eldridge Wheeler and J E Calder of Montesano visited Aberdeen on Thursday to gauge local sentiment for the dedication of the new court house. Montesano residents hope the event becomes a county affair to bury past ill will and to foster unity and goodwill across the county.
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Eldridge Wheeler
J. E. Calder
Montesano
Aberdeen
Court House
Will contest filed over Aberdeen estate by daughter
Mrs. H A Stevens has begun suit to break her mother's will Catherine Lowery who died in Aberdeen left most of the estate to Stevens. The contest claims Lowery lacked full mental faculties when the will was made asserting about 25000 dollars in property is burdened by legacies.
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H. A. Stevens
Catherine Lowery
Stevens
Aberdeen
When you read it in the Herald you know it's so
A brief note claims the Herald delivers certainty to readers, asserting trust in its reporting authority and clarity of the record. The line emphasizes the newspaper as a definitive source.
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the Herald
Land Development Plan for Southwest Washington Lands
The Southwest Washington Development association outlines a plan to form a holding body to list logged off and agricultural lands for sale. Chair N B Coffman selects eight men including George S Long of Weyerhaeuser and F B Hubbard of Eastern Railway & Lumber to organize the venture with offices and land agents in each town.
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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
Tacoma
F. C. Mumby
Bordeaux
F. B. Hubbard
The
Eastern Railway & Lumber Company
Centralia
H. W. Leadbetter
Portland
Ore
William B. Mack
Aberdeen
Ralph H. Burnside
Raymond
L. I. Wakefield
Elma
George McCoy
Vancouver
Chehalis
Washington
Coffman
Southwest Washington Development Association
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Quiniault Lake
J. E. Barnes
Northern Pacific Land Department
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