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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1914
Page
4
Local notices report residents visiting Sioux City Kimberly Dallas Olympia and Port towns. Advertisements promote Evans Drug Co remedies and an Overland auto sale plus a Ridgecrest bungalow project and rental offers. Community notes cover church Ladies Aid meetings school staff moves and a brush fire on South Aberdeen streets.
G Halblom was arrested for destroying property at an Aberdeen laundry. He allegedly pulled curtains from the premises. The defendant’s wife interceded in police court and he was released.
Truant Officer Lee solves the broken flagpole on Think of Me hill. Initial blame fell on Red Socialists, but two local boys confessed to swinging on the halyards and breaking the pole. They retrieved the stump and rolled it away. they will replace the pole and provide the pulley and halyards later.
Teams haul pipe to the Terrace Heights district for contractors Lewis Wiley Morris to sluice 400000 yards of earth for district No 2 and to convey water to the plant. With right of way secured work on the big pipe begins at once and sluicing starts by September 1. The pump house sits at the foot of Fourth Avenue with two large pumps in position to push water to the nozzle and to power the sluice.
Mike Chwasciak was fined 15 dollars and costs in Judge Phillips' court for assaulting Jim Finn. The incident occurred when Finn gave Chwasciak a ride home and was knocked from the wagon. Evidence by James McKash supported the conviction amid prior neighbor disputes.
Under the Tacoma Taxpayers league a statewide convention of taxpayers is planned for the third Monday in September in Tacoma. Delegates from every county and major cities will attend. J. T. S. Lyle serves as secretary and legal adviser. Homer Hill of Seattle and J. T. Geer of Cowlitz county attended the meeting.
The Photographers Association of the Pacific Northwest arrives in Aberdeen for its annual session at Knights of Pythias hall with over 600 members. President W H Clinkenbeard and Secretary J E Ralston expect a record turnout as four sessions Tuesday and five Wednesday fill the program including a public exhibition and banquet. Aberdeen Chamber will host a whale station visit Thursday and the concluding session ends with an 10:30 p m event described as an awful time.
In Montesano on August 6 the Socialist party filed 13 candidates and raised 160 dollars. Filing included W T Evans for senator in the 21st district and Chas Ivana who said funds limited further filings. 58 candidates total with 30 Republicans 13 Socialists 9 Progressives 6 Democrats. last filing week.
Rev J T McQueen pastor of the first Methodist church met with the Aberdeen Trades and Labor Council and the Building Trades Council to observe Labor Sunday on September 6 the day before Labor Day with special services attended by labor organizations. Councils favored the idea and it will likely be carried out with additional clergy input and an evening service.
J S Book from Los Angeles protests valuations on Block 7 in Benn and Hopkins addition and an eight acre tract at the head of G street. A city council committee reviewed the lands and Mr Book advertised Block 7 for sale at the assessed value. Bowes expressed willingness to buy at that figure and the eight acre tract was reduced from 8500 to 7500 though Book had offered 20000 for park use.
Oakville residents woke to a blaze at 1 am as the Oakville hotel burned quickly. The building valued at about 3500 was completely destroyed and insured for 2000.
Fire at Hoquiam Lumber and Shingle plant at 7 15 last evening confined to slabs and edgings pile. Men on duty extinguished blaze from mill hydrant before the fire department arrived, keeping the flames from spreading downtown.
Carrie Barton aged 72 married Harvey Willard aged 45 in Trinity Methodist church South Aberdeen. The ceremony drew a large crowd and the clergyman struggled to reach the entrance through the throng.
Hoquiam city clerk George H. Shaw announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county assessor. He said friends across Chehalis County urged him to run and he decided on the move after a final talk with supporters yesterday.
Maj. George B. Robertson of Montesano succeeds Col. W. E. McLure as state commander after McLure resigns from the coast artillery reserve corps of the national guard of Washington. Adjt. Gen. Maurice Thompson accepted the resignation.
Frank Gribisich of Aberdeen aged 21 died of heart failure on Tuesday. The funeral will be held from Pinnick and Kenney's chapel in Aberdeen on Sunday.
Lumber shipments from Grays Harbor in July totaled about 40.9 million feet by water across 52 vessels coastwise, with foreign shipments of 4.5 million feet valued at $56,000.
Frederick Heine a longtime clerk at Geo J Wolff's store departed Tuesday for New York to sail for Germany Heine is on the German army reserve and answering his country's call He previously belonged to the Grays Harbor Naval militia from which he resigned with an honorable discharge.
ASA B. WILSON announces candidacy for county assessor under the Democratic ticket at the primaries on Sept 8. The Herald, Chehalis County’s widely read paper, carries the notice as a formal declaration of intent.
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