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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
2
Aberdeen readers hear travel news on Grace Foster visiting Seattle and Vancouver. Local social items include Mrs. Thelmsday and Mrs. Schultz hosting guests, Miss Stella Gray sailing to Pasco, and many residents visiting relatives, with Gilbert Griffin returning from Chicago and plans to reside at Hotel Washington. The Tacoma Dredging Co. advances tideland work, streetcar rails rise on B Street, and Hotel Savoy readies for next week reopening.
The Cosmopolis town council declines to renew a saloon license, signaling a hostile stance toward alcohol. Observers split on motive with a prohibition-leaning majority likely to press their views as licenses lapse.
A letter to City Engineer Charles Swart reveals John Riner, formerly of the city engineering department, is away from the city temporarily. The note asked for Riner’s bank funds to be given to a friend, but the envelope stamp is smeared and lacks date or address.
State Tax Commission officials served subpoenas on many Aberdeen residents to appear next Tuesday at the city council room and testify about real estate transactions during the past year. The aim is to gauge the ratio of assessed valuations to actual values to standardize the state levy across counties.
The September term jury panel will be drawn next Saturday and will include women among eligible jurors for the first time in the county. Women may decline service if they claim exertion when served. otherwise they must serve unless excused for cause.
The county schedules the eighth grade diploma examinations at designated places. Teachers must ensure pupils complete tasks by Thursday with the county seat as a reference point. Credit for the exam relies on the manual and phrasing used in the historical text.
John O Mara a pioneer resident of Aberdeen died at St Josephs hospital yesterday morning aged years. He had lived in Aberdeen about twenty years and worked at a saw mill. For over ten years he resided with the Sisters of St Dominick at St Josephs hospital. His nephew T J O Hara of Seattle arrived to attend the funeral.
Hon Phil S Locke filed his candidacy for county commissioner in the Second district after citizen urging. Known as a sound tax expert, he joins County Attorney W F E Campbell of Hoquiam who plans to run in the Third district. the pair are viewed as a strong working team.
J Matthewson recently arrived from Tacoma fell through a skylight while wheeling concrete on the roof of the Electric building at Broad Way and Heron Street. He lies in critical condition at Aberdeen General Hospital with a severe head wound and a broken nose after the fall yesterday morning.
A group of St valley farmers formed a selling station to market their crops collectively. They will run a central Aberdeen house, using the old Herald building at 408 East Wishkah Street, to ship produce immediately and sell wholesale to dealers.
Logs on Craws Harbor show strong demand the first time in months with log rafts in high demand. Prices have not advanced widely though one mill reportedly paid 12 dollars per thousand for logs to keep its plant running and meet orders.
J. Fred Wehn a carpet manufacturer and his brother J. L. Wehn an attorney from Pittsburg Pa arrived in the city Monday for a short visit. Mrs J Fred Wehn and two sons have been in town several weeks visiting Mrs Jean B Stewart.
T H Hill administrator of the estate of the late Colin McKenzie sold the photographic outfit of the murdered deputy sheriff yesterday to M A Messegee. He will open the old studio on South G street about September 1. Messegee comes from Portland where he ran Davies Art Studio for four years.
A fire last night destroyed the old slaughter house of the Ninemire Packing Co on the East Side. About 300 bales of hay and livestock were inside. Horses cattle and hogs were removed alive though some horses were burned. Loss estimated around 2500 with cause undetermined. Fire department and volunteers aided in containment.
The schooner I, the Patsy Mitchell, W. Patterson, John A Campbell, A B Johnson, Dolbeer, and Helene sail or load for San Francisco, Valparaiso, and Mexican ports. The Pleides, Svea, and Hesper dock or depart with cargoes at Slade, Wilson, Donovan, and Western mills. The Hesper awaits crew for a Chile voyage.
The Scandinavian Brotherhood of America will convene in Aberdeen starting Monday August 12 at Pian hall. Over 20 delegates are expected with locals preparing Aberdeen hospitality. A special train arrives Sunday noon and steamboats are chartered to take the party to Westport for afternoon sea breezes.
The will of the late Glenn Burrows was admitted to probate in the superior court yesterday. Executors named, Mrs. C. E. Burrows and Mr. C. H. Shutt, with witnesses Mr. and Mrs. Phil Locke, traveled to Montesano to file the instrument.
The saloon of Thomas Dolan on CG street below Heron was closed by the sheriff this week and will be offered at public sale on August 15. The Oro Investment Company held a mortgage on about $600 of the establishment’s contents.
Around noon today an auto owned by the F. G. Foster Co. of Hoquiam skidded while turning the corner at Wishkah and H streets and overturned. The two men aboard escaped injury despite the machine being badly smashed.
The wife and brother of Thomas Madden who was drowned in the Wishkah river last Sunday arrived in the city Tuesday and left yesterday with the body for Waterville Minnesota where it will be interred in the family burial plot.
Sir Clements Markbarm described the near catastrophe of the steam tender Intrepid under Lieutenant J. B. Caton. The vessel rode an iceberg after a crushing collision, rose forty feet, was wedged by ice, and nearly capsized before freeing itself and being launched into the sea.
A fragmentary passage lauds James Tyson as a model of austere virtue and labor harmony. It contrasts wealth with plain attire and warns that order governs mind, body, city, and state, citing a taught philosophy attributed to Souhey.
Christian Science Church at First street near Broadway offers Sunday school at 10 and church service at 11, with Wednesday evening service at 8. Reading room in Finch building opens daily 1:30 to 6 except Sundays.
Five year old bay gelding weighing 1400 pounds offered by Ellis Lund of North River for sale. Post office listed as Cosmopolis. Meadowbrook Creamery Co advertises fresh churned butter with special delivery times at 10 AM and 4 PM and regular milk wagon routes. Phone 7881.
The book bindery of the F G Tefft Co in Wishkah block was sold yesterday to Welsh and Richards from Seattle. The new owners are experienced binders and rulers and plan to grow with Aberdeen.
H Brown who has managed the F G Tefft Co business for the past year departed this morning for Shepherds Springs to take a well earned vacation.
Subscribers served by city carriers who do not receive the Herald by 6 p m Monday and Thursday should call City Messenger Co at phone 5931 for immediate delivery. publisher asks couriers to assist by confirming and delivering missing copies.
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