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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
1
City officials must study funding for next year with a large deficit forecast around forty to fifty thousand dollars. Tax relief is urged as burdens rise beyond limits, with nonessential expenses and politically created salaried positions to be abolished. Employees should do more work to curb costs.
Last Saturday noon a luncheon at the Hotel Washington honored Colonel Geo. Pope and James A. Emery. The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce heard Emery, a forceful advocate, present sharp perspectives on labor, industry, and progress with memorable aphorisms and strong logic. The event drew attentive business leaders and was followed by a high standard luncheon service.
Grays Harbor county pioneers plan a three day gathering at Westport starting tomorrow with a business meeting and officer elections led by Prof. Eldridge Wheeler. Congressman Albert Johnson will deliver the principal address and Chinook language remarks by Chief Mason of the Quinsault reservation.
Fire at 3 o clock yesterday morning destroyed six buildings in Moclips and damaged others. The Leland hotel McCammon hotel and a store were burned to the ground along with the Moclips post office the pavilion owned by Carl Cooper and two Van Horn cottages. The front of the Moclips Mercantile company establishment also burned.
A chamber of commerce event in Aberdeen and Hoquiam honored E N Sanderson of New York, head of several electric light and power companies. Leader speeches praised local dairying and farming potential, lumber sector lessons, and Grays Harbor Railway and Light. Sanderson boosted postwar trade, streetcar plans, and a central Atlantic distribution idea.
South Aberdeen traffic remains diverted to a temporary bridge while a new thoroughfare is readied and Wishkah water system work begins. City officials reject aid from Grays Harbor Railway & Light for West Chehalis bridge repairs. The council approved a concrete mixer purchase, a 3500 foot pipe bid, and permits for gasoline tanks at several businesses. Carl Gyling to receive final payment for Fairview city reservoir work.
A J Morley of Saginaw Timber asked Grays Harbor county commissioners for a recruise of timber on sections 28 82 and 33 township 17 range 6 arguing prior cruises by Murray were unfair. Commissioner Locke discussed the request without a final decision. A hearing on drainage district south of South Bay was extended to September 7 and equalization work continues with protests likely settled by one vote.
A long list of summoned prospective jurors is published including Anderson Carl Brown E R Beckley EB M Black Wm Button Annettie Burch M E Boyer Church J 8 Carl George Darling Jennie B Dunham Elizabeth Garner H B Geissler O E Gleason C M Giberson Frank Harman John Kanouse Jennie Kellerman T Lempi John Lund Thos Lyons J E Miller Gertrude A Monseer Albert Moore Carrie K Mclaughlin Lena Neubert J L Polsfoot E Rader Nellie Reed C R Robinson Adline Taylor Eugene Thompson Henry Thompson M W Wellington Laura E Williams Eva Ashley William Bartlet Catherine Bodnar Barbara Bryan R W Cahill David J Carter Mary B Durrand Ella Emplit Simeon Fulmer E O Garman B J Graham Laura Hart W W Houstin Wm Hughes W R Hunger A E Jackson Emma F Jacobson Ginga Kershasky John Larkin Thos W Lauth Rosa Loveless Alice Lindberg Lillian Miller Martha I McMamara Agnes Oien Amanda O Conner Margaret Pittinger Carr Randall Henrietta Schafer Berth J Sorenson John Stephenson Sadie Thomas Joseph
A compiled roster lists jurors including Marvin Tilton Theodora Walters Margaret Wilson M. Anderson F. B. Aldridge Minette Blagen Mrs Trude Burns Rebecca Carlson Albert Carlson Fritz Crandall A B Coghlan Jerome Dawson Mary A Erickson Alma Endresen Hannah Ecklund Martha G Huke Martha Hunter Daavida Jacka Thos Johnson Elmer Stanley Kincaid J F Koch Moxley Ethel Morey C Morey Wm McIntosh G W McCoy Julia M Neye C H Perry Jessie Hilman Pfiester Eddie Stanton Mrs B M Walker H B Ward Frank Whitcomb Mable Wilson H G.
A land clearing demonstration will be given next week in Group Fnbor County by Brodie and Strait of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The U S Senate river and harbor committee departs Portland with members aboard. Stops include Tokeland and Raymond overnight before Aberdeen public dinner. Participants listed: Johnson, Humphries, Sparkman, Burgess, Kennedy, Edwards, Switzer, Lieb, Gallagher, Kettner, Brooker, McCann, Shinn and clerks.
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