East Aberdeen Improvements Face City Council Decision
The East Aberdeen entrance plan aims to serve the city while sparing private interests. Citizens oppose spending 10 000 to 15 000 on the Heron street bridge, urging paving East Wishkah to the river and Benn street to the West bridge with a temporary lift bridge at Wishkah. Slade Lumber may halt half its plant if the project proceeds.
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the Herald
Heron Street
Wishkah Street
Wishkah River
S. E. Slade
S. E. Slade Lumber Co
Mack
Fill Work Beginnings in District Two Despite Weather
The Spokane Construction company will start fill work for district two soon, raising houses and sidewalks at least a foot higher than the fill. The fill will use earth from the hill rather than river mud, beginning farthest from the Wishkah river and draining toward it. Clearing and grubbing are done by Haukeli & Co.
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Spokane Construction Company
Wishkah
Haukeli & Co
Boy Asks For Coat Not Toys In Christmas Appeal
A 10 year old boy requests a rain coat and pants for school, not toys. Rev. Charles McBermoth reports many such earnest letters to be aided by Aberdeen residents and a local Elks lodge plans a Christmas tree event with clothing rather than toys to help needy children.
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Santa Claus
George
Aberdeen
Charles McBermoth
McDermoth
Elks
Lodge of Elks
T. H. Simpson
Hoquiam
Salvation Army
G and Heron
City Engineer to resign at end of term in 1918
Charles W. Ewart announced at the Mutual Protective Association meeting that he will resign when his term ends May 1 1918. He urged completion and qualification of tide flat fill and refused to quit under fire until property owners approve the work. Councilman Newell pledged to secure a square deal and address owner complaints. Ewart projected the fill being ready within six months but said he would not recommend acceptance until properties can be walked on without sinking.
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Charles W. Ewart
Mutual Protective Association
Ewart
Garden of Eden
Association
A. H. Newell
Newell
Schenectady
N. Y
Milwaukee
Book Ranch Barn Burns In Early Morning Fire
A large barn at the Book ranch near Aberdeen burned down believed incendiary after eight oclock last night. Forty cattle and forty tons of hay were destroyed with losses estimated between six and seven thousand dollars. Police arrested four Greeks linked to the scene and one man was later detained at a Greek coffee house as investigators probe the motive and suspects.
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Aberdeen
Ed Aberdeen
Peter Facounes
Jim Georgio
Gus Papas
Hoquiam
Ed. Payette
Peter Facounis
G Street
Payette
Geo. Glavis
Bill Gos
Charley Coloulis
George Vlahos
Rogan Jones Returns From Belmont Military College
Rogan Jones returned home for holiday vacation from Belmont California where he attends a military college. His school will resume January 15 and Jones speaks highly of the school noting it has agreed with him.
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Rogan Jones
Belmont
Cal
Military College
Rogan
Disloyal Ones Denounced at Veterans Meeting
At Hoquiam on December 15, John D. Roberts Camp No. 7 U S Spanish American War veterans condemned slanderers and disloyal elements. Resolutions urged honoring the Oregon battleship and its crew of Santiago, with references to San Juan Hill and a warning against socialistic desecration of Old Glory.
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Hoquiam
John D. Roberts
Eagles‘hall
Oregon
Santiago
Panama Canal
C. L. P. Roberts
Aberdeen
San Juan Hill
Sixth Cavalry
Roberts
Lumber Firm Buys Waterfront Property in Aberdeen
The Vance Lumber company of Malone purchased 620 feet of Grays Harbor water frontage in South Aberdeen from Emma E. Lyons for 15000 dollars. The firm plans warehouses docks and yards to serve shipping to San Francisco and other South coast ports after the Panama Canal opens. No mill is planned. employment and possible relocation of firm members are noted.
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Figpe
Grays Harbor
Port Angeles
Milwaukee
Vance Lumber Company
Malone
Emma E. Lyons
Helene, Mont
Alexander
Aberdeen
Alexander Packing Company
George Acret
Vance
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Contract Set for Olympic Railroad
The Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway awarded a Seattle firm the contract to build 40 miles of track on the Milwaukee extension in the Olympic peninsula starting near Port Angeles. The $2,000,000 section will extend toward Cape Flattery with future links to Ozette lake and the Pacific coast connection. Port Angeles citizens contributed $85,000 to the project. Work is to begin before January 1.
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Seattle
Chicago Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway
Milwaukee
Olympic Peninsula
United States
Port Angeles
Cape Flattery
Ozette Lake
Pacific Ocean Shore
Grays Harbor
Milwaukee Line
Aberdeen Printing Co Details and Local Ad Wording
Aberdeen Printing Co on 809 East Wishkah Street notes strong local service opportunities. The message emphasizes printing options and competitiveness among nearby providers.
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Aberdeen Printing Co
Particular Printers
East Wishkah Street
Aberdeen Leads County League In Weekend Opener
The Chehalis County Basketball season opened with Aberdeen High leading the standings followed by Hoquiam Y M C A and Elma. Aberdeen High defeated Moose 31 16 while Hoquiam Moose fell 88 5 to the Y M C A. Elma beat Satsop 26 21.
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Moose
Chehalis County Basketball League
Aberdeen High
Hoquiam Y. M. C. A
Elma
Aberdeen
Hoquiam Moose
Satsop
Aberdeen High School
Hoquiam
Body of Ernest Kesterson Found by Sacks Crew
The body of Ernest Kesterson, a young logger missing since November 12 after drowning in the Satsop river, was recovered Wednesday afternoon by a Schafer Bros. logging crew. The body, buried in mud and silt near the river bank, was found in a riverbed depression about two miles downstream.
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Kes
C. L. Story
Satsop
Schafer’s Prairie
Kesterson
Schafer Bros
Chance
Holiday trade thriving amid heavy Aberdeen shopping
Aberdeen merchants report a strong Christmas season with displays in windows and early shopping fueling the crowd. Loggers, post office workers, and express services anticipate heavy activity, while Salvation Army efforts and a planned loggers home project reflect broader holiday aid and plans.
Socialists blamed for failed city governance in Aberdeen
David Goldstein of Boston, once a socialist nominee for governor, argues in Seattle lectures that socialism has failed wherever tried. He notes trends in Haverhill Brockton Milwaukee and Milwaukee officials, citing higher costs and weak management, and calls socialist governance impractical and noisy.
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Abberdeen
David Goldstein
Boston
Mass
Seattle
Goldstein
Massachusetts
Cigarmakers Union
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East Aberdeen
Slade Mill
Bryan
William J. Bryan
Wilson
American Press Association
Santa
Fill Works
G. A.R
Harold Heaton
Cnicago Inter-Ocean
Vance Lumber
City Distributing Point
Olympic Railroad
Elma Aoe Cdecevesees Veal
Boy
Ernest Kesterson
Haverhill
Brockton
Lawrence
Civil Service
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