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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1901
Page
1
Local notes from Montesano Elma Cosmopolis and nearby towns. Births marriages fires robberies and business openings color this week. A new law office opens in Montesano and saloon licenses rise prices and licenses appear. Hoquiam notes include a big Elks dance and a boarding house remodel.
Correspondence to the Herald notes W S Cogdill at Stevens Creek jam last week. Brittain Bros and Caylor closed their upper Humptulips camp. County commissioners accepted the Brittain road easing travel for settlers who have lived there fourteen years, with private roads and river fordings to Hoquiam. Otis Roberts builds finishing carpentry for Mrs Allman. The new road will assist logging camp workers when the river is fordable.
Assessor F. E. Jones announces deputy assessors for this year with regional assignments. Rlanges 4 and 5 J N Gwin Oakville Range 6 Perry Watson Elma Range 7 8 north of Chehalis river except Montesano and Aberdeen HI Taylor Rayburn Range 7 8 9 south of Chehalis river except Cosmopolis and South Aberdeen and range nine north of Grays Harbor except Aberdeen C W Baremore Artic Ranges 10 11 12 13 north of Grays Harbor except Grays Harbor City Robert Chabot Damon Ranges 10 11 12 south of Grays Harbor K W Hunter Westport Montesano Wyncodie Melbourne W G Young Montesano Cosmopolis South Aberdeen Irving Smith Cosmopolis Township 17 range 9 north of Chehalis river Jacob Weatherwax Aberdeen Hoquiam Grays Harbor City Seth Warren Hoquiam
A school district seeks a teacher holder of a first grade certificate. Applications must be received on or before March 2, 1901. The position, for a five month term beginning March 13, offers a state salary. Address applications to John Landers, Sven Johnson, contractors, Postoffice Aberdeen, Wash.
An advertisement touts Dr White's leetre Comb as unbreakable and impossible to cut hair. It promises daily use plus rest curing and claims universal appeal with stamps for purchase and opportunities for agents nationwide.
Five hundred dollars reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any person found cutting lines or turning adrift any rafts or boom sticks tied to our wharf or boom on the Chehalis river. Witson Baos & Co.
The county board met in adjourned session and closed Thursday noon. Petitions on road surveys and contracts were acted on or laid over. several names approved for road districts and constables. The auditor was to advertise for bids to care for the county poor, and multiple bills were approved or referred for payment.
A 1901 county document records bills allowed on road district funds including payments to individuals and institutions, school warrant payments details with deadlines, and a notice from Carl S Weatherwax, county treasurer, about school warrants. The letter from Titkoporsky Rixon defends forest reserve elimination reports.
The Grays Harbor region spans about 4.14 square miles, nearly the size of Connecticut, and its port view equals the combined states of Connecticut Rhode Island and Delaware. It holds one third of Washington’s timber, about 100 billion feet, with 26 vessels shipping 164000 tons in the year ending December 31 1800. Northern Pacific data show 4000 rail car shipments totaling 75000 tons in 1899. Timber foreign shipments exceed coastwise by at least one per thousand.
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