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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1911
Page
8
Eureaka Encampment No. 39 I O O F will install its officers elect Wednesday evening with District Deputy Grand Master A Kelper in charge. Elma lodge K P and Rathbone Sisters plan a joint installation at Castle hall on January 5. Knights and their wives invited.
Thorvald Hvam, resident of Elma for a year and promoter in the Sound Pacific Land company, plans to move to the Sound cities and perhaps return to California. He has served as police justice since Mr Byrne’s departure and leaves behind many friends in Elma.
Elma January 1 Mr and Mrs Patrick Murray entertained at their West Main street home on Christmas day Those present for dinner were Mr and Mrs C H Clemons Mr and Mrs James Glancey Miss Ida Anna Glancey Miss Marie Glancey George Clemons Charles Clemons P H Murray and George Murray
C E Smeister was arrested and examined before Justice Porter on Friday on a charge of accepting the earnings of a fallen woman. He was bound over the superior court in 500 dollars for trial.
Oakville Union Grange No. 848 held its regular meeting naming officers for the year. Frank Liesner was chosen master and G. J. Taylor lecturer. Robert Hunter is secretary with L. O. Stewart as overseer and E. B. Couch treasurer. Additional roles include O. B. Newton chaplain Leonard Shull steward Thomas Bell assistant steward and Mrs M E Shull as lady assistant stewardess. C B Stark is gate keeper with Mrs Minnie Shull Ceres, Mrs Annie Barrick Pomona, and Mrs Emma Thompson Flora. Next reg- istered at close.
Garrard creek residents picked a mess of ripe raspberries from the vines this Christmas season. B F Williams delivered several sprouts loaded with fruit to Oakville on Wednesday, drawing attention from frost-bitten Eastern readers.
Watermans Ideal fountain pens sold and guaranteed to give satisfaction by Evans Drug Co. Customer service and guarantees highlighted, with emphasis on reliability and local availability.
Oakville December 31 Mayor elect O H Fry banker C C Scates attorney Norman S Richards and telephone superintendent B E Williams will join legislative members and other commercial bodies in Centralia Monday evening to advocate building up their own region of the state.
Fragmentary classified notice from Quincy Washington offering 28 to 51 acre homestead relinquishments for sale. Identifies A E McSorley of Quincy as contact.
Hoquiam police report 777 arrests during the year up to 6 pm with most from drunkenness and vagrancy. The blotter notes several important criminals taken in the period, and the rate of serious offenses exceeded those who remained at large.
Hoquiam police chief says Daniel Munos, held as a witness, may be charged with aiding Louis Salavar's escape in the Chinaman murder case. No charges filed yet.
Moquiam December 31 L C Tillman who ran the Star restaurant on J street has leased the Elsmere hotel from Lawrence Taylor and will operate the hostelry. The Elsmere sits at the foot of Monroe street near the Hoquiam Lumber Shingle mill.
George W. De Lape president of Riverdale Development company returned to Hoquiam after a two week absence in Tacoma and Portland. He says conditions look favorable in both Sound cities and Portland but is glad to be back and still likes Hoquiam.
Samuel H. Hanley, former Moclips freight conductor and Hoquiam resident, was killed when a train collided with the rear of the engine he rode between Centralia and Chehalis. Brakeman J. B. McMillan was badly injured in the wreck on the Northern Pacific main line.
Hoquiam New Year's riot near Eighth street ends when Night Sergeant Johnson restrains two Austrian men, placed in city jail for safekeeping. About 150 celebrants gathered as a scuffle erupts after accusations of a knife wound to a challenger.
F J Moore and J O Stearns promote a plant in Hoquiam to use sawmill waste for powder ingredients. Moore returned from San Francisco with machinery to be shipped to the city by mid January.
George R. Rudesill a filer with Syverson Lumber and Shingle company was fatally injured when an emery wheel shattered while he ground a saw. A one inch square fragment embedded in his brain fractured skull walls. He was rushed to Montesano General Hospital where Dr. Carr attended him as his condition remained grave.
Rudesill a 27 year old married man from Hoquiam was injured yesterday afternoon in a mill incident. He is well known in the sawmill community and his recovery is doubtful.
In Montesano on Saturday evening January 7 the G A R and W A C sponsor a joint installation at the I O O F hall. Supper at 6 p m followed by installation. Sons of veterans and wives invited. Full attendance desired. Ladies asked to bring baskets.
Chehalis county hunters killed 349 wild cats 11 cougars and 3 coyotes last year. The record is the highest ever. With an advanced bounty, hunters plan more time to kill cats and cougars threatening game.
Sheriff Edward Payette reports J. W. Conrad paroled from this state has passed another worthless check for 50 dollars on the Montesano National Bank, extending a trail of bad checks across the western United States. Three to four checks have arrived at the Montesano bank weekly for months.
J Parker a Montesano mill worker leaped from a log with a heavy chain and two log dogs attached. He lost his balance and fell into the Chehalis River. An expert swimmer, Parker could not free himself as the chain pulled him under. His body has not been recovered and he leaves a wife and two children.
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