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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1913
Page
5
The Aberdeen area docket lists real estate transfers and miscellaneous instruments filed with the county auditor along with court actions. Divorces granted, dismissals, tax liens foreclosed, guardianship matters, estate proceedings, and quit claim deeds are summarized with parties and property descriptions where legible.
Listings of civil actions and public notices including debt suits against Briscoe and Johnson, damages sought by Carman and Williams, appeals from Cosmopolis council street improvements, city damages against Aberdeen, and land larceny case against Henry Craven with court and attorney references.
Instruments filed for record show transfers in Chehalis County including W B Paine et al to Coats-Fordney Logging Co on two parcels, J E Calder to W D Crow Lot 22 Northern Pacific addition, and multiple lots in Ocala First addition and other subdivisions. Names include Maris Abel Hill McGillicuddy and Quennell.
A long list of transfers, mortgage satisfactions, leases, and contracts across Hoquiam Elma Aberdeen and Montesano. Entries include sales of lots in Ontario and Benns additions, chattel mortgages for cows and stock, lease agreements for commercial properties, and releases of liens. Several names appear repeatedly such as Leighton, Nelson, Glavis, Hess, Morse, Jacka, and Washington Savings & Loan Association, with dates and parcel details noted.
Judge Baker hints at undue haste in locking up 33 union dynamite conspirators and sets bail totaling 1.1 million dollars for 32 defendants not including informer Herbert S. Hockin. Bonds are set at ten thousand dollars per year of sentence, with amounts ranging up to seventy thousand for Frank M. Ryan and others across major cities. Sixty days given for appeal with writ of superseders by the U S circuit court of appeals in Chicago.
In Montesano and Hoquiam areas court orders confirm sales and mortgage transactions. Zena McDonald guardianship approves sale of lots 11 and 12 in block 12 and lot 10 in block 11. W. B. Ogden et ux transfer mortgage lots 16 17 18 in College Hill. L. J. Kolts leases and other mortgage satisfactions noted. City Retail Lumber Co. seeks lien release on Aberdeen lots 11 12 in France's addition.
Chehalis Satsop and Wynoochee rivers run high after recent rains but no damage is reported. Farmers call the floodwater essential for soil enrichment by leaving a silt layer, viewed from Montesano overlooking the Chehalis river.
Citizens of Cosmopolis filed a superior court suit against the Cosmopolis town council to block the passage and adoption of an assessment for First street improvements. The complaint alleges violations of advertising for the contract and other irregularities, claiming noncompliance with the law.
At Montesano Commercial Club meeting a by law review was decided against incorporation and a park contract with Mr. McNeil was nearly agreed. The club paid tribute to Captain Charles Jacobson and the Westport life savers who rescued all thirty crew members from the wrecked Torrisdale amid giant waves.
The speaker states work is daily duty and that when true heroes are needed, workers deserve their hero’s dues. The line frames labor as essential service and calls for recognition of workers' sacrifices.
William Keeler, after a stay in Fairbanks since last spring, arrived in Seattle aboard the steamship Northeastern and reached Elma Monday night. He says Fairbanks and interior Alaska have shown little progress over the past five years.
In Hoquiam on January 5 Foresters of America Ever Green No 24 installed their new officers for the ensuing year including O D Sawyer as senior past ranger A Watson chief ranger L W Howell substitute chief ranger W M Buckmaster treasurer Pete Qatman recording secretary Willem Ruston senior woodward R A Bemish senior beadle A Siggstidt junior beadle F H Whitcomb trustees John Ihle lecturer Olof Oberg Grand Chief Ranger J M Bowes spoke and a supper followed with Boston baked beans and clam chowder.
Hoquiam Alumni and Hoquiam High School played a close basketball game at the Y M C A gymnasium with the school team winning 12 to 11. The contest was sluggish with a first half alumni lead and a second half rally by the High School squad led by Karr Glanberg D Abel and Askey. Referee Tory Davidson officiated.
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