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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1915
Page
3
Aberdeen items report frequent visits from Seattle and Portland. noting licenses, dances, and local business moves. Several residents travel for health and work, with updates on fire repairs, tideflat filling, and municipal plans. Community events include W C T U talk and Parent-Teacher Association elections.
District forester reports 521 sales in Oregon and 142 in Washington during fiscal year 1914. Oregon totals 22,594,000 feet board measure while Washington records 199,146,000 feet. Differences reflect forest type and accessibility in each state’s timber lands.
The snippet reports registrations for primaries and general elections, a child's post-op recovery, a new bungalow permit in Fairview addition, and the Evergreen Rebekah lodge No. 28 roll call. It also notes FP. M. Stults' visit and changes around the old post office site, plus the state armory move and upcoming joint dance and housewarming by Company G and the Fourth division.
Free exhibition of Wallace Nutting pictures at Davies Art Shop on Saturday January 30. No pictures will be sold. You are invited.
Grays Harbor Basketball League schedules opening games for next Wednesday with Aberdeen hosting two games and Hoquiam one. The 42 game season runs Wednesdays and Fridays through April with seven teams, four from Aberdeen and three from Hoquiam. Each team plays every other twice with local league officials to resolve any standings changes if teams withdraw.
Senate approved E. E. Boner's plan to hold sessions of the superior court at Aberdeen and sent it to the house. Opposition spans Grays Harbor cities and eastern Chehalis County, making passage in the house doubtful and likely to die there.
The Aberdeen Boy Scout troop formed less than a month ago grows to 15 members all Franklin school students under Principal Worth McClure. Leaders plan biweekly woodland hikes to study trail building woodcraft and camp fire skills. Members include Gerald Crary Karl Gerhardt Dewitt Bertrand Clarence Callison Sam Barber Reginald Anderson Harold Browning Leroy West Harold Longmire Ernett Anderson Victor Creech John Covert Rowland Gerhardt Ormond Hill and Winifred Short.
Olympia January 28. State land commissioner Clark V Savidge reports ongoing Western Washington timber land inspections continuing his program to recover state funds. In seven weeks one inspector found trespasses by logging firms with over 15000 dollars to be collected. Eastern Washington inspections since his 2 year term uncovered 300000 acres of land and 8250 dollars in trespass, plus nearly 25000 dollars yearly from leased vacant grazing lands. The effort operates without new appropriation as multiple cases are settled or pending with the attorney general.
Governor Ernest Lister submitted the first budget to the Washington legislature showing a cut of nearly a quarter of a million dollars from all departments and institutions under his supervision compared with two years ago. The reduction reflects his economy policy and the new budgeting system aims to clarify departmental needs for future sessions.
Mrs. M. P. Curry of Petersburg Illinois says she was bedridden three months with internal catarrh and stomach and liver trouble and swelling. After five months of worsening condition she used Peruna and recovered. Esther M. Milner of De Graff Ohio reports constant headache and weakness from internal catarrh, taking four bottles of Peruna and becoming fully cured.
Morris details heating manure beds for early heat in a hotbed. He describes mixing unheated horse manure with pure manure and straw, piling and dampening, building a sunlit pit, packing and covering with loam, and using a frame with sash to trap heat. The bed lasts about six weeks, then becomes a cold frame.
In Olympia on January 28 representatives from the Taxpayers League and the Good Roads Congress testified before joint legislative committees about cutting road levies. The proposed cuts threaten a road building fund exceeding 5 million dollars for the next two years, with opponents warning a levy reduction would hinder highway plans and hamper state good roads propaganda.
No trace of James Ross, linked to holiday holdups by partner George Bonner, has been found. Police believe he fled the Grays Harbor area after Bonner's arrest at the north jetty on January 15. Chief Seaman and Sheriff Mathews searched the vicinity but were told by jetty-area women that Bonner was the only man there.
George Bonner, a confessed highwayman, received an indeterminate term of 5 to 15 years from Judge Sheeks in Montesano. Arrested in Aberdeen after confessing to robberies with a partner still at large, he implicated another clamdigger. The pair robbed two grocery stores at gunpoint and held up residents near their homes.
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