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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
2
The Aberdeen printing office at 309 East Wishkah Street publishes the semi weekly Aberdeen Rerali every Monday and Thursday. Jno J Carney is editor and manager. The paper is entered as second class mail from Aberdeen Washington. Subscription rates and circulation boast are noted.
Citizens push for modern business methods in Aberdeen amid slow council action and absent city property records. The Herald notes inventories planned, warrants costs high, and calls for support of local merchants and industries to keep money in town.
The article discusses common town development plans that attract new industries through incentives like tax exemptions and free sites. It argues such drives boost population and employment, but notes that even eager supporters can be the first to falter or falter in the public work.
In this piece the speaker rejects the old Beulah hymn as nostalgic fiction and promotes a distant advertised land offered by a corporation. The promise centers on cheap, plentiful acreage described as a perfect paradise in a colored prospectus, contrasting it with traditional Beulah imagery. The tone is wary yet amused by the lure of a spectacular new land.
Company G departs Tuesday for Tacoma to aid Troop B in laying out the camping ground at American Lake for the Second Regiment. Sergeant Glen Smith leads a detail including Roy Nichols W W Wintermute and others. They camp July 5 to July 14 and recruitments continue.
A concise note declares the Herald as the definitive source for Grays Harbor news, capturing the region’s events, updates, and notices in a single trusted publication.
Miss Ethel Mills and Martin Wood were married at the Mapes home with Rev E R Cooper officiating. Sixty guests attended a dinner after the ceremony. The bride wore silk marquisette and the couple planned a brief honeymoon before settling in Aberdeen.
The naval militia company will be organized at the Armory next Tuesday at 7:30 PM after physical exams. Measurements for uniforms will be sent to Sound government offices and uniforms prepared. Ninety men have agreed to join, with forty needed to muster in a company. Minimum pay is $1.50 per day for the Tacoma carnival trip beginning July 3.
Sunday night at the Christian church Third and L streets Aberdeen minister Marion F. Horn will deliver a new sermon The Sleeping Giant morning Bible school at 1 a m and a Young People service at 7 p m with the subject Missions in China The ad invites all parents and young people to attend and promises a home-like church
John Landers reports the Wishkah Boom company began placing jetties today to protect river banks from erosion during dam splash events. A crew of 12 men works to safeguard improved lands and avoid lengthy litigation seen on the river in recent decades.
Yesterday afternoon John Gronow who runs a saloon at 315 South F street was arrested on a charge of selling liquor to an Indian named L L Porter a half breed from a reservation. He was released on 250 bond with a hearing soon. Two others Gus Koiius and George Westbury await Superior court on the same count as local officers push to stop liquor sales to Indians.
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