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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1910
Page
5
Aberdeen and surrounding towns buzz with moves visits and entertainments. Harry Coles and Mrs Coles relocate to Hoquiam while George Hubble visits from Montesano. Vagration records show 1565 voters as books close for city election.
In mayoral absence, President Quackenbush presided as council approved street improvements and new regulations on signs awnings and liquor sales. Salaries for fire chief and police judge are raised with May effective dates, wages for city laborers increase, and a primary election canvass completed.
Captain and Mrs Lembke arrived from San Francisco and will soon move to a Palouse ranch. mail sacks from the Wellington train wreck reached the local post office badly water damaged. C F White of Grays Harbor Commercial left for Seattle. Mr and Mrs Ted Becker returned from a fruit farm trip near Wenatchee and plan to move next month. Chehalis County Bank moved from Wishkah street to quarters of Aberdeen State Bank. Harry McClaire was captured by police for the restricted district and will face Judge Phillips. Veale and Sherreff visited the local Woodmen camp. Dr H H Randolen of Missoula arrived to visit his parents and may move to the coast cities. The Herald tells it all.
W B Sammons reports Kitsap county offers a free right of way and 25 acres at Colby for terminal facilities for the Western Washington Railway and Navigation Company interurban from Grays Harbor to the Sound. A thirty minute Colby Seattle boat service is planned after completion.
March 15 in Montesano William Gohl former Sailors Union agent at Aberdeen awaiting murder trial was badly beaten in the county jail corridor by Alexander Dzigoeff a Russian sentenced to 5 to 10 years for assault to murder Deputy Royce restrained Dzigoeff after he beat Gohl with a chair and drew his revolver forcing the assailant to surrender.
Northern Pacific establishes daily freight service connecting Aberdeen and Hoquiam with Vancouver to link with the North Bank for all south and east bound business. A Hoquiam train departs at 6 30 PM for Vancouver and returns with freight to the harbor reaching here next morning. The schedule carries freight only beyond Vancouver with limited exceptions at Centralia and along the Seattle Centralia main line.
J M Clapp assistant chief engineer says north side jetty repairs will start around April 1 with about two hundred thousand dollars left in current year funds and seventy five thousand more requested. He mentions repairs to the Damon’s Point dock and seeks authority to contract up to one million dollars for next year.
Mrs. L Coles leads a list of attendees planned to greet visitors Friday for the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union Day event. Institutions and residents are invited to participate.
The aged chaplain of St. Joseph's hospital, Father Gribben, will depart soon for New York and then Seattle after Lent to visit a brother. He has crossed the Atlantic many times, recently counting his fifty third voyage, and is famed as a multilingual scholar with extensive travels.
A local advertisement highlights the Herald Printery offering options from milk tickets to full sheet posters, inviting readers to plan their printing needs with the shop.
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