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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1907
Page
8
Chehalis County items from Aberdeen Herald readers include a Montesano birth a daughter of Mrs FE Luark and several social notes. Local society discusses a 25th wedding anniversary, visits, and a few illnesses. Licenses issued include Boone Daley and Rudesill Zimmer Damey Knight. Northern Pacific brings Italians for switch work while council moves to curb cattle running at large within city limits.
T C Hillgrove confined to his bed with la grippe. A son weighing nine pounds born to Melvin George’s wife on the 19th. J W Kelley of Tabor Iowa visited Elma guest J F Lambert and family. Marty Blair arrived from Tacoma for Easter visit. Ward Coy’s family came from Mt Vernon for a short visit. Mrs Alvin Porter home from Satsop for treatment with no improvement. Infant of C E Ray died at one o’clock last Wednesday. funeral at Satsop. Warry Porter can walk now on crutches after the accident.
Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Effie Moore of Porter Washington to Mr Alfred McVittir to take place at the church in Porter on Wednesday March 27 F KF Tompkins returns from Portland trip where he bought a grocery store to be run by his son Harry Tompkins and Mr Chas Clay both of this city.
J Tuntz and C P Banks left for Seattle en route to Alaska while Guy French improves from la grippe. Mrs C B Harris of Tacoma visits. Esther Savers recovers from scarlet fever. Geo E Brown heads to Hot Springs for rheumatism treatment. O R Van Rick visits Fort Dodge and family. Sadie Soule visits sister Mrs Tinker. Chas Senfesty attends Degree of Honor grand lodge in Seattle. Darby couple welcome a 13 pound baby and quarantine for scarlet fever in Hull household. O C Fenalson tours west to promote a new saw mill project.
Miss Lena Wilson traveled to Rochester on Monday to stay awhile. Mrs. George Pearson visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McMasters in Porter on Monday. W G Barrick rented the C M Forest place west of town and moved with his family there. Mrs L V Kahler of Taycoma and Miss Edith Hays of Montesano stayed with their sister Mrs Chas Lee last week. Mrs Walter Fisk and children and Mrs Floyd Wakefield went to Elma on Monday for a week at the J E Murrey ranch. Patrick Sullivan of Nebraska, visiting here, is seriously ill with pneumonia at the home of his niece, Mrs G Baldwin.
Mrs. Jennie Blake visits in North Cove. Miss Lethe Maxwell visits friends in Montesano. Mrs. Ethel Mitchell of North Bend guests with Mrs. Ben Maxwell, sharing time with local acquaintances.
Master Mack Willey visits Aberdeen friends as public school hosts an entertainment Saturday evening March 30 in Yana's hall featuring dialogues recitations and dancing presented by students and teachers for the community.
In Montesano on March 23 William Matthews a sawyer at the Wyllowchee Lumbert& Shingle mill lost three fingers of his left hand when the saw caught and severed them while feeding stock. The mill was shut down for the day as officials investigated.
Reina Wright Gridley and Lee R. Gridley present a concert program tonight at the M E church. Gridley the bird warbler wowed audiences with natural bird tones while Lee R Gridley offers solo, guitar, banjo and humorous sketches. Admission is 30 cents, children 15 cents.
Blanche Walsh stars in Clyde Fitch play The Straight Road at the Grand Theatre. A railroad crash struck the manuscript's cast and crew, nearly costing the work, but the rescue ensured a duplicate system in Wagenhals & Kemper’s office. The tale appeared in Gray's Harper-Abdeen Semi-Weekly Herald.
A late guest at a Scottish country house, seeking self defense, fires a revolver at a spectral visitor under his pillow. He aims after warning and shoots. the bullet wounds him as two toes on his own foot are blown away, shocking the household.
The tale recounts Fougere the jester of Czar Paul punished for a failed joke with banishment. He is awakened and driven in circles through St. Petersburg before at last facing the czar in Siberia. The method shows harsh royal discipline for wit deemed insufficient.
A London Wanderer recalls hospital notice boards asking drivers to walk horses past the hospital entrance near the East India docks. A drowning-bridge tale follows of Count Spolverini rewarding a brave peasant who saved a Verona family from flood waters with the reply that he does not sell his life and to give the money to the needy.
A brief Chicago Record-Herald quotation notes a street sweeper who stirs things up and stops to avoid dust and germs when the speaker approaches. It underlines public concern with cleanliness and urban nuisance. The exchange emphasizes curiosity about the sweeper’s actions and perceived impact on daily street life.
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