Court House Notes From The Weekly Record
The Weekly Record of Legal Doings lists minutes of Superior Court new cases filed and a list of real estate transfers along with miscellaneous instruments filed with the County Auditor.
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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
2
The Weekly Record of Legal Doings lists minutes of Superior Court new cases filed and a list of real estate transfers along with miscellaneous instruments filed with the County Auditor.
The article from the United States Department of Agriculture explains how a small garden can supply a family with fresh vegetables all season. It notes that one plot can host two or three crops if chosen wisely, yielding better and cheaper produce than market purchases.
The article outlines a year by year plan for a compact garden with vegetable rows between strawberries. It describes rotating crops such as peas kale onions and tomatoes followed by spinach and late cabbage, plus interplanting and careful spacing. It emphasizes documenting results and avoiding repeating the same crops in the same spots.
Summons in the Superior Court of Washington Grays Harbor County. T A F Williams sues C C Cozine and unknowns to foreclose a tax lien on Lot 4 Block 29 North Aberdeen Addition Aberdeen. Delinquency certificate 5299 dated May 2 1916 totals tax paid 157 36 with 15 percent interest. First published April 17 1917.
May 8 Hoquiam report on five year old George Lyden son of Mr and Mrs W J Lyden living near Sixth and J streets hit by a street car while crossing the track on a go cart at about 7 oclock Saturday night He escaped injury clinging to the fender as the car stopped The boy the motorman and damaged go cart were the only visible effects of the accident
Peter Quinn aged about 55 died at Hoquiam General Hospital after a month long illness. He was brought to the hospital April 9. A son, employed in a Polson camp, survives. Little was known of him at the hospital as the son had not yet returned from the woods. The body was taken to Pinnick undertaking parlors for funeral arrangements.
Hoquiam's second shipyard will begin work once government plans for wooden ships are clarified. The yard sits on the Chehalis River across from the Hoquiam Lumber and Shingle mill, cited as an ideal harbor site for shipbuilding.
E G McTaggart Robert J Garner and E Fosket solicitors for Leslies Weekly were arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriffs McKenney and Gibson and held without bail. The warrant sworn by H N Vader charges the men obtained money by fraudulent intent and false representation.
Brenda Wartiman won the Montesano high school declamatory contest performing the sleep walking scene from Macbeth. The winner receives a gold medal donated by Dr. S. L. Moak of Montesano, and friends expect her to claim the county title at the upcoming Montesano event.
Montesano May 8 County officials abandoned inmate labor for courthouse grounds planting. Officials signed a petition asking Judge Ben Sheeks to direct the work.
Bernard Sharr of Aberdeen, 17, arrested for grand larceny for taking a car owned by McBride and Hamblen. He allegedly drove the vehicle on a joy ride and abandoned it after a wreck near Tacoma.
The will of Reuben Redman who died in Melbourne is to be admitted to probate. The youngest heir is 50 years old. The will was drafted in 1890 and the estate is valued at 1300 to 1500 dollars.
May 5 marriage licenses issued to Carl Williamson and Tiina Tasanen of Hoquiam and L N Davis with Cora Olson of Tacoma. Frank R Barry and Marie Rachen berger of Aberdeen also took out licenses.
Since notices from liquor houses promise to fill orders after the new federal law, a sharp rise in liquor permits has been noticed in Montesano.
A compilation of civil actions and proceedings including tax reduction suits by Hoquiam Lumber against Grays Harbor County, multiple divorces such as Stella Parker versus J H Parker and Willa B Ellsworth versus C M Ellsworth, adultery cases State v Leomeiea Bell and R R Hazzard, garnishments against George Main and Joe Clymer, debt actions including Tacoma General Hospital versus John Joyce, and attachments in A C Harris et ax v A C Girard et ax. Represented by counsels W H Abel, T H McKay, E N Faulk, A M Abel, J A Hutcheson, and others.
Montesano May 8 Sheriff Jeff Bartell has received government blanks for registering citizens under the new conscription law. Instructions in the work are expected to follow soon.
Mrs. Paulina Lucyk was granted a divorce from John Lucyk of Aberdeen in Montesano yesterday.
A Detroit Free Press quotation discusses economic reasoning behind early marriages. It argues that high living costs make marrying off daughters sooner preferable. The line reflects social attitudes linking marriage timing to financial pressures.
The guidance divides crops by soil: moist low areas suit celery onions and late cucumbers while high dry soil favors early peas and beans. With space, plant corn melons squashes and edge beds for asparagus rhubarb and berries. Plant a few strong vegetables like peas beans radishes. prioritize fresh taste over a long scatter. Early plantings include peas beets carrots radishes parsnips lettuce salsify koul abi onions spinach and potatoes if space allows. Later crops after harvest.
A middle aged governess is formally introduced to a family and next morning Master Tom jokingly asks if she is Leghorn or Cochin China. He explains he heard his father say to his mother that she was no tons era chicken.
Mortgage satisfactions and transfers include Hiskins Johnson to Josephone Makela on lot 7 block 6 Karrs Mill Hoquiam. N P Willis to Fred C Brothers on lot 14 block 15 North AGOGO. John Kersh to Harvey P Misner for northerly half of lot 1 block 12 South Aberdeen. Farmers & Lumbermen Bank to Charles C Brown livestock. Puget Sound Savings & Loan to Gustav Mueller real estate.
A dense list of property transfers, mortgages and assignments in Hoquiam and Aberdeen towns including Elizabeth Eberline to Henry Richards and wife, Leroy Hall to Mary Bruce, Sarah Horton to Joseph South, Hattie Mattison to J Mapes, and many others. Also appears notices of levy, corrected plats, and estate actions involving Grays Harbor County officials and local banks.
A Woman's Home Companion writer surveyed several young men about why they refuse marriage. Answers cite clever wives who earn more, expensive tastes, desire to accomplish goals before marriage, fear of lifelong punishment, and narrow local prospects for women.
The New York World extols pineapple as a key aid to digestion noting its pepsin like action on albumin. Fresh juice applied to eggs or milk creates a bitter dish, and pineapple is praised for throat and digestive relief as well as malarial effects.
Coverage notes a 100 mile distance with a Thames winding of 220 miles. It mentions pure alcohol as greenish and water as blue, rubber’s 1785 European introduction as erasers, medieval use of fangs in church rites, and a claim that few men profit from being disagreeable.
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