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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1910
Page
2
A catalog-style plea promotes a range of women’s waists including embroidered, linen tailored, Persian lawn, mercerized mull, and silk varieties. It asserts durability, multiple styles, and sales prices, urging readers to buy now rather than waste money and to rest their waists for longer wear.
J. S. Waugh in Chehalis County reports from Aberdeen Herald correspondents with local items. Ca lder’s Olympia trip, WCTU meeting plans, residents visiting county seats, and several town developments in Elma Montesano and Oakville. Gentle notices of licenses, visits, and new real estate projects frame a slice of regional life.
Mr C C Combes and wife visited relatives in Seattle on Tuesday. Mrs Will Burgar travelled to Tacoma to see sister Mrs Ny snard. Miss Mamie Byles arrived from Porthind for an extended visit. Miss Myrtle Wheeler hosted friends at Main Street residence Tuesday afternoon. The Dalrymple residence at Macks camp noted a birth during Mr J Malrymple’s absence. Mrs George Martell and Mrs Jvs Brewer hosted the ladies Aid gathering.
Miss Ada Holland is ill with ton silitis. Born On Sunday May 1 to Mr and Mrs True Ames a boy. Mrs Will Davis of Puyallup visits Mrs K R Gilmer. Born On Wednesday May 4 to Mr and Mrs A Barrie a daughter. Mrs Helen Richards of Tacoma visits this week. Mr and Mrs A Barricks four year old son is ill west of town. Andrew Owen injured at Wests camp last week by a rolling log returns home to heal.
A sweater cleaning method from J. & Waugh & Co. advises dissolving half a cake of pure white soap in half a tub of lukewarm water, rubbing inside the garment with hands, rinsing twice in lukewarm water, shaping, and drying flat on a clean white sheet outdoors or indoors, avoiding hanger drying to prevent lengthwise stretching.
A Herald Printery advertisement touts offerings from milk tickets to full sheet posters and invites local patrons to plan their business with the printer.
Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, won the London Manchester prize of 50 000 dollars by flying 186 miles with one stop in 4 hours 11 minutes. He also holds the altitude record for heavier than air machines at 5 000 feet set during the Los Angeles meet. Grahame White was his rival in the London Manchester contest.
James Townsend of Milltown New Jersey a G A R member plans to decorate his own grave float a flag and have his picture taken He recently bought a metallic coffin from Undertaker Hubbard of New Brunswick Townsend already owns a grave in Van Liew cemetery and decorates it every Memorial Day His wife rests there and his own inscription appears on her tombstone with no date of death yet known
Berkeley public school pupils in Bloomfield New Jersey voted 154 to 48 against fireworks for July 4 with 31 boys and 74 boys 17 girls and 80 girls voting for fireworks. Only one eighth grade student a boy supported fireworks.
City treasurer in Oakland California pays $15 000 to outside city employees using a car delivery method to distribute envelopes. Future payrolls will be handled this way rather than requiring workers to travel to the treasurer's office to collect envelopes.
Halley's comet visible from Mount Wilson with cyanogen gas surrounding the head and hydrocarbon gas composing the tail. Observers note varying dominance of gases in different regions.
Firefighters arrived quickly after a call to 304 South F Street as flames tore the upper portion of the building. Samuel Benn owned the insured structure, while J E Jackson faced losses from water damage to numerous pressed suits. Benn has not decided on the building's fate.
Leading Grays Harbor loggers met at a Washington hotel to discuss a worsening log market with prices down two dollars per thousand and a potential shutdown to hold values. The gathering signals a likely union action to regulate output and curb overproduction.
An advertisement states deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It blames catarrh for nine of ten cases and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice promotes circulars and lists F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio and hall’s family pills for constipation.
Aberdeen hosts the D C K K organized as an advanced degree of the Knights of Pythias at Pythian temple on Friday night with about 60 members. Gus Meese from Imperial Temple Spokane drilled the local team for the ceremonies and additional members joined from Wishkah Elma and other Chehalis county points. A banquet followed the initiatory ceremonies in the temple dining hall.
C F Cork completed the sale of a half section of timber land on Beardsley’s Slough to the Hubble Logging Co of Montesano. The land belonged to Burrows & Rust of Saginaw Michigan and sits to present a convenient logging show. The price paid is said to have been 170000 dollars.
United States Assistant Engineer J. M. Clapp visited the city on Saturday en route from the north side jetty to Seattle. He reported satisfactory progress with about 60 men employed and regular barge rock deliveries from the Sound. Clapp expects this year’s work to yield a twenty foot depth at mean low tide on the bar.
County school superintendent McKillip is hospitalized in Pullman with a badly fractured right shoulder after slipping into a ditch while walking at night. Professor P A Williams of Montesano is currently serving duties of the county superintendents office.
The Northern Pacific Railway runs a poultry farm of eleven thousand white leghorn chickens on fifty two acres at Kent Washington producing 150 dozen eggs daily for dining cars. It plans to source cream and milk from three hundred cows nearby and has four hundred acres of garden truck at Paradise Montana for vegetables. A Seattle bakery serves the system with a new one planned in St Paul to supply bread pies and pastries. Mammoth two pound baked potatoes draw traveler attention and Madame Schumann Heink has requested some for planting on her New Jersey farm.
For light and heavy nailing call A. A. Star Transfer Co. Phone 4201 job printing in all branches modern work at moderate prices Herald Printery.
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