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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1900
Page
1
County brief from Elma and Hoquiam notes school closure and departures to California and the East. Local events include a farewell for teachers, a new photo gallery rumored, a meat market move, and a charity supper. The Hoquiam section reports jetty progress, marriages, a rail recovery, and wreck rescue, with community notices and gifts listed.
Correspondence notes Memorial Day to be celebrated by Cedar Creek school. Other items mention Brecht up to his claim, showers aiding gardens, cranberry crop expectations, and local notices including a burial for Mrs. C B Horn who leaves a husband and two boys.
Rainy weather continues in the area as J A Van Eaton visits Aberdeen friends. George Fairchild and J P Sudderth spend time in Hoquiam. Joseph Clyde and James Sudderth visit Harbor towns and Hoquiam friends this week. A Hump tulips group calls on local friends. John Walker sustains a foot injury at Murphys camp. Donald Alexander returns from Illinois on business. Bud Loomis with Elda Roberts and Jennie Swanson visit Olymp ia friends.
John Backman is at work at the E. P. Bagshaw sawmill near Oakville. B. E. Williams has the first coat of new paint on his house and oversees poll tax work. Oaksville huckster wagon moves each way as usual. Ira Lemmon now owns the Wright Brewer ranch and will build this fall and winter. Mr and Mrs A A Dahil will soon be fat as they have new teeth.
Miss Mamie Murray and Mr P M Laverty wed at the Murray home near Elma with Rev Father Metz officiating. The Catholic ceremony drew a large crowd, followed by a generous dinner. The couple will reside in Hoquiam. A partial list of gifts shows silverware, lamps, table linens, centerpieces, and various keepsakes from relatives and friends.
Saturday night actions include choosing KK E Shields as mayor pro tem, approving gravel needs for Heron street, delaying Broadway improvements bid deadline May 19, and instructing the attorney to press waterway and sewer measures with railroad and street plans.
The piece argues the people of the Democratic party seized control from party machines by 1900, repudiated Cleveland, and supported Bryan and the Chicago platform. It claims renewed faith of the fathers, opposition to moneyed interests, and a strong turnout while maintaining party unity against foes, predicting the 1900 platform will echo 1896 with new issues.
The Aberdeen Herald reports five escapes from the Chehalis county jail in Sheriff Huff’s 15 month term. Lester Grayson, last to leave, aided by Oregon authorities, escaped after bending window bars. Other escapees include Downing Humphreys Hoyle Englehorn and Grayson. The piece calls for accountability and cost recovery for negligent arrests. It also notes train crossings at Kalama and requests readers to mention the Herald when contacting advertisers.
Professional cards list ABERDEEN Washington attorneys J C Cross and N W Bush, dentist Jos Kent, doctor Paul Smits, and physicians Scannell and Overmeyer with office locations and hours. public notices indicate local commercial listings and services.
The Academy of St Rose holds commencement exercises on Thursday May 17 at 7 30 pm featuring piano duets chorus recitations dialogues instrumental and vocal items with student participants such as Miss E Coxey Miss E Lewis Miss G Beards Miss M Black Miss L Porter Miss F Murphy and Miss K Gleeson along with Rev J W Metz distributing prizes and a tableau Rock of Ages finale.
Public alert lists numerous township ranges and sections in Chehalis county forbidding trespass and timber cutting. Named landholders or officials include George L Feitz of Detroit Michigan, with the notice specifying multiple quarter sections across townships 18 and 17 in 2010.
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