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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1902
Page
4
The Aberdeen Herald lists semi weekly publication under MO J. Carney with a two dollar yearly subscription and discounts for advance payment. It asserts Grays Harbor circulation is the largest in Chehalis County and warns that advertising contracts will be forfeited if the circulation claim is not true.
Henry Watterson defends America as world power and criticizes administration evasion. He rails against military despotism abroad and suppression at home, urging voters to repudiate the current course and demand full facts from Congress.
Bryan's Commoner notes Washington dispatch from April 8 reports Representative Payne stating the consumer bears the tariff, not the foreigner. The remark stuns protectionists and prompts Democratic and Republican refrains about party loyalties and tariff theories.
The Mercantile Association of Reading Pennsylvania with 200 leading merchants vows to refuse any advertising outside newspaper columns. It cites years of rising solicitation for ads such as hotel registers billboards clocks key boards charts programs tickets cook books moving pictures enunciators curtains and pamphlets and pledges members will not use such forms.
Editorial argues county campaign relies on deception by some republican papers. It notes Hoquiam Gazette promoting fusion administration while Cosmopolis Enterprise repeats and adds falsehoods. Urges party to nominate proper men. claims county administration is business, not politics, and cannot be aided by falsification.
With no recent action on a bond election after a failed legal aid agreement the city faces an unpaid bond maturing by July 1. Funding the bonds could save about $8,000 in interest over the next decade, a move urged despite any abandonment of improvement bonds.
The steamboat built for Wilson Bros. Navigation Co. at the foot of G street was launched Saturday afternoon and named Harbor Belle. It measures 100 feet by 20 feet and will serve on the river and harbor with Harbor Queen, sharing operations.
An Oklahoma message quotes H. R. Phelps of Plymouth praising Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for threshers who continued work without time lost. Five bottles sold to local threshers. Evans Drug Co. available for purchase.
W H Abel from Montesano visited Aberdeen venues Olympus theater Eagle dance hall and Gem theater to warn closing under church instruction. He brought O O Owens who filed a warrant against Olympus proprietor S C Coleman for employing women in a liquor sales venue. Judge Mullen granted a continuance to May 19 amid questions of authority and motive.
The Aberdeen Athletic Association held a well attended meeting to establish a permanent organization. Officers elected are President John G. Lewis Vice President S. B. Linn Secretary Geo A Black Treasurer J H Fuller Trustees S K Bowes John O Hara Ed Dolan W J Patterson and Fred Hewitt The site for a park was debated with bids to be invited. proposed options include a James Stewart residence site at about 4000 and Weatherwax Benn second addition blocks 53 15 and 16 for 900 and 840 respectively The trustees will draft articles of incorporation and proceed with bids and purchase.
The West and Slade mill ships the schooners F. M. Slade for Shanghai and R. C. Slade for Santa Rosalia while Halcyon loads for San Francisco at Anderson and Middleton. Benicia loads for Sidney New South Wales and Jennie Thelin sailed to San Francisco. Esther Buhne left for Topolobampo and Sophia Christianson arrived to load for San Pedro at Aberdeen mill.
The notice advertises subscriptions for the Examiner through a local agent and a stranger with rates for the Evans Druc Co Bryan's Commoner for one year and the Aberdeen Hrerate for three months at $1. It also notes a Wanted to Buy ad for young calves by I. Ducross on Hoquiam road opposite the slaughter house.
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