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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
3
Eugene France visits Portland on business while locals report varios social events and movements. Pasadena trips, baby birth, church meetings, permits, and upcoming banquets fill Aberdeen Chronicle notes with health, transport, and civic life details.
Two seated Surry, good as new, offered for trade in exchange for pigs or cattle. Grays Harbor Logging Co., Aberdeen, Washington. 41-67 J.
County charity commissioner Rev Charles McDermoth was asked by county commissioners to estimate current costs of maintaining the county poor farm and placing patients elsewhere. They seek ground for plans to open a county hospital between Aberdeen and Hoquiam. Current indigent care costs 1500 dollars monthly. hospital maintenance runs 500 dollars monthly with no returns. potential savings of 400 to 500 dollars monthly if the building is opened for use.
Classified note announces sale of Belgian and Rufus Red rabbits at Highland Home Rabbitry located at 722 Fourth Avenue Aberdeen. Seller J Kaifer places the ad with contact details but no price. The notice is a brief package of farm livestock commerce.
William Leker sley died Wednesday night while being transported to a local hospital after being removed from John Sorenson's home by order of Dr J B Kinne for medical treatment. Remains are at Whiteside Undertaking awaiting relatives in Nova Scotia. Local Eagles lodge likely to conduct funeral.
Real estate advertisement offering 43 acres river bottom land with 21 acres in cultivation one mile west of Malone. Asking price 3600 dollars. Contact H. M. Dunlap in Elma Washington R F D No 1.
The Orpheus club delays its concert at the Grand theater until next month due to illness of Theo Carl Johnston Seattle tenor who was to sing solos. Johnston was attacked by appendicitis during the Standard Grand Opera company performance and rushed to hospital but is expected to recover. new date likely June 11 or 15.
An advertisement urges daily use of Dr. King's New Life Pill to maintain digestion and a natural bowel movement. It claims improved appetite, digestion, and overall health with a nightly dose followed by a morning movement.
A tennis court is being laid out behind Aberdeen City Hall for Aberdeen fire department members and will soon be ready for games.
Advert says neglect turns cold into illness. It urges early treatment with Dr King’s New Discovery, claiming first dose clears the head and improves breathing, and encourages buying a bottle today to start relief.
A federal report details the 1914 fiscal year export totals for fir and related lumber products. Washington and Oregon supplied most fir exports, with vast shipments to Australia, Asiatic points, and South America, while Europe took smaller amounts. Box shooks and shingles show Canada and Mexico as major buyers, with Europe and Oceanica also importing notable volumes.
Sunday school will be held next Sunday at 10 a m Morning service at 11 a m Sermon titled A Natural and Spiritual Law Rev J E Naylor evangelist will preach Young People meeting at 7 p m Evening service at 8 p m subject Shipwrecks Life Lessons from the Edwardice Titanic etc Mr Naylor known as The Sailor Evangelist Special music Welcome
The notice proclaims Dr Messer as the oldest permanently established men's specialist on Grays Harbor with over 20 years of experience. He offers confidential, office based treatment for chronic diseases and urological issues and guarantees no agents or assistants, free consultations, and credentials from universities. Office at 30414 E Heron Street, Aberdeen.
Wm H Pearson spent the week serving summonses in the east end. J R Walker of Aberdeen Lodge No 31 AOUW dies in Forest Grove Oregon. The Aberdeen Montesano baseball opener ends 28 27 for Aberdeen. Capt J M Weatherwax and Mrs W E Keyes travel to Grand Rapids Michigan. A J West wins cigars by sawing lumber. Carl Weatherwax joins the office staff. Eugene France leaves for Grand Rapids with stops in Tacoma Des Moines Iowa for two months. Mrs R H Evans visits Columbus Kansas two months via Montana and Kansas City. R H goes as far as Montesano. Martin Harrison celebrated a new baby girl with cigars. Foresters secret society organized with 21 charter members.
The article discusses three American women as early English speaking suffragists, focusing on Margaret Brent the Maryland executrix and attorney for Lord Baltimore. Brent demanded voice and vote in the 1647 48 assembly after Calvert’s death but was denied by the session.
The American Boy Scouts were organized by the International Committee of the YMCA in New York City in February 1910. The movement aims to build character in boys aged 12 to 18 through outdoor life, camping, hiking, and woods skill, emphasizing discipline and self reliance without government support.
The Articles of Confederation adopted November 15, 1777 by the Continental Congress served as the compact to be ratified by the thirteen colonies. It linked the colonies into a loose union as they fought Great Britain, forming the United States of America.
The second annual Eagles Day in Chehalis County attracted 600 to 800 Eagles from Hoquiam Aberdeen Elma and Montesano. Monte sano beat Hoquiam 27 to 7 in the afternoon ball game and also held a field meet at the ball park.
A suit for debt by the Retail Lumber Company against the Columbia Amusement Company was before Judge Ben Sheeks this morning. Teachers examinations are being held in the county superintendent's office today and tomorrow in Montesano.
The Tylenchus devastatrix eelworm has reappeared in the Pacific Northwest far from its 1913 discovery site. It damages onions and flowering bulbs like hyacinths as well as rye, oats, hemp, potatoes and strawberries, thriving in moist, mild climates but unlikely to persist in deep freezes.
Rev. T. H. Simpson, longtime county missionary and Princeton graduate, was formally inducted as regular pastor of the First Presbyterian church on Wednesday night. Rev. Robert Milligan preached the sermon from Emmanuel Presbyterian Tacoma. D. D. Alex George addressed the assembly. James H. Hayes of Tacoma gave the charge, with installation prayer by Rev. James Ervine. Music included solos by N. P. Bryan and George Evans.
Senator Miles Poindexter was guest of honor at a noon luncheon at Hotel Washington hosted by the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce. He arrived by Harbor and stayed in Hoquiam, saying there is no danger of U S entry into the European war and that Europe offers no warlike peril to the United States.
The Aberdeen board of education elected three new department heads for the high school. S L Rupp from Mt Vernon becomes head of English and German, Grace Sharp of Centralia leads the mathematics department, and B A Leonard of Chehalis heads the science department.
City carrier subscribers who do not receive the Herald on Tuesday or Friday by 6 p m should call City Messenger Co. at phone 73 to arrange immediate delivery of a copy.
A joint celebration of Denmark’s 101st anniversary will be held Sunday at the Hoquiam theater. Norwegian societies of Grays Harbor present elaborate exercises and a musical program directed by S Wetteland. Reserved seats sold at Red Cross Drug Store on Thursday May 27.
Celia Crowley sues Patrick H Crowley in Washington Superior Court to dissolve the bonds of matrimony and adjudge land in Aberdeen as the plaintiff's separate property. The summons requires Patrick Crowley to answer within sixty days ofApril 9 1915 and serve the reply on attorney F R Conway at Aberdeen.
In the Superior Court of Washington Chehalis County the estate of J M Lewis deceased issues notice to creditors and all claimants to present verified claims with vouchers to executor A H Griffin at Hotel Washington Aberdeen within one year from first publication. Claims not presented will be barred by law. Dated April 7 1915. The Herald is the most widely read paper in Chehalis County.
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