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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1910
Page
2
Waughs News promotes a wide selection of all wool covert jackets in tan and black for 6.50, high end wraps 8.50 to 10.00, and long coats around 10.00, noting fashionable styles for fall. Multiple notices report travel, engagements, and property transactions among local residents and families.
Excellent values at 15 to 18 dollars. Serge or broadcloth coats fit for 22.50. Aberdeen agency for Bestyette raincoats and apes for ladies and children. Garments satisfactory or refund. Desirable motoring coats at low prices. Cravanetted serge coats in black or navy 15.00. New wash dresses in linen or chambray, sizes 32 to 46, plus assortment for misses and children.
Waugh anthology items from Chehalis County notes Mrs H B Marcy hosted Women s club gathering at 33 Miss Adeline St Adeline St Jacque sidelined by rusty nail injury W Baremore of Etiwanda Cal visiting mother till after Decoration Day Mrs Ernest Relikens and sister LaBare visit Tacoma Ruth Medcalf says brother Clinton still slow after hospital stay T W Wilson spent week at home in Satsop with throat illness Judge Murphy officiated at weddings Olaf Tolson Taylor and Lucy Jennie Baila Aberdeen Maizie Gates and Arthur Smock wed Also licenses issued for John Wojs Ezi Pilch Olaf T Taylor Lucy J Balla A W Smock Mazie Gates Volney Cass Elizabeth A MacDonald.
Mrs. S W Gaskill is seriously ill with heart disease. The stork brought a fine daughter to Mr and Mrs Joe Kinnaman on Thursday.
May 20 birth of a 6 pound girl to Frank Harris at 1128 Arnold Avenue. Mrs Allen to Portland for Rose Festival. Mrs John Burt back from six months in Wisconsin. Wm Wagner of Shaw Nelsons camp in town. Mrs Ross Haley and child visiting Mrs George Allman from Seattle. Charles Massin leaves for Michigan to visit parents. Mrs C Williams back from Portland. Vera Lamb ill with measles. Mrs E O Kennedy returns to Centralia after visit with sister Mrs C G Blagen. Mrs J W G Posey hosts party on Second Street. Mrs M Berg honored with surprise gift at daughter Mrs Stolseth’s home. Freshman class meeting and party at Third Street home of Vera and Harry Shaneberger.
Oakville reports J J Hanson shipped a car of hay to sound points this week. Born to Mr and Mrs Chas Bus sard on Tuesday May 19 a son. Miss Nina Smyth of Satsop visits Miss Ina Tennyson. J E Fitzgerald called to Tacoma on business. Harlan Couch of Star Idaho visits Oakville. Smith and Balch shingle mill closed. FE Smith left for North Yakima on business. Jas Clevinger from Aberdeen visits. now involved with Aberdeen Employment Co where he serves as secretary.
Hoquiam sets plans to host about 2000 Civil War veterans and auxiliary groups during the June 21 22 23 encampment. Committee reports nearly all of the $1 000 needed for entertainment subscribed. Rose gold badges with a Grays Harbor logging scene ordered as souvenirs.
County Fish Warden Collin McKinzie notes many salmon floating dead in the Hoquiam River. Several hundred corpses observed with the tide and the cause unknown. An investigation will seek to identify if dynamite was used and locate those responsible.
Aberdeen Gardens directors H W Weatherald Albert Franke and Jacob Anderson were cited for contempt of court after a 171 judgment to Hans Hansen remained unpaid. A former board had awarded a 1450 contract for a school house but failed to secure a bonding surety, allowing the contractor to disappear with pay. Labor and material bills remained unsettled and the project may cost the district much more than the original price.
A new 65000 dollar steel bridge spans the Hoquiam river at Eighth street nearing completion. It was swung by hand yesterday and should open to the public in a week to ten days. The wooden Eighth street bridge was condemned 262 days ago and a ferry was used meanwhile. The contract went to C G Sheely Contracting of Seattle with sublet to Penn Bridge of Portland. The contract time ran out May 1 and daily penalties of 20 dollars accrue for each day past the limit.
Hoquiam hosts a grand dedication of the new Elks hall with Grand Exalted Ruler R. HE. Padgett of Everett and Gen. James M. Ashton of Tacoma among speakers. More than 3,000 attend the opening tour and ceremonial program featuring addresses, music, and inspections.
The Eastern Chehalis County Game Protection club organized at Elma with over 20 sportsmen signing the charter to protect fish and game. They argue Chehalis county is too large for one warden and funds will support protection and propagation locally. John F. Rogers is recommended for the eastern county wardenship. By-laws are being drafted.
Montesano, May 21. The regular commencement exercises of the high school were held last night. The address will be delivered by F. F. Walder, deputy state superintendent of schools. Graduates named are John P. Murphy, Kenneth McNeill and Mary F. Perkins.
An advertisement claims deafness arises from an inflamed Eustachian tube and can be cured by constitutional remedies. It offers $100 for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall’s Catarrh Cure cannot cure and promotes related products with a Toledo address and druggist sales.
In a three day event at Wolff's store 225 babies under two weighed a total 5435 pounds. Prizes ranged from cash and coats to jackets and shoes awarded to youngest lightest and heaviest babies in several age brackets. Notable winners include John Roland Arthur born 42 days earlier and Lyda Skaar the heaviest under one year.
The Grays Harbor and Puget Sound Railway will complete its line to Grays Harbor in two weeks connecting to a transcontinental route. Trains start after a 30 day delay for ballast work. The line from Chehalis river near Rochester to Cosmopolis faced heavy flood damage last winter.
A long list of pleased patrons frames an advertisement for Herald Printery promising services from milk tickets to full sheet posters and inviting local business to plan their printing needs.
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