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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1908
Page
8
News from Chehalis County includes travel reports, social visits, and domestic movements. J B Kesterson returns from Oregon while RH S Dillard visits from the North River country. Marital notices list Alfred Evenson and Lottie Warwick wed at the Montesano Methodist parsonage and Aoklund with Evenson as license holders.
Mrs. Macash injured after a fall at home Friday night with a fracture of the collarbone and shoulder. Mrs. C H Wise returns from Seattle after a short visit. Fred Thurber lands a month long mail contract from Hoquiam to Westport Ocosta and Markham. Geo Palmer sails to San Francisco for a brief holiday. A still alarm reports a Wilson Quimby store fire caused by an overheated stove observed by passersby.
Mrs. Dr McIntyre recovers well after recent hospital operation. Judge Joseph R Staats dies at 74 at 721 Karr Avenue, father of Mrs Taft. City considers more street lights and faster lighted routes. O W Cole returns from Hawaii aboard a lumber schooner. Charles Steele suffers a fall, breaks rib, hospitalized. R H Dawdy departs for Seattle then San Francisco or Hawaii for winter. Medical graft transfers 20 square inches of skin to Hilda Scanlon for severe burns from Tacoma accident.
Elma residents report travel and visits including Boyd Lewis and wife from Raymond and Miss Rose Taylor called to Tacoma for Mrs. C A McDonald’s illness. Ralph Beckwith’s farm home burned last week. T L Fenton family to Hoquiam to manage Hotel Glenwood. Mrs Stanton Price returns to Oakville after visiting L A and Mrs Werts. Mrs Geo Crisp travels from Coun cil Bluffs with Mrs W Campbell. J H Brewer and Mrs Sherwood attend Mrs Sparks birthday in Olympia.
Lawrence Fry shot a large black bear on Tuesday. Lafe Neeley and Chas. Van Vleet from Garrard Creek visited Olympia on Wednesday. Frank Heck traveled to Cedarville to see Ross Rasmussen who is ill at his home there. Baldwin and Porter’s camp closed last week due to repairs on their donkey engine. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Howey have set up housekeeping in a cottage nearby.
Mrs. J. O. Van Winkle entertained about forty ladies at a Tuesday afternoon Autumn Shower held at her residence. The event honored Miss Faith Burch with warm refreshments and social visits among friends.
A campaign statement frames support for Geo L Davis as a verdict against treachery toward Grays Harbor, highlighting local political tension and loyalty questions amid the election discourse.
Dr. Laura A C Hughes plans retirement to a convent after leading the Spanish American War Nurses and the Boston Red Cross Nurses. Dames, clubwomen, and pioneers highlighted include Mrs. Morton Worthan Sloan of Huntington and Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, whose portrait hangs in Michigan's capitol and who helped open the University of Michigan to women.
The column notes James Whitcomb Riley as Indianapolis’s best dressed man while Richard Harding Davis becomes deputy sheriff at White Plains to police his North Castle property after recent holdups. Edith Wharton wins large prizes in Lenox horticultural show. Addington Bruce joins New Hampshire literary colony and works on a new book at a Brookline farm.
The London bishop for 25 years remains a teetotaler as church groups report 70 404 United Society of Christian Endeavor societies with about 50 000 members in the past year. Canada marks the 1710 first Church of England service with plans for a 1910 bicentenary. Milwaukee Grand Avenue Methodist aids transportation for a 50th anniversary service for Elder Edwin Hyde and wife.
Winston Churchill describes a Baganda response to praise in Strand Magazine. A simple phrase triggers deep reverence as a man kneels and sways, smiling broadly while vocalizing A-o, a-o, a-o in joyful tribute.
Maxine Elliott premieres Clyde Fitch's The Social Guide. Grace Van Studdiford prepares The Golden Butterfly. Edgar Selwyn wrote Father and Son to be produced by the Schuberts. Julia Sanderson engaged by Charles Frohman for a London production. Thomas E. Shears to tour twenty weeks in vaudeville with a condensed The Bells.
Glasgow and its immediate suburbs now report a population just over one million. Geologists say New York City is extremely earthquake resistant. Granite Oklahoma proposes placing a penitentiary there citing abundant nearby quarries to employ convicts for millennia.
The excerpts critique the national game analogy and discuss election integrity. The quotes condemn a spellbinder’s influence on voters and classify a dishonest election judge as a criminal. They note a vote for C. W. Arland aims to anchor the courthouse at Montesano.
A lively crowd comments on a young woman using fruit metaphors. One spectator calls her the peach and apple of her father’s eye. Another suggests she and Binks would pair well, while a cynic calls her lemonlike yet fruitful in resources.
Paris Figaro quotes cautioning about Palanquin who allegedly lent money and is considered not edifying, prompting a decision to avoid returning the loaned funds. The remark frames Palanquin as a troubling figure in society.
The Kansas City Times notes a leader who pledged a whirlwind campaign and then delivered intense, rapid efforts. The commentary highlights swift, forceful campaigning as a defining approach and frames it as influential to the political scene.
A humorous item notes doctors recommending the barefoot cure as a remedy. The subject, urged to try it, goes shoeless and causes urban teasing as a mock bruiser figure, with quips about his tough bluff. Kansas City Times.
A Chicago News column uses a cynical metaphor about men and marriage saying men’s lives resemble checkbooks and that wives expect every page to reflect a payment or balance. The piece critiques perceived financial control in relationships.
In a brief item from the Houst on Post a speaker notes he had lots of luck fishing but others counter that the luck was all bad. The exchange frames a sly, sardonic remark about fishing fortunes.
A Baltimore Americana poem fragment hints at magic in a woman's faint touch and a marriage proposal hindered by her waning interest. The speaker senses enchantment in her sleight of hand while grappling with commitment.
A discussion on how dime novels and sensational stories corrupt youth by shaping desires and ideals. It cites boyhood heroes like Jesse James and Frank Tracy and warns girls face distorted views from harmful literature. The piece urges parents to monitor books and consider Hawthorne’s Great Stone Face as a cautionary tale.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado will be staged by local talent at the Grand theater on Wednesday to aid the Schubert Club. About sixty performers, including several local favorites, will participate with a strong chorus and revised libretto. proceeds aim to erase the club’s past deficit.
Mrs. Wm. H. Serig of Wheeling West Virginia reports her daughter suffered severe colds and coughs last winter but was cured with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy without a doctor. She also notes her son avoided croup with timely use of the syrup sold by Evans Drug Co.
Advice on sprain care notes Chamberlain's Pain Balm reduces inflammation and speeds healing. Claims sprains recover in about one third the usual time with the liniment. Sold by Evans Drug Company.
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