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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1909
Page
5
A digest of Aberdeen social notes and city items. Residents, visits, entertainments, minor legal actions, business ads, and routine community updates paint a snapshot of daily life in Grays Harbor with names, places, and dates woven through the county’s chatter.
A superior court jury awarded Samuel Benn four thousand dollars in a condemnation case against the P S G H Ry Co. The ruling covers a 60 foot strip at the foot of H street where the railway crosses the river. The verdict followed the jury’s Aberdeen view of the premises.
Registration will close next Saturday, November 27, for the school election on December 4. Terms of two directors, W. W. Hert and Dr. W. B. Paine, expire, but there is general willingness to reelect those gentlemen.
Frank J. Becker has bought 20 acres near Electric Park through Will Lanning from Matt Schweitzer. Becker plans to plat the tract and place the lots on the market.
In Aberdeen last Monday evening John Fenwick of Glasgow Scotland surprised his brother Charles Fenwick, a long time Aberdeem pioneer, at 613 East First street. The siblings had not seen each other in 30 years. John plans to bring their mother to join them next spring.
Property owners in North Aberdeen organized the North Aberdeen Improvement Club to boost the suburb. Officers elected include Eri G. Clark as president W W Savage as vice president and William Irvine as secretary treasurer. A committee of Clark Savage Zumbaugh and Baumert was appointed to draft a constitution and bylaws.
The East Hoquiam Shingle company restarted operations this morning after a two month shutdown. A non union crew was hired to run the mill which recently installed upright machines. Some stockholders, former shingle weavers and local union members, aided in the start and hope to avoid trouble as the new crew is built.
W E Rockwell, janitor of the Washington building, has built a small room dryer using hot air at 100 degrees. When children arrive soaked from rain, they enter the dryer and their clothes dry quickly, allowing them to return to class promptly.
A D Wood, nearly 72, was stricken with paralysis at 11 30 p m after three days of illness at his home. He had planned to travel to California for the winter after Thanksgiving and his friends view the stroke with grave concern given his age and sudden onset.
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