Local Chehalis County items reflect growth and events
Chehalis County notes report additions to homes on Anderson street and at Byles and Emly livery stable. Visitors from Dryad and Seattle, a 21 pound turnip exhibit, injuries at Elma hospital, hot springs trip, a head wound from a falling plank, a booming demand for residence property, and a small wedding near McCleary's mill with 20 guests and festive decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCleary’s Mill
Miss Royal
Mr. Wheeler
John Lewias
M. I
Elma
Montesano Notes On Residents And Industry
Montesano residents arrive and depart including Miss Josephine Huff to Olympia and Duncan Campbell moving his family to River street. Frank H. Lamb showcases labor saving machines at Lamb Timber and ore from the Loraine mine is valued at about 75 dollars per ton.
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W. Fleet
Montesano
Olympia
Senator Watson
Pennsylvania
Fleet
Melaria
Ague
Tle
Virginia
Frank H. Lamb
Lamb Timber Company
Wyncodie
Sham Prosperity and the 1897 Benchmark in Republican Press
The piece contrasts the Chicago Inter-Ocean editorial doubting current prosperity with its 1897 banner of national wealth. It argues the middle class bears rising costs while capitalists and organized labor gain, and notes Democratic editors being ostracized for questioning prosperity. The Washington Post backs the Inter-Ocean’s blunt critique.
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Chicago
Inter-Ocean
United States
Inter- Ocean
Washington Post
the Post
Inter Ocean
The
Post
Schooners land at Union mill dock for brick unload
Miss Anna Dinnison, new Cosmopolis deputy at the post office, replaces Miss Daisy Bevan who has resigned. A large donkey engine, over a hundred horsepower, shipped to Chambers logging camp via Cosmopolis, is not a dwarf. Mrs. Weaver plans to visit her ailing daughter Mrs. C. 8. Duglas in Muskogee Indian Territory. Doctors Kinnison and Whittaker, Aberdeen dentists, dined with Capt. Smith aboard the Marin Smith. C. E. Cox offers ten days of work to open Cosmopolis Melbourne road. Marshal Fry moves to the new cottage, and W. C. Gawley will relocate to the Union Mill residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Warren
Sound Cities
Yakima
Alla Lindsley
Elma
Win. E. Crist
Montesano Hotel
Carlton
Myrtle Rambo
Oregon City
N. St
Anna Dinnison
Cosmopolis
Daisy Bevan
Chambers
North River
Weaver
C. 8. Duglas
Muskogee
Kinnison
Whittaker
Aberdeen
Capt. Smith
Marin
Smith
Local Notes: Mills Lighted, Hay Exports, and Ranch Trades
A. L. Myers returns from Yakima. GC H Nichols Lumber Co to light mill and buildings by electricity. Farmers ship hay. crop good and prices high with some at ten dollars a ton. C Brown sells Angora goats to T S Watkins and Henry Balch on Garrard Creek ranch. Mrs J R Harris recovering from hip injury. Lowman Wilson Lumber Co receives machinery and will resume business. Porter ferry boat under construction on Frank Ericson's property to be launched soon.
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A. L. Myers
Yakima
GC. H. Nichols Lumber Co
C. Brown
T. S. Watkins
Henry Balch
Garrard Creek
J. R. Harris
Lowman-Wilson Lumber Co
Frank Neely
Jas
Criss
Porter
Frank Ericson
Free Watch Giveaway at Edison Theater Show Window
A Thursday evening event at the Edison Theater offers a free $40 gold watch to attendees. Watches are visible in Burnett Bros show window. The item is promoted by the Aberdeen based Semi-Weekly Herald encouraging readers to share with friends in the east.
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Edison Theater
Burnett Bros
Aberdeen
THAT PAPER MILL CHANCE PROMPTS CHAMBER MEETING TONIGHT
Chamber of Commerce members postpone action on Lee A. Parks proposal to build a paper mill after light turnout. A South Aberdeen site near Union sawmill and ready water supplies are cited, with sawmill refuse to fuel the mill seen as key. Citizens are urged to attend tonight’s special meeting to push the project forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Lee A. Parks
Chamber
Aberdeen
Union
C. S. Burrows Co
Wishkah Salvaged After Strait of Fuca Sinking
Unusually heavy squalls in the Strait of Fuca cause the Aberdeen built schooner Wishkah to capsize between Clallam bay and Port Angeles at 11 30 in the forenoon. The crew Ben Gustafson and Andrew Sandberg were rescued by the Seattle fishing schooner Ella Jane. Both men had built the Wishkah in Aberdeen over about three years and were bound for Seattle to outfit for a halibut cruise off Cape Flattery.
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Strait of Fuca
Wishkah
Aberdeen
Seattle
Clallam Bay
Port Angeles
John Smith
Ella Jane
Ben Gustafson
Andrew Sandberg
Cape Flattery
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Chehalis County
Aberdeen Herald
Chas. Wakefield
Anderson Street
M. E. Murrey
Dryad
J. E
Byles & Emly
Lewis’ Store
Wm. Davis
Smith-Ray
Elma General Hospital
Joe Leybold Jr
Gleason
Satsop
Hot Springs
Josephine Huff
People’s University
Duncan Campbell
River Street
al Law
Tacoma
Henry
Thurston County
Cooley
George Glanders
Ocosta
Westport
Jay Williams
Sparta
Wis
Sailsbury
Hoquiam
H. J. Rossiter
Portland
C. E. Philbrick
Judge Parker
J Street
Grays Harbor
Fred J. Chamberlain
Puyallup
Loraine
Chamberlain
Union Mill
C. E. Cox
Melbourne
Marshal Fry
W. C. Gawley
Union Mill Company
Mr. Fry
Oakville
Goldman
Straits of
Fuca
Herald Printery
Wishkah St
GEO
J. Wolff
Trck Collat
Heatig
Heron
Stein-Bloch
Stein-Bloch Company
New York
London
Geo. Fisher
Douglas and Florsheim Shoes
Knox
UR. Long
Elks
Aberdeen, Wash
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