Hoquiam eyed for harbor oil storage site
The National Petroleum company and the Los Angeles Oil Refining company of Southern California seek a harbor site in Hoquiam to erect large oil tanks for fuel and other oils. Mr Hutchinson, representing the firms, is surveying potential locations and Hoquiam may be chosen as the distribution hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoquiam
National Petroleum Company
The
Los Angeles Oil Refining Company
California
Hutchinson
Hoquiam trims 1914 budget and reduces tax levy
Hoquiam city commissioners cut the 1914 budget from 113 246 to 92 746 dollars lowering the tax levy to 17.1 mills down 1.45 mills from last year. Indebtedness and refunding bond interest fell while the library levy rose to seven tenths of a mill. The fire department lost 6400 dollars as the panel rejected a new auto pumper for the East Side station.
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Hoquiam
East Side
L. H. Brewer
Commercial Club
Southwest
Aberdeen Levy Holds Down Local Tax Rates
County city and school district budgets fix Aberdeen's levy at 47.817 mills. The J M Weatherwax High School cost overruns led to a ten mill school tax, with district no 5 expecting rising costs from 123 new pupils. Bonds totaling 2890000 are discussed to replace warrants and stabilize debt, while overall levies remain among the lowest in years.
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Aberdeen
Port of
Grays Harbor
Araregie Pia Hes Eco Ie
easteAeast
J.M. Weatherwax High School
West End
Timber Billing Highlights County Tax Debate
Satsop farmer M L Gleason seeks payment for cedar log and hemlock logs cut during Tornow hunt. Timber values vary by county need, with 4000 feet of cedar at 3 per thousand and 8000 feet of hemlock at 1.50 per thousand. Commissioners have not acted on the bill.
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Montesano
M. L. Gleason
Satsop
Scottish Rite lodge to confer degrees in Aberdeen
Special dispensation from Ernest Bertrand Hussey 33rd degree enables the Olympia Scottish Rite bodies to confer 4th to 14th degrees on Grays Harbor initiates in Aberdeen tomorrow. The Aberdeen event marks the first such meeting in the region, with Olympia leaders Morris Mowell Gaillac directing the 4th to 32nd degree bodies north of the Columbia River and to the Pacific Ocean.
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Ernest Bertrand Hussey
Olympia Lodge of Perfection No
Masonic Temple
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor
Olympia
Columbia River
Pierce County
Willamette
Pacific Ocean
Lodge of Perfection
George E. Morris
Chapter of
Rose Croix
Shelly B. Mowell
Council of
Albert C. Gaillac
Heath seeks injunction to halt public ity tax roll extension
Sidney Moor Heath announces plans to ask the superior court for an injunction to block extending the .4 mill publicity levy on the tax rolls, a measure proposed by the city commission in Hoquiam.
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Hoquiam
Sidney Moor Heath
Superior Court
City Commission
Anniversary Week Discount on Bedding and Corsets
Announced as part of Anniversary Week, a 10 percent discount applies to comforters while R. and G. Corsets are being closed out as the line is discontinued.
Receiver appointed for Millsaps & Gardner grain assets
Montesano Oct 9 Judge Irwin appoints Sheriff Mathews as receiver for oats and other grain owned by Millsaps & Gardner in the suit brought by John H. Wolfe to collect an overdue account.
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Montesano
Avey
Elma
Irwin
Mathews
Millsaps & Gardner
John H. Wolfe
Speedy drive saves lumber yard worker from axe injury
Ralph Emerson of Aloha drove 25 miles in about 30 minutes to reach R. O. Whitson an Aloha Lumber Co employee who had been cut on the arm by an axe and was bleeding severely. Whitson was saved from fatal loss of blood by the rapid transport.
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Hoquiam
Ralph Emerson
Aloha
R. O. Whitson
Aloha Lumber Company
Whitson
Emerson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grays Harbor Gas Company
W. Heron
Particular Printers
Aberdeen Printing Co
East Wishkah St
the Electric Service and Supply Company
Grays Harbor Railway and Light Company
Electric
Tornow
Wiley
Wolff
Wolff’s
Munsingwear
Athena
Kayser
Geo. J. Wolff
Columbia
Frye & Co
U. S
Bridge & Beach Superior
Aurora
H. L. Cook & CO
Heron Street
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