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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1902
Page
4
The Aberdeen Herald lists semi weekly publication schedule edited by G J Carney. It outlines subscription prices with discounts for advance payment and touts itself as Chehalis County's oldest paper with the largest circulation on Grays Harbor.
Hoquiam readers report a harsh critique of chairman Geo Davis by an anonymous letter. The writer accuses Davis of partisanship and misusing public funds in a county printing dispute, urging voters to elect John G. Foster for reform.
County commissioners finally order a survey for the Aberdeen-Montesano road amid pre election rhetoric. Davis asserts the road will be built if city funds are available, while the current board faces voter scrutiny. The Democratic county committee opts not to fill the county treasurer vacancy. Wedding and engagement rings. GOLDMAN, Seattle.
County commissioners will submit the township organization question at the upcoming election. A majority vote will divide the county into organized townships outside cities, each with at least 25 inhabitants and elected officials. Townships may tax and bond up to five percent of assessed valuation.
The Des Moines Register and Leader rejects Cousins’ claim that the tariff-trust plank is a dirty lie. It notes Roosevelt’s Cincinnati speech shows only a general care to modify tariffs that foster monopolies, not a formal trust monopoly distinction. The Iowa platform, it says, condemns all monopolies as evils.
Opinion piece argues that inflated prosperity myths by monopolies create a fragile economic bubble. It warns a pin prick could trigger a stock market collapse, noting Wall Street seeks treasury aid as farmers and Coxey’s army did, while deflating trust issues threaten a wider crisis.
Elma resolves to drill a 500 foot well for town use to seek artesian water. Even if water does not flow, the bore will reveal the geological formation to that depth and prove its feasibility.
The Kansas City Journal argues the trust question is undeveloped but every coal bin, grocery store, and butcher shop shows it is fully developed. It notes critics from a party funded by trusts plead for removing the issue from politics while the public faces it daily.
The republican press accuses the Heraup of mudslinging while the paper says it has not attacked their candidates and merely printed factual details. The piece notes no originality in the Benn tale and questions how opposition papers would react if a democratic candidate were in the same position.
The Espado loads at Bryden & Leitch for San Francisco while the Newburg left West & Slade for the same port. Sailor Boy sails from Aberdeen for Santa Barbara and A. J. West sits at West & Slade awaiting high tide to sail for San Pedro. Andy Mahoney and W. J. Wittemann and Chas. Hansen load at Anderson & Middleton for San Francisco. F. M. Slade heads to Sidney, New South Wales, and Edward R. West embarks on its maiden voyage to Australia. G. C. Lindauer will load at Cosmopolis and Wilcon for San Francisco.
A near disaster at Pinckmey and Johnson’s shop was averted by freshmen and quick thinking. A soldering pot sent flaming gasoline onto workers, burning hands and singeing faces as flames spread. The heroes beat out the flames, suffering burns but preventing a larger tragedy.
Montesano resident A B Halloway listed with County Clerk D J Lawrence of Aberdeen Superintendent K H Moore of Elma and Coroner F L Carr. Commissioners P Murray of Elma and P F Clark J G Foster of Hoquiam. Justice of the Peace John J Carney named.
Davis Kentucky druggist C T Smith extols Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming it cures, saves throat and lung sufferers when doctors fail. Mothers rely on it as physicians prescribe it with guarantee of satisfaction or refund. Trial bottles free. Regular sizes 50c and 1.
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