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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1910
Page
4
Twenty dozen new percale dresses of the Reliance make at $1.05 each. Calcutta blue Indigo blue Silver Grey Shepherd checks and claret colors. Zephyr ginghams cotton plaids $1.75 to $2.50. Fitted dressing sacques from 49c to 89c. French challi g s s erpentine crepes etc priced 98c to 1.75. Sizes 32 to 46. Long flannelette kimonos from 1.25 to 3.00. Materials available for self or ready to wear.
Dedication exercises Friday night November 4 mark the opening for inspection. State Superintendent Dewey may attend. Program includes school orchestra, glee clubs, choruses, and mixed choirs performing pieces such as The Angelus The Spinning Chorus and Out on the Deep with a large assembly room ceremony at the new building still finishing touches pending.
Pete Munson of Aberdeen Transfer Company was injured near the Hoquiam river draw bridge when his team rushed as the draw began to swing. He was thrown from the seat, struck by the rope barrier, and treated at Hoquiam General Hospital, leaving soon afterward not badly hurt.
A second annual smoker event by Wishkah Lodge Knights of Pythias drew a large attendance at the armory on First Street last Friday. The program featured wrestling bouts, boxing, music, and acts from Rex and Bijou theaters. O. C. Quackenbush chaired, with J. M. Bowes and S. A. Randolph assisting. a uniformed detective detail helped enforce order amid several boisterous attendees.
City council likely to have Aberdeen water tested by the state board of health to determine germ content and safety for domestic use. A Seattle report alleged many germs though not necessarily harmful, prompting calls for weekly tests at little cost to the city. Citizens urge prompt action to identify contamination and prevent sickness amid ongoing typhoid cases.
The Smith-Everson firm with 5 million dollars in capital stock is incorporated to exploit E H Smith’s inventions. Head office sits in Seattle and Aberdeen residents FE H Smith Ed P Clark and Scott Morris sign as incorporators. Smith has long been a hospital inmate pursuing electrical inventions with patent claims cited as revolutionary.
Steglitz jewelers launch a new souvenir spoon design for Aberdeen residents. The bowl bears an engraving of a bark engine used in lumber trade with the inscription The Greater Lumber Port in the World. The handle features a Grays Harbor Salmon motif and the tip shows the Grays Harbor bar with vessels. Made for Mr Steglitz and offered in three grades for sending to eastern friends.
A concise ad from Aberdeen Printing Co promotes superior printing quality with the slogan Not better than the best, or better than the rest. That's our printing. Aberdeen Printing Co. 40% East.
Captain Henry Spoon, long engaged in Wishkah river steamboat business, announces a new boat will be built for the up river trade. He will also improve his river landing property along the strip south of Wishkah street and work on the craft will begin at once.
Aberdeen mayor allows residents to apply for special policeman status to carry revolvers for self protection after a spike in robberies. The mayor says he cannot grant concealed weapon privileges but will designate qualified applicants as special police.
Union lumber mill in South Aberdeen resumes operations after a two month shutdown. Manager M. R. Sherwood, visiting from San Francisco, says the mill is reopening not for a brighter market but to cut costs by avoiding idle operation.
The Moclips Commercial club met at Breakers pavilion to push a better streets program ahead of the season. Meclips school district plans to take two acres near the N P railroad for a new building while pausing Pacific Beach program causing transport to Stearnsville.
In the Superior Court of Washington Chehalis County the estate of J. P. O. Lownsdale deceased is named. Creditors and others with claims against the estate must present vouchers within one year of first publication to A. Emerson Cross administrator at his Wishkah block Aberdeen Washington office. First published October 24 1910.
A block of Wishkah river frontage is offered in trade. The contact is F. W. Kaser of Walla Walla Washington with reference 11 401.
The Hoquiam local lodge of the A. O. U. W. and Degree of Honor celebrated their forty second anniversary with about 250 people in attendance at their hall last Friday night. Hoquiam architect Combs predicts a building boom with many modern fireproof structures in the next 15 months signaling a wave of improvement citywide.
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