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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
8
In Chehalis County, various items of interest from all sections are gathered by Aberdeen Herald correspondents and shared from county exchanges. The report compiles local notes, short updates, and happenings across communities within the region.
Mrs Leonard Montesano Almira and Mrs Farnest Baker visit their sister Mrs Fred Rosmond. Sheriff Payette moves to H Owens house on Church street. Miss Minnie McDowell to Tacoma High School this week. Judge Bignold sells 160 acres up Black Creek for 5200 to Lamb Timber. Jos Alexander summoned to Seattle for wife illness. R H Fleet sells 20 acre ranch on Satsop River to Davis Donovan of Monmouth Oregon. Chris Pherson buys Mrs Mitchell property on Broad Street and will reside there. Light and Water petition seeks one o clock lighting. Mrs Mabel Colaw searches for Carl Colaw in Montesano with his dissolute stepfather John Art.
Mrs Ralph Ennis moved to Aberdeens to join husband Pp Pearsons of Valley City Duke visiting his brother Alderman and sons C T Osgood of Hoquiam. Evelyn Vance died in Aberdeen after a two week illness of typhoid fever. Funk of King Coal toured Elma for bunkers and yards. Mrs Walsh of Los Angeles visited Elma then Montesano. Congressman Humphrey and wife from Seattle visited with Neil Cooney of Grays Harbor Commercial. The party toured logging camps near Lima during a beach trip.
Miss Olive Mauermann visited Seattle for a few days. Mrs L M Connine of Roseburg Oregon arrives to teach Connie district school. Attorney Norman S Richards will soon erect an office adjacent to Jime Carpenter Vosper properties. Vosper contracts for a new house for Vet Hart near Blockhouse Smith ranch. Oscar Lonborg buys five acres of land east of town for a building site on the main road. Mrs J O Van Winkle returns home after three months touring New York and the eastern states.
The Dan's Mountain Mormon settlement formerly Point Granville prospers with growth expected to reflect a larger population in the fifteenth census. Thomas McCrossen, a U S agent at Yiholah, is reported to return this week with a refined visitor from eastern Washington, a Vitile lady, amid the colony's continued development.
Hub Davis departed Saturday for Aberdeen and will tour British Columbia and Oregon. He plans to return to Mockpsigain due to local property interests. Dry lumber is hauled to Quinsault for the new schoolhouse with C. H. Scott of Hoquiam as contractor. Elmer Adams will supply green lumber from his mill at Quiniault.
Dr. John S. Buist notes in a surgical lecture that busy doctors danger. A Paint Rock minister hires a gravedigger whose demand for steady work ends in a wry joke about burying the town quickly. The tale highlights practicality over boastfulness.
A rabbi answers a student’s joke about learning the whole law by standing on one foot. He declares the essence of law is “What you would not Ike done to yourself do not to thy neighbor,” adding that all else is commentary and urging study.
A Scotsman asked for Robert Burns but the shopkeeper retrieved several Burns editions. The customer corrected him, saying he sought rubber bands instead. The tale ends with a quip on people getting what they want without meaning to.
A comic call for help to harvest crops depicted as pleading to be saved from waste. The piece contrasts ripe produce with poverty and mentions baby shoes skating lessons and lifting the owner into a higher class, with dialogue about age and census expectations.
Twenty five acres of good bottom land located a quarter mile from Satsop station. Includes a five room house a barn and a woodshed. Asking price is 38500 dollars. Apply to Henry Elmore Satsop. 101-21.
The notice promotes outdoor sport attire and indoor wear including Negligee Shirts with soft collars and cuffs from 1.00 to 1.50. It also advertises fall neckwear collars and hats arriving for selection.
W R Gilbert offers practical horse care advice focusing on injuries from accidents, especially curb and tendon sprains. He prescribes prompt cooling, liniments, salves, and wound dressings, plus notes on grease heels, proper rest, and homemade plasters.
An agricultural note urges dairymen to build silos as the cheapest cow feed. It claims corn or crowd land silage yields ten tons per acre at about $1.50 per ton once stored, providing winter forage that replaces pasture. Every farmer with milk cows should have a silo.
David Johson recalls a 1793 frontier gantlet incident told by John Severns. Two white prisoners faced a line of 1000 Indians for a cruel trial. The older man prayed, was killed by a club, while the younger man fled to attempt a rescue but was overpowered. The chief later adopts the rescuer as a son.
The Berlin section describes Germans eating as a daily pleasure with meals at set times and widespread cafe life. A London note recounts Lord Sheffield mistaking a pocket thief for the culprit after a joke with a handkerchief, then realizing his pocketbook was missing.
Van Antler says the household will have a good dinner tonight with the English butler handling all catering. Grubb doubts full reliability but notes an order was placed to send something from the kitchen table for the evening.
A playful dialogue in which Staylaight-Oh asks to visit Miss Wobbins again and she responds that only by going this time can the visit occur. The exchange centers on arranging a future meeting and the weathered tone hints at a cautionary stance.
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