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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
3
Aberdeen items note A P Stockwell travels to San Francisco on business and Dr. G W Overmeyer practicing locally. Club meetings and social visits fill the week as 90 new telephones spark city growth. changes include Rev J McQueen headed to Juneau Alaska and Miss Rhinehart wed in Alliance Ohio.
The chief distinction of Royal Baking Powder is its fruit origin from cream of tartar derived from grapes. It emphasizes natural food with no alum or phosphate, setting it apart from mineral substitutes used in other powders.
Mrs. Mattie Ross heads to Snyder Texas. Arthur Dollar leaves for Ludington Michigan. Miss Florence Douglas travels to Philadelphia for Bryn Mawr studies, Mary Hogan to New York City for music. she is escorted to Seattle by her parents. Paint work planned on Wishkah and G streets. Rev E M Hill and family settle in as First Methodist pastor in town. Mrs Annie Jenneon convicted of bootlegging and fined. Gronows trip to Seattle for Fraternal Order of Eagles trustees meeting. Obituary notes for Mrs C Otterstein. many friends recall her Aberdeen stay. Knights of Pythias district convention held in Olympia. Elma chosen for next June. St Andrews Guild hosts reception at LaFayette. Hugh Delanty and Peter Ibsen noted in local business. Farewell reception for Rev and Mrs W T Randolph. they move to Tacoma to serve St Paul’s church.
J M Boyle Jr, a 27 year old Minnesota born lawyer raised in Tacoma, has settled in Aberdeen to pursue a legal career. He was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Justice of the Peace and seeks voter support on election day. Aberdeen attorneys praise his study, legal grounding, and character, urging ballots for him on November 7.
Aberdeen High hosts Vancouver High next Saturday on home ground as both teams prepare for a competitive afternoon game. Vancouver is described as a strong opponent, so fans anticipate an engaging contest.
Robert McNamara, badly injured six weeks ago in a collision between his motorcycle and a milk wagon on the road between Montesano and Aberdeen, suffered a re break of a leg bone last Saturday while stepping from a porch. He will be laid up for several weeks.
In a near adjournment vote Mayor J M Phillips placed two letters from Puget Sound Steel Corp Chicago before the Aberdeen council. The letters urge federal backing for a canal linking Olympia to Grays Harbor with naval officials praising its strategic value. The council endorsed the idea and will hand the letters to the Chamber of Commerce.
Splendid program features congregational prayers and choir responses, soprano solo, and multiple anthems including The First Psalm and Day is Dying in the West. The Lambilotte and Warrel orchestras accompany with offertory pieces amid a sermon by Rev. W. H. Gibson and a final anthem Blow Ye the Trumpet. Congregation participates throughout hosted by Caldbeck Creswell and Mr J Rigg.
Montesano September 28 W G Powell of Aberdeen elected chairman of the county Republican committee at the meeting Saturday. T B Bruener chosen as state committee member. Reuben H Fleet elected secretary. C D Baker named treasurer. Executive committee of 15 appointed for campaign plans.
The Aberdeen Fly and Ball Casting Club plans to relocate from Stewart Creek to Electric Park and build a pond and casting platforms. Arrangements were made with P. A. Bertrand manager of the Grays Harbor Railway and Light Co.
C S Schlentz sold his northwest corner lot at Heroin and I streets to a Tacoma realty company. He received the Var Noyes apartments in Tacoma as part of the exchange. The deal valued Schlentz corner at about $50,000 for a 50 by 130 foot parcel.
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