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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
3
Fire Warden Jackson warns burning without permit in Grays Harbor, while Aberdeen clerks and residents attend social and church events. The column lists local visits, travels, and society notices from merchants, clubs, and families, including weddings and homecomings across multiple towns.
Funeral services were held Friday for Harold David Rosing son of Rev and Mrs C O Rosing from the family home 515 East Fifth Street. Susan H Stevens widow of F E Stevens of Hoquiam died September 23 at Hoquiam General Hospital aged 55. Surviving are a sister Mrs A J McIntyre and brother L W Taft both residents of Hoquiam. May Haggerty died September 24 at a local hospital aged 36. Surviving are husband Charles Haggerty who has charge of Wishkah Boom company dam and deceased's parents Mr and Mrs Cameron of Portland. Ira Brumbaugh was instantly killed in an automobile accident Sunday September 26 near the junction of East Hoquiam cut off with Wishkah road. Brumbaugh lost control and the car left the road overturning and crushing Mrs Brumbaugh against a fence post others escaped with minor injuries. D C Fitts formerly a Hoquiam resident died September 25 in Vancouver aged 36 and survived by widow four children and five brothers in Seattle and a sister in Alaska. Mrs Sophie Carlson and infant daughter died September 28 at Greenwood 12 miles up the Wishkah river aged 42. Charles Ashman died September 28 of tuberculosis survived by wife and one child. Whiteside undertaking will send remains for interment in St Johns. Harry Swan of Hoquiam injured August 25 at E K Wood mill died September 12 aged 48 survived by widow and son Willard and daughter Bessie.
Mrs. Giles Quimby dies at her Montesano home on September 12 leaving a husband and two young children, with A M Mitchell and Mrs E S Dunham as relatives. Earl Noble dies at 19 from spinal meningitis at the family home in Hoquiam, with Frank and Mrs. Noble and four sisters listed as survivors. H. P. Casey dies at 60 in the Aberdeen post office lobby after years as a logger, with a fortune rumored. Golden West Coffee finishes the meal, Shelley's Grocery in Aberdeen advertises contact details.
The Aberdeen lumber industry rebounds with mills resuming and higher lumber prices. Aberdeen boasts strong schools with rising enrollment, many churches, and a growing fisheries impact of about 1 million dollars annually. Dairy farming expands with Holstein cattle, creameries, and planned dairy growth including a future Aberdeen creamery.
Classified: thirteen dairy cows for sale by Co. P LOOK Montesano Washington. eight fresh this fall two soon to fresh five to be fresh in spring. All cows described as good and young dairy cows.
Morning and evening services listed for multiple churches including OChurchesG Corner East Second and I streets and Corner First and H streets. Details cover Sunday school times, superintendents, prayer meetings, choirs, and pastors such as Rev J T McQueen and Chas McDermoth with parish activities through Thursday evenings.
A compact list of church sites and service times: Christian Science on First Street near Broadway with morning 11 o’clock service, Sunday school 9 45, evening 8, reading room 517 Finch building hours. First Christian Church at Third and L streets with 11 o’clock morning service and 10 o’clock Sunday school. St Andrew's Episcopal at First and G with 11 o'clock morning prayer and sermon and 7 30 evening service, plus a special musical evening. St Paul’s Lutheran at First and E with German service at 11. Scandinavian M E at Market and L with 11 morning and 8 evening services, Sunday school 10, and youth meeting. Seventh day Adventist chapel at First and E with Sabbath school 2 and regular service 3, prayer on Wednesday 8. Elder E L MacLafferty.
The First Church of Christ Scientist releases a quarter schedule of lesson sermons with topics listed by date from October 13 through December 26. Subjects include Unreality, Are Sin Disease and Death Real, Doctrine of Atonement, Probation After Death, Everlasting Punishment, Adam and Fallen Man, Mortals and Immortals, Soul and Body, Ancient and Modern Necromancy Denounced, God the Only Cause and Creator, God the Preserver of an, Is the Universe Evolved by Atomic Force, Christian Science, and a November 25 Thanksgiving service.
Salvation Army holds special meetings this weekend for the annual Harvest Festival with a Monday field work demonstration showing plowing sowing reaping and gleaning. A harvest auction of decor and produce to clear debts accompanies the event plus a rummage sale. Dressings invite Captain Hunter to collect yard crops and cast-off clothing for pickup.
McKinlay Wilson, a North River farmer with a renowned farm, visited Grays Harbor on business and promotes his corn. Separately, a restoration to entry of 10 acres in Olympic National Forest notes a November 20, 1915 settlement date and a Charles L. Howard application with a prior settler preference right under homestead laws.
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