Paving Ordinance Read as City Considers Bitulithic Choice
The council gave first readings to a paving ordinance for Tower Avenue amid protests by Geo KE Rhodes who argued against bitulithic paving due to single-source supply. Alderman Williams favored bitulithic after observing its durability and traction versus asphalt. The sewer plan, with a 100000 foot length and 95000 cost, faces front foot vs valuation funding hurdles, and residents object to front foot charges. Franchises for streetcar and electric lines were introduced but not read, while an eight mile per hour limit was debated and Bower & Son’s corrugated iron building request was denied for fire-code conflict.
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News-Examiner
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Street Railway
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City Limits
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First Street
Tower Avenges
Carr
B. F. Bower & Son
Longstanding Centralia Shoe Firm L Bar & Son Emerges
The L Bar & Son leather goods firm traces its roots to 1887 when Lawrence Bar opened a shoe shop in Spring Valley Minnesota. It moved to Centralia in 1891, expanded through the years, and by 1902 occupied a large brick building, the town’s biggest for a single store, with two floors devoted to its stock. The business grew to carry apparel, trunks, and travel goods, and Lawrence Bar’s son William joined, forming Le Bar & Son with six clerks to serve numerous customers.
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JROG
Arthur Dicken
Albert Smith
Andreny
Ork
Deputy Sheriff Kills IHS Man Near Toledo
Deputy Sheriff O Connor shot and killed William F Gehrke in Toledo, seven miles east of Winlock, after Gehrke escaped a Chehalis deputy. Gehrke, 50, had fought with O Connor over years, was believed unstable, and had menace rumors surrounding him. O Connor is jailed in Chehalis as the coroner weighs murder charges. Gehrke had recent legal troubles and resided in Toledo for about eighteen years.
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Chehalis
Degelér
Lewis County
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Packingham
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Spee
Hal Arnold
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Avidense
F. C. O'Connor
O’connor
J. W. Gehrke
Aloon
Seattle
Mississippi Avenue
Portland
Justice Westover
G. W. Denny
Deggler
Curious Relic Rifle Embedded in Tree Near Centralia
An old rifle rests about ten feet up in a tree beside a remote homestead along the road to Little Rock, eleven miles from Centralia. The trunk has grown around the weapon over years, suggesting a pioneer era defense or scalp hunter tale as Indians hovered nearby, now standing as a memento to frontier progress.
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