County Grange urges board to recover excess salaries
The Lewis County Pomona Grange passed a resolution urging the county commissioners to collect overpaid salaries from several officers. Some officers have returned excess funds, but others have not. The editorial compares the board’s actions to suing itself for a debt and calls for proper public accounting. It lauds Washington lumber products as likely future familiar names.
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Lewis County
Pormona Grange
Board of County Commissioners
Sooon
News Examiner to Launch Daily Edition in Centralia
The News Examiner announces a daily edition starting September 4 while the weekly continues. The editor praises Trother Penifearch and the paper’s growth, noting Centralia can support two dailies and commends Betholders for backing the venture.
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Tt. B. Penheath
Centralia News-Baamiher
News-Examiner
Chronicle
Trother Penifearch
Centralia
News-Examainer
Chroonicle
Inter Mlews
Whoa
Ted
Rawe
Thomas HW
MineRtov & Sons
Municipal water plants debate reaches Chehalis and Centralia
A city meeting tonight will decide if Chehalis and Centralia can issue bonds for gravity water plants to serve both cities. Committees will assess legal and financial feasibility, including whether bonds can rest on the plant alone or require city backing, with state audits requested if needed.
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Chehalis
Ghebalis
Chebalis
Lwe
Slate Accountancy Board
Cites
Local League Bat Averages Highlight Six Above .300
In the State League Aug. 14 figures compiled by President GO J Albers show only six men hitting over .300, with Reid of South Bend leading at .430, Moore of Chehais next at .300 plus, Guyn of Centralia around .217, and concerns over smuggling amid fluctuating marks.
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J. Albers
Chehais
Reid
South Bend
Moore
Guyn
Centralia
Ja Lin
Death of August Wafer at Pishbank ranch area
Aug 14 Chehalis area reports August Wafer aged 2 supposedly died at Kennewick hospital Chehalis Saturday. Body moved to Fissel carriers awaiting contact with relatives in the old country. No local relatives. family still residing abroad. burial plans depend on communications.
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Wafer
Torgaerly
Pishbank
Adna
Kennicott
Chehalls
Fissel Variers
Tocat Wailer
County to Hire Lawyers for Excess Salary Claims
Lewis County commissioners, meeting in Chehalis, hired the law firm Forney and Ponder to pursue excess salaries paid to county officers. John Punder and C. D. Gunningham were initially named but Cunningham declined after being retained by defendants. Officials were urged to refund excess salaries from January 4 to December 1, 01, with most parties silent except one.
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Letgi's
Chehalis Satunday
Awfirm
Forney & Ponder
Lewis County
Stll Genery
John Punder
Chehalis
C. D. Gunningham
Centralia
Brandenberg Arrested for Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses
William Brandenburg, wanted on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense, was arrested by Centralia police Saturday night after information from Shorit Mays of Franklin County. He had been in the city for six months and could have been arrested earlier. Hays informed authorities, and Brandenburg was taken into custody, returning to Prantlin County on the 10530 train this morning.
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William Brandenburg
Centralia
Tel Tor
Shorit Mays
Prantlin
Brandenburg
Pacco
Gherit Hays
Whio
Tasco
Roads Must Grant Demands Or Quit Work
Ernest Regutin, head of the Western Division Federated Shop Enclaves, claims Southern Pacific will bluff not strike. He says 93 percent of shopmen join the union and that if demands for shorter hours and higher wages are not met, the union’s 20,900 workers may halt operations after committee talks in Chicago and New York.
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Federated Shop Enclayes
Harriman Ones
Chicago
New York
Richard Wells Dies From Stilt Accident In Chehalis
Richard Wells nine died at St Helens hospital after a fall from improvised stilts two weeks earlier at his Chehalis home. The boy was injured when a stake pierced his abdomen while playing with companions, and he succumbed after two weeks of pain despite medical efforts.
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Richard Wells
Joseph Wells
Chehalis
St. Helens Hospital
St.Neiens Hospital
Liederkranz Concert and Napavine Dance Highlight Local Event
The Liederkranz singing group performed Saturday night in Napavine with an excellent program. Most members attended and a large delegation is expected for the major German singing societies gathering in Seattle from the 17th to the 22nd, on the Pacific Coast.
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Oehals Liederkrans
Napavine
Singing Society
Pavilie
Seittle
Debtors Flee Chehalis Broth ers Leave City Behind
John and Roy Angel, sons of the area near Adna, have left Chehalis for parts unknown amid debts estimated at 2500 dollars. A writ of attachment was filed with the Superior Court against T. W. Scherman, owner of a foundry, to seize 486 dollars alleged owed for a machine. The machinery remains on the Adna property and includes two donkey engines and logging gear.
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John
Roy Angel
Adna
Chehalis
Superior Court
T. WH. Scherman
Retlest
Scherman
Q Machin
Adua
Wake up call from Chehalis draws eyes southward
Rumors from Chehalis report a man identified as Morrill of Gilroy City in Chehalis sending eager letters to northern gold fields and the United States. The correspondence touts promising investments and settlement gains, aiming to attract settlers to the county seat. Brown of Dryad advertises broader options via a Dayton contact.
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Aus
Morrill
Gilyous
Chabalis
Choate
Lewis County Love Untangled
In Chehalis Justice Westover presided as William Blackman of Texas faced charges of trifling with Nora Workman. The court found Blackman guilty. he pledged marriage to Nora Workman, and they were wed shortly after. Nor a Workman and I. N. Workman stood as witnesses in the case.
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W. A. Westover
J. N. Workman
Littell
Nora Workman
I. N. Workman
William Blackman
Texas
Littel
Lewis County
Nora
Court of Justice
Westover
Chehalls
Blackman
Licenses Required to Sell Liquor on Trains and Ships
The state supreme court upheld Kitsap County conviction of a purser for selling liquor on a vessel without license. It affirms that no county or city in Washington may allow liquor sales on boats or trains, effectively making steamboats and rail cars dry statewide. An appeal argued the law was unreasonable, but the court found it within legislative authority.
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Supreme Court
Kitsap County
Gity
Washinton
Cosal
Washington
Sacha Su
Lewor Enna
Mob sets ablaze Zachariah Walker in Coataville fire death
In Coataville Pennsylvania a mob of about 1000 men burned Zachariah Walker to death after dragging him from a hospital and setting his body alight. The assailants, wrathful over an alleged crime, left the town in turmoil as authorities investigated the atrocity.
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