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Newspaper
Centralia Weekly Chronicle
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1911
Page
3
A Seattle style protest by the Women's Relief Corps denounces Governor Hay and colleagues after a Chehalis state training school investigation. Members register en masse to oppose officials and demand reform amid alleged abuse of female wards and harsh punishment.
The Rev and Mrs D Spencer pioneer residents of Centralia celebrate their golden wedding tonight with more than a hundred friends and relatives in attendance. Spencer a Civil War veteran retired Baptist minister known as Colonel and Bishop remains hale with years ahead, married in Centralia since 1887. They have six children five sons in law and eleven grandchildren.
A report from a Washington inquiry condemns the handling of alleged cruelties at an institution. It finds no proof of deliberate concealment and notes no action to halt abusive head‑knocking of inmates. The resolutions urge Governor Hay to remove Superintendent Claude C. Aspinwall and Assistant Charles Briffett and to inform Women’s Relief Corps posts statewide.
Women in Chehalis rush to city hall to register as Centralia women join in line. Some seek private reasons while others vow to vote to oust public officers. Governor Hay's investigation of the state training school sparks indignation over a vulgar letter to a young inmate. It is expected many women in Chehalis and Centralia will register and vote to fulfill duties, mirroring Seattle’s recall climate.
On February 17 Charles Pennypacker of Centralia endured his latest fracture after a rag accident in the woods. He has faced multiple mishaps over the past six months including a spine injury, a broken leg, and an arm in a sling, and remarks he believes misfortune has come in a batch but is glad the troubles may be over.
A surprise party at the home of Mr and Mrs Samuel Waring on Tower Avenue honored Miss Celesta Waring on her nineteenth birthday and Saloman Teeter on his seventy third birthday. Guests from Friday Harbor Chehalis Olympia and Wyoming attended with piano games and Five Hundred. Prizes were awarded to Walter Breen Anna Van Rook Billie Patterson John Harris with refreshments served late in the evening.
Western Union opens a new up town office this morning in the Alvonor building on Ping street. The telegraph service resumes, with operators handling dispatch orders as patrons are served.
February 18 report notes heavy wild cat activity across Lewis County with Auditor Swofford issuing bounties. Farmers deliver numerous hides including six by Pass and Grant Stiltman of Kosmos, plus kills by Hadfaker, Dickey, Lackpel, Day, Lane, and Hopkins. Details describe tense encounters and quick shooting.
February 17 brings unusually low activity at the Auditor's marriage license counter with only three registrations this week. The staff notes a mid month lull, followed by a probable late rush as usual.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a family survives high living costs by subsisting on raw vegetables and unmixed cereals. Officials investigated the Tyler household finding a diet of raw carrots parsnips milk and water with two young children named O. B. Joyful Tyler and Lucy Drinkwater Tyler.
On January 18 the grand annual ball of the Walghta of Pything was held in the Auditorium with good patronage. Decorations were striking and the general arrangements, coordinated by Mmialeat, went smoothly with an excellent program and credit to those who organized it.
Timnems visited the home of Chief of Pollen Herndon of Chehalis where the chief his wife and their child all contracted the grip within weeks. The chief was barely able to fulfill duties during illness then his wife fell ill and after her recovery their child also suffered the grip.
Public foreclosure sale notices the sheriff will auction Minnie M. Frost heirs interest in a Lewis County property described as two acres more or less beginning at the subdivisional line near Section 13 Township 13 North Range 2 West. Defendants J A Frost Clark Frost Mary Frost Ruth Frost Floyd Frost will have their interest sold to satisfy a 1906 judgment for 1284.95 dollars plus costs and interest. The sale is set for March 11, 1091 at 10 o clock in front of the Lewis County courthouse with H W Urquhart sheriff and deputy TC Foster listed.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a nighttime or early hour readiness for service with statements about arrangements and paving, referencing a person named Alvin and a general sense of duty and duty rosters.
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