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Newspaper
Centralia Weekly Chronicle
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1911
Page
2
January 18 1911 Centralia area notes a reform in county government with two seasoned directors promising fair, prudent management. The piece critiques past spending and envisions lower taxes through prudent projects, while urging focus on essential services like water and electricity for Centralia and municipal economy.
A Northern Pacific plan to invest about 500000 in Centralia for permanent labor alloying improvements includes large repair shops a sixty stall roundhouse and new depots to be used by three trans continental railroads. The project will require about a thousand workers initially boosting city population and merchants as output shifts to the new facilities.
The Lewis County Humane Society grows active promoting better treatment of animals. Officers will investigate suspected abuse before prosecutions, with the aim of public education and deterrence. The piece also offers pithy maxims on virtue, relationships, and human kindness.
A quirky excerpt from J Lipponcatt s Magazine mocks everyday speech and misapplied scientific tone. An awkward scene blends unreliable arithmetic with patient doctor patient dialogue and a light social satire on language.
Centreila expects a $15,000 Carnegie library gift from An drew Carnegie once preliminary steps are complete. The Daily Chronicle helped spark the campaign, with city officials already backing a park-site library. Kellogg resolved a hitch, and the project aims to start in spring and finish before fall.
George and Henry Metzger were removed from Train 24 on January 17 charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Conductor alerted Seattle arrival. Chief Herndon met the train at Chehalis. One brother, fined earlier by Justice Beaufort for whisky on board, was later sentenced again by Police Judge Prewitt.
The Lewis County Humane Society held a meeting in the new city hall with President Charles Dieckman presiding as memberships were ratified. Officers discussed arranging for state organizer May Krueger’s visit around the 24th, and cases of cruelty including boiling alive chickens in Centralia and a bird eye-poking incident in Little Falls were investigated with potential arrests expected.
January 16 near Chehalis a wane hobo fleeing a hip podrome of skinned camels caused a small alarm at the depot. He yelled seeing freaks, was chased, and Chief George Herndon helped, taking him to the county jail where the man faced delirious illness.
January 17 report notes Ralph Fleming, 11, fell from a tree during a parental discipline attempt and broke his knee cap, while George R. Martin of Martin Lumber Co narrowly escaped drowning after a fall into ten feet deep icy water near his mill. both men suffered injuries and sought care at home.
An unidentified man shot at Premier Mirman, director of public relief, in the Chamber of Deputies, Paris. The bullet missed. Mirman sustained a painful wound. The attacker was arrested.
The annual meeting of the Contralia Canning Company will be held at Contralia City Hall on Tuesday January 24 at ten o'clock in the forenoon for the election of officers and other business. Tl H B Muldor secretary.
George Thompson, known locally as Shorty, is laid up at home with measles for the second time, a rare infantile ailment he endures with old-time fortitude. He stands over six feet seven inches in stockings and is described as a husky specimen amid Centralia’s growing talk of towering locals. Trompenn, from Taxus, works at the M and Ho cafe when well.
A United Press report from Fresno, based on a Madera saga, states eight year old Harold Miner and thirteen year old Olis Rafael were burned to death when a leaking gasoline tank caught fire from materials the boys were using. They ran three blocks with clothes ablaze before authorities stopped the blaze.
Fire that began at midnight last night gutted the Kelly block in Winnipeg, causing an estimated loss of 400000 dollars. The Dominion Fur Company was the principal lender, its liability about 200000. Firefighters battled freezing conditions as temperatures hovered four degrees below zero and flames moved rapidly through the structure.
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