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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1898
Page
6
Fogs of March and a terra cotta flue fire alarm in a restaurant stirred Mossyrock and nearby districts. Residents report sickness and cold epidemics while several locals travel to Chehalis, Portland, and Idaho for business, work, or visits amid community updates.
In Toledo on April 6 residents enjoy gardening and evening bicycle rides. Six new wheels arrive with twenty-five more expected. Local moves include Mr. Sherman’s family to Castle Rock and Miss Maggie Patterson visiting Portland. The school term begins soon with two graduates to receive diplomas.
Wildwood notes praise for the Lenz brothers who completed over three miles of road toward Boistfort valley and urge locals in South Boistfort to finish the connecting segment to create a public highway to Winlock. It mentions Robert Grove, a war veteran who emigrated from southern Illinois in 1882 and now farms near the prairie before moving to Chehalis, and updates on Shipler moving to Newland house and Mrs. H O Roundtree visiting North Boistfort.
The Pe Ell Examiner reports a perfume soaked man swindled several good housewives for a dollar each promising a premium such as a 28 piece china set or 18 German silver spoons. He claimed a superior shirt starch and left with a coupon and 30 day wait for prizes. Elder Salliger to preach Easter Sunday. John Lindsay, head sawyer at McCormick’s, moved his family to town.
Winlock residents report Drafted by a horse slip injuring Fred Schlittler on the Chebalis Centralia road. Mrs Zaspell relocates to Spokane. H D Kuehl was seriously ill. Mary Lee visits daughter Mrs Brown in Yakima. J A Phillips family moves to Whatcom county. Wm Kelly travels to Cosmopolis with a broken leg. Jacob Schafer Jr succeeds J A Short as blacksmith at the mill.
Centra reports Centralia will host two secret societies the Redmen and Order of Pendo. C B Maxwell of Chehalis has purchased Dillard Cook's photograph gallery and Mrs Maxwell will run it.
Ebenezer Russell born October 19 1828 in Geneseo New York moved with family across Pennsylvania to Tennessee then Washington and finally Chehalis He married Nancy Withrow in 1850 and had nine children He joined the Baptist Church this year and died March 27 1893 aged 69 years 5 months 8 days Devoted husband and father known for his law abiding life.
Transfer data from the Settemaier Abstract and Security Co Chehalis lists numerous conveyances in Lewis county Washington including U P Ry Co to Joseph Meyers Charles Williams to Isaac Williams W H Boot to P K Holbrook Damon Assignee to W E Brown Ward Centralia Kellog 2nd add Toledo Shaw Brown to Philadelphia Security Co and multiple other lot transfers with amounts and locations across Chehalis Centralia Toledo Winlock and surrounding areas.
The piece urges careful craft and proper English in literary work, noting many past authors were pioneers and deserve history. It warns against lazy writing and favors earnest revision, arguing that becoming a true author demands discipline more than wealth or fame.
Passengers cheer as a wind driven craft speeds over a smooth field, then meets a vast crack filled with ice and dark water. The bow escapes the gap with a rush, the crew thrilled by the wild speed and electric spray in the frosty air.
The little fish Miller's thumb or fresh water sculpin helps check trout and salmon overproduction by eating eggs and young fish. It is found in all trout waters and is highly destructive. An experiment at the United States Fish Commission in Washington showed a four and a half inch specimen consuming a large meal in a minute or two, including young trout fry from three quarters of an inch to an inch in length.
A Chicago Times-Herald paraphrase recounts Dr. Nansen praising a reader’s delight in his Arctic book and notes the dramatic Franz Josef Land meeting with Jackson. It highlights how the expedition’s sharpened senses, especially smell, revealed soap fragments and stores, with speculation on prolonged wild living enhancing olfactory acuity.
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