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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
4
A bustling local page lists auctions and sales of personal property including the J H Long estate and a range of goods from Tom Ingalls and Hartman Nathan department stores. It notes warrants wanted, restaurant notices, and several social mentions including visits, travels, and minor court activity in Chehalis and nearby towns.
Notice of chattel mortgage sale commencing Saturday September 24 at W. Goodman’s Store to sell gold and gold filled items silver ore cases Elgin Waltham Hampden Rockford movement gold rings chains sockets pins clocks silverware and more to the highest bidder for cash until sold with no reserve
Chehalis items include sermons at the Baptist church by Rev Haskell of Winslow, new dress goods at Urquhart's, and a wide range of sales from shoes to coats. Local figures like S Hartman, W Forest, and H B Blake appear, with notes on farming, hops, and the J H Long estate.
Rail of Lewis County hop yields lists Dobson yard finishing today with about 2500 boxes and Patterson yard at Olequa with 5050 boxes. The ledger records bale equivalents for numerous yards and buyers including Weiler & Co. Loomis Richardson Xavier Myer and many others with totals and purchases noted.
Wrepwoon Sept 27 P V Grove restarts shingle bolt camp and may finish hauling in 10 days if Gridin secures teams. Grove thrashes upper wall e and grain hauling continues. Robert Grove aids on Chebalis farm. hogs hauled. Hops in valley good. Miss Ella Naylor at Latham. Naylor family visit from Oregon. Brown of Napavine visits relatives. Ray cuts hand badly. Kate Mays goes to Chebalis to school. Lenz homesteads and visits daughter in Seattle then Kansas with another daughter. One of F J Griffins twins three years old ill with typhoid but slowly improving.
List of letters remaining unclaimed for the week ending Sept 9 1895 at Chehalis post office. Names include Geo or A J Cook president of W C T Union J D Frost and Versons. Recipients urged to call and say advertised. CC BK Lirtpoe P M
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