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MOTORCYCLE RACE TOCENTRALIA LABOR DAYThe Aberdeen Motorcycle club and the Grays Harbor Trades council have begun arrangements for the sec* ond annual motorcycle run between Aberdeen and Centralia, a distance of 119 miles, on Labor day. A prize for the winner this year has been ordered by the Trades council. Racers will leave Broadway and Heron at 11 o’clock, and their progress will be told by a bulletin board erected at some convenient corner.Last year’s winner was Everett Lobdell, who made the trip in three hours and 11 minutes. Better roads this year are expected to reduce the record a great deal. Among those who have signified their intentions of entering are Lobdell, Aubrey Archer, Edward French and Leon McNeil, all point winners of last year, and Carl Bruce, William McKean. Vern Bennett, Axel Smith, George French and L. J. Larsen.TAKE OPTION ON OIL LANDAs indicating the interest being taken in the Hoh oil fields it is reported that E. G. McGlauflin and associates of Hoquiam have secured an ! option on Joseph Stockhamer’s homestead, which occupies a strategic location between the two big seepages, and if oil is discovered at any place in the district it is quite likely to be found on the Stockhamer homestead.It is said the parties secured the option to purchase the property in question within two years at a price of $35,000. A cash payment of $600 was made and $300 is to be paid next year. These sums are to be deducted from the total of $35,000.HUNT CAPTAINS NAMEDThe Rod and Gun club has namedC? Of n nn/1 IP t»n n 1.** TSpisak had been working as domestic in the family of I. Callison for the past seven months, and recently quit to go home. Her brother cameto town for her in a buggy, and tied and fed his horse in an alley betweenHume and River streets. Bunk happened along as the girl came from where the buggy was, on her way up town to do some shopping, and at once jumped at the conclusion that she was coming from a house of ill fame. Going home he told this story, and as it passed along in the Polish neighborhood, it grew worse as it went, until the alleged shame of the girl became a subject of common gossip. In sentencing Bunk, Judge Phillips took occasion to warn him, thatany more evil reports about the girlwould result in a jail sentence.FIND THAT FORWARDCOMMITTED SUICIDECounty Officers Decide Women is Not; To Blame, After Investigating Mysterious ShootingC’oroner Hunter and Assisting Coun ty Prosecuting Attorney Cross, after an investigation of the case of Er nest Forward, who was shot and killed at Moclips early Monday morning, decided that the case is one of suicide and exonerated Mrs. Susie Pemberton, in whose house the shooting occured, from suspicion. On account of the peculiar conditions it was thought Forward had been murdered, but examination of the facts lead- i ing up to the tragedy convinced the authorities that Forward killed himself, after brooding over domestic troubles.BENHAM WINS LAND CASEJesse F. Murphy, of Seattle, is in the city on business. Mr. Murphy returned last Saturday from Washington, D. C., where he hobnobbed
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Aberdeen Herald
Aberdeen, Washington, US
Fri, Aug 29, 1913
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