Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-31
CHEHALIS COUNTY
LOCAL DOlNGS IN ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTY.
Gathered by Aberdeen Herald Correspondents
and Cleaned From Our Local Exchanges.
ELMA

Mrs. A. M. Whitenack has been sick
but is slowly recovering.
The Order of Pendo initiated two new
members ON Monday night.
Mrs. Crane has improved her boarding
house with coat Of paint.
Geo. Crisp returned from his trip to
the Sound cities on Tuesday.
l.. 1. Wakefield went to Porter to look
after his ranch, on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Wade went to the
beach ON Sunday, returning Monday
night.
Allen White is putting in steam set
works at his mill, which will be great
improvement.
DR.. o. N. Sullivan, Oculist-O ptician
is now doing business in Elma with
headquarters at the Elma Hotel. -
Born--To Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Alb.
bolt, Of Ford's Prairie, July "a, nine
pound girl. Mother and child are doing
we'll.
Owing to the failure of some of his
plant to arrive, r. M. Watson the editor
of the new paper, failed to issue his
initial number last week.
Only two teachers has so far been
elected in the Elma schools. Prof. w.
T. Walton will be retained as principal
and Miss Mande Clay was reelected
teacher of the fourth grade. the other
teachers will be chosen soon.
Mr.. A. f. White nephew OF the mill
man, is putting in new logging camp
on the upper satsop near the post office
of Grove, Wash. The skid road for use
by the camp force is first being COM
pleted. The motor power is to be the
horse. lie will handle fir timber and
will have force OF Is men.
The city council has decided to put
in large wind mill, near the old Car
ney dam, to pump water from there in
to the tank. As soon as they find this
means of pumping success, it is under
stood that a large brick tank will be
built higher upon the hill in order to
give greater gravity pressure to the
water.
Mr.. G. G. Combes had quite sudden
and severe attack of sickness Monday
morning of this week and while not able
to be at his work in the store, he is con-
siderably improved. Mrs. Combes is
much better though not entirely recover
ed. In the absence of Will Combes from
the store Miss Pearl takes his position
and fills it quite gracefully.
M. M. Wakefield is having more than
his share of responsibility just now. In
the absence of one of his BARRIERS he must
be substitute for him, this addition to
his real estate, livery stable, employment
bureau, insurance and acting clerk of the
school board (busy also now makes him
hump himself. But we forgot his bust
ness as councilman and special COM
mittee to locate new water works so far
as he is concerned no other employers
need apply.
Mr.. Allen White leading mill man of
this end of the county has invented a
scheme by which he can 60 to the tim
Der instead Of expecting the timber to be
brought to the mill. He has found much
cedar timber, good for shingles yet too
large and sometimes, located in inacces-
sible place. This has put him in the in.
venting frame OF mind and the outcome
of it is an invention that is causing much
concern on the part of mill men. They
are anxious for it to succeed. He uses
two portable sleds. On one he places a
donkey engine, boiler, knee bolter and
cutoff, on the other he places dragsaw
and shingle machine of the upright
pattern. Thus prepared like Mahomet
when the mountain did not come to him
he went to it. Mr.. White goes after that
big timber cedar of course. Mr.. White
has been obliged to reduce his force at
Whites mill by dropping 20 men. This
is occasioned by the scarcity of timber.
MONTESANO
If Johnny Wilson expects to do any
senatorial business in this county he's