Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-15

! Christmas cards and books at Evan'
Drug Co.
Chas. Teatz. an employee of the o. X
Logging c.. entered theAberdeen Gen
eral hos ptal for treatment yesterday.
Henry Meineit, came up from Ho-
quiam yesterday, and entered the Aber'
deem General hospital for treatment
The City Market, corner Wishkah and
! G streets, has the sole agency for Aber.
deem for Montesano creamery butter. Il
James McKeown ndeiw went a surgical
operation at the Aberdeen General hos
pital yesterday and is recovering nicely.
| Lee Ellis came over from Cosmopolis
Yesterday and entered the Aberdeen
General hospital with an injured knee.
The trustees of the Masonic lodge for
the coming year are A. j. West, f. d..
Eaton, A. II. Brauer. Cemetery trustee,
A. j. West.
Mrs. L. d. Dobbins and son, Ennis,
who have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H.
H. Carter, left for Santa Barbara, CAL,
this morning. Mrs. Dobbins is accom-
panied by her sister, Miss Lima Ennis.
who is travelling for her health. They
will meet Captain Dobbins at Portland,
who will accompany them.
A. d. Wood returned yesterday from
trip to Westport and South Bay. He re.
ports heavy weather, and several vessels
wind bound on the lower harbor. The
life saving crew had to go to the assist.
ance of large four masted schooner, but
she got safely over the bar, when she
was taken in tow by the tug Traveller.
On Tuesday evening, Aberdeen lodge
No. SO F. A. NJ. elected the following as
officers Of the lodge for the ensuing year:
w. NJ, J, r. Harper; S. W., Jacob
Flyte; J. w., Jacob Karshner; Sec'ty.,
P. f. Clark; Treasurer, S. G. Mitchell
This is the eight years that Captain
Mitchell has filed the Office Of treasurer OF
that body.
Rev. M. ]. Luark, an early settler OF
Chehalis county, now of California,
spent Tuesday in the CITY calling on old
pioneer acquaintance, and went to
Montesano yesterday, where he will
spend the winter. Mr.. Luark is one OF
the oldest residents of Chehalis county,
and one Of the oldest pioneer preachers
in the northwest.
IL. Kolts, secretary of the local tent
of the Maccabees, has received notice
that the claim for permenant disability
OF Colin Mckenzie has been allowed, and
that warrant for the first installment
woul d b, forwarded from headquarters
at once. This will give Mr.. Mckenzie
500 year for ten years, and leaves him
exempt from all lodge assessments.
Yesterday morning while Officer J.
M. Birmingham was overseeing the
prisoners clean the city jail. he removed
the handouts from Rudolph Beckman
who attempted to suF '"te himself Tues
day night. and then returned to get q
broom for Beckwith to use when Beck.
man made break for liberty. Birming
ham had to stop long enough to lock the
other prisoners in their cells and then
started after his man, which he captured
after lively run around the block.
Officer Birmingham is quite sorinter.
Rudolph Beckman. who is partially
demented, while an inmate of the city
Jail, Tuesday night succeeded in setting
fire to bis blanket and nearly suffocated
himself. The other prisoners claim that
they heard him tearing paper nd strk-
ing matches, and when they smelt the
smoke Immediately gave the alarm.
Policeman Youngl rg soon arrived on
the scene and extinguished the fire,
without any special damage to anything
but the nerves of the other prisoners.
Beckman was found in semi ncon-
scious state in his bunk, but soon recov-
cred when dragged into the open air.