Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-03-23
The EVENING KNOCKER GETS
AFTER CHAMBER OF commerce
In Its Efforts to Break SOmef thing,
Prominent Citizens are MiSquOted,
in Regard TO Their Attitude on a
County Appropriation for Port
land Exposition.

For some inscrutahle reason, the even
ing paper never misses an opportunity
to knock the proposition advanced by
the Aberdeen Chamber OF Commerce,
and now being endorsed by all the COM
mercial organizations in the county. to
request county appropriation of $4,000
in aid Of Chehalis county exhibit at
the Lewis and Clarke exposition.
Probably because it's own reasons are
weak, the Evening Knocker has adopted
the plan of taking interviews with proml.
nent citizens and quoting them as op-
posed to the Chambers id :. Here is a
sample Of this kind of work, from Tues
days paper:
Commissioner Davis is dead agin' the
propos. 1 appropriation of $1,000 by the
county for an exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark fair and so expresses himself.
Meanwhile the petitions asking for the
appropriation are icing circulated by
the chamber of commerce.
"Samuel Benn is one OF those who re.
fused to sign the petition on the ground
to make an appropriation. Mr.. Benn
probably takes the position OF others
that the money put into roads will do
Aberdeen and Chehalis county more
good, and there ia lot of truth in this.
Give Aberdeen a good road to the county
seat and it can get along without an ap-
preparation to the fair"
MIR. Benn Indignantly denies that he
eyer made the above statement to the
Bulletin, or anyone else, and says he is
heartily in favor Of the appropriation
has signed the petition for it, and be-
lieves it does not call for money enough
to properly show the resources Of Cheha.
lis county. Mr.. Benn believes the expo
stion affords the opportunity of gener-
alton to make Grays Harbor and Che.
halls county known to the world. And,
Mr.. Davis is still TO hear from.
As every reader of the state press
knows, almost every county in the state
is preparing to attract exposition visitors,
and no progressive citizen within it's
borders wishes to see Chehalis county at
the tail of the procession. The following
extract, from the Spokane Spokesman
Review. will apply equally to Chehalis
county:
"The county commissioners will doubt
less give serious consideration to the
petition of the chamber of commerce for
an appropriation for maintaining a Spo.
kane county exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark fair. Many of the Inland Empire
counties have taken steps to arrange for
proper displays. tie expense Of which
will be borne bv county appropriation or
popular subscription. The state will pro-
vide the building and look to the general
supervision of the Washington exhibit,
but the sections that desire to call par
ticular attention to their growth, resour.
ces and opportunities are making special
efforts independent OF the state work,
and will bear the expense of it.
"It should be remembered that the op
portunity offered by the fair will not
come again for years, il it ever comes.
Now is the time to snow eastern people
what we have here and to induce them
to take an interest in this section that
may result in their setliny here. Spo.
kane's part in the fair should be worth
talking about. and if it is to be such,
serious attention must be given to the
matter OF an appropriation.