Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-16

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| Mrs. II. B. Elder and children visit
ed Montesano friends last week.
Mrs. X. Resented and son went to
Portland Saturday to visit relatives.
The Friends in Council club will
meet at the home of Mrs. A. j. Stew
art tomorrow afternoon.
j. Ryan will build an oil tank for
| the steamer Westerner, in order to IN
crease her fuel capacity.
A party of friends gave Mr.. and
Mrs. L. L. Alexander pleasant sur
prise party Thursday evening, on the
occasion of Mr.. Alexander's fifty
fourth birthday.
jill. Mayhall, the well known con-
tractor, has been awarded the con-
tract to build the house of w. H. Abel
in Montesano. Jos. Tiefenthaler will
! do the mason work.
The annual meeting of the chamber
of commerce will be held in the coun-
Gil chamber tonight. The secretary
will submit report and an election OF
officers will take place.
The annual teachers association of
Chehalis county will be held in Ho-
GUAM this week, and in consequence
the children of the Aberdeen schools
will have a weeks vacation.
The Sea Beach Packing works began
operatins packing clans this morning.
The cannery will employ between 30
and 40 men and women, besides about
25 clam diggers on the beach.
Judge Linn, of Thurston county ST.
perior court, is presiding at the open
ing of the March term of the superior
court of Chehalis county. He is hear
ing the Humptulips river cases.
A raiser of chickens and other fowl
in Aberdeen is crossing the native
goose with the Chinese article. The
prospects are that great delicacy
will be placed upon the market in the
near future.
r. r. Dabney, whose eyesight has
been in bad way for some time,
does not improve, nor doesn't get
worse. Mr.. Dabney expects to go to
New York soon to consult eminent
specialists.
At a meeting of the Senior class of
the High school it was decided to give
class play at the graduation exer-
cises in June, and rehersals will begin
shortly. The baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered Sunday, June IA.
City Attorney Taggart braved the
storm Friday to look over the damage
done to the Northern Pacific Railroad
| tracks, as well as to see how much OF
the road to Harbor Heights, in which
he is interested, went by the board.
The cement pier for the new steel
railway bridge, which has been placed
in the center of F street, is solid
mass of concrete twenty feet deep. A
Golfer dam was constructed to keep
out the river water while the work
was under way.
United States Engineer Clapp, who
has supervision of the building of the
north jetty, has decided to use brush
for filling. 1t will take about 5000
cords of this kind of material, which
will be secured as far as possible in
Chehalis county.
1t coaxes back that we'll feeling,
healthy look, puts the sap of life in
your system, protects you from dis
ease. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea has no equal as spring tonic for
the whole family. 35c, Tea or Tab
lets at w. B. Paine & Co.
The pile driver of the American
Contracting company, which has been
used in putting in the foundation of
the library building, was moved to
Heron street Saturday morning, where
pile driving for the new two story
block to be erected by Seattle and
; Portland men, is to be built.
Engineer Bowen, since taking pos
session of his house on Market street
near G, has built an attractive fence
and is planting shrubs and trees, thus
carrying out the idea of w. G. Hard
ing of improving Aberdeen from the
inside before inviting people on the
outside to come here to live.
The storm on Friday was particular
ly severe in the region of Dabney hill
Never before has it been noticed that
this great mound on the Wishkah
river side was in any way affected by
wind or rain. But Fridays storm
took chunk about twenty feet wide
clear from the top into the waters of
the Wishkah. 1t will require some
dredging to get it out.