Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-05-15
PLANSARE MADE
FOR BIG MEETING
Program Is Announced For
Meeting Of Southwestern
Development Association
MANY SPEAKERS LISTED
Development Of Coal Res
ources and Settlement of
Logged-off Lands
MANY SPEAKERS LISTED

| CllE-f1ALlto, NdS IN. II. tOlI-
man, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Southwest Washington
Development association, has given
out the preliminary outline OF The
program for the next quarterly meet
ing of that body, which will be held
! in the city of Chehalis, June |, 2,
and 3. Last night the trustees of
, the Citizens club of Chehais, held
an important meeting. at which fur
ther details We're worked out for the
reception and entertainment of the
several hundred people who will be
guests of this city on that occasion
From reports already received it is
fully anticipated that the meeting to
be held here will be the greatest
gathering of men. both from point of
attendance and the work which will
be set under way, ever held in South
west Washington.
Many Delegates Coming
Chehalis and Centralia will be rep
resented in force, while from Ray
mond and South Bend, Aberdeen, Ho.
quiam, Olympia, Vancouver and 9TH
ers of the larger centers of the or
ganization come reports that the at
tendance from all those places will
be unusually heavy Portland, Seat
tie and Tacoma commercial bodies
and business interests will be repre-
sented by large delegations.
Last evening at the new club rooms
there was a large attendance of wom-
en- at reception rendered by the
club. and the matter of what will
be expected of them in helping enter
tain the visitors was presented, and
assurances given to make the coming
convention success
Coal Operators Plan
Already assurances have been re-
ceived that the meeting of the lg-
mite coal operators, which was held
here on Wednesday, is to bear i'm.
mediate fruit The coal demonstra-
tions that will be made at Chehais
will be of vast import to future de-
velopment of that great industry. 1t
is hoped to arrange for special train
that will run an excursion from this
city to the TonO mines of the O.-W
K. 4 \. Company, to Mendoza and
perhaps kohlah. and give as well a
chance to see the local mines operat-
ed in Chehalis.
NdlllOdu eISllleS burning nSnlte
will probably be on exhibition in the
Chehalis yards, and several carloads
of black diamonds from the mines
in the great Chehalis Centralia coal
field will be displayed. Also at the
new power plant being built by the
WashingtonOre Corporation at
Chehalis, there will be demonstra-
tiOn of the value of Ignite coal in
the Parkinson furnaces
Various speakers. who will boom
the Ignite coal along its various
lines. will be heard at the meetings
Northern Europeans Wanted
The meeting of coal men will be
followed with a session for the log
gers and mill men at Centralia 1t
is anticipated that the boosting of
the coal and logged-off land projects
will be followed by results of great
est importance not only to South
west Washington. ut also to the whole
of Western Washington. The daily
programs show that these subjects
will occupy leading place and eff
fective work for colonization from
Northern Europe will be lined up
with the great transcontinental rail
roads, which have given assurances
that they will send their most capa-
Bile men here to cooperate with the
work outlined
Weather permitting, the usual eve
ming banquet feature will be replac-
ed by an out-of-door picnic at Cla-
quato school house, three miles west
of the city. An automobile drive
through the Chehalis valley for sew
eral miles will be afforded just as
many visitors as possible. and spe-
cial excursion train from Chehalis
will carry to the picnic grounds all
for whom machines cannot be pro-
vided.