Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-03-07
Road and Tax Matter Occupy
Session of Board Last
Monday
RAISE SOME SALARIES
Road to Westport and Cohas.
sett Arranged For Want
Hospital Site

A'iO-N IpA-NO, ht o'o-
sion of the county commissioners
Monday was largely devoted to road
matters, many of them becoming ur-
gent with the opening of spring. Prob
ably the most important was the ord
eer to call for bids for a floating dock
at Bay City, a pile trestle dock at
Laidlaw's Island and for 260,5S0 feet
eof lumber for a roadway between
Laidlaw's Island and the main land.
to complete the road from Aberdeen
to Cohassett Beach. Bids will also
be called for the construction of Is
miles of the Copalis Crossing-Aloha
road.
A petition was filed asking for a
road on the East branch of the Ho-
Quiam river, and one for a bridge
across Black river, and the improve
ment of the road leading to it, was
referred to Commissioner Wilson.
The hearing of the report on the A.
j. West road was continued to April
l, and the b. p. Briscoe road was ord
cred opened.
The Coast Bridge Co. was awarded
the contract for building the Williams
Greek bridge for $4,000.
Tenders for the sale of block of
EduQ DSIWccI hDtIuccu anu liOuultil
will be received until April l, for a
site for a county hospital.
Schamehorn & Gumm were granted
a saloon license at WestpOrt
All the city and town clerks in the
county were appointed registration
clerks, excepting MOntesano. where j.
w. Pettijohn was appointed.
A franchise was granted for tele-
Got
and to lay water pipe in alley in the
Distler addition to Aberdeen.
The third deputy in the treasurer's
from SIS to $85 a month, and the
typewriter from $50 to $65.
The auditor was directed to issue
warrants in lieu of Nos. 2S67S and
1929, which have been lost.
Tax Matters Adjusted
The treasurer was directed to strike
the following taxes from the rolls of
1911: 5000 improvements on lots l
to 10, block 25, Cosmopolis; person
al property taxes of Chris Johnson,
H. o. Puhn, Mrs. f. Tompkins, Capt.
Robt. Peterson, w. R. Mclaughlin,
Frye e Co., $1072 from Dan McCrim-
mon, and $43.69 from J. 7. Newbury.
The personal property of the Che
halls county l.. & r. Co. was ordered
transferred from School District No.
Al, to School District No. 2S.
The improvements assessed as on
lot 10, block s, Benns Central Addi-
river in Sections Is and 16, and part
OF Sec. 8.
The interest on tax receipt No
SS17 was stricken as error.
Lot Z, block 80, w. d B. Addition
Aberdeen was stricken from the rolls
of 1903-04-05. as church property, and
lots 1 to s, block II, and lots l to 4.
block 16, Melbourne, from rolls OF
1904 as a double assessment, and for
the same reason all tide and shore
lands on West Fork of the Hoquiam
river in Sections Is and 1 6a,nd part
of 8.
All penalty and interest was strick-
en- from the SWA of NEA, the NWA
of Sec. 13, and the E1A of Sec. a.
1911.
The tax improvements on Lot Z,
block 80, Ontario addition to Ho-
quiam, as error
w. B. Mack was refunded 81 cents
and Roy Case $500 as double pay
ments.
The treasurer was directed to can
Gel c. d. No. $3.50 and refund the
money, the same being on government
land.
The sum of $113 was ordered receiv
ed in full, from A. D. Devonshire, as
taxes for 190S-09-10, on lots 1, 2 and
3, tract 81, Aberdeen Tide lands.
After allowing the February bills,
the board adjourned to March is.