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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
LIBRARY REPORT
SHOWS GROWTH

The report for 1915 by Miss Ida
L. Rhinehart, Carnegie public libra
rian, shows both that the library has
been well conducted and that the Alb
erdeen public is taking advantage of
the institutions facilities. Total of
books circulated in 1914 was 26,765;
in 1915, 32,7S9, of which 22,395 were
adult, the balance Juvenile literature.
New patrons to the number of $50
were added, making the list now O.
$40; 903 books were purchased and
SO were donated, while 104 were with
drawn from circulation. Expenditures
for the year were 1896 for books;
$1145 for salaries, balance of the to-
tai of $2,S76 being for light, street
assessments, binding books, periodi-
Gals, supplies and improvements.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
HEAVY VOTE is
EXPECTEDFOR
PRIMARY FIGHT

A heavy vote is expected at the
city primary election, next Tuesday,
when will be selected candidates for
city clerk, city treasurer and one
councilman from each of the six
wards. Registration was 2479.
Socialists will have sticker candi-
dates in wards from which none of
that party filed for the council. Can
didates whose names will be printed
on the ballots are:
T. H. Hill, Rep, incumbent, and
e. B. Crary, Rep, for city treasurer;
P. F. Clark, Rep, incumbent, and
Joseph Thomas, Soc, for city clerk;
Glen r. Snider, Rep, incumbent, and
William Baumert, Rep, for police
Judge; E. c. Mcknight, Rep, incum-
bent; Henry J. Vanucie, Rep, and
Charles Ivana, Soc, councilman First
ward; E. E. Weiland, Soc., incumbent,
and Oliver A. Miller, Rep, council
man Second ward; John Fraser, Rep,
incumbent, NJ M. Stewart, L. J. Kolts,
Rep, and James M. Mcnamara, Rep,
councilman Third ward; James NJ
Bowes, Rep, incumbent, councilman
Fourth ward; J. D. Walker, Rep, in
cumbent, councilman Fifth ward; E.
A. Milette, Soc., incumbent, c. T. Bell,
Rep, James McMasters, Rep, and P.
A. Powell, Rep, councilman Sixth
ward.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
Ceilings Establishes
Alibi in Connection
With Wife's Murder

June ("Baldy") Ceilings placed
himself in the hands of Chief of Po-
lice Schmidt the other night, explain
ing that he had just learned that the
police of Salt Lake wanted him in
connection with the murder of his
wife, Jan. "a. Testimony of two
credible witnesses and police station
records satisfied Schmidt that Coll.
ings had been in this city continu-
ously from Dec. 20 until the present
time. Ceilings was given sleeping
quarters several times at the station
from Dec. 20 to Jan. 5, during the
cold spell and from the latter date
on had been steadily employed. He
had not lived with his wife, he said,
for three years. The chief did not
detain Ceilings.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
Seattle Editor Gives Out
Forcible Interview
In East
is ECONOMIC GOOD
Business Shows Big I'm
provement in First
Six Weeks

That the "dry" law of this state
is effectual prohibition is declared by
Clarence Blethen, editor of the Seat
tie Times, in an interview given out
Feb. Is in Kansas City and printed
in the National Enquirer Qndianap-
olis) Feb. II.
"My paper fought it's hardest" says
Mr.. Blethen, against prohibition. We
fought it on economic grounds alone.
We believed that in great seaport
city with population of upward of
100000 prohibition would be destruc-
tive; it would bring on economic dis
aster. We believed that under our
system of licensing saloons we had
the liquor traffic about as well con-
trolled as it could be, and we wanted
to let it alone, and so we fought as
hard as we could fight. But, in spite
of all we could do against it, prohi-
bition carried.
Business Expanded Quickly
1--WE already know that 1t is a great
benefit, morally and from an economic
standpoint. It's moral benefit has been
tremendous. Seattle had 260 saloons,
and we had an average of 1000 arrests
a month for crimes and misdemeanors
growing out of liquor drinking. In
January we had only 400 arrests and
sixty of those were made January 1,
and were the results Of hangovers
from the old year. That in itself is
enough to convince any man with a
conscience that prohibition is neces-
sary. There can be no true economy
in anything that is immoral.
"And on top Of that great moral
result, we have these economic facts !;
In the first three weeks of January
the savings deposits in the banks of
Seattle increased Is per cent. There
was not grocery store in Seattle
that did not show an increase of bust
ness in January greater than ever
known in any month before in all the
history of the city, except in holiday
times. In all the large grocery stores
the increase was immense. In addi-
tion to this every dry goods store in
Seattle except one and that one have
no figures from, had wonderful in
crease in business. Each store re-
ported the largest business ever done
I in one month, except in holiday time.
Women and Children Profit
II wished to know in what class of
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
Council Adopts Recon-
mendations of Kelsey
for Change
CALL FOR BIDS NOW
Hold Up Payments Ask.
ed on Work on A. j.
West Bridge

Two sessions of the city council
Tuesday and Wednesday nights, re-
suited in adoption of final plans for
construction of Wishkah water pro-
iect. The dam site, three miles above
Wishkah Falls, and pipe line, follow
ing the hill gradient, favored by City
Engineer Kelsey and Consulting En-
gineers R. H. Thomson and J. l..
Stannard, was adopted. The citizens
advisory committee, which was pres
ert at both sessions, concurred in
this choice.
Engineer Stannard's estimate of
,ost Of system, as adopted Wednes-
lay night. is $392.S35 against $4S5,S12
for the Wishkah falls dam site and
pipe line following the county road.
Calling the first system a." the Sec
ond "B," these are the comparative
items of cost:
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
MORE REBATE ON
FILL DISTRICTS

Rebates amounting to about $780,
900 will be made property owners in
first and second fill districts, under
terms of an ordinance that likely will
be presented to the council next We'd
nesday night. Under the ordinance,
City Treasurer Hill will refund about
$12 to owners of 5O-foot lots in the
first fill district, and something more
than 500 to owners of the same size
lots in the second fill district City
Attorney Cross will give an opinion
as to who gets the refund, the man
who paid for the fill or present own
er of property.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
UPPER DAM
SITE PICKED
FOR SUPPLY

would be lower than his figures. Up
on recommendation by the citizens
committee, the council Wednesday
advertised for bids for all lumber and
steel supplies, bids to be opened
March Is. Kelsey was instructed to
prepare profile and specifications
showing the exact course of pipe
line.
Agreement between the street COM
mittee and Independent Sand & Grav-
ell company was ratified, under which
the city cancels it's rent bill and the
company agrees to vacate F street.
Upon the city engineers recon-
mendation, request from Crane &
Co. for payment of $12,665 for two
steel spans for the West bridge, bills
of lading accompanying request, was
held up, as the company is long Ov-
erdue in getting material here. Con-
tractor A. R. Eichler's request for
$4,000 payment on one of his two
pIluSc COulidClS was ucuicu, dlu ulS
request for payment of something ON
force account was referred to city
attorney and engineer.
Police report from Chief Schmidt
for February showed Al arrests made,
667 given nights lodging, SITS col
lected in fines and S51 meals serv-
ed.
Notice from John Johnson and 48
other residents near Wishkah and
Washington streets that they with
drew their protest against the bill
boards placed there by the Doyle &
Lehman Advertising company, indi-
Gated that the council had been util-
ized as a "big stick" in perfecting
some compromise with the billboard
concern.
Canvass of the special election Mon
day showed 1879 votes against COM
mission government, 1872 for.
On 1000 cords of slab and body
wood for the water department Phipps
& Watson bid $1.95 cord, the Kel-
ly Wood company $2.1O. Bids were
referred week.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
DEPUTY ASSESSORS
START WORK HERE

Deputy county assessors started on
their labors for 1916 this week. In
Aberdeen they are James D. Carter,
Albert E. Sparks, Joseph Jacob,
James Empey and Asa B. Wilson; in
Hoquiam, T. M. Quinn and Mrs. Clara
Rockwell with ASSESSOR Hoover help
ing. Patrick McMonagle is deputy
for Moclips and North Beach; A. E.
Leroy, country east of Elma; VIM.
Harding, Satsop and Satsop valley;
ID. G. Simons, Wynooche valley; r.
Carl, North River; j. M. Gwin, Elma
and McCleary; T. F. Brown, Monte
sano; c. j. Coghlin, Ocosta, West
port and South Beach; E. E. Fishel,
Cuiniault and Humptulips.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
LAW
PROHIBITS
--BLETHEN

goods the sales increased so greatly,
and so l sent to all the grocery and
dry goods stores to find that out. And
to me it is -pitiful thing, and it
makes me sorry that we did not have
prohibition long ago-that the increase
in sales in all the dry goods stores
was in wearing apparel of women and
children and in the grocery stores the
increase was made up chiefly of fruits
and fancy groceries. This proves that
it is the women and children who
suffer most from the liquor business.
and it is the women and children who
benefit greatest from prohibition.
Money that went formerly over the
bar for whiskey is now being spent
for clothing for the women and chill
dren and in better food for the house
hold.
"It is just like this: When you
close the saloons the money that form
erly was spent there remains in the
family of the wage Garner and his
wife and children buy shoes and cloth
ing and better food with it. Yes, sir.
we have found in Seattle that it is
better to buy shoes than booze. The
families of wage earners in Seattle
are going to have more food and
clothes and everything else than they
had before"
It Actually Prohibits.
"And is the prohibition law en-
forced?"
Absolutely. Prohibition does pro-
hibit." -
sand how about the empty saloons
and the landlords who own theM?"
MANY of them have already been
made over and are occupied by other
businesses. l will venture the prophecy
that in one year from today you won't
be able to find place in Seattle where
there was a saloon. They will be all
occupied by other businesses. And
prohibition has not lowered rents. I
know of one big dry goods store that
has already had it's rent raised since
prohibition Went into effect. ~
Coast VIII 30 "pry." !
I Oregon also went dry January !.
! California is the only wet state left
on the Pacific Coast, and it will go
dry January /, 1918. And those three
states will remain dry to the end of
time. None of them would ever have
! saloons again. Those who were hon.
estly opposed, as I was. to prohibi.
tion in Washington and Oregon, have
been converted to it, as I have been.
by the actual evidence that prohibition
is fine thing from business stand
point. No city and no community.
too, can afford to have saloons. They
are too expensive, morally and eco
nomically. In very few years there
will not be licensed saloon in the
whole nation, and that will be a fine
thing"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
WILL PLANT ROSES

Mrs. c. M. Cloud, press correspond
ent for the Grays Harbor Rose asso-
citation, announces that the next meet
ing of the organization will be held
next Wednesday at the home of D. A..
Gillett in Hoquiam, I'll Second street.
Meeting will be called at 8 p. m. and
a large attendance is hoped for, as
plans for the springs work will be
laid. Tomorrow will be rose planting
day.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
OPENING
CIVESWORK TO
200 MORE MEN

With the opening, within the next
few weeks, of the logging camps of
the National Lumber company at
Cedarville; Aberdeen Lumber &
Shingle company, at Humptulips Nc
Cash-Coates near Pacific Beach; and
Preston-Keef in South Aberdeen, 200
men will be given employment.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
RESUMES CARLISLE RUN

The S. w. Johnston Transfer COM
pany has resumed operation of it's
auto freight and passenger service
to Carlisle, Aloha, Stearnsville and
Pacific Beach. The truck leaves Aber-
deem daily at a. M, and leaves Car
Isle at ! D. m. The Pacific Beach
run is made Tuesdays and Satur-
days,
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
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BOOZE EASY TO AUTOlST =.

!. Any auto owner can buy two :
!. quarts of liquor as many times :
!. as his car will jump from coun- .
: ty to county and there are :
:. Grays Harbor county autoists :
!. who are getting permits in ad- :
:. joining counties, say some Off :
:. cials at Montesano. Mason, :
!. Thurston, Lewis and Pacific :
:. county auditors are issuing per. .
:. mits to Grays Harbor county
!. men and citizens of those coun- .
: ties are getting permits at Mon :
!. tesano, according to these Off :
!. cials.
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
CLAMPS LID ON
TIGHT FOR ALL
CAMBLINCHERE

BY March Is all punchboards, slot
machines, dice and games of chance
played on pool and billiard tables
must be out OF business. announces
Chief of Police R. ]. Schmidt. Lo-
cal dealers all have been notified that
the lid is to be placed on tight and
they already are clearing up their es-
Establishments to conform with city or
dinances and state law.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
CHAMBER PAYS
$1OO YEAR FOR
TRAIL BLAZING

The Aberdeen Chamber of Com
merce, by action of committee the
other day, pledged itself to pay $1OO
year towards keeping of this section
on the maps of the U. S. Trail Blazing
association, used by autoists. A. l..
Meigs, association representative, was
here this week and said that signs
would be maintained pointing out both
beach roads and the road to Quiniault
lake.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
PLOTTING AT CITY HALL

Members of the Aberdeen fire de-
partment declare they will beat the
police flower gardening this spring.
Both are starting work on their pretty
plots at the city hall.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
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FINDS JAG IN BlTTERS

!. William Plaster of Hoquiam
!. drank three bottles of Hostel
!. ters Bitters, the other night,
:. for a cold. He acquired jag
!. which resulted in his being
!. taken in charge by the police.
:. The bitters are said to be 25
:. per cent alcohol. Plaster
:. bought them at a HoQuiam
:. drug store.
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
FREIGHT RATES UP

Freight rates to Cape Town and
other South African ports, from Grays
Harbor, have jumped to more than s45
a thousand feet of lumber.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
GET CHECK ARTIST

Sheriff Schelle Mathews left Tuesday
for Lewiston, Idaho, to get E. B.
Gardiner, wanted here on a charge
of having passed several bad checks
on local merchants. The Lewiston
police made the arrest and, if Gardi-
ner is found to be the right man, they
will draw down $50 posted by J. S.
Waugh with the local police, as re-
ward for the arrest.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
CUTS MOST OF DOUGLAS FIR

The state of Washington produced
in 1914 more than three billion feet
of Douglas fir, or approximately 65
per cent Of the Douglas fir produced
by the five Northwest and Coast
states.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
STATION OPEN AT NIGHT

The naval recruiting station recently
opened in Aberdeen now is being kept
open Saturday evenings from Z to 8
o'clock.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
RAISE MEMS WAGES

The Donovan Lumber company an
nounces an increase in employees
wages effective last Wednesday,
March /.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03

$392,835 $4S5,S12
Stannard stated that his estimates
were liberal and that probably, were
the entire job let by contract, bids
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-12-07

Il has met all corners Ia its class and
faithfully holds its own. Ii has a
record second TO none at
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-12-07
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE BEGINS
RAIL WAY INQUIRY
Proposed BY President TO Bet
Ter Condition of Carriers.
MAY CHANGE PRESENT SYSTEM

Officials Of Roads Prepared to Advocate
Federal incorporation. Supervision Of
Securities and Extension Of Authority
Of interstate comnsrcs Commission.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
GUARDS
 ORDERED TO MOVE

: Washington, Aug. 2S.-Some 12Ml men in Ohio, Vermont and Kentn,I national guard regiments still held ' state mobilization camps were direct ed by the war department today n proceed to the Mexican border m. department revoked suspension of n order for their movement issued v, weeks ago. All the regiments will r forward to join General Funstm, command as rapidly as transportatu can be supplied. Some units were u the move tonight.
 There remained approximatey lS, '000 guardsmen scattered throur many states who are not affected l today's order They also were un. orders for the border two weeks ag but the suspension so far has not bss revoked for them.
 The original order sending sgA ward all troops called into the fedsn service was issued by the war depart ment in order that the divisional unit along the international line nigh h filled up. When the railway strh situation became threatening, Gersn Funston recommended that the whts movement be held up.
 The department now has decds that the strike situation may cOntla unchanged for some time.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
WAGES WENT FOR FOOD.

There are good many foreigners in Denver" says Ellis Meredith in the Union Signal, "apd there is a little Methodist mission at one end of the Italian colony. For several years past they have fed the school children at noon. During the winter of 1914-15 they averaged close to a hundred daily. and last winter it varied from 40 to 3O-up to the second week in January. After the first dry payday the chil- dren didn't come any more, or only very few of them. They had food at home. That is the kind of argument for prohibition that seems unanswer- able to me"
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
FRESH AIR.

Everybody so believes in the value Of fresh air today that 1t seems rather foolish to dwell on it's importance. Yet less than fifty years ago-in 1869 to be exact when a physician in England ad- dressed a society of doctors on the value of fresh air he was hooted from the platform. and this same society later passed a resolution forbidding the use of their platform to such nonsensical talks. Such has been the progress within half a century.
 When Or. Trudeau, who died last year, contracted tuberculosis about 35 years ago, he decided to try the open air treatment. His friends felt sorry for him for they thought the man had surely gone out of his mind. Yet so rapid was his gain In health that he convinced others that fresh air was the chief requi- site for cure, and he was enabled to establish santarium in the Adj rondacks where he had been cured. In this sanitarium pr. Trudeau helped to restore the health of many others and when he died the press of the country had articles of praise regarding him.
 Of course, pulmonary tuberculo- sis being lung disease, the im- portance of breathing is apparent. The lung is the instrument of breathing and to be kept in good condition it must be used properly. If good deep breaths of pure air are taken the lungs develop in strength. The lungs purify the blood and if they cannot do the full work, the blood is not so purified and the general system becomes weakened. Then the tuberculosis germ begins to work and a useful life is cut short.
 The Arkansas Society for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu- Iosis is much interested in this sub ject and offers free advice and liter ature for the asking. Write the so- ciety today at the City Hall, Little Rock.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
Temperance
 A@ssN0IeS~ A@ss ~
RUssIA's GREATEST ENEMY.

The new premier of Russia, Boris V. Sturmer, discussing with a news paper correspondent conditions ere ated by the war, said:
 Russia awaits the future with con- fidence. Some monetary disturbance may happen in our financial system, but Russia is rich in latent wealth. During the whole war the deposits in our savings banks have been constant ly growing in an extraordinary fash ion. The prohibition of alcoholic bev- erageS has produced marvellous re- suits. Alcohol was indeed the scourge that gnawed. decimated and impov- erished our people. We destroyed this enemy at the beginning of the war"
 The Russian minister of finance, when presenting his budget to the council of the empire, reported:
 "Despite war expenses amounting to 12,000, 100000 roubles, and thanks to the abolition of the alcohol monopoly, the financial strength of the country is growing. The savings of the na- tion since the beginning of the war have increased by 2,000,000000 rou- bleS."
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
PASTED PARAGRAPHS.

The darkest hour IS when you find that all your coin is spent And nothing but your timepiece stands between you and the rent. You never know the value till you pay the old thing OCT, As you stand beneath the shadow of the gloomy pawnshop door,
 Cincinnati Enquirer. The darkest hour is when you find the team three runs behind And batsmen cleaye the atmosphere as if they had gone blind. You never knew the value of a solid three-base clout Until the bags are filled with waiting men and two are out
 Birmingham Age Herald. The darkest hour is when you find your dome devoid of themes, When nothing seems to make joke in spite of all your schemes; You take your shears and pen and add unto some others stock CThe darkest hour is passing now 5:45 o'clock.l
 Buffalo News. The darkest hour is when you take your shoes off way downstairs And Navigate the darkness, lodging tabourets and chairs; Then fnd-what you'd forgotten-that your wife is out of town, And there's no one to lecture you when you are lying down.
 Houston Post. The darkest hour, the poets say, is just before the dawn, But the blackest hour for you, old scout, the time that gets your corn,
 Is when some wispy-clad sweet thing blows by upon the wind, And you can't see her from the fact you've left your specs behind.
 Commercial Appeal.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29
AGAINST ALCOHOL.

Following the action of the New York board of health in showing up the drink evil and its relation to the public health, the New Jersey assoCia- tiOn unanimously passed the following resolution:
 "Whereas, alcoholic beverages are detrimental to health and indirectly the cause of disease
 Resolved, That the Health Officers association recommend that a cam paign of publicity be inaugurated by the state and local departments of health for the purpose of informing the public of the dangers to life and health which attend the use of such beverages"
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-29

it tends to prevent rust. The cover also must not be neglected. It Is as important that it be as thoroughly cleansed and sterilized as the can it. self. It is not a good plan to put the cover on the can until the latter Is quite dry. In the interval the can should be kept in clean place where there is no dust or contamination.
 On the farm, cans, pails, and other utensils may be sterilized very eftic- iently with an inexpensive sterilizer which is fully described in Farmers Bulletin 74S. This bulletin may be obtained upon application to the de- partment