Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-05

Friday, May 5, 1916
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Bullets kill thousands flies kills tens of thousands.
Swat the fly!
The city looks hundred per cent better since the
dirty doggeries and filthy saloons have been replaced
by clean, renovated business stores.
1t is no use fussing and bloviating around there
will be two men who will receive the votes for Presi-
dent; they will be Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt It will be the hottest contested election this
country
We learn that Aberdeen is soon to have an auto
tire manufacturing plant: The details are all pretty
we'll worked out; the selling end of the concern has
been arranged for, and soon we will add another in
dustry to our city.
On the assurance that fly is capable Of leaving
$4,000, 10000 descendants within period of sixty
days, that fly you see sailing around the room should
be we'll worth sWatting
After all is said and done this political business
is the Chunk" anyway The "Outs want to get in and
those In want to stay there that is about all there
is to it. The deer peepu' get it handed to them no
matter who wins, it is purely commercial PROPOSE
ton, and all out for what there is in it.
Seventy-six out Of eghty-seven Of typhoid
fever which occurred in a recent outbreak have been
traced by the United States Public Health Service to
infected milk Had the first been reported to
trained health officer the outbreak could have been
stamped out promptly. When will we learn that dis
ease prevention is sure and cheap?
Certainly times are hard and great economy Of
the people of the United States is compulsory Here
are few items and the amount spent on them in this
country per year: Chewing gum, $4,000 000 tea and
Coffee 100000 900; confectionery, 5000 100000;
jewelry $500, 100000; tobacco, 00000o booze,
$4,000, OOO,O 00
"Trade at Home" received nice jolt in the slats"
recently, when some Grays Harbor papers carried
large advertisement for the Bon Marche Of Seattle Not
long ago these same papers publishing paid trade
at home copy its trade in Seattle copy-playing
our merchants coming and golng' as 1t WERE
"The fool that drinks wood alcohol is not an as
set so says the Vdette Quite right BROTHER if any
thing, he is better dead and out Of the way. He is
creature that any community is better off by getting
rid of him via the paupers grave; but, remember ne
is the finished product Of the saloon.
The Aberdeen Herald stands first, last and all the
time for Aberdeen, its people and it's industries. Fill
ing the pockets and building up the business OF outsld
ers has no place on our program. A dollar unnec-
essariy sent out Of this city denotes dsoyay and the
action of bonehead Unless loyal to Aberdeen
the city will never amount to "shucks. All the out
siders want is money! they nothing about our
Of course all things must be equal IN value,
quality and SERVICE in order to hold the trade here II
our prices service and quality inferior then we
might we'll take to the tall timber, and make room
for those who understand merchandising. All that
reasonably be asked Of people to trade here
and not pay premium for doing so.
1t is surprise to the hundreds of visitors who go
to the Aberdeen shipyards quite regularly the remark
able progress that is being made there. One thing is
plainly to be seen and that is that Andrew Peterson
and his associates know the shpbuldng business from
AtoZ There's no lost notion no stalling around for
effect and notoriey they just go ahead; here is con-
else sample of the way they do things: -
On February 18th Andrew Peterson left San
Francisco for Aberdeen; arrived in Aberdeen 18th;
left for Raymond 17th for his machinery; return
ed on the 10TH got to work on the 20th; March LIST
laid the keel of the "Oregon the 17 the LIST frame
went up and finished the framing in days:
On the LIST day Of April the keel of the Bafour,
Guthrie boat laid and the frame was completed on
the 28th the keel of the idaho was laid April 10th.
This is certainly record of which those in charge of
the work may be reasonably proud The Aberdeen
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