Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-26


"You cannot make silk purse out of sow's
It cost the county in which Spokane is situated
nearly S16OOOOO less to operate the first four dry
months than for the same months in the previous wear
1t is awful what prohibition does; the saloon men
predicted it would be-.
Many people think that newspapermen have a
hard time securing material to put in their papers,
bless your heart what causes them to have gray hairs
is to know what to leave out after they have got it.
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We notice with great and unconfned joy that
the officers are commencing to arrest the apparently
reckless auto drivers who speed through streets
at from rs to 40 miles hour. Only Providence has
spared the children and pedestrians all over this city
as the drivers appear totally unconcerned and act as
though everybody are trespassers excepting them
selves A month two in the Cooler" would be more
effective than fines
Governor Lister was the guest of the Brother
hood of the First Methodist Church last Monday night
sound good, practical sense into his talk than the
usual speaker does in ten times the amount of time
We wish more people Of this town could have heard
him vast number of them sorely need just the
kind Of information he gave His speech will do great
amount OF good and make him many real friends
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"The Birth of Nation" at the Grand Theater
is doing phenomenal business this week; this is not
to be wondered at, for it is marvellous productions
the music alone being worth more than the cost of
admittance. For three hours the action is fast
and furious scene after scene is unfoded until the
whole panorama is worked out in such detail and vivid
ness that one is almost bewildered.
War, history DRAMA love-making and tragedy is
so interviewer and so keenly portrayed that it
as If it was all real and going on before you.
To miss seeing "The Birth of Nation is to miss
much, indeed
The Evangelist w. A. Goodwin, now at the First
Methodist Church, is surely causing the people to take
notice.
-. Wide and varied are the views held concerning
this man. but all are agreed that he is original some
what peculiar, but very much in earnest
It is useless to try to compare him with the ma
terlal usually found in the regular pulpit he is alto
gether different.
It is not necessary to say that he is neither a
heologian nor an educated man. he does not pretend
to be such but thing is certain that in the former
wild life he led, and his travels the world, that
he has picked up and absorbed an amazing amount of
rich and valuable experience.
He sidesteps and utterly ignores the regular
methods and cut and dried services that the masses
are so weary Of and introduces his peculiar and
original ways of introducing the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to the big audiences. He is big and his weight
and Influence will grow, and the audiences will get
larger and larger, because down in the human heart
the average person loves real genuine, outspoken
Christianity and is drawn to it.
The vast majority Of people are tired of the hub
dub varnished formal frilled commerciaized article
that has been dshed out to them long, in the ma or
ity of our churches everywhere they know there is
real genuine article and they also know it when they
hear it. Ministers are given to berate the people for
not going to church, when the real fact is that it is
wonder that so many do 60. Considering what they
get when they do 60.
"Jack", as the evangelist is Familiarity called, is
ably assisted by his side partner NJ W. Melvin, who is
another man mbued with sound Christian ideas Of
the everyday and practical type, and who quietly is
doing large amount Of work that really counts. He
goes after the people and somehow gets them into the
church. This is most valuable work and he does
ut WELL
converted "Prince of Gamblers and his helper NJ w.
Melvin are going after the people who need them the
most that is the Goddess the unconvered the kind that
the average church lets severely alone, the neglected
cheers and hope for them all kinds Of success in their