Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-02-04
9tincipaI Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
NATION of Our Readers.

mdlIOn OF Uur hedQerS.
The annual conference Of the North
Haciflc Fair association was held in
SEATTLE this week.
AL the churches Of Kelso have
united in a "go-to-church" campaign
fo run during February.
Dedicatory exercises took place at
davenport Monday night at the new
SO. 900 school building.
The Lake Washington ship canal
was opened to traffic from Puget
sound to Salmon bay Monday.
Owing to the ice and snow the Pc
Ell lighting plant and the Yeomans
mill have been put out of commission.
Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson Sto
yer. of Ridgefield, celebrated the 61st
anniversary of their wedding Friday
Numerous deer are being driven
down into the Columbia valley near
Ket1le Falls by the deep SHOWS in the
mountains.
The bodies Of eight victims were
uncovered from the snowslide which
buried Great Northern passenger
train at Corea
The north jetty at Grays Harbor,
which has cost the government ST.
2O6. 700, has been completed. 1t is
1zrG9O feet long.
Three men jumped to death when
the Talbot Walker building at Seattle
Durned and three were burned to
death in the building.
Spokane laundries and diaries have
had a marked increase in business
'.szn'sa January 1, direct result of pro-
sxibition, the arrangements declare.
The commercial sales of timber on
The national forests of Washington
Tor the past fiscal year amounted to
21.854, 900 board feet, valued at 1884,
,3sz.
John c. Eden, member of the Raj
nSer club at Seattle. was arrested on
n charge of having more liquor in his
possession than the prohibition law
allows.
The Bellingham city council unani-
mOusly elected Alex Muir mayor to
succeed George F. Raymond, who died
last week, though Muir was not
candidate
Peter Weichler. aged 40, native
N1f Greece, threw himself in front of
q switch engine at Aberdeen, and was
ground to pieces. He feared a call
tn the war;
Bids were opened at Washington.
ID. C., for the construction of the pub.
lie buildings at Ellensburg. Thomas
E Young company, of Seattle, were
How bidders at $53,915.
Figures compiled by the West Coast
Iumber Manufacturers association
show that the mills of Washington and
Oregon in January cut only one-fifth
1heir normal monthly cut
Fire of unknown origin at Chehalis.
burned out the dry goods stock of
Hartman & Nathan, the biggest line
'56 dry goods in Lewis county. The
1O1S is estimated at $45,000.
The first cannery of the Grays Har-
bor district to begin operation in the
ISIS season will be the plant at the
mouth of the Queets river, which is
expected to start soon after February
l..
The contract for the construction of
Ridgefield's gravity water system was
1~arded to the lowest bidder for S.
'xz7-21 last week. The successful bid.
! ders were Morris & Kenney, contract.
sors of Seattle.
! To replace the wooden walks with
cement, q huge improvement district.
comprising all of the city lying north
al Main street and west of Tower av-
enne. is planned by the city commits |
sion OF Centralia.
Nv. Il. Brown, manager of the Still |
water Lumber company, announces |
that the Eaig sawmill plant at Vader |
which was recently burned, will be
rebuilt at once. Two hundred men
viii be re-employed.
, The 1916 northwe stern mining con-
yention will be held in Spokane Mon
day, March 20, to Saturday, March %.
Inclusive. under the joint auspices of
the Spokane Mining Mems club and
the chamber of commerce.
, Fire O.-W. R. & N. company has
completed plans for the immediate
construction, at Tacoma, of a large
warehouse for the accommodation of
its import and export business now be-
ing handled through that port.
The freight earnings of the North
BANK road for November, 1915, were
:$5O,439 greater than for the preced-
ing November, an increase of over 10
per cent, and the passenger earnings
increased $S534, or 8 per cent.
Thrown beneath his engine when
the big locomotive plunged through
xle piling of log dump and overturn-
ed, Engineer John Harding of the Sc
attic, Port Angeles & Western rail- {
road was killed at Port Angeles.
The Commercial Boiler Works of |