Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-02

California.
Mrs. II. H. Griffin went to Portland
yesterday morning.
Mrs. Anna LaBlanche went to Bel
lingham yesterday where she will
open millinery store.
Weather conditions and bad roads
are the cause for raising the fare on
auto stages between Aberdeen and
Montesano from 50 to 40 cents, drivers
declared this week. The raise went
into effect Sunday.
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The 10-year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Clark, $500 Cherry street
succumbed to diphtheria Sunday.
Funeral services will be held next
week following the release of the fam
lily from quarantine
The Aberdeen high school girls
basketball team defeated the Hoquiam
girls team 16 to last Thursday night
This victory puts the local girls in
line for the championship of South
west Washington.
Many Aberdeen Knights of Pythias
will go to Olympia Wednesday even
ing, March Z, to attend the get-togeth-
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cities on the Harbor will also be rep
resented at the meeting.
Ross Pinckney, employed at the
Grays Harbor Shipyards, was cut on
the leg while working at the plant
Monday. The cut is a bad one and
will probably lay him up for three
weeks.
Mrs. Ann Hill, mother of City Treas
urer T. H. Hill, returned Monday night
from a years visit to sons and daugh-
tiers in Mason City, la. Mrs. Hill says
she is glad to be back on the coast
away from the heat and cold of the
East.
Police Chief Schmidt has had a
blue line drawn on the floor at the
police station about two feet from the
Jail door over which visitors may not
step. This is done to keep visitors
from handing booze and other con-
traband to prisoners.
News of the death in San Francisco
of Halbert D. Crawford reached this
city few days ago. He was at one
time pastor of the Congregational
church here and owned the Aberdeen
Bulletin He died from a paralytic
stroke and was 81 years of age.
Mrs. ]. P Morgan gave luncheon
at her home on West Fourth street
Saturday in honor of Miss Eva Flem-
ing, Miss Mable Orr and Miss Hope
Chambers, who have been teachers Of
Mrs. Morgans son, Donald. Auction
bridge furnished the diversion for the
afternoon.
Miss Marion Crary, Miss Eva Bad
gley, Miss Maude Cosgrove and George
Arnold received first, second, third
and fourth prizes, respectfully for the
best papers written on the life of
Washington in the Congregational
church Sunday evening. w. w. Hart
c. P. L. Roberts and Mrs. L. G.
Bumbarger were the judges.
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Rev. w. S. Bovard, D. D., of Chi
cago, general secretary of the Broth
erhood and superintendent of the
mems department of the Methodist
Episcopal church, is in the city and
will hold meetings here. DR.. Bovard
is on the Coast to assist the laymens
association of the Puget Sound con-
ference in a campaign in which it is
proposed to put 5000 new men into
the Methodist Sunday schools.
Eugene France. former mayor of
Aberdeen, returned Friday from a two
weeks trip in the woods.
w. S. Mitchell, sergeant of Com
pany G., N. G. U. S., has filed appli-
cation to take the examination for a
captiancy Of the reserve corps. If he
passes he would become captain Of
volunteer company in case the
United States called for troops.
| Fred Pearson, youngest son of
Jurge J. C. Pearson, is following in
the footsteps of other members of his
family. He recently joined the naval
militia. His great grandfather fought
in the revolutionary war, his father
served in the Civil war and one of
his brothers was killed in the Phil
ipines during the Spanish-American
war and another brother recently re-
turned from service on the Mexican
border
George Stalding was elected pfesi-
dent of the Grays Harbor Rod and
Gun club Monday night John Pecha-
eek was elected vice president; Ira