125 years ago
September 1, 1893
The closing down of W.D. Mack’s logging camp will be regretted by everyone. It is sincerely hoped that circumstances will soon enable him to again start up.
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Be loyal to your home now if you never were before. Don’t ask home merchants for credit and spend cash in the larger cities for what can be purchased here. Every cent in the community should be kept here if possible.
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A fire was discovered last Monday in the back of Miss Morgan’s millinery story, while she was absent at dinner. Prompt action with a few buckets of water, put out the flames before any serious damage was done. The fire originated from a defective stove pipe.
100 years ago
August 30, 1918
Stewart-Davidson Auto Co. delivered a second 5-ton G.M.C. logging tractor and trailer to Carl Llewelyn this week. It will haul spruce logs from Llewelyn’s place, three miles east of Montesano to the Chehalis river. The truck method of logging is rapidly meeting the approval of loggers and is proving an economical solution of the small logging shows. Mr. Llewelyn was among the first to recognize this.
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The W.C.T.U. (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) will meet next Tuesday, Sept. 3, with Mrs. J.L. Calder. A good attendance is desired as patriotic work is to be done.
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A call has been made asking everyone to save their peach and plum pits for war work. You are asked to take them to Mrs. McNeil at the Public Library.
75 years ago
September 2, 1943
Montesano’s newest factory is in production and, this Thursday, a shipment of 500 brand new garbage receptacles made of wood and pulp products right here in Montesano have been made to a score of wholesale and retail stores throughout the Northwest — with orders for more to come and on hand.
Since last week when the VIDETTE announced the new plant’s readiness to employ men and women for the production line, employment has reached a total of 9 men and 20 women, according to Plant Manager L.A. Lewis today. These employees have been trained in various duties and with added facilities completed the production of completed units in now underway.
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To help hold the line on the cost-of-living, dollars-and-cents community maximum ceiling prices will go into effect on about 500 market-basket food items beginning Tuesday, September 7, in retail stores in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties.
An important move to keep food prices in line, these official ceiling prices are the highest which any retail store legally may charge, although any store may sell for less.
Included in the new order are various brands and sizes of such major foods as bread, butter, baby foods, cereals, cornmeal, coffee, processed fish, canned citrus fruits and juices, canned fruit cocktail, canned peaches, pears, pineapple, dried prunes and raisins, honey, lard, macaroni and spaghetti products, condensed and evaporated milk, cooking and salad oil, shortening, poultry, sugar, syrup, molasses, the following canned vegetables and vegetable juices; green and wax beans, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato juice.
50 years ago
August 29, 1968
Tuesday morning was the time, and the place was the dungeon room at Monte High. Thirty-nine rough looking and eager young men were issued the football gear. They will have four (two a day) workouts, rain or shine. Then the turnouts will be one a day. Watch out, Montesano, the time has arrived.
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Volunteers at the First Aid Station at the Grays Harbor County Fair report that they handled 41 cases on August 10 and 11, the last two days of the fair.
Manned by the auxiliary deputies of Grays Harbor county and the Search and Rescue Corps, the service was provided by the American Red Cross.
25 years ago
September 2, 1993
With schools returning to session and the summer season closing, the WNP-3 Information Office at the Satsop power plant will return to normal hours on Sept. 7.
After Labor Day, tours of the Satsop power plant will be available at 10 a.m. Fridays with no reservations necessary. Additional tours also are available Monday through Friday by making an appointment.
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Three Coast Guard vessels, the ‘Midget’, ‘Cuttyhunk’ and the buoy tender ‘Citrus’, U.S. Navy Frigate ‘Lewis B. Puller’, and the Canadian vessels ‘Ports De La Reine’ and ‘Porte Dauphine’ are all due into the Port of Grays Harbor’s Terminal IV at 12-noon, Sunday, September 5, to take part in the military exercise ‘Forward Sentinel ’93’.
After a welcoming ceremony, all vessels will be open to the public until 4 p.m. Sunday.
10 years ago
August 28, 2008
As this year’s state president of Theta Rho Girls Club, 14-year-old Cassidy Feist of Montesano will preside over a luncheon and open house in her honor this Saturday, Aug. 30, at the Silvia Center. Members representing Odd Fellows, Rebekah and Theta Rho chapters from all over Washington and Oregon will gather downstairs at the Silvia Center for a luncheon prepared by the Rebekahs, followed by a reception upstairs in the lodge chambers.
Theta Rho girls are the “younger sisters” of the Rebekahs — and Cassidy is the youngest girl to be installed as state president, according to the club’s “mother adviser” Donna Tonn of the Montesano Rebekahs.
Cynthia Ash of Montesano holds the honor of “girl of the year.”
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How much will it cost, and will it reduce the taxing authority of cities? Should there be one group — or individual entities drawing from a pooled funding source? How can both volunteers and paid employees be drawn into the program?
These were some of the questions raised at the second meeting Aug. 21 of the Grays Harbor Regional Fire Authority Planning Committee. Members of a number of cities and fire districts first met July 31 in Montesano to consider forming an entirely new entity that could provide emergency medical, as well as fire services, under legislation passed in 2005.
Compiled from the archives of The Vidette by Karen Barkstrom. She can be reached at 360-537-3925 or kbarkstrom@thedailyworld.com
