125 years ago
Oct. 14, 1892
Council proceedings.
On motion C. N. Byles appointed mayor pro tem.
Fire committee granted further time to report. Application and bond of Del Roberts asking that liquor license of Isaac Spencer be transferred to him was presented, and on motion application was granted.
On motion city attorney was instructed to draft an ordinance establishing a fee for transferring licenses granted by the city.
From the Elma Chronicle.
S. A. Estus and family moved into town Tuesday and occupy their residence, corner of Second and Anderson streets.
A man was fatally injured by a falling tree in one of the P. S. & G. H. R. R. camps this week. We have been unable to learn his name.
Jas. Gleeson, Jr., sent in a sheaf of American Banner oats this week, measuring 7 feet 8 inches in height and with prodigious heads. It will be sent to the World’s Fair.
100 years ago
Oct. 12, 1917
The boys of Co. G are coming home for a furlough over Saturday and Sunday. This is probably the last time they are to visit home until the war is over. They should be given a loyal welcome. The company was transferred from Tye, in the Cascade mountains, to American Lake, Wednesday, and it is understood they are to join their regiment at some southern training camp at once. From there they will go to France.
Many of the Co. G boys are from Montesano. Preparations are being made to give them and their comrades from Aberdeen and elsewhere a warm welcome here. Just what form these preparations will take is uncertain yet, but officers of the Chamber of Commerce were trying to get in touch with Capt. Comeau yesterday afternoon. Montesano wants to show its appreciation of its own solider boys.
75 years ago
Oct. 15, 1945
Next week’s Vidette will carry full details of a subscription campaign in which this newspaper will give United States War Savings bonds as prizes to the boys and girls who participate.
In previous years The Vidette has conducted similar campaigns, in many of which bicycles were given as prizes, and scores of local boys and girls have found these campaigns a source of pleasure, experience and financial gain.
Mr. J. D. Stack, Circulation Director of the Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association, has been Circulation Manager of The Vidette for more than ten years and will have personal charge of this campaign, as he has of the previous Vidette campaigns.
Beginning Saturday, Oct. 24, The Vidette will take applications from boys and girls who wish to participate in this campaign. Only 16 boys and girls will be allowed to enter; two of these (one in Montesano and one elsewhere in this territory) will each receive a $100 bond, three others will each receive a $50 bond and all others will be paid a small cash commission of one-fifth of all money he or she turns in for subscriptions.
50 years ago
Oct. 12, 1967
In sharp contrast to previous sewer system sessions, when residents packed City Hall to protest proposed installations, there was no one at all on hand Tuesday night to oppose the Montesano Council’s well-laid plans for LID No. 109.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. (Bud) Owen Jr., 1118 Beacon East, showed up, but merely to make sure laterals will be extended to property lines – which they will – and to voice their support for the project.
City Clerk Bertha Satterstrom reported that Dan Sopko, a builder in the area, had phoned to indicate his endorsement. Otherwise, there was no comment – in person or by phone.
In connection with the LID matter, Greg Nelson, city attorney, and Norm Krueger, consulting engineer, urged Council to obtain an agreement in writing from the Montesano School Board before finalizing plans for the sewer extension. Verbally, the board has agreed to pay $12,250 as its share of the installation.
25 years ago
Oct. 8, 1992
With a projected income of $14.2 million and requests amounting to some $16.4 million from the various county departmental heads it would appear that the county commissioners are going to have to do some surgical work on the 1993 county budget. In order to balance the 1992 budget, the commissioners had to rely on $1.46 million in reserve funds leaving just $1.5 million in that account. However, board members have indicated such a drawdown will not occur again this year.
Some 75 percent of the budget, which was submitted to the board Monday by the auditor’s office, represents expenses in Law and Justice departments and the commissioners have indicated a reluctance in cutting such budgets.
After receipt of the preliminary budget Monday, Third District Commissioner Bob Paylor noted, “We don’t plan on filling some positions that have, or will, become vacant, but at this point I don’t believe that will be enough.” Both Commissioners Bill Pine and Dick Dixon have said they hope that employee layoffs will not be necessary because of the budget shortfall.
10 years ago
Oct. 11, 2007
Military markers will be laid at the gravesites of three armed services veterans who had all lived in Montesano, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in Montesano’s Wynooche Cemetery.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2455 of Montesano and Boy Scouts Troop 15, which the post sponsors, will lay the stones on the graves of Donald S. Graham, John M. Milrot and Anson E. Losey. VFW chaplain, Louie Butin, will offer a prayer.
Graham, who was born in 1921, served in the Army National Guard during World War II. He died in 1991. Milrot, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, was born in 1930. He died earlier this year. Graham’s widow, Helen, and Milrot’s widow, Dorothy, both plan to attend Saturday, according to the VFW.
Losey, 1855-1929, served in the United States Cavalry from 1881 to 1884, during what was then called the “Indian Wars,” according to his great-grandson, Dr. Tim Losey, who had hoped to travel to Montesano with his wife Cheryl from their home in Alberta, Canada for Saturday’s event. Dr. Losey’s research on his great-grandfather, who he knew very little about until recently, has resulted in his book, “The Trail of private Losey.”
