125 years ago
Nov. 27, 1891
The residence of Wm. Geissler was broken into yesterday afternoon, sometime between the hours of one and three, during the absence of the family. The person who did the breaking evidently had a key to the east door, which was the one by which entry was made as the key bolt had been turned back, but there was another bolt on the door and that lock and catch was broken, the door having been forced open.
Nothing was taken from the house, as far as could be discovered, although some of the furniture had been moved. It will behoove householders to look to the fastenings of their doors and windows if this class of gentry are in town.
100 years ago
Nov. 24, 1916
Demand for liquor permits is very heavy at present and Deputy Tarr is kept busy from opening until close of his office writing out the pink slips. Last week, more than 800 permits were issued and on Monday of this week, 214 made an application. This is close to the record of 228 permits issued one day in June.
75 years ago
Nov. 27, 1941
Mrs. Turner is winner
Competing against more than 400,000 contestants from every state in the union, Mrs. Marie Turner, who entered a table cloth, has captured the coveted second prize in the final judging of the fifth annual nationwide crochet contest held in New York City.
Top honors were divided this year when the 16 judges reached a tie decision and conferred the title of national crochet co-champion on Mrs. Theresa Blum of Los Angeles and Mrs. H.R. Campfield of Woodside, N.Y. Their prize was $250 each.
Mrs. Turner has been winning prizes on crocheted articles in this state since 1937. The table cloth is made of number 100 ecru colored thread and used 49 balls of 500 yards each and took 1,460 hours to complete.
50 years ago
Nov. 24, 1966
Alcoholism tab $375,000 for two counties annually
David Leland, manager of Simpson Timber Company Plywood Plant at McCleary, was elected chairman of the Twin Harbors Council on Alcoholism at a meeting held recently in Aberdeen.
Mrs. Barbara Anderson, Grays Harbor Central Labor Council, and Herbert E. Wieland, Pacific County prosecuting attorney, were elected to the board of directors.
In accepting the office chairman, Leland declared, “It is high time that the citizens of Grays Harbor and Pacific counties took action against alcoholism, a disease that affects every one of us either directly or indirectly. Some of us, of course, are more seriously affected than others; but no one is hurt so greatly and so permanently as the child of an alcoholic.”
Alcoholism costs the citizens of Grays Harbor and Pacific counties more than $375,000 annually, Leland said; and each year the costs increase.
The Twin Harbors Council on Alcoholism is mapping an ambitious organizational plan, with one of the first goals, the establishment of an alcoholism information and referral center.
25 years ago
Nov. 21, 1991
Weekend winds were not kind to Montesano resident Paul Willis. Saturday evening’s high winds are blamed for the collapse of the huge crane at the former Washington Forest Products in Hoquiam, which Willis purchased only about three weeks ago.
Willis said a temporary crane, which will take about two weeks to assemble, should be in place by early December. That means restarting the mill, which was shut down Nov. 18 during negotiations will only be delayed about a week or so. He said insurance agents are investigating to determine if the accident really was caused by the wind.
Meanwhile, in Montesano, part of the roof of a building owned by Willis, blew off and landed on Pioneer Street.
Connie Ortquist, owner of Country Tyme, the business most effected by the roof damage, said she’d just removed a large number of Christmas items which were stored under the ill-fated roof. No merchandise was damaged. Ortquist said she wanted to extend heartfelt thanks to the Montesano Fire Department, which by the time she arrived had moved the roof to the park and ride lot and put up tarps to prevent water damage.
“They did a great job,” she said.
Fire Chief Don Bradshaw said it was a “lucky thing no one was in the street at the time.”
10 years ago
Nov. 23, 2006
Elma opts for new recycling program
The Elma City Council passed a resolution Monday night approving LeMay Enterprises’ new solid waste recycling program that the other cities in Grays Harbor County and the county itself have also approved.
Under the new program, which will begin being phased in around the county the first of the year, the three small recycling containers currently being used will be replaced with a 95-gallon covered “toter” for recyclables, in which all recyclables except glass will be placed.
Residents will be able to drop off clear, green and brown bottle glass at the former county disposal facility on Marion Road, said Delroy Cox, manager of LeMay’s operations on the Harbor.
Customers will also have a garbage can they can choose to have emptied weekly, twice a month or monthly, said Cox. Residents will be charged an added $1.73 per month on their garbage bills.
At the Nov. 9 meeting, Councilmen Jim Hill and Jim Taylor said they’d received about nine phone calls each from residents, most of whom opposed the new program. But Monday, Hill made the motion to approve the program.
He said the main reason he had decided to back the new program was because he had been under the mistaken impression that residents would still be able to choose the three-bin recycling system if that was what they preferred. He was in the hospital when a lot of the information on the new program was explained, Hill said, and “the way I understood it, people who wanted it…could have it; the people who didn’t want it, they didn’t have to.” And, he thought, they wouldn’t have to pay for it.
But that is not the case, as Hill now understands. The three-bin system is being completely replaced with the new system of recycling.
The only other option would have been for the city to formulate a solid waste recycling program of its own, Cox said, which would have been a major undertaking.
For one thing, it would have been necessary for the city to have a landfill or transfer station within the city limits, which could cost in the neighborhood of $750,000, Cox said.
Under the new program, provisions will be made for individuals who are physically unable to move the new containers in a manner to allow their being picked up, and such accommodation will be made without additional cost to those people.
