News Nuggets Corporate Histories
1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955
1920 - April 1 - Two circular saws with 108” diameter
(worlds largest) installed at Coates Shingle company in Hoquiam.
1920 - April 3 - Powerboat Phoenix fails to cross bar for
5th time; crew blames it on cross-eyed black cat and two caskets going to
Queets.
1920 - May 27 - Weatherwax High school closed for 10 days
due to smallpox epidemic.
1920 - September 23 - Sea otters appear on lower Harbor for
first time since 1900.
1920 - November 5 - Chehalis Highway opens; new entry in
east Aberdeen.
1920 - November 27 - Barge Pirrie lost on coast; Found
December 3 with twenty dead crewmen.
1922 - Aberdeen’s Armory building completed.
1922 - January 3 - British Liquor ship runs aground at
Westport.
1922 - January 17 - Booze-laden submarine runs aground at
Point Grenville.
1922 - August 8 - Worst drought since 1910; ½ inch of rain
in 76 days.
1922 - August 25 - Sharks, drawn by whale carcasses, put a
stop to swimming in Harbor.
1922 - September 26 - New port on Grays Harbor dedicated.
1922 - October 28 - Whaling season ends with 163.
1922 - October 30 - Over 100 tons of salmon caught over the
weekend.
1922 - December 18 - Moonshiner’s business hurt by snowfall.
1922 - December 26 - Grays Harbor Railway & Light
Company to lay cable under the Wishkah River to get power to east county.
1923 - January 24 - Russia wants to buy airplane spruce;
mills say “NO WAY!”
1923 - February 3 - Road trip to Gray’s Monument chronicled
in Daily World.
1923 - February 15 - Storm takes heavy toll on shipping;
four missing.
1923 - April 21 - Harbor beaches called hot-beds of petty
crime.
1923 - May 8 - Fierce fire at North West Mill in Hoquiam.
1923 - June 26 - Logging camps ban cigarettes due to fire
hazard.
1923 - August 21 - Rare albino salmon caught on Humptulips
River.
1923 - September 13 - Alex Polson says timber will last
1,000 years.
1923 - A record setting 1,128,750,000 board feet of lumber
was cut on the Harbor in 1923; new record.
1924 - April 19 - Morck Hotel opens in Aberdeen.
1924 - May 8 - D & R Theater opens with
"Scaramouche" and various vaudeville acts.
1924 - October 13 - Whale season ends with 181.
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