Source: CRISP. Streptococcus pyogenes: A species of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria isolated from skin lesions, blood, inflammatory exudates, and the upper respiratory tract of humans. It is a group A hemolytic Streptococcus that can cause SCARLET FEVER and RHEUMATIC FEVER.
City of Elma, WA. Search. The City of Elma, incorporated on March 22, 1888, lies within the Chehalis River Valley in Eastern Grays Harbor County, about 30 miles West of Olympia and 40 miles East of the Pacific coast.
The railroad brought a steady stream of immigrants to the state. A great number took homesteads and made the Elm Creek area their home. In the early 1880s, for reasons that are unclear, the railroad moved its station (depot) a mile east of the original location. This is the present site of Elm Creek.