The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-25
Shelton, Friday, Oct. 25, 1889.
LOCAL AND COUNTY NEWS,
The Drug Store is on rollers.

The Drug Store is on rollers.
Miss Maggie Swan is reported to be i'm
proving considerably.
Miss Jennie Mcdonald of Little Skoo.
kun, spent this week at Mrs. McKcnzies
Mrs. w. II. Kneeland leaves for short
visit to relatives in Santa Rosa CAL, this
week.
DIR. Mccartney, who is now located at
LaConner, was in Shelton to visit his fam
lily this week.
Sheriff Duckworth and others have laid
a walk OH Fifth street, across the creek to
the Court house.
An assortment of legal blanks at this
Office, also some mortgage notes, with ten
interest coupons attached.
New buildings are starting up all over
the town, and the winter looks as If il
were going to be buster than the summer
John Price has an eighty pound squash
on show at the Satsop Store, also hill OF
potatoes, which lacked but a pound OF
making bushel.
Surveyor Grafton, of Tacoma, was
engaged last week, in laying out an ex-
tension to the Mason Co. Central X. R.
The company is also arranging for more
iron for the work.
No houses for the new corners to &C.
cupy! Why don't some enterprising per-
sons with the means, build more houses
10 rent? 1t will pay.
The School Book controversy is now
settled, and the Robinson's First Book in
Arithmetic will be used to make the series
uuiform, as the law directs.
VIM Potts, brought us in a monster
onion of the Giant Rocca variety weigh
ing "a pounds, and measuring % inchcs
in circumference. Big spuds take q
back seat.
Mrs. McEwan, a former resident Of this
county, but now of Ellensburgh has been
visiting the pioneers of this vicinity. They
formerly settled on McEwan's prairie, on
the road from Shelton to Union City.
Frank Ellis this week moved his family
into the house vacated by DR.. Armstrong
DR.. Beach has also rented the Aver prop
crty, on FIRST street. and has his house
hold goods here, ready to move in.
The annual election for School Distric,
No. ], will lie held in the Shelton school
house on Saturday, November End. Two
Directors and clerk are TO be elected
for The ensuing pear. Polls will be open
ut the usual hour.
We have to thank Mrs. 9. H. Stone for
a large and fragrant boquet grown on heI
grounds. Not many of the Shelton peo-
pie find time to devote to the care of flow
crs, but we hope to see them in pr0fusion
next year. Everyone can appreciate prct
ty flowers.
The mail steamer Willie. on the route
between Shelton aud Olympia, ran into a
hole in her bow, while towing out raft
Consequently she failed to put in an ap
pearancc here on Saturday.
An effort is being made to start up a
literary society in the school house this
winter. Mr.. Sykes, who took great inter
est in the society of last winter is reported
to have died in Tacoma few weeks ago
from injuries received during the runaway
OF delivery team he was driving.
The dimension timbers for Turkish
irOnclad vessel, to be built at Alexandria
Egypt. is being got out by the Port Blake
ly mill company. An English ship il
in waiting at Port Blakely to take the
lumber to its far off destination. The lum
Der OF Washington goes all over the
world.
Several new families have reached town
during the past few weeks, and have had
much trouble to find h Ouses to move into
Two families arrived last week from
Walla Walla, coming overland in their
own "pralrie schooners." They secured
c. T.?Huntley's house aud will stay with
us. Still they come!
The sale of the Olympia & Chehalis
Valley railroad, censummated last week
is of great importance to Olympia. The
road bed will be at once widened to stand
ard guagc and extended to Kamilche
which will connect Olympia with Gray's
Harbor, and put it on through trans
continental line. So report says.
Some coincidence: VIM. Kennedy
and Thomas F. Lyttleton both made filings
on land, one here and the other at Seattle,
their certificates were numbered 1876 and
1874. Both had their houses burned
ana had to rebuild them before making
proof, which was made by each on the
same day. Both will be 70 next month
The Sisters hospital addition is now
completed, and they have much more
room and are better prepared than ever to
make their patients comfortable and
furnish them with good medical attend
ance. The loggers cannot do better than
invest in hospital ticket. The hospital
Is a splendid structure, and it has COM
handing and pleasant view
Messrs Gale s. Leith, Tacoma printers
are making arrangements to establish u
paper at the new iowa of Allyn, at the
head Of North Bay. in Mason County
near the Pierce County line The t0w0-
site OF Allyn is owned by Judge Frank
Allyn and james Wickersham, who have
put in small sawmiil There is also !
Store and b 'tel already built there.
The SalsOp Company has iuaugurated
new thing in The closing of their store
on Sundays. We hope that this closing
VIII be general among the stores in Shell
Ton. There Is no excuse for the keeping
open of stores on Sunday. People Can
90 all their trading on week days. and
Tue clerks, as we'll AS other workers, neeC
day off from their labors Clnse thu
stores, aal people will become usei Il
!ae new order Of things.