The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-07-25

i've or six miles in the direction Of Port
Orchard, will soon begin work on a
road from the bay on the south size OF
Allyn to Mason Lake The road is 10 be
built for logging purposes, but will be
regular siaDdard gauge. Such an enter
prise Will be OF great importance and
benefit 10 Allyn. 1t will cost thousands
of dollars mile TO build 1t, considerable
OF which money will be spent among the
business men here, and the logging opera
tons over The line will continue for sew
eral years and be the source of consider
able revenue 10 our town.
At the election tomorrow each voler will
| receive his ballot from the inspector, and
Will retire To booth, or other private
place, II no booths are provided. mark
his ticket, and folding it twice, so that the
ofllclal stamp, or mark can be seen. hand
1t 10 the inspector 10 deposit in the ballot
box in usual form Owing TO the short
time since the law became generally
known, likely booths, official stamp. and
other parts of the new system cannot be
put into active use at this election, but
the general election will conform strictly
to the Australian system. which the jour
NAL will explain thoroughly In the future.
Mark your choice with Y.
The Black berries though not so thick
as last year, still are quite plentiful this
summer. This fruit is one of Natures
free gifts to good people, which fact.
| along with our fine climate, has much to
do with their abundance ON Puget Sound q.
Everybody who could find the time has
picked and preserved many Of them.
More than 1000 fruit jars have been pur-
chased Of the Shelton stores this year, TO
store away the fruit, besides the great
number of jars used before. The old
timers must have had an easy living,
with CLAIMS for the solids, and berries TO
top off the repast.
| The exercises under the auspices of the
W. c. I. L. III the NJ E. Church, last
Sunday evening, were very well attended.
| The ladies made up very Interesting
program, including an address, recita-
tions and songs, and four little girls re-
cited the success Of prohibition from big
Maine to little "Rhody." The Church
choir furnished some very excellent mu-
sic. Its members have frequent pract ice,
and are a feature Of the Sunday service
The ladies Of the local Union are by no
means asleep, and propose to furnish their
quota 10 the aggregate, which is swelling
for the cause of temperance.
DlED:-In Pickering's Passage. We'd
nesday, July %, Stella, the year old
| dauhter of MIR. and Mrs Vineyard, We
| learn that the child was accidentally
poisoned, by getting hold Of preparation
| for killing flies, which contained Rough
on Rats" The Child will be buried on
| the place to-day. Small children are fire.
quently attracted to and taste of injurious
| articles, and mothers should place such
| articles out of their reach, besides giving
the strict Injunction, mot to touch" The
parents have every sympathy in the loss OF
their eldest child.
CT. Mason, Master Mechanic of the
Olympia Pipe works, accompanied by
Mrs. Mason, was in town Friday. Mr..
Mason was down 10 look over the ground
and figure with our council on putting
in water system here. The Olympia
patent wood pipe has been thoroughly
tried and has proven SO satisfactory that
a great many systems have been put 10
all over the Northwest. The council are
now studying up the most practicable
plan.
The new postal cards which will
shortly be printed are of two sizes-an
idea of the postmaster generaPs-the
bigger ones, which have twice the area
of the present postal cards, being ill.,
tended TOR business communications that
cannot very well he crowded and for
other purposes demanding space. Both
kinds have in the right hand upper cor
ner, instead OF a representation OF a stamp,
small portrait OF General Grant.
A. Cole was over from Kamilche
Wednesday. His camp on the Puget
Sound & Gray's Harbor X. X. is running
al its full capacity. and the railroad is
now hauling an average of 275, 900 feet
q lumber daily. The sale of the west
20-mile section does not interfere with
the logging operations, as the company
has no camps and but little timber be-
yond their present section of road.
Several of the Democrats of this vicin-
ity have come to the conclusion that it
was necessary for the party TO take some
action, and have Incorporated a joint
stock company for the purpose Of start
ing partlZan paper in Shelton. The ar
ticles of Incorporation haYe already been
filed, SO we understand.
Work on the city Jail was begun this
week, on tie Court house block. The
entire building, floor, walls, partitions
and ceiling, IS composed of scanlling,
solidIy spiked together, and jointed at the
corners, making it equal to any steel cell
| invented. 1t will soon be ready for the
opening reception to some evil-doer.
The Real Estate Review says prompt
real estate investment directed 10y good
| Judgment is the suresl and most rapid
road to wealth." The trouble with the
average investor is TO be right sure about
his judgment. The best breed of judg
ment going at present is that leading TO
| investment in Shelton.
The choir sang splenlidly last Sunday
night. so all comment says, which lends
greater attraction to the service. The
members are Mrs. Tremper, Mrs. Dunbar,
Misses Ritncr. Morrison and Williams,
and Messrs. H. Dunbar, Wiss, Hansen
and Stabenfeldt- They are improvin g
rapidly.
We sometimes forget that there were
more men killed on the Union side alone
| al the battle of Gettysburg than were
killed, wounded and captared in both the
British and American armies. exclusive. of
| Yorktown, in the whole Revolutionary
war.
Blaine, on the Boundary line, must be
growing very fast, as Bro. Dorr sends US
the first number of the Daily Morning
Journal, a very neat paper, with press
dispatches His support in advertising