The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-22
Christmas Tree Program.

There will be a Christmas Tree at
the First M. E. Church, Shelton, to be
displayed at O'Clock p. m. on Monday
December Is, 1885, I'M. E. Sunday
Schoo1.)
Music Choir
Prayer Rev. DIR. Hickerson
Music Instrumental
Reading Miss Belle Monblo
| Music Song-Duett
! Dialogue Mrs. Knights Class
Music Vocal Solo
Address Miss Edith Knee1and
Music Choir
Enter Santa Claus.
| MILLS VS.. LOGGERS.-One of the
most vital laws for the proper protec-
tions of labor in this Country is the
lOgger's lien law, and this is the more
often assailed by wealthy mill corpo-
rationS in the attempt to defeat the
claims of the men who work in the
camps and escape paying the claims
of the ''defaulting" employer while re-
tanning possession of the logs, upon
which the men 1abored. The case of
So local 1oggers against the Washing
ton Improvement Company, the de-
faulting employer, and the B1ake1y
| ill company which has been appealed
to the Supreme Court by the latter
company, is a case i'll point, upon
which fully 1000 men on the Sound are
| placing their hopes of wages due for
| work in 1892. In another column will
| be found statement of a similar case
which the corporation won in the low
er court, on the ground that the 1egis-
lature, in passing the new lien law
last session, invalidated claims incur
red under the old law. This contention
appears to be technical and strained,
not a just one, and surely cannot be
established. Lawyer Jos. A. McDon-
aid, who has the case of the Henors,
has just completed an expansive brief
in which this point (Which, by the way,
was not raised at the trial. is treated
at length, with big list of authorities
cited. Although numerous other
points are raised, they are really Side
issues, and of no force. The lawyers
in similar cases pending in Seattle and
other cities, are looking to this case,
and it promises to become the cause
ce1ebre, being of general interest
among 1oggers everywhere, to protect
their rights. If Mac. wins this case,
of which there can be little doubt, he
will probably remove to Seattle and
contest Dude Lewis hold on the hearts
of the workingmen. At any rate he
has devoted several months of hard
| study and research to this case, realiz-
| ing it's great Importance. The amount
| INVOLVED in this case is about So 900,
nearly all of which will go to Shelton
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to be heard at the January term, and we
may expect decision about the first of
February.
FREE ADVERTISING year the
JOURNAL, complained over the County's
not being represented in the annual
statistical number of the Puget Sound
Lunlberman. A similar number will
be issued next month, of about $4,000
copies, which will be circulated all
over the world. This is literally true,
for while in Tacoma last Spring we
were shown letters from all sorts of
foreign places, from Guat e1na1a, Hin
doostan, South America, and in divers
languages, in reference to matters
contained in that issue, not to speak of
the returns from our own country. The
managers have requested the desired
information of Mr.. Anderson and
other 1un1bermen, and we hope that
they will not let this opportunity go
by default, as was done last year.
| MRS. POMERoY'S DEATH.-The
death of Mrs. Catherine Pomeroy
occurred at the Olympia Hospital last
Thursday morning. She had been
improving but suffered relapse early
in the week, and relatives were sent for.
The remains were brought to Shelton
for interment Friday. Services were
held in the Baptist church Sunday,
Rev. S. w. Beaver preaching an e1o-
quent discourse. Her husband, who
arrived from Portland just before Mrs.
POmeroy's death, also spoke a few
words of praise for her many virtues.
The remains were followed to the
grave by many friends. Mrs. Fannie
B. Anderson, of the Satsop, is the
only relative Lying in this vicinity,
her father, Capt. casgrove, is rum
ming d steamboat on the lower sound.
Mrs. Mcdonald and Mrs. O'Nei11, with
whom Mrs. Poneroy had been stay
ing for nearly a year, and other friends
in Shelton, were very much attached
to her.
FIsH-DUCKS.- -
1t is too bad that such beautiful
ma11ard, shelldrake and canvdssback
ducks, as can now be shot, are not
very edible. on account of the fishv
flavor, their feed being chiefly de-
caying salmon in the or eeks. Lew
Munson and Will Freeburger made
quite killing the other day at Saegar's
and Rodenberger' meadows, and they
were rolling fat. We like fish and
ducks, but the mixture is not agree
able. However, the market and res
taurants down Sound are well supplied,
ducks selling at $4 per dozen. Those
shot on the lower Sound are sai6 to be
less fishy. Early in the season the
ducks are fine, however.
THE PUYALLUP MUDDIE.-The Ia
comian republishes the statement of
our Canal Correspondent, in regard to
the spirit at work to Dust Edwin Eells
from the Indian agency. In it's COM
ment, the Tacomian doubts whether
the best interests of that city would be
promoted, at any time since the a11ott-
ment in severalty, by its falling into
the hands of spectators. Another
commission is now examining into the
legal rights of the Indians as citizens,
and trying to straighten the tang1e of
inherited and other rights.
A DELICATE SEND Orr
Miss Berthe Scofe1d, the charming
little lady who has been for some
months the stenographer at the N. w.
L. Co.'S. HOquiam office, has resigned
to accept a more congenia1 position
with new firm, to be contaminated
during the present month. She will
drop stenography and typewriting,
and If is exnected will he resident ma n