The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-10-27
Local News.

The school board meets at the school
house, Saturday evening.
The days are closing at both ends
0 and decided shortness is perceptihle
Savage, Schofe1d & Lindland secur-
ed the Mud Bay bridge contract for
OIL H. L. Alden is constructing a neat
portico on front of his Eighth street
dwelling.
BoRN.--To the wife of James Neil,
at Williamson's camp, Oct. D, a
daughter.
The W. S. engine took load of sup
plies out on the line and brought in a
load o. bark Tuesday.
The months old child of Mr.. and
} Mrs. Hansen, who live about three
miles north of Shelton, died last Mon
day.
Mr.. Little is building story and a
half dwelling on Pine and Eighth
/ streets, and proposes to quit paying
rent.
The American Farmer, a sixteen
page monthly, is still given as pre-
MUM to cash paid JOURNAL. subscrib-
erS.
Two good newspapers and a1ua-
BILE premium, cheaper than you could
get the premium alone for, see our
premium offers.
There will be a social dance in the
Odd Fellows Hall next Saturday
night. Union City will also enjoy
itself on that evening.
The farm cottage on Thos. Bor-
dPanY'S fl hoir1o r,1o
1t is roomy five-room house, just the
thing for farm dwelling.
Notices have been posted by Sheriff
Duckworth for the sale of the Sentinel
outfit on Oct. 3Oth, on judgment for
$500, assigned to o. C. Hanson.
Snow is reported in the Olympics,
and also in the Cascade mountains
The Great Northern, not having it's
snow sheds completed, is already buck
ing snow.
| 1t is said that meeting of the cred
itors of the Washington Southern Ry.
Co, would be held in Seattle this week,
and that Some settlement would likely
be reached.
A. M. Frost has Strawberries on his
place down the Bay, which have have
been in bearing since June. The ber-
ries are as large and finely favored
as in their regular season.
Sunday and Monday night were
cool enough to admonish us of the
coming winter There was quite a
frost and some fruit was nipped, as
we'll as several lots of plants and
flowers left out of doors.
The Skeletons gathered the last of
their fruit crop this week. The prod
uct was below average in size and
quantity this year, while nearly every
body helped themselves to the quality
of the orchard.
There will be German Lutheran ser
vices in the Baptist Church, on Thurs
day evening, Nov. End, at 7:3O o'clock
Rev. H. Haserodt, of Tacoma, will
conduct the services, in German Ian
guage. An invitation is extended to
all.
A Kansas editor sarcastical1y an
nounces that he wants to buy a sack
of flour, a pair of three-ply botto m
pants and straw hat, and is ready to
receive lowest bids for same. He says
that is the way the merchants do him
when the want two dollars worth of
job printing.
We regret that we cannot give our
readers one of the illustrations we
have seen of the great Ferris wheel,
the distinctive feature of the Column
| bian Exposition. However, in another
| column will be found very interest
ing account of the inception and sue
cess of this gigantic ''circ1e," taken
from the Inventive Age.
With the doors thrown wide open,
with the buildings warmed and venti-
lated and furnished with comfort and
convenience, with teaching free and
with education offered without price,
there are yet parents who are so crin1i
na1ly negligent of their children that
they suffer them to grow up in igno-
rance and obtain their education amid
the vices of the streets.
Monday the press dispatches an
nounced that compromise was eff
ected in the Senate; Tuesday came
the news that it was off. Yesterday
it was given out that no conclusion
had been reached. Today it is still
uncertain and tomorrow something
else. The party evidently don't know
what it wants, or else can't get it. All
of which is disgusting to the good
citizens.
The work of extending the taxes on
the rolls is about completed, and the
books will soon be ready for turning
over to the County Treasurer for the
collection of the taxes. Chas. Pole is
working on the personal roll; while
Eli B. Robinson and Miss Clara An
sorge are at work on the real property
rolls in the day time and Speed Shell
ton and Arthur Taylor are the night
shifts. The work is considerably
simplified this year, because of the
even figures, twenty mills, and no
necessity for segregation on the
rolls.
EXTRA SERvICEs.-Under the new
law the payment for any extra SER
vices performed by the County Com
missioners must be submitted to the
Superior Court, notices posted and
other legal proceedings gone through
with before they can collect. The
test case of County Commissioner
Osborn VS.. Thurston County, to deter
mine the right of the superior court to
pass upon the question of allowances
to county commissioners for extra SER
vice, has been taken under advisement
by Judge Gordon. :.
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGs.-We have
succeeded in arranging so that our
subscribers will get the benefit of our
facilities for getting things cheap, and
have secured good list of premiums
to offer to cash paid subscribers in
connection with the JOURNAL. These
premiums include newspapers, books
of all kinds and grades, cutlery, etc.,
aud all are useful as well as ornamen-
tai, Christmas time is coming and