The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-03-09
Local News.

day for the green ribbons.
Superior Court meets on Tuesday
the 18th, Judge Irwin presiding.
The Royal City logging camp at
Mud Bay has resumed operations.
The hunters report duck shooting
fairly good sport at the inland lakes
this month
Remember the free lunch at the
Reading Room tonight. Second floor
Odd Fellows building.
A. N. Yantis has leased the Com
pany farm and will shortly move out
and farm for this season.
Surveyor Hunter is at work with a
crew, surveying tide lands in the
Little Skookum bay this week.
Supt. Brumbaugh has just received
the State apportionment of school
funds. Mason County gets $345.0e.
Andrew Getty and Thomas Hughes
each lost horse last week, the 1atter's
being drowned in slough near Mason
lake.
Preparations are being made to
cover the tin roof of the Odd Fell
building with tar, to cffectually stop
leaks.
1t is said, On the quiet, that an elk
was shot out the Satsop way last week
showing that the animals have proba-
bly, come down from the mountains.
Someone heard a "hooter'' the
other day,-a good indication that
spring is coming sometime. Old
signs are not very reliable this winter.
Now is the time to make cart
wheels roll as far as possible. Read
the new lads" this week, and consult
the JOURNALS advertisers.
Robert Sheedy was elected delegate,
and L. ]. Morrison, alternate, to rep
resent Shelton Lodge 81, A. o. U. W.,
at Grand Lodge session in April
next.
Mcdonald & O'Neil1 have revised
their price lists, and are offering special
inducements, especially on -four, the
staff of life, for your trade. Read
their lists
This office has II feet of slated black
board cloth, four feet wide, which will
be sold to some school district cheap,
in order to get rid of it. This cloth
makes a very serviceab1e blackboard.
Messrs Eaton and Alden have Conf
pleted and installed 81 new pews for
the Baptist Church, entirely seating
the building. The pews are we'll made
and finished, and will be found COM
Portable.
A gang of vandals have taken pains
to break eff pickets and damage peo-
pies fences, about town. Someone
will get caught at this work some time
and have to Pay for all the damage
done in this line.
Assessor Dow has begun his work
of assessing the county again, while
most of us have not yet succeeded in
getting over his work of last assess
| ment. The first month will be spent
at field work
The law firm Of Preston, A1bertson
& Donworth have begun suit to recov-
er Judgment in the sum of $1967 AS
against the Washington Sou them
railroad for legal services rendered
between December, 1890, and April,
1892.
DR.. Abijah Beach recently perform
ed an operation in ovarioton1y, remoy-
ing tunor weighing 81 pounds. DR..
VIM. Beach was to have gone down to
Seattle to assist his father in the
operation, but when the word came,
was unable to leave Shelton.
It is reported that L. L. Hunter has
been looking over the field at Union
City with a view to starting a general
merchandise store there. His father
is selling out in Pennsy1v ania, and
will shortly remove to Mason County,
to go into business, probably at
that point
D. E. Berger brought us in par
snip 43 inches long, the other day,
and we will receive orders for the
b1acksnake. It grew on peat land,
and the patch not being thinned out,
this parsnip makes up in length what
it lacks in size. It's fine land that a
root will penetrate nearly four feet
W. H. Asmus comes to the front this
week with his announcement that the
| proof of the Pudding is the Eating"
Dollars are valuable now, and Asmus
offers to take them at par, giving the
largest quantity of the necessaries of
life. Don't forget Asmus when you
make your rounds looking for bar
gains.
A F. Spencer has sold the rights to
manufacture his patent gates FORE the
state of Michigan, to young man
who is planning to go back to that
state in the spring. The considera-
ton was $500. The scheme is a
picket gate, mounted so as to partly
telescope and raise upw ard in open
ing. and being balanced by weights
it works very easily.
Now that business it dull, it would
be good idea to at least try to make
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