The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-09-14
Local News.

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thrown in.
Baptist services next Sunday.
Saturday is pay day on the Wash
ington Southern Railroad.
The Freeburger store announces
that it is selling goods below cost t
save moving.
A coffee plant, three feet high, wa.
! grown in Olympia this summer by
James Chambers
The State Board of Equalization ha:
organized and begun the work of scan
ming the county tax rolls.
| Several excursion trips are planned
by local parties during the next six
weeks of the Interstate Fair.
The lowest bid for furnishing 70(
ricks of 2-foot locomotive wood for the
Shelton Southwestern was 70 cents.
Tomorrow the Republican County
| Convention will be held in Knee1and's
Hall, opening for business at 1875
| o'clock.
The pile driver has completed it,
work repairing the trestles in The
Washington Southern booming
grounds.
]. D. Rengstorff has secured the
contracts to furnish the public school,
with forty ricks of wood, delivered al
| IS cents rick.
| The Shelton Kids and the Indian
nine from the Reservation played bal
last Sunday Our Kids won, but the
scores came fast.
An addition is being built on the
east side of the Shelton building
which will be occupied by Mcdonald
| & O'Neil1 for Hardware.
Many are probably employed in
getting out wood and bark for winter
use, and the empty wood sheds about
town are fast filling up.
The Monte Cristo now leaves Shell
ton at $50 o'clock each morning
This boat also offers round trip tickets
at $50, good for ten days, and one
entrace to the exposition grounds.
VIM. Shorter and w. G. Rex are a
work getting out new boats for thei1
| excursions on the bay. Frank Breal
hewed Shorter's at Williamson's camp
and it is to be equipped with some lazy
1nortal's device to escape rowing.
Several RATS of logs left this week
Port Gamble and Had1ock mills are
now extensive buyers of Our logs, with
the B1akc1y, Tacoma and st. Paul 6
| Tacoma mills. Each of these big mills
is now loading from three to eight big
ships for the foreign trade.
This month will afford about thu
last good opportunity to fix tn
county roads in the best possible
shape for winter. The roads in every
district have been improved consider
ably this year. Mason County is III
to any county on the road question.
Geo. Simpson has been engaged al
Aberdeen in loading some of the rail
secured from the wrecked ship Aber
corn, on cars for shipment to Kamil
chic, where the Blakely Company will
use them in constructing extension
and spurs for logging work.
Rev. J. S. McCallun1, pastor Of tn
First Christian Church at Olympia, /
announced to deliver one of his ex
ce1lent sermons on Christianity a
the Baptist Church tonight, Frid ay
Sept. 18th. Mr.. McCa1lum always a
tracts an interested audience when h
speaks in Shelton.
Salmon are running this month i
considerable numbers. Several partie
were out for a troll last Sunday an
captured fish weighing as high a
, fifteen pounds. This season promise
another big run Of salmon, and OF
people can supply themselves wit
enough of this fine fish for a slap.
1 of diet for the inter, sailed, dried {
! spoked.
Misses Laura and Florence Seelto
are having good sized, 2-story dwell
Il ing constructed on their lot corner {
: Eighth and Alder streets, which tt
family will occupy when completes
The vacant lots about are gradual
: filing up with neat and attractiN
Il homes, the grounds and streets clca
ed, and, in ali, good oeal of improv
ment is going OH about town all tt
time.
> A valve stem gave way at the mi
Monday. c. H. Stone turned a ne
: one at the w. S. shops and the mill
again at work. Manager Cyphe
l. says orders are coming in fast ar
: people have taken the notion Fl
> either new houses or other improv
. ments. Lumber for the railroads ar
, and Capt Tew's new steamer, wit
the outside orders keep the mill wor
ing almost steadily.
Postmaster A. B. Case, of Tacom
o informs us that the department WI
{ permit the change of our mail schedu
s so as to leave Shelton in the mornir
and return from Olympia after Il
l. arrival of the afternoon train from tt
South, thus connecting with bot