The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
Correspondence and County Notes
HOOD CANAL, June %, 1894.

AAAS ~ AoNS 4uieC StI raw cIIy dn(
cream festival next Friday evening
!. for the benefit of the Sabbath School
Music and other exercises will be in
interspersed. Come one, come all.
Your correspondent, while at Port
land last week, through the courtes,
OF H. L. Pittock, proprietor, an6
Hon. H. w. Scott, editor-in- chief, OF
the Oregonian, was invited to see thei,
new type setting machinery, by means
of which forty or fifty type settlers
have been dispensed with. The
machines not only set, but also make
the type, and when this is no longer
needed, it is melted and again used.
They have eight machines, and one
machine does the work of three men.
night and day. In that office the
printing press prints, cuts and folds
four hundred copies minute. Port,
land seems to be feeling the financial
crisis more now than it did a wear ago,
Then, creditors bore with debtors. and
were as lenient as possible. hoping to
tide over the hard times, but now as
they see no daylight ahead, the credi-
tors feel that they cannot wait always
for their money, and so assignment
after assignment is taking place, of
those who have heretofore weathered
the financial STORM
Your correspondent was informed
that there were twenty-eight hundred
empty buildings in Portland, twelve
hundred in East Portland, consequent
1y rents are very low, while property
is estimated in many parts to be worth
less than one half what it was five or
six years ago, even before the boom
began.
The twentieth anniversary of tn e
organization of the church on the
Skoko1nish reservation occ urred On
the twenty-third of this month, and
the services on the next day were
commemorative of that event.
Mr.. Hale, of the steamer Rainier,
gave a free strawberry and cream
festival to the people of Union City
last night.
| At the school election in district ..
L. w. Parkhurst was elected as direc-
tor for the next three years, to sue
coed Mrs. S. M. Ee11s, and M. Ee11s
was elected clerk.
The workmen on the Skokomish
bridge have it we'll under way, even
now footmen can walk across, and it
is said that they expect to have it so
far finished by the Fourth that teams
can be driven across-so mote it be-
| Arthur H. Ee11s returned this week
from Tua1atin Academy and Pacific
| University, where he has been at
school during the past nine months
the year having closed last week, S.
| LAKE CUSHMAN, June "a, 1894.
After wait of five years Twp % N
X west, was opened for settlement at
Olympia June IA. All the settlers
but three made their filings On the IA
and they were detained by sickness.
They have still 80 days and the state
has a preferred right for 90 days
before any filing may be made by pri-
waite parties. There were only two
conflicting claims, both Thos. Hays
and w. B. Lake claiming Lot of S II.
Mr.. Hays has his garden on this lot,
and Mr.. Lake a house and all his
clearing and garden.
No visitors have arrived here yet,
the weather being very discouraging,
ORoadmaster Finch had the settle
ment out on the 10th and 21st working
cut their road tax. He got about a
mile of road swamped out from Big
Creek to the foot of the lake. He has
secured a very good grade, one which
it is impossible to better This will
bring the road up to the foot of the
Lake and save pull of a mile up the
swift current of the river, and will
also bring one to the best place for a
bridge across the river i'll case it
should be decided to run the road up
the west side of the Lake.
Mr.. Streator, of Washington, d. c.,
one of the corps of natura1ists in the
service of the Dept. of Agriculture is
stopping here now. His mission is to
investigate the birds and small mani
mails of the Olympic Peninsula. He
expects to remain here three weeks.
Roland Hopper killed a big bear a
a few days ago.
Hopper Brothers are off on a trip to
the Divide. P.
NEW KAMILCHIE June Is, ga.
The Odd Fellows will give public
installment of officers on Saturday
evening, July 9th, everybody invited.
| VIM. Gallo w, our genial commits
sioner, injured his foot last week,
while rafting, the ak slipping cut into
the bone, but our Will is out again,
Leave rafting to others, William.
Mr.. Grout, of G. l. Barron & Co.,
expects his family out soon; better
build a nest ST.
Bob Allen, or witty Bob, took spin
down to Tacoma last Monday.
John Cameron will start for Canada
with his wife, about July 5th. John
wants to see independence day in its
glory before he goes.
Most of our farmers are busy hay