The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-08-02
If any of Our rancher friends should


away down the country highways, with
| a very plain and ordinary looking man
whose features may seem familiar
but whose shape is by no means i'm
proved by its poise an the wheels
that's Cushman. 1t has been intitnat
ed in quiet way by some people thai
Mr.. Cushman had wheels in his head,
but we never really believed it, unit
Tuesday, when two of them tool
shape, frame and crank, and Cushmar
took to the combination as readily as {
duck to water. The ranchers, or those
of them who do not want trees, are t.
be pitied--there's no getting away
from Cush. now. He'll run you dowr
with his bicycle and talk trees as fas'
as some populists can fiat money-use
ing his pump to enforce his points
Mr.. Cushman is a good man in some
respects, and not bad one in the
ial when he takes header. Seriously
that bicycle will prove a blessing to
Mr.. Cushman, because there are some
benighted people who charge him with
the paternity of an ''obnoxios organi.
cation" and there may be times when
he will find discretion better than
valor, and must take to the wheel and
ely" However, Cushman and the
Walla Walla trees are all right.
The Governor has appointed Alfred
Anderson as State Immigration Agent,
and arranged for the establishment OF
an immigration office in Chicago,
where all literature could be forward
ed for distribution and information
furnished to intending settlers in this
state. The appropriation for this
work is but $500 per annun, which is,
of course, insufficient TO do the work
properly. About $4,000 will be requir-
ed to esta blish and maintain the Off
ces, advertising, printing, postage,
etc, and efforts are being made to
raise needed funds by contributions
from the towns and cities throughout
the state, which are to be repaid in
some special advertising for their
benefit. We have been requested to
secure ST. as Sheltons portion for this
work. This trifling sum can be readi-
ly raised by small contributions, and
we hope our business men will help
when called upon.
A child is born: the doctor in attend.
ance gets SIS: the editor notes it and
gets @; it is christened and the minis
ter gets 10; it is married and the min.
lister gets another fee; the editor gets
a piece of cake or 600. In the course
of time it dies; the doctor gets from
$50 to $500 and the minister perhaps
gets another S.; the undertaken $c.5 tc
$500 and the editor prints notice OF
the death and an obituary two col
u1nns long, set of resolutions Of
some lodge or organization to which
the deceased belonged and receives
600 and then has the privilege of run
ming d free card of thanks and a lot
of poetry besides.-Ex
Harry Dean and M. E. Atkinson,
were up from Hartstein Monday.
Mr.. Atkinson has been employ
ed in the Fremont mill, but expects
soon to go on the road selling lumber
in the East. Mr.. Dean might have
been able to testify to the value of
our ''list of instruments for record, :"
had the JOURNAL reached his post
office when it should have done so.
Last week he made transaction with
W E. Felix, for the purchase of
small tract of land, and learned when
too late, that a mortgage had
been recorded against the property,
He was in town arranging to proceed
against Felix
An exchange says that editor will go
to some merchants and ask them for
an ad., when they will say that it does
not pay; that no one reads his paper.
Some night shortly after let the man
be caught kissing his neighbours wife
or trying to keep a lamp post perpeu-
dlcular and if the printing office is IN
a garnet of a seventeen story building
he will climb to the top to beg the edi-
tor to keep quiet-don't publish it in
your paper, you know.
Now is the time to cut down Canada
thistles. If left until through bloom
ing, or even half matured, before cut
ting down, they will still spread, and
increase the pest. A little work With
a scythe now will save a lot in the
future. Drop them, whenever you see
them. Within the past three years
the Canada thistle has become thick
i'll this vicinity, where formerly it
was rare.
The Eunice Goodrich company have
been playing to fair houses so far this
week, and are giving fairly good
show for a town of this size, where
many of the stage couveniences are
absent. and extra profitable houses
cannot be anticipated. Little Ouch
ess," Monday and East Lynn on
Wednesday evening were very we'll
rendered, and the audience fully APP
preciative.
A glossy black paint for bicycles can
be made thus: Amber, I6 ounces;
boiling linseed oil, 4 pint; asphalt, 3
ounces; resin, 3 ounces; oil turpentine,
pint. Melt the amber in the boiling