The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-03-15


small children in the buggy, and dam
aged the rig considerably.
See Anus Ad. about Strauss Bros.
fine custom made clothing. Call on
Anus for prices on first-class business
and dress suits and leave your measure
Ellsworth Freeburger has ladies and
gents bicycles to rent at Is cents per
hour, with necessary instructions.
Wheels at Needham's old stand on
Third street.
Cal. Saegar is having lot of his
upland cleared this spring, having
found that it is fully as productive
as his bottom land, while capable of
more diverse uses.
Passengers are now stopped from
riding on the Shelton Southwestern,
even the camp men are required to
produce pass. Supt. Kneeland says
that only sixty transients dined at
his camp last month.
One good law is that providing
that any corporation, or agent thereof
wilful1y preventing any person
from obtaining employment by the
practice commonly known as blacklist
ing, shall be guilty of ,nisdemeanor. :"
The score of the opening game of
the season at the prairie last Sunday
was thirty-three to nine. The Oakland
sports crack nine evidently found the
local scrubs too much for them, and
are casting about the hire a high
priced battery, so it is reported.
Stephen Ferris returned last Friday
from Seattle, where he was called as
witness on the Anderson divorce
case. MIR. F. B. Anderson was grant
ed the divorce, with the custody of the
minor children, there being no appear
ance on the part of Mrs. Anderson.
She was given the forty acres of land
on the Satsop.
The bridge across the Goldsborough
on Seventh street is completed and the
road opened for travel, although some
grading remains yet to be done.
The town donated the sum of $50 for
the work, the balance. something over
500, has been furn ished by the inter-
ested parties. The opening of the
road is also performed without any
expense to the town. The bridge is
us feet long, and we'll bui1t-being a
good investment for the to wn.
A crowd of sports, old enough to be
in better business, were out on the
prairie Sunday with bunch of tarrier
dogs and couple of cats, cat-baiting.
After the first cat had been chased by
the dogs. the sports was stopped un-
der threat of arrest. There is enough
brutality in human nature, without
indulging in such disgraceful and un-
lawful practices as this. If such
things happen again, the perpetrators
will be promptly punished.
The bicycle fad has struck Shelton
hard, the City of Shelton bringi ng a
cargo of ten to town last Friday. Fred
Merrill, the Portland agent, bringing
six Ramblers, and Ellsworth Freebur-
ger also having four cycles, which he
had purchased in Tacoma, and has for
rent. Everybody has taken turn al
practicing, and there has been numer.
Gus circuses on the streets. It is likely
that those who survive the ordeal, and
can do so, will not be perfectly con.
tent until they get wheels.
M. Bingham, this week brought in
five deer skins and several beaver skins
but will probably have to. send them
down Sound to find a market. II
would pay we'll for some one to go into
the business of handling skins and
shipping them to Eastern markets.
as a great many bear, deer, beaver
cougar, mink and other fur peltries
are brought into Shelton during the
year. Mr.. Bingham and the other
Satsop farmers have begun planting
their gardens and many are we'll along
with their spring ploughing.
Messrs. G. D. Fowle and. Nr Swarth-
out are in town organizing local
council of the National Union. a
benevolent, fraterna1 and beneficiary
order, much on the order of the United
Workmen, differing only in the mode
of assessment, the scale being one
cent per month per thousand dollars
of insurance, according to the age OF
the person. For instance, a person
joining the order at the age of n yrs
pays a monthly assessment of ~ cents
for each thousand, which is consider
ed to be the net cost of carrying the
insurance. The next year the rate
will be % cents, and so on as the mem
Der ages. It is certainly one of the
cheapest mode of protecting ones
family in case of death of the Bread
winner. Persons under the age 81 arr
eligible for membership, although thu
limit will soon be reduced to fifty years
The order is a national institution ant
was organize in 1881.