The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
Local News.

The New York Tribune.
The Chicago Inter Ocean.
Allison Jones new house is going up.
A splendid shower Thursday morn
ing.
Register now, as the books will soon
close.
Mckinley club meets Saturday
night.
BoRN.-Saturday, Sept. 10Th, to the
wife G. c. Angle, son.
Get your children ready for school
which begins next Monday.
A party Of little folks gathered al
Bert Kneeland's Monday night.
Chas. Mcdonald is engaged in
renoyating the school building.
A daughter was born to the wife of
Geo. Brazel in Olympia, Sept 21st.
BoRN-At Oyster Bay, September
10, to the wife Cornelius Gallagher, a
daughter.
II. J. Wehnes, Dave Barrett and
John A. Cameron were introduced to
Odd Fellowship Wednesday evening.
Henry Wood has purchased ten
acres of land from L. L. Hunter and
moved out to his new place this week.
A party of young folks gathered at
the home of Miss Edna Hebron, on
Wednesday evening and enjoyed a
pleasant evening.
The regular term of Superior court
will be held in Shelton beginning Oct.
18th. There are no cases of import
ance and the jury will not be sum-
moned.
Don't put off registering till the
last moment. especially if you are a
natura1ized citizen, as it may be
necessary to send to some eastern court
for duplicate papers.
Attorney Shields has vacated his
Office in the Bank building, and re-
moved to his residence, where he has
fitted up an Office room to be occupied
temporarily until Mr.. Tremper vactes
his quarters.
The republican glee club, of O1ym-
pia, will be asked to visit Shelton with
Senator John L. Wilson next Thurs
day, and will add to the pleasure of
the meeting. The Shelton Band will
also be out.
The Shelton public school begins the
fall term next Monday, October 5th
with the following corps of teachers:
Prof. Collins, principal; Miss Addie
Ready, 5th and 9th grades; Miss Hattie
Ca1low, 3rd and 4th and Miss Ethel
Brown. primary.
Dave Barrett is engaged in putting
in some logs from L. L. Hunters
place, for Hunter & Eaton, who in
tend putting in a stock of lumber
for sale. The logs will be sawed into
lumber at the Wiley mill.
Much matter of local interest has
been crowded over to next issue; part
of which referred to the republican
county ticket. The present county
officers, however, have made good rec
ords, and the voters already know them
pretty we'll and fayorably.
Sheriff Caldwell has received word
that Tom Fitzgerald is in custody in
Spokane and will shortly be brought
to Tacoma to await trial, haying been
bound over to the U. S. court for trial
at the February term. At Spokane he
was first arrested for stealing bicycle
and then held tor the other charges,
arising from his insane freaks.
Hermon w. Craven, who is without
question the leading speaker and
student of the finance question on
the stump IN Washington, will be in
Shelton Saturday night. Mr.. Craven
is author of Errors of Popu1isrn''
and is thoroughly posted on the sta
tistical matter referring to the issue
before the people.
This evening the w. C. T. U. will
give their Demerest Silver Medal Con-
test at Knee1and's Hall, at which the
program published elsewhere will be
rendered. At its conclusion two lean
and hungry editors, pair of doctors
and logger are billed for a cake-eat-
ing contest, for the amusement of the
audience, and the price of admission
will be but fifteen cents for grown
folks and ten cents for children.
This Office has about completed the
printing of the charter, rules and
ordinances of the town of Shelton, as
recently compiled by attorney Shields,
in book form. These ordinances,
many of them, have been almost a
dead letter, even the town authorities
having little knowledge of some of
the older laws of the town. The
charter governing towns of this class
is also included in the volume, which
contains all the laws and ordinances
now in force. Hereafter ignorance of
law should not excuse trangressor.
A number Of nice specimens of fruit
haye been added to our collection this
week. Mrs. Thos. Moran, Transcend
ant crab apples; Watson Redenberger,
Gravenstein and Seeding apples and
Bartlett pears; G. C. Angle, Rolf,
Haas, Wolf, River and crab apples, and
Grapes. Frank Binns adds compact
cabbage, as heavy as lead and weigh
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