The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-04-17
Correspondence And County Notes.
HARrsrE1N. April IA. 1896.

MISS myrtle newell is quite Ill. and
under treatment of DR.. Newell, of
Olympia.
DIR. Armstrong of Olympia, was cali
ed here to see Mrs. M. o. Fuller, and
advised her taking to the Hospital at
Olympia, to be operated upon for a
humorous growth on the liver. The
operation was successful, and there is
every prospect of her speedy recovery.
Mr.. Fuller returned yesterday and says
that for care and good treatment the
St. Peters Hospital, under the excel
lent management of the Sisters, can
not be exce1led by any hospital on
the coast
Paul Kendrick, Thos. Newell and Ed
Thompson went to Olympia on the
Seaside, Thursday.
Mr.. Rogers has moved his logging
outfit to Olympia. and only one logging
camp is left on the Island.
]. E. Jones was in Olympia for few
days, getting ready for logging this
season.
Mrs. r. Morris was in Olympia
this week.
We feel rather friendly toward our
County Commissioners in regard to al
| lowing the wagon road across the ISL
and, as it is good moye on their part
to get more people to settle here, some
of whom are already on their way
from the east.
There has been more or less talk
against encouraging immigration to
this state, by some of the people al
ready here and they have been scored
for it. The complaint, think, is not
for want Of patriotism, or dislike of
having good people settle here, as it is
the natural pride of the people here,
who want to do by others as they
would be done by, and have been done
by heretofore. We are, as a rule, un-
able to receive any class of people as
becomes American citizens, without
| first recovering from the depression
that the hard times have brought upon
us. And some of us have no desire to
| ask our friends in the East to come
and suffer with us. Give the people
already here some encourag ement be-
yond bare existence, and immigration
will surely come. See the inducements
Alaska is giving and look at her num-
Der of elnigrants. O'TEMPoRA.
[Granting that Washington needs but
development of her lands and general
resources to become self-supporting
and prosperous, and that but very
small proportion of the people here are
doing very much toward the desired
end, it seems necessary that energetic
people with neaus to help in this work
should be indnced to come to this state.
When the merchants are forced to send
of their county, or the state, for the
supplies to stock their stores to cater
to our needs, certainly our state is not
developed in these lines. When farm
ers buy feed they should raise. they
are paying out for merchants and mid
dlemen and another's labor. what
should have been saved in whole.
Many of our ranchers and farmers
have nothing to sell at this time, and
nothing to trade except the meagre
product of their dooryards.
The chimes" are just as close any
where in this country as they are in
Washington, Fasteners are looking
for another home, and Washington has
as much to offer as the Southern states,
! where many are now going. AS much
to the acre, and as fine in quality can
be produced here as anywhere it
| ia es work to make living in farm
ing as in anything else, nowadays.
No farmer in the East ever made
| money from his farm without hard
| work and economy in his per sonal
habits as we'll as jud gment in his work.
Very few of us, but can testify that,
if our judgment, our habits or some
thing or other, had not been at fault
within the past five or six years, we
might have plenty of cash to-day.
Certainly no country has done more
for the people in it than has Washing
ton, and with the right kind of people
to help us, the sooner we will be able
to become entirely selfsupporting, and
then exporting. The class of people
who are now attracted to Alaska, or
who expect deed for a 20-acre farm
for coming to Washington. will never
do much toward the industrial develop
1nent of this or any other country
| Ed
| HOOD CANAL, April II, 1896.
Mrs. Mary c. Snow came from Seat
tie about ten days ago and began
teaching school last Monday al
Tahooya. Miss Ethel Brown having
closed her school at Kanlilche. beg ar
also last Monday another school at the
Upper Skokomish. Each returns tt
the place where she taught last sum
mer, having been engaged to teach
again almost as soon as their terms
closed six months ago.
BoRN.-March 81, to the wife o.
Henry Latham, daughter. Unfor
unately she lived but few hours.
Otis Todd moved from Union City
to Shelton the first of last week.