The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-06-25
correspondence And County Notes.
HOOD CANAL, June .. 1897.

OOO Oa-N+A4-. y Is, 1871.
Your correspondent while at Orting
a short time since visited the Soldiers
Home at that place. Among the old
soldiers there he met the following
from the Canal: D. Dixon of Seabeck.
+. Peterson of Lilliwaup, D. A. Ross.
X. Zee and ". Mckenzie who have
worked in various logging camps, and
Z. Il. Roberts of Union City. The lat
ter is slowly improving, and seemed
to be IN far better spirits than when
he left the Canal. All speak in the
highest praise of the way the Home is
conducted and say things could not be
better.
Mrs. Capt. w. B. Haines of Seattle
returns this week to her home after
two weeks visit with her daughter.
Mrs. L. W. Parkhurst, of Riverside.
We regret to learn that A. R. Burt
lost his fine buggy horse. 1t was
found dead in Mr.. Webb's pasture last
| Sunday morning.
Messrs Grain and Larson, photo
graphers, visited Union City last week
and passed On to Port Gamble.
J. Wheeler and family of Allyn are
camped at Union City, where they ex-
pect to spend the summer. He is
writing book in regard to Puget
Sound, which will be we'll illustrated.
Mr.. Mitchell of Puyallup, photograph
er, came with him as artist. Mr..
Wheeler already has one book in press
with the Harpers ofsNew York.
AT the school election at Riverside
recently M. Eells as director and Mrs.
Allie S. Webb, clerk were elected to
succeed themselves. Free text books
were defeated. At Hoodsport W. G.
Smith director and Fred Hanson clerk.
| Free school books were likewise de-
| feated there.
The Riverside Literary Society de-
bated at its meeting last Friday even
| ing the question, that the whites of
the South are justified in intimidating
the negroes, at the polls, granting
that they do so. 1t was decided in the
negative. The Society adjourned un-
til next fall. S.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable
and do not purge, pain or gripe. All
druggists.
Miss Minnie Ford began a term of
school in the new district near Chas.
Saeger's. A temporary school house
has been provided on Claude Elson's
place, until new one can be built
next spring.
Not many business houses in these
United States can boast of fifty years
standing. The business of DR.. J. c.
Aver & Co., Lowell. Mass, whose IN
comparable Sarsaparilla is known and
used everywhere. has passed its half
centennial and was never so vigorous
as at present.
The fruit crop in southern Mason
county will be somewhat light this
season, but in the northern part of the
county there will be good crop of ap-
pies, pears, cherries, plums and prunes.
There is a large orchard Of general
fruit trees on the old Webb ranch On
the lower Skokouish river that viii
produce almost full cy9p. There is
Black Republican cherry tree in this
orchard the trunk of which measures
fully ten feet in circumference The
diameter of the space covered gby the
limbs is sixty-six feet-e This is I'M
doubtediy the largest cherry tree in
the state. There are severa1'.new Or
chards in the county that are Just COM
ing into bearing. The people of that
county are devoting c9nsiderab lie at
tention to the fruit industry Olym-
plan. al;