The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-04-30

The price OF wheat has jumped up
from it's downward trend, and no pop.
comes to the front with the idea the
silver is the cause. 1t is now the wars
in the East, and the campaign is over.
ACCORDING to the Seattle Republi-
can Seattle's divorce mills would seem
to indicate that the average marriage
able age had better be raised from
twenty nine to fifty-nine years OF age.
THE Greeks have great love for
the mother country. 1t is estimated
that close upon a million dollars have
been sent from America, and several
ship loads of Greeks have gone to fight
the Turks.
AT the coming school election the
question of free text books and school
supplies will be voted on, and the
question should receive thorough
study by the taxpayers, lest they be
called upon to assume what might
become q serious burden.
The cornerstone of the new Odd
Fellows Home at Walla Walla was
laid with imposing ceremonies last
Monday, April Goth, which was also
the 10th anniversary. A large crowd
was present, hundreds OF Odd Fellows
coming the neighboring cities to take
part in the exercises. The Home will
be for the care of aged Odd Fellows
and orphans.
No metal is increasing in Importance
more rapidly throughout the world
than copper. Half of the copper
mined is produced in this country,
the total output in the United States
last year reaching 47,722,56O pounds,
q little more than half of which was
exported. Our copper yield is now 40
per cent larger than that Of the world
in 1881. The increased demand for
the metal is due to electrical ap-
planes.
A TOWN is what It's citizens make it..
If it is a lively progressive place, it's
citizens are full of life and push and
invariably possess a spirit of public
enterprise, but if, on the contrary,
they are living q tortoise life, each in
his own shell, the town will be a
somnolent, unprogressive and unat-
tractive place and frequently overlook
ed by both capital and immigration
Foreign wealth will not hunt up and
build towns without home investments
IN home enterprises that will inspire
confidence. Live people make live
towns.-Tacoma Ledger.
Two good Republicans have been
recognized in the appointment of J..
OBJ. Scobey to be Receiver and F. G.
Deckebach to be Register of the Olym-
pia Land Office. The new appointees
will assume their duties as soon as the
prellminaries are arranged, not wait
ing until the present incumbents serve
out their terms. Receiver ScObey is
editor of the Olympian, and was
prominent candidate for the guberna-
tional nomination last fall, and Regis
ter Deckebach is the Senator from
Chehalls county. The appointments
are credited to Senator Wilson and
give satisfaction to the Republicans of
Southwest Washington.
ALTHOUGH Washington is now con-
sidered 'populist" state, and three
OF its representatives in Congress also
OF that stripe, still there is no reason
to believe that this state will fare
much worse in the way OF approprla-
tlons and other. recognition from the
National administration. In Senator
Wilson Washington is blessed with an
active. wide awake representative. of
considerable force, and his experience
of seven years in the house and two
years In the Senate, has given him
considerable prestige and influence in
that body, as we'll as wide range of
acquaintance among the "powers that
be-" While Senator Wilson halls
from Turner's town, he has always
kept in touch with the interests on
this side of the mountains, and West
err Washington is fully satisfied.
The Union soldier Jared badly un-
der the Cleveland administration, saws
the Tacoma Ledger. It seems that
more than a thousand of them vera
dismissed from the government ser
vice in Washington city alone by that
administration and comparatively few
soldiers appointed to fill the vacancies
thus created. One of the first things
done by the new administration was
to set about reinstating these dismissed
veterans. Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson reinstated dozen or more in
his department during the first week
OF April, and the heads of the other
departments are following the same
plan, SO that is probable that most of