The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-04-08
shelton, Friday, April list, 1898.
Personals

Ralph Covill took the first degree IN
Workmanship Monday night.
Fdgar Gale went to Minnesota
connie of weeks ago to join his father
Thomas Bordeaux was down the
Sound this week on his usual business
trip.
Attorney S. p. Richardson is expect
cd 70 return home from Dyea almost
any day.
Editor Dinsmore, Of the Olympic
u,rer n Br1nnon. was in town last
Friday. skirmishing for business.
Comfy Commissioner Specie and
!uljus Richert we're successfully 1n-
troduced to the Woodmen goat last
Tuesday and are not much the worse
for the trip.
The family of Photographer Sheane
arrived from Chehalis last Saturday
evening and are domiciled at the gal
lery for the present.
Miss AIDA Mckenzie closed her term
Of school in the Ed. Callow district,
Little Skookun valley, last week and
returned to her home at Yelm.
The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Read. born on ST. Patrick's day, died
Sunday morning, of commissions. The
funeral was held Monday afternoon.
Commissioner Latham bought BIZ
cycle the other day and although he
had vet to learn the art of riding, he
struck out on the road for home with
his wheel, intending to make or break.
Brave man.
WI. bigger. of Seattle. and Charles
Evans, representing the Simmons
Hardware Company. were in town
Wednesday soliciting business in the
hardware and sporting line, and visit
ed Odd Fellows lodge, that evening.
A recent letter from DR.. Wells writ
ten on his arrival, stated that Herb.
Covill had been doing we'll, but was
suffering relapse, and the Doctor
offered little encouragement. No word
has been received tor some days.
a message from Olympia announces
that Benz Harmed, pioneer and for
thirty years treasurer of the Grand
Lodge F. and A NJ. was stricken with
paralysis Thursday morning, and lies
in a comatose condition, with slight
prospects for recovery
DR.. ". NJ. Beach and Will Forbes
went to Montesano Wednesday, called
as witnesses on the Moody case, which
is up for new trial this week. The
trial will likely continue for another
week, and is another case of murder
er temporarily cheating the gallows.
Boom-man George Huntley reported
lone goose on the flats in front OF
town last Friday and L. X. Munson
who IS something of a sport himself
spent part Of the forenoon wading
over the mud flats. The goose was
there but the sport failed to see it
Twas the first of April.
Mrs. Laura E. Peters of Port Ange
les Will lecture on equal suffrage, II
hneeland's hall at s O'Clock, Tuesday
evening April 18th. The Misses Page
OF Olympia speak very highly of Mrs
Peters as an earnest and enthusiastic
lecturer on Equal Suffrage. Friends
OF the cause and the opposition are in
vited.
Decentralization D. Jone
aud Mrs. Clara Little were married a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Dick
inSon, Tuesday evening, April 5th
Kev L. ]. Covington officiated at tn
Ceremony The contracting partie
nave resided in Shelton for severa
years past, and will make this plac
their future home.
Assessor W. H. Forbes is aroun
again interviewing the taxpayer
ABOUT their personal property, an
there are none so humble as to escap
MS attentions this trip. The assesso
gong his rounds early this year, S
he can take to the brush before man
people get around to the County Urea.
urer Office, and find out about til
SIZE of their taxes.
BARRETT THoRNLEY.-At the Boot
pace. Chapman Cove, Sunday afte
noon April 5rd, David E. Barrett an
MISS Ruth Thornley,, Rev. L. P. Co,
'nston, officiating. The happy youn
couple dropped into Shelton that eve,
4ns' and are domiciled in David
nome on First Street. They a,
qu'et and industrious and will make
sooo team, for which they are to /
congratulated. Both have lived
Aei'on several years past, and ha,