The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-06-03

MANI"
Good music. All are invited.
Hoods Pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Sarsaparilla. Easy,
yet efficient.
It's poor time for measles but Blu
coda has ninety cases, one of the pa
tients being lady of eighty years.
Bucoda seems to be in the lead
The fire loss on Slater's single mill
at Summit was adjusted at 81, 147 and
| paid one week after the fire. Mr..
Slater is rebuilding and expects to
have it running in a week or two.
The unveiling the monument erected
by the Woodmen to the late J. w. Div
ilbliss, will take place at Montesano
June 6th. The Harbor camps and the
Cosmopolis band will participate in
the ceremonies.
An Improvement in the present down
! Sound steamboat service is to be de-
sired, and the Wiley company say
they intend to give better service by
making the Multnomah strictly a pas
senger boat, leaving the handling of
freight to the Aberdeen. This would
allow the Shelton boat to get here at
| decent hour.
Apply common wlitewash, in which
a little sulphur has been mixed. to
trees TO destroy insects and fungous
On the bark. A little SCOT added will
give it 4 dark color. Of course, the
Bordeaux mixture of copper sulphate
and quick lime will answer the same
urpose.-Fruitage
Charles Fillman, logger, employed
in the Simpson camps in Mason Couu-
| ty fell off c street sidewalk while
drunk Friday night. He crawled to
to his room to sleep off the liquor and
woke up last Saturday night to find
that his leg was broken. He was TAX
Ell to County Physician Beebe's resi-
dence and his fracture dressed. DR..
| Beebe sent him to the hospital in the
patrol wagon.
SEEKERS AFTER GOLD know they
may be disappointed, but seekers aft
er health take Hoods Sarsaparilla
with the utmost confidence that it will
do them wqrfaisf3rtul good.
To show what the Forest Reserve is
doing, an Instance occurred this week.
Mr.. J. A ,I,rgram. post master and
hotel keeper at .Quiniault lake, has
iandoned' Ills entire holdings. His
family cailie out and will leave the
country. 0aihiault lake is one OF the
prettiest pl.$css in the world. The fer
tile valley s.snrrounding it will not be
developed unless the reserve order is
modified .-H6quiam Washingtonian
"The uhssn9a county railroad tax
was settled tat abdul S45, 200 by Judge
Nilett. Of Oiymipia, during the alb
sence of Jndge ,Hqdgdon in okanogan
county. The., total tax was in the
neighborhoQd,of, &e5, 900. w ontesano
Vidette The Nidette is evidently think
ing of Lewiss County. Mason County
got much worse deal, receiving less
than one-ha'faSf RE gross tax, if the
present deal soc, through.
Jacob Petersons of Holly, WASH,
who has been, apsin mate of the county
hospital forlahe. past week, died at that
institution .afTfi ursday night of con-
"a
sumption. oh THE Saturday previous
he had taken 6tjint his final citizenship
papers and Ip4lad1te;:. final proof on a
quarter section Of Uncle Sans free
gift to the home seeker. He has been
very low for s9Tqf time and only by
the kindly offices, of, his Holly neigh
bors was he enabled to made his final
proof, -Sidney Independent.
In our advertising columns will be
) found an announcement of EX-Sena
tor John J. Ingalls, forthcoming book,
entitled "America's War For Human
ity." Canvassing agent will find IN II
a book remarkable interest, and GER
taiuly of extraordinary STABILITY
The history of the war is told in pict
ure and story, and in a way that al
ways characterizes tn brilliant pen OF
Senator Ingalls,. In narrating the in
| cidents of this war he finds grand
scope for his superb descriptive ant
} analytical powers. The the me is wor
thy of the author, and the author is
worthy of the theme. 1t is published
by N. D. Thompson Publishing o.
of St. Louis, Mo. 1t will be a inonu
mental work that will not only be ev
erywhere read, but it will be a n1onu
ment to his genius that will outliye in
: history his brilliant senatorial career
The subscription book trade and the
canvassing agent are fortunate in the
fact that an author of such rare ability
\ has been enlisted in its interests.
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