The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-01-20
Local News.
It rains easily.

have it done.
BoRN-Shelton, Dec. 3Oth, to the
wife of A. Needham, a girl.
A special meeting of the Workmer
will be held next Monday evening.
We are glad to see the sidewalks
again and get back to terra frma.
BoRN.-New Kamilche, Jan. 18th te
the wife of Capt. {. L. Brown, a son
The Firemen's Ball on Feby. 22nd
promises to take the attention of the
dancing public.
A culvert washout on the Shelton
| Southwestern kept the railroad from
operating this week.
The Good Temp1ars had an oyster
supper and program after their meet
ing last Saturday evening.
The tides have been unusually high
during the past week, coming we'll up
to the level of the water front.
Logs are getting scarce at the Sound
mills, and they are anxious to see &C
tive work at this end of the line.
1t has rained considerably during
the week, and the creeks are pretty
high IN consequence Of rain and snow.
| But little work has been done in the
logging camps this week, and but few
loads of logs have been brought down .
VIM. Lecompt has taken charge Of
the Maxwell ranch for year or two,
and it will be largely devoted to stock
raising.
BoRN.-Shelton, Jan. 18th, to the
wife of Ernest Bailey, twin boys.
Mrs. Bailey is staying with Mrs. Bry-
den, in town.
The City of Shelton will go to Seat
tie today or tomorrow for a new shaft,
one of them being so badly cracked as
to require a new one.
Simpsons camps in the vicinity of
Matlock did little work during the
week, and the trains on the Blake1y
railroad worked two days so far this
year.
Watson Rodenberger recently slaugh-
tered his porkers, and brought the
usual supply of homemade sausage
and head-cheese to town, where it is
in demand.
The Town Council held a special
meeting last Saturday afternoon to ap-
prove the bonds of Clerk Fisk and
Marshal Potts, and install them in
their duties,
The grip is having a run of late, al
| though in a mild form. It is no re-
| spector of persons and makes a person
| feel as miserable as a more deadly
complaint.
The Oystermen's Association held a
meeting at Olympia on Tuesday. The
large shippers On Oyster Bay were all
present and Secretary Baldwin went
up from Shelton.
L. K Munson has received his first
invoice of '99 Crescent wheels, which
are still improving. The price has
been reduced to $35. Munson will
also have the Columbia agency.
The Northern Pacific has changed
its train schedules, and now makes
better Grays Harbor connections. for
owing to the change the noon mail is
not very tat one.
The old cracked school bell still jars
upon the finer fibers of the public, and
the question is asked: "Where is the
new bell that was to have been order
Ell, tor which some funds were sub.
scribed by the public?''
Young Hugh Dryden, whose leg
was broken in camp last summer and
not receiving proper attention from
the doctors at the hospital, is three
inches shorter than its mate, intends
to have the limb broken over again
aud properly set. MIR. Ellison is an
other sufferer, same cause.
Representative Gunderson has a
place on the following house commit
tees: Education, Labor and Statistics
Fisheries, and State Normal school.
These were the committees he desired
and it was probably asking too much
for the fisheries Craftsmanship, to
stand off Senator McReavy, who is
chairman of the Senate committee.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pauy sold during December, 400 acres
of land in Mason Comfy. The Com
pany has reduced the prices on all til
lands in this section and is offering
them at from 81 to 81 per acre. Plats
showing the agricultural land offered
in Mason County, can be seen at this
office, and other information furnish
ed
The postinaser at San Francisco ha.
called attention to the large amount O
mail matter accommodating there under
| the mistaken idea that domestic post
age applies to Hawaii. Letters fol
residents of Hawaii still require thu
international postage of S cents pei
half ounce, although all mail to person
in the United States military and nav
al service is transmissable at domestic
rates.-Montesano Vidett.
All circumstances point to thu
drowning OF passenger from the City
of Shelton, while coming in Monday
evening. The missing man is suppos
/ cd RI he Kemo. Belpian. and an uncle