The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11

b Wiley 1850
Geo Vogtlin % {" 1000
r w Potts two arrests zoo
John Burnett, washing hose zoo
y w Fisk, police fees $50
Shelton SawmilI, lumber $50
Oath of Office of CIV. Dunbar as
mayor filed.
Marshal was instructed to continue
at street work until the same as CON
templated was completed. Council ad-
journed. c. W. FISK, Clerk.
Frank Ellis and H. A. Pittman, who
were employed in Shelton under the White
regime, and have since been with &c. F. y
at the Cosmopolis mill, have recently gone
to Tacoma, where their families are to fol
low them
The following teachers are attending the
teachers quarterly examination this week:
]. c. Allyn. W. A. Crowell, Leroy Jones,
Shelton: Miss Fannie Wright, Olympia,
Cora Duckworth and Myrtle Gingrich,
Kamilche, Miss Mary Gonzales, Lilliwaup
The open season for grouse and pleas
ant opens next Tuesday, August 18th, and
we imagine that great will be the slaughter
of the birds. So far as we have observed
the game is quite plentiful, and the young
birds are getting to be just the right size,
almost full grown.
The old Sylvester place in Olympia,
which was mansion in 1856 when it was
built, and the land has been sold for 3d.
900. 1t cost small fortune to build, as
labor and material was scarce, and was
put together in ship-shape, every part
being made to join by grooves.
The big Simpson Shingle mill at Clo-
quallum has been turned over to a Seattle
man, who cuts by the thousand, while the
work of getting out the cedar shingle bolts
is in charge of the Leroy Bros Tony
Nelson has secured the.privilege of run
ming the boarding house for the shingle
mill men, and will take hold of the work
next week.
If some of the domestic fruits were
scarce this year the wild blackberry made
it up. 1t has been some years since the
latter was so plentiful in the old logging
works and all over the woods of this coun-
ty. Everybody got in good supply of
the canned and preserved fruit for winter,
and the small boys cleaned up considerable
money picking berries for sale. One fam
lily alone. with three small boys has prob
ably sold close to $50 worth of berries at
so cents gallon this season
The fruit inspector in Seattle has been
looking out for infected fruit from Cali
fornia, and this week destroyed 600 boxes
of Bartlett pears and 200 boxes of apples.
The whole shipment was one of the worst
ever brought in, as every box contained
the work of the Goblin moth, and the Cali
fornia shippers do not seem to have learn
ed their lesson yet 1t is quite common
to cut into fruit purchased in the local
fruit stands, and find good healthy cod
lin worm in it. ready to be dropped out
on the street, and begin business in the
new field. Most people don't kill the
worm. nor do they eat it, they drop it on
the street, hence Goblin moth is bothering
local orchardists.
Mr.. A. Swanson brought to this office
some specimens of new vampire weed,
which is becoming nuisance to some
farmers. In his fields and also Sam Ogg's
the weed has destroyed considerable of the
clover crop. The weed consists of slender
tendrils which Irvine about the clover and
seemingly chokes the life from the plant
as it withers and eventually dies, and
forms mat on the ground Mr. Swanson
states that the weed is common in the
marshes in Chapman's Cove, where it
natures and seeds. but in his meadow the
same plant does not seem to flower and go
to seed, although it kills out the clover
and probably propagates by runners
The JOURNAL has sent specimens to the
Ss~eS o6A ASu1tui al COilCSc 1OI more 1n1OT-
nation and remedy
The Canadian thistle is becoming quite
common in this section, and very little eff
fort seems to be made for its destruction.
The Bull Thistle is common everywhere.
bnt the more dangerous pest is getting
there unmolested. The Canadian thistle
is true thistle, growing from running,
perennial underground root. The stems
are slender, growing from two to five feet
high. 1t is leafy from the base but is dis
| tinguished from the bull thistle by the fact
that it branches only near the top, while
the other stools. : 1t is frequently met
with along the railroad and county roads,
and there is state law requiring its de-
struction, that the authorities should look
after. Section men and road supervisors
could easily destroy much of the pest.
Notice to 0ystefmen.
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the Oystermens Association OF
Puget Sound win be held on August 18th
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