The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-02
Local Notes.

r. X. Rollins, rancher at Quilcan
was killed by falling tree last Mon
day. He left wife and child.
The Favorite took raft of Simu
sons logs to Blakely Tuesday, and tn
Walker a raft to Port Gamble.
Chas. Mcdonald has about complet
ed a new house on his land bought o
William Walter, down the bay.
| All the old veterans of surrounding
viclnities were in town Tuesday, at
tending the Memorial exercises.
The County offices and business
houses were closed most of the day on
Tuesday for the Memorial exercises
The continued wet weather has hat
the effect of generally reducing the
fruit crop although in no case is there
anything like failure.
Mrs. Alex. Marshal has just com.
pleted the painting OF her residence
on Cedar street, which improves its
appearance very much.
Beginning with yesterday those who
retail milk are required to take out
license, cost ST., under the law passed
by last legislature, in connection with
the "pure food'' legislation.
Canvassers and peddlers of all de-
scriptions, mostly healthy strangers,
are becoming an awful nuisance in
Shelton, and waste lots of busy peo-
pies time. Yet men for little lob
are out of the question.
The farmers along the bay haye i'm
proved the wet spring by putting in
logs, there being number of small
booms in the water. The logs average
good and bring fair price, so they
have all made some money.
Fire broke out on the roof of Thos.
O'Neill's residence, Monday afternoon
which caused some excitement, but by
promptness of the fire department, the
flames quickly extinguished and not
much damage was done.
Some changes in the makeup of the
local page is made this week, caused
by the "pl-ing" of the local page
form by a neighbours small boy, short
ly after printing last week, and also
the absence of the editor this week.
1t is reported that some of the
single weayers in Simpsons Mill at
Cloquallum, have been making it
warm for the Chinese cook, who left,
telling ono of the boys: Logging
man heap good, single man heap no
good" The crew at the mill haye hard
ly got settled yet.
Manager Mark Reed and Ferd Stab
enfeldt have rented the Joe Deer resi-
dence, and opened up a bachelors
hall, allowing B. C.. Armstrong tenn
porary quarters in the home. They
have furnished the necessary rooms
comfortably and will soon be sat
home" to their friends.
Memorial Day exercises were about
spoiled by the rain. Rey c. D. Spencer
delivered splendid address to an ap-
preciat1ve audience, and a committe
OF Veterans visited the Cemetery and
decorated the graves of their departed
comrades. The bad weather interfered
with the exercises all over the Sound.
The Farm Journal is the boiled-down,
hit-the nail-on-the-head paper, cut to
mt the wide-awake farmer and villager.
We give the Farm Journal for the
balance of 1899 and all of 1900, 1901,
1902, and 1908, nearly fye years, as a
prize to every one of our subscribers
who will pay year ahead for the
JOURNAL.
The Hadlock Mills are expected to
start saving logs for the first time in
several years, and will require about
100000 feet of logs daily. In spite of
the two railroads hauling the product
OF dozen logging camps to Shelton,
there are very few logs in the bay,
RATS being taken away to the mills as
fast as completed, so it seems that
there is little danger of oyerproduction
OF logs at this end OF the Sound this
summer, and the operations will prob
ably continue up to the limit. The
Peninsular Railroad hauled 154 car
loads of logs in one day recently, a
days work but once before duplicated.
The amount of logs handled on that
day was not far from $50, 900.
The Editor visited Island County
over Sunday and found the farmers
afflicted with the same backward sea.
son, so those with much small sstruck''
are over-run with weeds. Grain is
looking we'll, and potatoes of which
there are about 200 acres planted on
Ebey prairie, are slowly coming up.
We intended visiting Port Angeles and
sizing VI" the railroad proposition, but
poor steam boat connections prevented
Returning home by way of Hood Canal
we found Ed Simpson. Chadwick and sew.
eral other loggers putting lots of peeled
piles for fish trap building on the lowe,
Sound The ranchers are doing a good
business in shipping eggs to the Seattle
market, Holman & Hopper are receiving
lot Of splendid new furniture for their
new resort on Lake Cushman, .'The Ant.
lees. which win be opened this season.
Freight and passenger rates have been
1 +.