The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-07-20
Shelton, Friday, July 20, 1900.
Personals

trip Tuesday.
Auditor Bell returned from his vaca-
ton trip Saturday.
Joe Ritner was home this week from
Tacoma, for visit.
L. L. Hunter made business trip tc
Tacoma this week.
Perry Jones went to Seattle Monday
with his brother Charles
Frank J. Green, Bradstreet's man,
was in town Wednesday.
G. B. Gunderson is in Seattle attend
ing Grand lodge l, o. G. T.
Mrs. B. C. Kelly, of Seattle, was Wis
iting friends in town over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Rex drove over
to visit the Skokomish campers yester-
day.
The Giles cNichol party returned
from Lake Cushman last Sunday, hav-
ing been gone week.
Manager Thompson and Cashier
Avery Reed of the L M were both
down Sound this week.
Miss Eloise German arrived from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, to pay an ex-
tended visit to her sister, Mrs, Gilbert
Bordeaux.
DR.. Wells and L. K. Munson drove
over to Hoodsport Sunday, to take the
ladies over to Lake Cushman for a
weeks outing.
Harry McFadden, foreman of one of
Bordeaux's logging camps, is suffering
from severe attack Of rheumatism al
st. Peters hospital.
w. N. Libby, a new conner, has pur-
chased the old Walter ranch, from
Harry Lloyd, and has moved on with
his family. The consideration was
81 600.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lovelace, father and
mother of George Lovelace, arrived on
the Sound from Iowa on two months
visit, part of which will be spent in
Shelton.
Dad. Richardson's mule team rar
away one day last week on the Satsor
mail run, and collided with tree, in.
jured MIR. Richardson and passenger
who was in the wagon, so as to cal
for the services of a doctor
Shelton friends of Joe Doyle, who
was mentioned in the JOURNAL of las,
week as. being released from the Asy
lum at Steilacoom, and having again
become violent, state that the person
mentioned was not the Doyle whose
troubles are known 10 Shelton people.
Two parties of Tacoma fishermen
spent last week at Will. Hunters place
while fishing in the several branche.
of the Skokomish river. Both partie.
by hard work managed to take quite Z
box of fish back to Tacoma with them
The fishing is not as good as it wa!
two weeks ago, SO the residents say.
A reception and banquet was giver
under the auspices of the Republican
club, of Tacoma, Saturday night, il
honor of the return of their represen
tatives in Congress. Senator Foster
and Congressman Cushman. Promi
nent republicans from all parts of tn,
state were invited to participate in thu
reception.
Mrs Dele Bradford aud Miss Ada
Littlefeld, sisters of Mrs Frank Viii
ley, who have been spending the sum
mer in Shelton, left last Saturday TO
their home in Patten, Maine. Miss
Littlefield has been here since last fal
and Mrs. Bradford came out will
Frank Wiley in April. Both wer,
pleased with Puget Sound, but wer
homesick.
T. M. Reed, Sr. of Olympia. JOSEPH
Kuhn, of PIT Townsend, and C. A
Bowie, of Matlock were in Shelter
July 9th to attend the session of Mt
Moriah Lodge to assist in conferrln
degree. The two former are the pi
oneers of Masonry in Washington
while the latter is perhaps the oldes
Mason in the state, being ga years o
age.
Mrs. Patterson, of South Tacoma
is spending few days visiting Mrs
Prentice Dunbar. Her daughter wa
one of the unfortunates in the stree
car wreck at Tacoma. July 4th, and
was picked up unconscious, with tw
dead persons under her and one lying
across her body. The young lady ha
entirely recovered form her bruise
aud the shock of the fall.
Chas. Jones, one of the Shelton boy
who went to the Klondike mining
country three years ago, returned las
Thursday evening. He seems to have
done better than if grinciug away il
railroad work at home, and says tina
he intends to return By September
Now that the stampedes have takel
away the floaters, there II good payiri
Work for number Of men, and til
Claims which are being worked viii
approved appliances pay very we'll.
George Vogtlin and r. ". WaltheI
mad an exciting time Saturday morn
ing when horse, attached to iigh
oaggy' undertook to break the time
4 record. Mr.. Walther jumped ont bn
george hung to the lines until 4 strucl
40 obstruction and be Was thrown ont
DeSlaes some minor bruises bis IF
suOulder was dislocated, and he win y
TIShas se to take things easy for = ur1c