The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-04-20
Local Notes.

painting his new house.
Several OF the ball boys were ou
this week limbering up and give prom
Use of some good work this season.
Eugene Wilder has purchased a lor
on First street opposite the Grove, ant
is getting lumber to build a home TO,
himself.
Major Jones and his son have pur
chased the old Clark house, opposite
the ball grounds, and are turning i,
around to make dwelling out of it.
The farmers of Shelton valley, as
we'll as those all ovel the county are
taking advantage of the fine weather
to do their blowing and spring plant.
ing.
F. G. Wyatt has secured the con-
tract tor building piece of County
road to Jacob Hauptly's near the head
of the Canal, and went to work Mon
day morning.
The Union City mail carrier made a
special trip over to Shelton last Sun.
day with some passengers, and on his
return his team ran away, doing con-
siderable damage to the outfit.
Barney, the young son of w. r.
Stewart, managed to get a two-inch
cedar silver into his leg while sliding
down post one day last week, and
DR.. Beach had to make considerable
cut on the lads body to remove it.
Our sick are all on the mend, Perry
Jones is out and J. E. Doyle has I'M
proved from his serious sickness so
much that he can sit up and take meals
with the family.
A logger from Draham's camp, who
evidentally thought he had grievance
against the telephone service, and aired
1t with such language Wednesday night
that he was taken IN and fined SIS.
A Teachers and Parents League
has been organized by those interested
in school work, so that both may be
brought together in cooperation. The
next meeting will be held at the school
house Wednesday afternoon, April Is,
and all are invited.
The lowest bid tor the proposed A.
O. U. w. hall was $1,000, or more than
was expected, and the matter has been
held up few days to make some minor
notifications in the plans before con-
tracing for the building. The work
will begin very soon and the hall will
be credit to Shelton when it is COM
pleted.
Mark Draham had a bunch of logs
thu at came near being scaled out of
sight, so he sent them to them to the
Westside mill at Olympia and had
them sawed up into lumber. A raft of
about $4,000 feet was brought up this
week, and Mark has lumber yard of
his own, although the stuff is mostly
4x12.
So tar as we have heard or observed
the fruit crop of Mason County will be
immense, as nothing so far has been
damaged, except in isolated cases. All
kinds of large and small fruits are all
right yet, and not much prospects of
danger this late IN the season.
The school board isplanning to build
another building for school purposes
on lots near the present school,
They plan two-room building for the
higher grades, so arranged that the
whole can be thrown into one large
assembly room for exercises. The
directors are justified in this as the
district can not get along with the pre-
sent inadequate and inconvenient ar
| rangement.
The new sawmill is now cutting lum-
Der in earnest and is buried under an
avalanche of orders, all wanted right off.
They have already begun hauling lum-
Der to town, but one team is not suffi-
cient. L. L. Hunter and Cole Leisure
have gone to Chehalis valley on the
search for another pair of large horses
There will be large demand for lum-
Der this summer, probably much more
than the local mill can handle.
Several changes will occur among
the local caravansaries tor liquor re-
freshment before the first of May,
when the annual license payment ibe-
comes due. Dan. Webster will begin
business on his own hook where Fraser
& Parsons are now located, the latter
will take the stand of J. H. Wilson
while Wilson will open a new saloon
in the old Clark building. This will
add another saloon. in view of the bet
ter times in prospect, making eight
for Shelton, and an in come of $24OO in
licenses for the town.
Sixty-two lots Of tide lands lying in
front of Shelton, and comprising a
large part of the water front, not al
ready held by the logging and railroad
companies for booming grounds, were
sold by Auditor Bell for the state, last
week, to w. H. Kneeland, at the ap-
praised price, $l,395. 1t might have
been good idea for the town or a
combination of business men inter-
ested in the future of the town, to
have purchased portion of these lots
SO that they would be IN position to
donate sites for any manufacturing
enterprise that might come this way.
| Through an oversight the JOURNAL
failed to mention last week the details