The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-01-19
Local Notes.

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town.
r. cormier's children have the
measles.
BoRN.-Shelton, Jan. 14th the wife
of r. Worthington, boy.
VIM. Deegan's family have moved
into the new Taylor house on First
street and will keep boarders.
Sam. Caldwell has recently added
another extension to his house on Pine
street, and now has his lot pretty we'll
covered.
Logging work has been slow since
the holidays. Although the men are
all back in camp, the weather has pre-
vented steady work.
Eli Robinson has taken his ba1ing
press over to the Webb ranch, where
he has one hundred tons of hay to
press for A. w. Fredson.
This Office is receiving numerous
calls for houses to rent or sell. List
your property or your wants with us,
and we will try to satisfy you.
J. A. Horton has given up the job of
night Waterman, and J. W. Ludgate
is employed temporarily, until the
council makes its selection tonight.
The new cylinders for the Pen,nsular
4-spot have arrived, and with a little
dressing in the machine shops will be
ready to connect on the locomotive.
The dismantled donkey engine
which exploded at Camps last week,
has been brought down and is now in
the railroad yards. It is quite
wreck.
Wild geese were flying North Sun
day, and several fiocks are reported on
the prairies resting in their Northward
Hight. This. so early in the season, is
an evidence of early spring, says the
old timer.
Milt Schumacher has opened small
stock of cigars, tobaccos, candies and
notions in the postoffice store, and has
a nice assortment, with which he hopes
to do business with all the patrons of
the postofice.
Mel Hilton caught falling Roches-
ter lamp on the fly IN the Commercial
dining room the other evening and
threw it out doors where it burned.
He will try one of the new four burn
er lamps.
Coles donkey engine rested at the
First street bridge for several days,
but is now slowly SLIDING along to-
ward the Elson farm under its own
steam. Chas. Wiss acting as engineer
About 700 feet OF wire line is in use
and there are plenty of stumps con-
venient on the roadside for ''holts,"
so the donkey will get there.
| Eugene Slotes and r. H. Hill were
arrested Saturday night for disorderly
conduct and deposited cash bail of $40
each, which both forfeited by non-ap-
pearance. The former imagined he
was in some parts of the "woo1ly
West" where everything goes, but
firing ones pistol on the streets of
Shelton. even without malice but in the
exuberance Of good feeling, does not
go.
The Bob. Swan residence near. the
Court house, occupied by M r. Thomp-
son caught fire shortly after O'Clock
yesterday morning, but the fire was
stopped by some lively work on the
part of Mr.. Thompson and neighbors.
The fire caught under the stairway in
bedroom, from some unknown cause.
No other damage except about $40 to
wood work of the stairs. The fire bell
called out the hose carts, but the fire
was out before the hose was laid.
Since the Shelton post office has been
raised to the presidential class, among
the changes is one that through mails
for the several sections must be made
up in separate pouches at this Office.
The mail for down Sound and all
points East goes at noon, while mail
for California and Southern points,
Thurston County and Gray's Harbor
goes IN the morning. Mail for Olynl-
pia IS dispatched on both mails.
The 'Mumps" is not serious disease
for children, but for adults there is
nothing funny in having them.
This complaint has been running its
course through Shelton for the past
six months and all persons are fire.
quently exposed by careless and
thoughtless persons. 1t is time the
authorities took some steps to stop the
disease and prevent inconvenience and
doctors bill for people who cant afford
to clay up week or two. The same
carelesuess exists with measeles.
4 Tacoma had very interesting show
of blooded poultry this week, in which
appeared some of the finest specimens
OF fanciers all over the country. 1t is
somewhat surprising that Washington
bred poultry in nearly every instance
graded higher than the Eastern stock
in the exhibition, with an Eastern
man for judge, and shows that our peo-
pie like the best of everything. For
Buff Cochins, the birds from the pens
of Joe Simpson, Shelton, captured first
second, third, in fact every award for
that class-all his fowl exhibited grad
ing over 81 per cent, as near perfect