The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-01-05
Local Notes.

swearing on seems to be gOin}
out of fashion.
BoRN,-Shelton. Jan.-2, 1900, to TIN
wife c. E. Mclaughlin, girl.
Mcdonald & O'Neill are IN tn.
throes of stock-taking this week.
BORN. = At Matlock, Christina
morning to the wife of Thomas Booth
daughter.
The Methodist Church is having
pews built to afford more comfortabl,
seating than chairs.
+. w. Walther, the tailor, calls at
tention to his five years of satisfactory
clothes-making for the public in thi:
issue.
This will be known in history as the
year of "noughty-nought," but that is
no reason why some people should be
any naughtier than usual.
The L. M. Co. has a new top to thei,
delivery wagon, embellished with the
device, "For Quality, Quantity and
Prices go to the Big Store.''
A masque ball will be given next
month in Shelton, and the Kanilche
Odd Fellows will give one of the same
sort Saturday night, everybody in
vlted.
The holiday time seems to have
been generally selected by the young
people to join their fortunes for better
or for the worse, several pairs having
taken advantage of the season during
the past two weeks.
The weather report of our Hood
Canal correspondent shows that $3.50
inches of rain fell during 1899, nearly
ten inches more than the average. We
thought we had been getting a little
more water than usual.
The County Commissioners have
been in session this week, settling with
the road supervisors, county officers,
and closing up the accounts of the
year. Proceedings will appear next
week.
The steamer Northern Light was
inspected at Olympia this week, and
is now on the Shelton-O1ympia run.
The City of Shelton will soon lay off
for thorough overhauling.
The loggers have about all returned
and gone up to the various camps,
ready for work, which will be in full
blast Monday, weather permitting.
If you want nice calendar for 1900
call at this Office. We have several
kinds. The local merchants have also
been distributing nice calendars
among their patrons.
Seattle papers announce the wedding
of Miss Annie Kee1ty and Finley Cook
on Tuesday, and their future address
will be Hamilton, Wash. Both are
well known in Shelton, where the
bride has passed her girlhood, and
many friends wish them success.
The forged check industry is becom-
ing common all oyer, and it behooves
everybody to make sure that the paper
they receive is o. K. While most OF
the work is done in the cities, OCCASION
ally worker gets in a trick on the
country merchants. Chas. Pole, at
his store in Bryad, was caught for a
bad $42 check recently.
The Ball given by the Shelton Or
chestra on New Years was a success,
although following close after the
Christmas affair. The Hall was COM
fortably filled for dancing, and the
music of the Orchestra was said to be
fully up to that OF the Olympia Or.
chestra and all. enjoyed themselves.
A good supper was served by Mrs
Deegan in' Odd Fellows building, and
the dancing continued until 4 O'Clock
in the morning.
Bert Knee1and has secured from
Messrs Simpson and bordeaux a lot of
cedar timber ON the iogged-off lands
near Lake Newatzel. and is opening a
logging camp to haul the cedar. This
timber is in good demand at good
price, and it is strange that the present
logging concerns do not cut more OF
it, while they are cutting out the fiji
around the cedar. 1t is probable that
before the summer is over, or when
the Port Angeles Eastern is opened
that mills will be opened in Shelton
which would be fully as good ship
ping point as any on, the Sound.
The old council met Thursday night
to wind up the business of the old yea
and examined the reports of the off
GERS. The new Council will meet next
Tuesday. and organize, selecting its off
GERS for the new year We believe
that it is the intention to increase the
salary of the night Watchman, ant
inaugurate few needed reforms il
past methods. One of the things nee
iessaryis to determine whose duty i
shall be to keep the street lamps clear
and in good order, and have it done
Inc CuA lew OAuluduCS SuoulQ not u
allowed to rest in ssinnocuous desue
tude," but the bell should be rung a
the stated times, and the ordinance en-
forced.
Not long ago Tom Slocum discover
ed that his cellar had been broken int,
and one hundred quarts Of fruit stolen
i After some search the spoils wer