The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-06-22
Local Notes.

services at Baptist Church mex
Sunday.
The 22nd, which is to-day is tn,
longest day of the year.
i BeRN--Shelton, June 18th, to TIL,
wife of J. B. Wood, daughter.
BORN Shelton, June 10th, to til,
wife of M. R. Thompson, a son.
| It has rained most of the week, and
building operations have almost sus
pended.
i Last week was record breaker
even for Shelton. in the arrival of
babies, FIVE being reported.
| Geo. E. Thompson, OF the LINGO
made flying trip down Sound, b,
says sugar and flour are going skywart
| Olympia has finally succeeded II
getting its celebration started and i.
billing the logging camps with its pos
tiers.
| The rains of the past week have
about finished the Strawberries, spoiled
the cherries and beat down the hay in
many places.
The contract for the new city sewer
will be let by the council this evening
aud the work is to be pushed as fast
as possible.
When is boy not boy, was the ques-
ton troubling the Tribune last week
Maxwell may have wanted boy but
providence willed otherwise and the
JOURNAL, as usual was right. Mr..
and Mrs. Maxwell's boys are all girls.
This Office has fine hydrangea
which is worth seeing. 1t stands over
three feet high and is now bearing six
large blossoms. We also have curio-
sity in the way of double lily leaf,
which is joined at the stalk and at the
end of the lower lobe. The same lily
once had double flower.
New Kamilche now boasts of a new
paper, called "The Curio Exchange"
which as the title indicates, is inten-
ded to circulate among collectors OF
stamps, minerals, relics, shells and
curios of all kinds. Frank Gingrich is
the editor, and modestly demands IS
cents for a years subscription, besides
throwing in small shell collection as
premium.
David Shelton Camp, No 9, Native
Sons of Washington, elected the fol.
lowing set of new officers: Captain
AL. ]. Munson: 1st and I'd Lieut.. Chas.
MeReavy and Geo. Webb, Orator,
Angus Mcdonald, Treasurer, A. W.
Fredson, Secretary, Eli B. Robinson,
Oft1cer of Day, W. D. Forbes, Serg.
]. B. Shelton, Corporal, A. P. Saeger,
Picket, Dan Ban nse.
A game of baseball is scheduled fol-
next Sunday, with the Elma club, and
it will come off, weather permitting,
unless it can be changed to the Fourth.
Like last season one thing or another
always seems to interfere with the
local players getting any practice, and
unless they get to work they will not
be in trim to take sca1ps on the harbol
this season.
MARRIED. = At Chapman's Cove
June Goth, Milton Schumacher to Mis-.
Alma Swanson, f. c. Wiley officiat
ing. The happy couple left on tn,
morning boat for down Sound points
where they will spend short honey.
moor before settling down to business
Both are wel1-khown Shelton youns
people, and both have host of friends
to wish them every success and only
small amount of minor troubles.
While considerable funds have bee,
subscribed for the celebration in Shell
ton on the Fourth, there seems to b,
the usual friction as to whether hors,
races on the prairie shall be part Of
the program or all the money shout,
be spent on sports in town. and it will
possibly be decided to forego genera
celebration this year, and have quie
time instead. A baseball game will
probably be arranged for and tn
A, O. u. w. ball in the evening will b
the main feature
]. E. Youngblood, industrial teache
, at the Skokomish Reservation, wa
down to Puyallup recently interview
ing Agent Terry in regard to tn
apportionment Of the remaining land
of the reservation. on which tn,
present buildings are locat ed. Severs
of the Indians have not yet receives
their allotments, and it is likely tina
a portion will be reserved further u,
the river near the County bridge, TO
the purposes of the school and board
ing house, and new buildings bull
there. The buildings of the agenc
are very old and in poor order, an
will probably be torn down by tn
Indians who get them and the 1un1be
converted into more suitable buildings
ED-Near Shelton, July 18th
r. G. Hurst, of general decay. age
: 76 years. The deceased will b
: pleasantly remembered tor hi
occasional visits to Shelton in pas
years. He was born in Delaware i
1924, married and moved westward i
: advance of the general immigration
> unless in 1883 he came to Mason Cour
ty with his son A. Hurst. and daughte
, Mrs. A. NJ. Frost. Besides thes
children he leaves an aged wife of
: years. living with a daughter in Kar