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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-09-21

John A. Clark, who was in Sherman's army
in the famous march tn the sea- died Sent
18th at his home in Maehias, aged IA, He
served in Co. D. Of the 2nd Maine Cavalry,
was in several battles. and two horses were
shot from under him in one engagement.
Since the war he had been in the employ of
the lumber mills at Machias He was an Off
Ger of Bradbury Post G. A. B., which conduct.
ed the funeral service Sunday at the M. E.
church. He leaves three sons, jacob Clark
of Methuen, Mass, Frank and Fred Clark of
Machias. and daughter, Mrs. Joseph O'Doa-
nell of Portland
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-09-21
Eastern S. S. Corp. to be Reoreanized.

Plurality, 14l. Rep.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-09-21

from OaVllllon at ..ne water 'front.' was a sur
prise. The view it commanded was from
Turtle Head to Owle Head. with the interyen-
ing islands. and landward the Northport and
Camden hills. Just above in little harbor
Mr.. Pennington's cabin cruiser, "Black Rah.
bill" rode at her moorings. and pier extend
ed from the shore to low-water mark, The
Pennington's not only have a broad frontage
on the bay but their estate extends back to
Knights Pond, the shore there a nice beach.
and where they have boats, ETC., SO that they
can have fresh or salt water bathing at will,
There is hill quite near the house that might
pass for a mountain. there are woods and
clearings, and we believe this estate to be
unique among the many on the Maine coast in
its attractions and advantages.
1t does one Maine-borL and bred good to
meet the summer people and become imbued
with their enthusiasm over the Maine climate
and the Maine scenery. People pay large
prices for paintings; works of art that are
DeauLIIuI DuL Interchangeable. while the scenes
Of nature are ever changing with the passing
clouds and the alternating light and shade. The
water may be like mirror. rejecting on it's
surface the shores and islands; or storm tossed.
its surface broken into angry waves. crested
with foam. that send up showers of spray as
they break upon the rock-bound shore. On
the day of which l write we were specially
favored in the atmospheric conditions. The
wind at first was easterly, the sky grey and
the water leaden-hued. but it was clear enough
to distinguish the Mt. Desert hills and Isle au
Haut from both the places visited. Before
starting for Belfast the moon was showing it.
self occasionally, and when on the way home
we were treated to a most gorgeous sunset. It
was a day to be remembered. not alone for its
scenic attractions but for the pleasant people
met and the hospitality enjoyed. c. A. r.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
LOCAL FIRM BRANCHES OUT,
New Olympia Industry to Build Ce-
ment SilOs in Seattle Terri
tory.

The Washington Cement Stave
Sllo company, one of Olympia's new
industries, this week shipped a car
load of Playford cement stave silo
material to Seattle, to be used in the
erection of several silos in the sur
rounding territory. The company's
first silo in King county will be one
of 160 tons capacity, 14X40 in size,
to be built at Renton
The local firm plans to establish a
branch factory in Seattle soon for the
benefit of customers in King and
Snohomish counties. 1t recently
completed two silos at South Union
and announces that others will be
built shortly in this vicinity. The
company has material for dozen or
more silos on hand and additional
material is being manufactured daily.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
TO DEDICATE MEMORIAL
At LACEY CEMETARY SOON
Ornamental Entrance and Fence
Erected by Gwin Hicks Nearly
Finished.

The handsome new entrance gate
and ornamental fence being erected
by Gwin Hicks around the pioneer
cemetery at Lacey will be completed
the latter part of this week, and then
the bronze tablets, four of which
have been on display at Talcott
Bros. jeWelry store this week, will be
placed in the six cobblestone piers at
the entrance, and the memorial will
be formally dedicated during the fore
part of this month, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Hicks and the Washing
ton Historical society.
Many of the first settlers of this
section of the Puget Sound country
are buried in this cemetery, and this
fact is referred to in the inscription
on the tablet contributed by the state
historical society and signed by w.
p. BOnney as secretary. Two of the
tablets bear stanzas from Gray's s
elegy, while the first contains the in
scription:
I'm memory of his ancestors, and
with a decent regard for the preser-
vation of their last resting-place, the
undersigned has erected this fence as
a barrier between the irreverent pub
lie and the revered ground inclosed,
and calls upon his posterity and the
succeeding generations to respect the
bones of the first white inhabitants
of this countryside.-Gwin Hcks."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
OFfUT LAKE PEOPLE WIN
FIGHT FOR OWN SCHOOL
Court Declares Appeal Illegal-Goss
to Appoint New Directors.

County superintendent O. c. Goss
expects TO appoint the latter part of
this week directors for a new school
district at Ofut lake, following the
decision given by Superior Judge
Mitchell Monday sustaining the de-
murrer interposed by six taxpayers of
the Offut lake district that the appeal
of the Plum station residents to the
commissioners was lot properly taken
incidentally statements that Prose
cutting Attorney Yantis prepared this
appeal are untrue.
This will be the concluding chapter
in a controversy between the resi-
dents of Plum station and Offut lake
for the past several months, which
after public hearing before County
Superintendent o. C. Goss resulted in
the creation of new district at Offut
lake mainly from territory previously
included in the Plum station district.
Various taxpayers of the latter dis
trict appealed from Goss' decision to
the commissioners, and after a hear
ing the commissioners overruled Su-
perintendent Goss and re-established
the old district Then action was
started in the superior court by the
Offut lake people, ending in Judge
Mitchell's decision this week that
the appeal to the commissioners had
not been taken in the proper legal
manner. This re-established Goss'
division of the territory and upheld
the formation of the new district.
Plans for the erection of school
building at Offut lake will be started
Immediately, Superintendent Goss
says, and in the meantime school will
be held in a temporary structure.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
TO UNNEH MORE MARKERS,
Two More Oregon Trail Monuments
to BE Dedicated Wednesday,.

The second and third markers of
the old Oregon trail in this county,
one at Bush Prairie and the other at
Tenino, will be unveiled next Wednes-
day, September 6, Lafayette's birth
day. with appropriate exercises under
the auspices of the local chapters of
the Daughters and Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution.
The Tenino marker, located or the
old Hodgson donation claim on the
Pacific highway, will be dedicated at
2 O'Clock that afternoon, and the one
on Bush Prairie, placed near the site
of the home of George Bush, at 4
o'clock Governor Ernest Lister
Mrs. Edmund Bowden, state regent
of the D. A. r.. o. J. C. Dutton, state
president of the S. A. r., George A.
Virtue, T. F. Mentzer, Rev. d. e.
Ellis, Miss Jessie Louise Campbell of
Tenino, and Miss Annie CASTOR
granddaughter of George Bush, will
be among the speakers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
LOCAL TEbbETTS
STORE IS CLOSED
TOCKHOLDERS CONSIDER TAX.
ING 1T OVER-RECEIVER
TELLS SITUATION.

The Olympia Groceteria on East
Fourth street, one of four stores
operated by M. c. Tebbetts, Inc., the
Tacoma firm which went into the
hands of a receiver a couple of weeks
ago, was closed Wednesday afternoon
by Receiver R. D. Simpson and ar
rangements are now being made to
dispose of the stock. The local store
was the only one of the four to con-
tinue operations after the company
was thrown into a receivership fol-
lowing a mysterious fire in it's A
street store in Tacoma August Is
and the arrest of the promoter, M. C.
Tebbetts, on charge of arson.
Several local stockholders favor
the purchase from the receiver of the
stock of the local store, a reorganiza-
tion of the firms affairs into a sep
arate company consisting of the local
stockholders, and reopening the store
with new manager in charge. Ap-
proximately $40 share will have
to be put up by the stockholders to
carry out this plan.
All of the 400 to 500 stockholders
in M. G.. Tebbetts, Inc, will lose every
cent they put into the concern. Re-
ceiver Simpson says, and at that cred
itors will receive only about so cents
on the dollar Whether those stock
holders who have not paid for all of
the stock for which they contracted
to pay on the monthly instalment
plan will have to pay the remainder,
is undetermined, the receiver says.
Tebbetts, the promoter of the con-
Germ, received one-third of the rev.
enue from all the stock sold as his
commission. in addition to salary
of $75 month, Receiver Simpson
says. There are some 400 to 500
stockholders in the concern and al
together some $4,000 stock was con-
tracted for, from $4,000 to $4,000
VI IL lOSdAly 1CppCtlo
of one-third was taken out of the
| first cash paid the company on each
stock sale, the receiver says, and the
total amounted to approximately
$4,000. Out of this he was to pay
commission to stock statesmen and
all expenses incident to stock selling
Some $4,000 or 100000 more
was spent in opening the three stores
in Tacoma and the one here, remod
cling the buildings and buying fix
lures and stock and in paying sal
aries of employees and operating eX
penses, the receiver says his eXami
nation of the books shows. The
firms affairs are so involved. how
ever, according to the receiver, tina
it would take an accountant a couple
of months to find the true situation
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
Big Fund for Forest Trails.

The state of Washington will re-
ceive $91,379 of the federal fund OF
$1,0O0,OOO just appropriated by con-
gress for the construction and main
tenance of roads and trails wholly or
partly within national forests, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Secretary Houston. Applications for
roads or trails must be filed with the
district forester by October l, each
application containing statement OF
the estimated cost of Sthe desired
road, the territory to be served and
the extent to which it would aid In
the development of the resources
upon which communities within OF
adjacent to the national forests are
dependent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
K|NCA|D REPORTS
ON OYSTER STUDY
OPERATORS SHOWN BY INVESTI.
CATION HOW TO INCREASE
RETURNS.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Aug. 31.-Oyster production will
soon be on as sound, scientific and
efficient a basis as any other busi-
ness, if the efforts of the United
States bureau of fisheries and Profess
sor Trevor Kincaid, University of
Washington biologist, are to count.
They are showing the operators how
to eliminate loss of revenue by pre-
venting the death of the little oy-
sters, through the right methods of
culture.
In the past the operator has
guessed when he should throw in his
"cultch" of old shells for the baby
oyster to fasten to, and all too often
he guessed wrong. The result was a
tremendously high mortality. By US
ing the scientific knowledge, recently
made public by Professor Kincaid,
the grower may now determine the
exact time for putting the old shells
Ill HIS D6uS. Ills chdulSo ehC yOuh6
loysters to attach themselves to the
shells before they become covered
with slime and moss, and insures the
oysters life and growth.
And the next point, as yet distant,
| is to devise an artificial system of cul-
ture and do away with haphazard
methods entirely. Professor Kincaid
recently spent considerable time at
Oyster bay, near Olympia, and has
made a survey of the industry in the
state, from which he intends to COM
pile a report for the government.
Next summer he will continue his in
vestigation.
Life of Native Oyster.
Professor Kincaid has made an ex-
tensive study of the oyster industry
on the Pacific coast. Recently he
made public complete history Of
the life of the native oyster. Briefly
it is as follows:
In the early summer, usually about
CONTINUED on page 81
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
To Re-Wire Courthouse.

Complaints and objections made
by fire insurance underwriters have
resulted in preparations by the coun-
ty commissioners to reconstruct the
electric wiring in the county court
house. Other repairs are also to be
made, including patching the plaster
ing in various rooms and painting the
steam pipes and radiators.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
ALL SCHOOLS WILL
Be OPENED TUESDAY
MORE PUPILS EXPECTED IN THE
COUNTY-CITY ENROLMENT
SAME AS LAST YEAR.

All of the city schools and, accord
ing to County Superintendent O.. c.
Goss, practically every school in the
county, will open the new school
year next Tuesday, September 5,
meaning a new record for Thurston
county, for last year, for instance,
nearly month elapsed between the
opening of the first county school and
the last. The new plan will make
the school work more uniform
throughout the county.
One of the new features to be Of
fered in the city schools this year will
be course in concrete work and
farm mechanics, under the direction
Of c. B. Gwynn, supervisor of the
manual training department. And in
six of the county schools. those at
Yelm, Rainier. Tenino, Little Rock,
Tumwater and Hayes. manual train
ing will be offered for the first time,
while in the seventh and eighth
grades of all of the schools of the
county as we'll as the high schools
courses in domestic science will be
taught the girl pupils.
More Pupils in County.
The enrolment in the city schools
is expected to be about the same as
last year, Superintendent c. E. Beach
believing that an anticipated increase
in the high school will more than OFF,
set any decrease in the grades.
County Superintendent Goss- expects
considerable increase in the county
schools, quite number of new fam
lilies having settled in different dis
tricts this year, especially at Yelm.
! Quite a number of improvements
have been made in the school build
ings of the city and county during the
summer vacation. A pressure water
tank and motor-driven pumph have
been installed in the Mckinley build
ing, affording drinking fountains and
faucets throughout the structure;
new oil burners have been installed
in the high school furnaces; new
plumbing has been installed through
out, affording lavatories in the base
ment and on the first and second
floors, and the chemical laboratory
has been enlarged.
Out at Yelm a new $4,000 building
is just being completed, the main
floor of which affords the district an
auditorium and gymnasium, the audi
torium being available for community
meetings and evening entertainments,
while in the basement modern equip
ment for manual training and domes-
tic science instruction has been in
stalled.
New Buildings at TeninO.
Among the other improvements in
the county schools are the installation
of furnaces in the Lacey and South
Bay buildings, the addition of one
room to the Stony Point school, where
a portion of the high school course
will be offered this year for the first
time, and the construction at Tenino
of a fine new two-room and basement
building and a new gymnasium. both
heated by hot water plant located
between the buildings.
In addition to these, minor i'm
proyements have been made 70 the
buildings in nearly every district
such as painting. building new ROOFS
repairing foundations, digging new
wells, and tinting or calciminlng the
interior walls of the buildings.
The same number of teachers Will
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01

be employed this year in the city and
county schools. Among the new ones
in the city staff are: Floyd Boards
lee, elementary manual training
teacher; Ethel I. Benson, English,
and Florence NJ. Allen, Latin, in the
high school; Helen Leghorn, Fourth
grade. and Elva Uhler, first grade, at
the Washington school and Margaret
Grim the fifth and sixth grades and
Grace NJ. Beaven the third and fourth
grades in the Roosevelt school.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
FIRE REPORT MAY
CENsURE B|CEL0W
CITY ATTORNEY SAID TO HAVE
FAILED TO ENFORCE ORDERS
CONDENNING BUILDINGS.

Censure of City Attorney George
r. Bigelow for alleged failure to en-
force the councils orders condemning
eight buildings in the city as public
menaces from the fire standpoint and
ordering their removal, will, it is re-
ported, be the principal feature of
the report to the Civic Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce by the special
committee recently appointed to in
vestigate the situation with reference
to fire protection.
City Attorney Bigelow disclaimed
to the committee any responsibility
for the enforcement of the condemna-
tion orders, it is said, but the COM
mittee was informed by other city
officials that the responsibility did
rest upon him, and quoted an ordi-
nance to that effect. Just what form
the committees report will take is
not known, but it is suggested by
some that the particular friendship
that exists between Bigelow and one
Or two members of the committee
may result in tempering whatever
references may be made to him.
May Criticise Council.
Some criticism may also be direct
ed at the council itself for failure to
supply the fire department with all
the new hose requested by Fire Chief
B. H. Barnes, but the chief fact so
far uncovered by the committee, ac-
cording to all reports, centers around
the failure of whoever is responsible
to see to it that condemned buildings
are removed.
The committees investigation un-
covered the fact that Fire Chief
Barnes recommended the condemna
ton and removal of these eight build
ings some time ago, that the councils
fire committee, after investigation,
approved the recommendation, and
that the council, adopting the COM
mittee's report, ordered the removal
of the buildings. The committee
also discovered that the buildings
have not been removed and is report
ed to have come to the conclusion
that City Attorney Bigelow is the Off
cial who has been negligent.
All Hose Tested.
The local fire department now has
a little more than 1000 feet of hose,
Chief Barnes says, all of which has
been tested under SO pounds pressure
and found to be in good condition.
This is the heaviest pressure the city
water system affords, the average
throughout the city being much less
Following the fire at the Chattield
house, when the department was
hampered in it's work by bursting
hose, some 200 feet of hose was dis
carded, the chief says, this being the
portion which bore evidences of acid.
The rest of the hose has been exam
ined for acid and no traces Of it
found, he says. The discarded hose,
councilmen say. can be used by the
street department.
The opinion has been expressed In
some quarters that the investigation
has developed a political nature and
this belief has resulted in the sugges-
ton that the report would be delayed
until the city campaign comes on the
latter part Of November.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01
GETTING READY FOR
SECOND LOCAL FAIR
VARIOUS NEW FEATURES AR
RANGED FOR ANNUAL SHOW
SEPTEMBER lf-16.

With Saturday scheduled as tag
day" to raise finances for the Fair,
with crew of men at work on the
grounds preparing them for the
weeks exhibition, and with the race
program arranged and most of the
entertainment concessions contracted
for, details for the second annual
Thurston County Fair September II
to 16 are being rapidly whipped into
shape, according to an announcement
made this week by Secretary l.. l..
Snow.
Various new features are promised
at this years show, among them
community exhibits by half a dozen
or more subordinate Oranges of the
county, demonstration tent for To-
cal auto dealers. an exhibit by the
United States forestry department,
and generally larger series of dis
plays throughout. Last year only one
community exhibit, that of the Pleas
ant Glade Grange, was displayed at
the fair.
Secretary Snow went to Chehalis
Wednesday to attend the Southwest
Washington Fair to complete ar
rangements for the race program and
for further concessions, and quite a
number of local people visited the
neighboring exhibition and adver-
tised the local shows. Premium lists
and entry blanks are ready for dis
tribution and may be obtained from
Secretary Snow or the Chamber of
Commerce.
Mrs. c. Nommensen and Mrs. E.
w. Olson, together with two women
to be named from the country, will
have charge of the sale of tags Sat-
urday and will be assisted by a num-
Der Of women and girls. 1t is ex-
pected that a considerable sum can
be raised in this way, which will as
sist materially in defraying the ex-
penses of the fair.
Both the Northern Pacific and o.
w. r. & N. railroads have offered
special rates Of one and one-third
fares to the city from all nearby
points during fair week. The in
creases in the number of displays ex-
pected and the entries already made
have caused the directors to arrange
for the erection of one more large
exhibition tent than was needed last
year.
Program for Week.
The tentative program for the
week is as follows:
Monday-Entry day, entries clos
ing at 6 p. m.
Tuesday-Formal opening.
Wednesday-Olympia day.
Thursday Mason county and
Southwest Washington day.
Friday-Children' day.
Saturday-Everybo day.
The fair directors announce that
the grounds will be kept open until
10 o'clock each night, when both the
exhibits and concessions will be open.
A straight admission charge of 25
cents will be made, no season tickets
being sold, children less than IA
years old being admitted for Is cents.
There will be 1O-cent fee for the
grandstand and 50-cent charge for
parking autos inside the race track,
though another site will be provided
where automobiles may be left with
out charge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-01

All of the Iowa residents who live
In Olympia and the neighboring
country Joined in an annual picnic at
Priest Point park Wednesday, when
corn was the principal piece de
resistance" on the menu of the boun-
teous dinner served at noon. An in
teresting program was given during
the afternoon.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-28
VETERAN PASSES.
Mr.. EnlOe. Formerly of Henderson
County Dies Suddenly i'm This
City-S1 Years Old.

T. J. Enloe, a former citizen of this
county, 81 years old, died suddenly
at the home of his sister-in-low, Mrs.
N. E. Hesterly, on Washington street,
last Friday night where he and Mrs.
Enloe were visiting. He is survived
by a wife and five children. The
children are Mrs Albert Case, Mrs.
Percy Justice, Mrs. George Trip o.
this county an dtwo sons who live in
San Francisco.
Mr.. Enloe had been making his
home near Inman. S. c., for the past
few years but was for a number OF
years a resident of Henderson county.
He was born in Jackson county. Dur
ig the civil war he served in the 25th
North Carolina regiment and was
member of the Edney Greys of this
county. He was one of the few sur
viving members and it is though that
only one or two members of this we'll
known company are now living.