Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-04-06
rect name of the paper. Or some
thing like it.
Ancutty Tillicums.

Ancutty Tillicums.
While Attorney Groundwater and
Sam Taylor were hunting up titles to
timber taxes | was looking for "hyas
ancutty tillicums," and the first one
found was Jim Connolly. still try
ing to make people believe that his
beef steaks We're tender, when they
are tougher than whang leather"
II reminded me of beef steak story
"a feller told me-" who ate at GER
tain hotel. When nearly through his
meal the waitress came and asked
him:
''How did you find the beef steak?"
and he replied:
We'll, l just happened to turn
over a piece of potato. and there it
was
Apple Duff.
Buck Shelton used to live in Olym-
pia, too, in the early eighties. when
he and his sister Mary bought out
the book and stationery store of Nat
Crosby on Main street. l have many
times of late tried to find Buck, but
he was not to be found. either at
home or at the courthouse Always
gadding around somew' re. / reckon,
and leaving his wife and baby at
home alone. This. last time | found
nice looking lady deputy assessor
in his Office, so l knew then he would
soon be back, and waited for him
But didn't care now if he never
came back.
On his return we discussed my as
sessment at some length before he
discoered who | was. and then. and
then! memories turned back to
the days when there was no
town of Shelton; when he and the
rest of the David Shelton family lived
on the old home place there: when
I watched Buck catch the last big
trout in Kennedy creek and | accept
ed the credit of the catch (durned
| fbbers) when we ate Grandma Shell
tons wonderful and delicious apple
| duff-and We talked of all the rest
of the old-time subjects that we
could think of during our short visit
! including the time l delivered the
Fourth of July Whang Doodle ora
tion on the public square in Olympia
when the venerable Conrad Schneider
rected his poem on "Schneider's Val
ley" 1t just seems to me that Sam
J Woodruff is the one who gave that
Whang Doodle grafton. but Buck de-
clares | am guilty. Conrad Schnei-
der was a great character | would
like to have copy of his famous
poem, "Schneider's Valley" Some
of it was like this:
IL looks me out de vinder glass.
Und dere | sees de finest grass.
Oh, rallev. ralley, ralley,
Dat iss a pleasant valley"
At the Courthouse.
My visit at the courthouse shows
me that the ladies of Mason county
are keeping up with the times. | am
truly glad to note that some of them
are occupying the high offices of trust
there. They will be on the judges
bench yet. and would not be sur
prised if they would judge better
than the men do. 1t is great pleas
Iii to me to see the women advanc-
ing. They have been slaves of the
men too long. 1t is long past the
time for them to assert their equality
and superiority over men. Man has
fallen too low along the booze and
cigarette route. They can't, as
rule. be depended on.
When | went into the county clerks
Office | would indeed have felt like
a cat in a strange garrett OF the
county clerk had said to me, How
do YOU do, SIR" or. How do you do.
Mr.. Moore" in a solemn. dignited
manner. But. instead. Hattie Callow
Garfield said to me "Oofty -Goof!"
thereby pTllsluS Ddth oit tihiN' "
my memory and making me feel
Young and at home again. 1t is
sensible person who knows when to
be digniiied and when to be pleasant
with an old-time friend. I congratu-
late Mason county for having clerk
of that calibre.
Taking into consideration the sew
eral visits have made in Shelton of
late. I must say that they have
brought me some of the most pleas
ant times of my life, Principally due
to old-time friends who were former
residents of Olympia when | was
among them there Glory be
Went Through the Mill
That April Fool joke that Attorney
Groundwater played on brother sam