The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-20
New Production Mark SET
In Year by Local Writer'S
Works of Lorge Proportion Of the 100
Are on Dsploy at Tocomo Public LibrorY

Tacoma Public LibrorY
a History Of the State Of Wash
ington." BY Lancaster Pollard,
new member of the Washington
State Historical association staff.
Eight Tacoma writers contribut-
ed to the State Historical society's
Building Of q State" They were
]. ". Bixel. on music: r. H. But
Ter. q travelog Of 1899; Ainot
Davis. on numbering: Henry Foss.
on transportation; w. L. Mccor-
mick. on the Oregon Trail Memoir
iai association; Charlotte shackel-
ford. on donation land claims. and
Z. T. Short. on social service.
There also is q speech written by
Henry sicade.
Wrote Radio Series
Undoubtedly the greatest finan-
cial success in writing this year
was that Of Ralph Wood Hunter.
who edits the Agenda. magazine OF
the state penitentiary in Walla
Walla. He has written a radio
series. Highway Night Express"
Most prolific were Tacoma poets.
Among those particularly recog-
nized during the year were Ralph
Chaplin. whose poem. Mourn Not
the Dead" ir the Viking Book of
Poetry, In included for a third
time In a standard anthology and
In indexed In Changers Index TO
Poetry" Queena Dawson Miller's
poem Essence" has been included
In Poems Editors Buy" by Cher
rington. and Kathleen Fox religi-
Gus poem Turn Back" was
awarded second place In q contest
by American Poetry magazine.
Other Writers
Among the other non-fiction
writers whose work was published
during the year were Howard NJ.
Carr. Marguerite Davis. Charles Z.
Devlin, w. e. Difford. Grace Moon
Dugan. Alfred Gehri, Howard r.
Good. Alice Hawthorne (who con-
tributes monthly articles in Ameri-
can Childhood), r. V. Hoyt,
Charles r. A. Mann. Clyde s. Mar
tin. John Massengale. Maynard
Miller, Frances Moe. Judge Him
Nichols. r. d. o'Neil. Axel H. OK
holm. Seymour s. Todd. Corydon
Wagner and Louis G. Wersen.
Among the Tacoma authors of
fiction listed were Mrs. B. Brint-
nall, Joseph F. Hook, Adeline Ma
son with q novel In Love Fiction
and Geneva Dickey
Watson.
Poets Listed
The veritable regiment of local |
poets included Elvira Albee, Anna
Anderson, Carol Jane An
derson. George Bailey. Bernice
Asher Brown, e. A. Brown,
Eva Burday. Lorena Terrier Buren,,
Edward H. Butler, Kathleen Byam.
Ruth Camp, Evelyn Carlson, Esther
Lee Carter. Emma Church. Joseph
Inc cleaver, Phoebe Nicholson Con-
don. Thelma Coyle, George D.
Craig, Maye v. Grove. Carolyn
Floy L. Cunningham.
Crystal Davis. Billy Dickey, Do
rothy Countryman Dorr. Sara
Downey. Eleanor Eastwood Down.
ing, Tom Edgar. Eleanor Emmons,
Viva Emmons, DR.. 4. o. Erick-
son, Belle Hodges Fletcher, Louis
Kathleen Fox, Betty Lee
FRASER. D. c. Cannon. Phil Gar
land, Wade Garland. Hazel Gold
ing, Ann Gilchrist Gordon, Mar
Haret Hartman, Ethelyn Miller
Rose Simon Herriges,
Margaret Heyston. DR.. Lewis A.
Herman Huseby.
Work Published
4. Grace jackson, Florence Hood /
Johnson, Corrinne Billiard Jones,
Jones, Kathryn Kendall,
Conway Kennard. Chrys-
tel Kent. Virginia Alley Leckenby.
Josephine Leckenby, Latona Lem
ann. Emma c. Lemon. Willard
Little, Nancy Lohr, Rachel Lyman.
Elsie ]. Mccurdy, Emma J. Nc
Donald, May Tevis Mcdonnell.
John Dickinson MCGEE. James Nc
Myron McWhinney. Ruth
McWhinney, Roger Mastrude.
Henry Victor Morgan, Ruby s.
Morphy. Sarah Parker Myhre.
Rosemary Needham. Mary Jane
Nordford, Justine Wade Palmer.
Ray Penny. Gladys Petry. Truly
Physeck. Eve Molyneaux. Celia
Wheeler Powers. Sophie Preston,
Marion Reid, Aria Verify Richard
son. Flora c. Rosenberg. Eliza
r u m NELL. Valentine Satterlee.
Marion L. Seymour, Sherley Mae
Sherman. Maude Rice Skinner, c.
Ann Speaks, Laura Tirnidge Stew
ems, Ianthe swope. Helen Dewitt |
Trace, Mabel Walter. Merritt Wat
son and Katharine welles Wheeler.
Most of the poets saw their Of
ferings published in one extensive
collection. In Valiant Quest -