“8' the year reveals.
‘ _Wlth election, census, conscription, national defense, alien regis—l
“on. war, strikes, tragedy, falling
(11111 periods in the conversation of Shelton and Mason County,
annual perusual of headlines in tile 104 issues of The Journal
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bridges, and what not, 1940 left
Happened in 1940!
raft, Census, Election, War, Alien
Registration, Tragedy, All Play
Part in Year’s News
VOL. LV—NO. 1
SHELTON, WASHINGTONThursday, January 2, 194
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Angler Catches '1940 SBt Two New Weather
lho year was marked by some outstanding event aliiiOst each
.of its course, although the last four months supplied by far
reatest concontration of headlines.
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.cast in the general election.
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1d 1940 came in and departed on a note of tragedy for Shel-
' s for violent death paid something like 30 visits to this county
12 month stand, starting with the first week of its existence
ontinuing to sprinkle sudden, unnatural deaths throughout the
right up to the end. The greatest run of these tragedies oc-
in the final three months, when 20 deaths from unnatural
occurred either in Mason County proper or visited Mason
Many Leaders Answer Final Summons
x addition, the latter part of the year was marked by
.1 of an unsual number of promient citizens and leaders in this
.Unity from natural causes to deepen the note of sadness upon
a more pleasant note, the year was marked by records in the
.-" of seniors graduated from the high school here, in the
county's
crop. in the Christmas business volumes enjoyed by Shelton
and by the number of game birds and fish planted in Mason i
_ There were. also, records set in the number of automobile!
sold during the year, in the number of voters registered for
the primary and general state elections and in the number of
Posal reocipts once more set a new
the industrial front 1940 was reasonably good to this com-l
y. Industrial wheels turned continuously at the Rayonier pulp3
and with only three brief shutdowns in the Simpson Logging
ny’s operations, one delay being caused by fire hazard weather,
them by strikes of employes which were settled within tWO or
The McCleary Timber plant was dOWn for
nths of the year, however, but is again operating in full force
od prospects for the coming year.
New Gym, Railroad Avenue Beautification Started
the constructive side, the start of construction of the new
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$28,643.06 Business in Stamp Sales
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receipts at the Shelton postoffice
were broken during the four quar-
ters of 1940, Miss Jessie Knight,
postmaster, reported today upon.
completing her quarterly checkup.1
During the year receipts totalled:
$28,643.06, she said, a gain of $1,-l
292.57 over the previous record set i
in 1939. This new record was set?
Idespite a loss shown in the third:
quarter. However, the loss was but
$19.38, while gains in the other‘
three quarters were of substantial!
nature such as $237.56 in the first]
quarter, $403.12 in the second
quarter, and $731.23 during this
last quarter.
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8-ft. Shark With
40-lb. Test Line
For a real fishing thrill, try
landing an eight-foot mud shark
on a 40-pound test line.
That’s what Carl Breitspech-
er, 1119 Cota street, found him-
self up against as he was fish-
ing about 100 feet off shore op-
posite the Blue Ox dance paw-
lion in Hood Canal Tuesday.
The Shelton angler had about
250 feet of line out with a live
perch for bait as he sought to
catch some rock cod. But in-
stead of a cod, a hungry mud
shark spotted the perch and
made one gulp of it.
An hour later the shark was
quivering in his death agonies
on the beach where Breitspeeher
had finally succeeded in landing
the eight-foot giant of the deep.
Breitspechcr admitted he was
about done in himself in the
struggle to land the shark, which
must have weighed somewhere
near 200 pounds, on the 40-Ib.
test line.
Breitspecher was fishing With
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EEOUOEO Elli,
$1.88 Less Average Per Person'
In Shelton During 1940;
Damage Total Set
At $6,981.42
Shelton residents paid an Il.V(‘l‘-
age of $1.88 apiece for loss by fire
during 1940, the annual summary
of the city's volunteer fire depart-
ment’s activities released today by;
Fire Chief Dean Carmen reveals.
This is a splendid improvementl
over 1939, when the per capita fire
loss was figured at $5.09 and a.
total damage figure was set at
$17,245.52. The 1940 loss was set,
at $6,981.42, of which $3,423.26
was for loss on buildings and $3,-
558.06 for loss on contents.
The fire department answeredi
37 alarms during the year, five
more than the previous year, of I
which 20 were siren alarms, 17!
were telephone alarms. One was al
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Weather statistics for Shelton
in 1940 were marked by near-
extremes, one way or the other,
iii six months out of the year, the
annual compilation of the Rayon-
ier weather bureau reveals.
TWo new monthly records were
set when this December, just
closed, proved to be the driest
December on the Rayonier wea-
ther records with its 7.40 inches
of precipitation.
Last October was the wettest
October on the books with 9.54
inches of rainfall recorded. Four
other times during the year run-
ner-up monthly figures were set.
Back last January the second
driest January was experienced
when but 5.18 inches of rain fell,
beaten only by the 3.96 inch total
of 1937. Last February was sec-
ond wettest for that month with
13.24 inches, topped only by the
13.90 inches of 1932.
June and August of 1940 were
respectively the second and third
MONTHLY RECORD OF RAINFALL AT SHELTON
s; Rain Normal
driest in weather history here,‘l
June's 0.08 inches running second!
only to the 0.02 inches of 1938,
while August's 0.55 inches was,
only ahead of the 0.40 of 1933 and
the. 0.45 of 1938.
The year’s rainfall total was
61.34 inches. Normal annual raln- ,
fall for the Rayonier station In
the nine years records have been
kept is 67.07 inches.
During the leap-year total num-
ber of days, there were 138 days
on which rain fell, 89 days record-
ed as clear, 93 as partly cloudy,
and 184 as cloudy, according to
Weatherman Bernhard Winiecki's
monthly records,
Coldest temperature of the year
was the 191/2 degree reading taken
this past December 16, while the
hottest mercury reading of the:
entire year was the scorching 96,
degrees on August 18. ';
And there's the weather picture
for 1940. Following is a table ofl
the monthly rain record taken;
from Rayonier station figures:
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IN BUSINESS
AFFAIRS HERE
Year Marked By Unusual Number
Of Shifts In Firms, Either In
Management, Location 01'
Size Of Space
One of 19405 more noticeable
features was a large number of
changes among Shelton busmess
firms, the annual perusual of Jour-
Epal headlines recalls.
Changes in ownerships, location
or size, the quitting of some old
firms and the starting of several
new ones involved at least 31 busi-
nesses. large or small, during the
year just past.
Among the larger transactions
were the sale of the Shelton Dairy
to the Mason County Creamery
and the subsequent opening of
the Cooke Feed and Seed Store
by George Cooke, former pro-
prietor of the Shelton Dairy; sale
‘of the Shelton Lumber and Shin-
? ~ . e i A comparison Of total TECOSDtS‘ , . . i , M eh 1q32 1933 19 4 1
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gn gym, beginning of the Railroad Avenue beautification pro- _ 1 m5 father
and OrVIIIe Smith. false alarm, Fourteen of the fires _ 0n. . 3 935 1936
1937 1938 1939 gle Company by the Chase Bro
,eration of the food'stamp plan, completion of the new unit
2°;tgggygaasi; ggxefgel gfigftgntggg‘f; } _..__-.—_._. ,nvo,.,cd
losses to mommy, 23 were; in. 1.9.05 12.49 15.18 20.34 14.35 396 9.3g
10.09 5.18 thers to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Law-
Jomt powerhouse With a resulting reduction in west Coast om“ except for
1938 when a. {listed as without loss. Seventeen; mil. 1.1.90 6.89 2.70
5.21 9.60 11.35 5.0.. 8.57 13.24 tion and the renaming of the firm
, company rates, establishment of Route 3 rural mail delivery. Might
decrease was experienced N of the mes were chimney mazes’l Munch 13.03
8.59 6.83 9.56 5.12 4.48 7:10 4.21 8.20 as the-Lawtpn Lumber Company;
tion of the postoffice mural after ‘eonmderable delay, were all Hg":
am' the yearly totals: ltwo were brush and grass fires, April .l.6.)
0.46 1.54 2.23 1.19 11.96 5.21 0.69 4.65, expansmn on the Shelton .Gas
| ments to which 1940 can pomt With pride. “ 94 one an auto fire' the
rest miscellaml May .. 1.37 3.57 3.68 0.77 4.03 1.91 1.23 3.34 2.64 Company
to include the busmess
icatlon of the two big bridges—«the NarrOWs and Lake Wash. 32
---------------- -- l eons conflagrafions, I June 0.21 1.78 0.31 1.07
3.42 5.97 0.02 1.50 0.08 of. tth l’ctlatch storage and d1:-
‘ —and of McChord Field. With the subsequent collapse of the 1 373.8?
1 On each Siren alarm an aver-‘ July 2.38 1.22 1.55 0.90 0.81 0.02 0.25
0.95 0.93 tribution plant of the standard
A a Bridge were topics of conversation and events for attend-l 938 v- 5.
3~7i> I age of eight volunteer firemen anfl Aug. 1.40 0,40 0,94 0.61
0,81 2,05 0,45 0,98 0 0.5,)‘011 Company; and the flve-c0r-
" a large portion of the population of this county. ' 133;
33323.38 swered while on temphone alarms! Sept. 0.54 6.31 2.74 3.58 2.19
1.38 1.22 0.32 2.13 ncrcd shuffling In which the res-
.. re ten-year census showed substantial gains m population for 1 3
---------------- u l A ‘an average of three firemen am: Oct. 4.53 7.65
9.32 2.64 0.96 5.57 6.24 3.64 9.54 taurant busmess of Mao's Corner
ll (from 3091 to 3711) and Mason County (from 10.000 to A comparison by
quarters dur- lswerca, the me chief’s reporti Nov. 15.68 5.24 13.99 4.43
1.03 18.00 5.74 5.19 6.79 ceased to CXlSt while Its propriet-
I while the business and industrial part of the same federal ing the past
four years also is rc- ,, . -. . states. Dec. 12.64 31.56 1.3.79 8.09
13.13 15.17 8.79 17.07 740 ors took over the former Korner
Kmruiians Enjoy Another Talk I I
l Totals 80.37 86.16 72.05 59.41 82.10 48.66 56.54 61.34 Kafc and renamed
It the Chatter-
ains for this area over ten years ago. vealing and interesting: 57.04
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Funeral services
r_ Donald Keir, 10, fatally
, December 31 by auto.
1 y 8——Mrs. Jack Groom,
two months, dies in fire
ermined origin in Shelton
..«-.~ building. Gordon Hen-
chief census taker for
unity.
A ‘ file-Dr. Glenn W. Lan-
5 position of Shelton
he Peace No. 1 and
. named as his suc-
l J county commissioners.
Gme Martin named for
year as chairman of
y President’s Birth-
, Capt. Falkland F. War-
etlred Canadian Mountie,
at home after long illness.
16—Dr. Eugene Brown-
oted to position of Tum-
Council commissioner,
Danielson elected chair-
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kl had a record supply of
Mia iin his quiver duringl
'0?- all records for the is-
. Of marriage licenses from
’° County auditor's office
mattered into small pieces
the year just closed.
6 l"ill of 326 wedding certi-
Were issued during the 12
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has ever been closely ap—
much less passed, in
County. The previous
record was set in 1937
235 licenses were tailed
her efforts of young men
"to 35 years of ageto beat
ft by acquiring a depend-
m the form of a wife was
' g factor to this rec-
|_ ode to the wedding license
1‘ cannot be definitely es-
»d. bent nevertheless a new
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‘ “es in Shelton as represent-
\ citbuilding permits issued by
wire? are a bit misleading for
'Nmason that a. couple of ma.-
‘tolects now in the process of
mctmn are not represented
the permits issued, Gor-
e“dry, city auditor, report-
:53 permits issued by the
'“rlng 1940 represent a rec-
~umber of permits, but the
a total valuation placed up-
-Work done on the projects
“ted in the 53 permits is
M of the $141,855 total of
,However, it is slightly
0f the 1939' total of $57,-
‘1 Would have easily topped
.‘ 938 total had permits been
.Out for such major con-
1°n jobs as the new gym-
m and the addition to the
bout the feat Mrs. H. B. Eagle pulled
her two-year-old baby, Anita,
board in the well mouth to rescue the tot.
, Odd Events Numerous an
' 0 had its light moments, tOO,
us of one of the Rayonier pu
the web of wet pulp; or the Matlock
stow his six-and-a-half foot fra
L foot shack: or the belligerent pheasant w
k at the F. F. Warren home near
uthcd salmon caught by Char
To the oddities of the year might
ich twice saved the Wallace
ing struck by automobiles w
a so there you have a brief review of the year's news
Following is an issue-by-issue resume
‘s as gleamed from The Journal’s files:
man by '
January lS—All officers of Shel-
'ton General Hospital Association
re-electcd
from drowning in a. well at
Mrs. Eagle hung by her knees
d Humorous in 1940
such as when the seagull halted
1p making machines by falling
“wildman,” MaI‘Shall
me into
hich “dictator-ed" the
Island Lake; or the
les Morkert in the silver salmon
also be added the protective
Kneeland home south of Shelton
hich hurtled off the Olympic
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Boy Scouts.
at annual meeting;
John Bennett elected president of
Rayonier Federal Credit Union.
John A. Abel of Marion, Ohio, na-
tional Eagles president, pays visit
to Shelton aeric, addresses large
crowd.
propriation of f u n d 5 brought
against County
January 25~Charges of misap!
Auditor H a r r y
Dcyette were dismissed lbr lack
of eVldence..
as 1940
January 25~R. F. Eddy seated
president of .Sheltol Cham-
ber of Commerce at annual boost-
er meeting.
clos‘8d for week due to flu epi-
demiC.
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January 30——Shelton s ch 0 o l 5
Mrs. Del Willey rll-elected
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MARRIAGE LICENSES IN
1940 SHATTERSOLD RECORD
The old record of 30 licenses
ssued in June, 1937, greatest num-
ber ever issued in a single month,
1940 With August establishing a
new monthly record tOtIl of 37
licenses. May, Septemb‘ar and
October respectively had 32, 32
was set by a wide margin. June
and 35 licenses taken to top the
old mark.
The last license issued in 1940|
Went to Ralph A. Kohler'ot Port
Orchard and Mary Ann Loftus of
Bremerton. while the first license
of 1941 was issued yesmrdav)’ to face the Pantorium Pirates Shel-
M'al‘ry Arthur Fletd‘er an“ Bertha ton town team, in Lincoln gym
Overa Daniel, both of Auburn,
The monthly marriage license
1st Quarter 2nd Quarter
Oirc; Installation Jan. 7
1940 ....$6,995.40|1940 ....$6,470.24l
1939 6.757.84l1939 6,067.12l Further light on the moves ofE
1938 6,613.05l1938 5,159.20. federal bureaus on the subject of
1937 6,216.07l1937 5,867.67l monopoly, in which the justicedc-
3rd Quarter 4th Quarter partment is proceeding against
1940 ....$5,965.64|1940 ....$9,271.78,1nany line-9 01' business and in-
1939 5,935.0211939 8,54051 dustry for cooperation, while thcl
1938 537690 1938 8495.79 commerce departmentus demand-
1937 6,217.8911937 7,878.75 ing unity and combinamn to
speed production, was given the
Kiwanis Club Tuesday by Attor-.
ney Doane Brodie, following a
previous explanation of the action
against the lumber associations,
as outlined by Kiwanian Krcien-
baum.
In a. review of the many cases
already brought against certain
industries with the promise that
later all would have to defend
similar actions under the old sher-
man Anti-trust law, which has
gone far from the original pur-
pose of protecting the public from
unfair combination in restraint of
trade into persecution of all busi-
ness, big and little, until all are
harassed and prevented from the
exercise of initiative which with
added labor troubles has serious-
ly retarded all war preparation,
Brodie explained. However. the
department is also including some .
labor groups in charges of re.
straint of trade, he added.
On the other hand the commerce
and other departments are de—
manding that industry speed up.
and yield to every need and de-
mand of government, maintain
present prices in spite of increas-
ing labor, costs and many forms
of taxes imposed, Brodie pointed
out. It was pointed out that
many employee in government
bureaus who pass out the orders
are young and inexperienced in
business or law, and that the main
idea seems to trend to the sociali- ,.
zation of all business under gov-l
emmental control.
E. J. Wright, Alden Bayley and
others added some further views
on the subject and it was sug-l
gested in View of the importance
of the subject and lack of knowl-
edge on the part of the public
generally that at least one meet-
ing each month of the club would
be devoted to a forum on the sub-
jects of growing importance to
the future of all people.
KIWANIS INSTALLATION
SCHEDULED NEXT TUESDAY
Installation of its 1941 officers
will be achieved by the Kiwanis
Club at a ladies’ night program
in the Shelton Hotel banquet room
next Tuesday evening, with dinner
Friday Holidays
Most Numerous
In Coming Year
The year 1941, like its prede-
cessor, will not be generous in its
granting of weekend holidays, a
survey of the new calendars re—
veals. Thursday and Friday will
be the most popular days for fes-
tive activities during the period.
Opening with the New Year’s
Day holiday, 1941 presents its first
vacation period on Wednesday. On
February 12, Lincoln‘s birthday
is also celebrated on Wednesday;
but Ithose who observe Washing-
ton’s birthday as a holiday get a
break, for February 22 falls on
Saturday. Easter is the next
special event in 1941, falling on
April 13th; Memorial Day May
30, comes on Friday,
July 4th, Independence Day, is
another Friday holiday, while La-
bor Day, always on Monday, comes
on September 1. Columbus Day,
October 12, is on Wednesday.
Armistice Day, November 11, is
on Tuesday. Thanksgiving Day
will be on a Thursday, but wheth-
er it is November 20 or 27 de-
pends on the President. Christ-
mas Day, December 25, on Thurs-
day, will conclude the 1941 holi-
day schedule.
Only one Friday falls on the
13th of any month in 1941, that
coming in June, so the supersti-
tious will get off on the easy side
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Pirates Matched
With Cams Here
Friday Evening
Another powerful opponent will
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Cammarano
evening when the
Brothers quint of
l’simply taken down his Christmas'
tree and set fire to it in the alley
4 o’clock in the morning and the fire
THREE ALARMS CALL
FIREMEN JANUARY 1
Volunteer firemen with the City
fire department received a stiff
practice drill 'on answering alarms
as a greeting to 1941 for three‘
alarms were sounded yesterday.
The first occurred five minutesl
after midnight while the first!
shouting over the arrival of thel
New Year was still at its height
when a neighbor, seeing a blaze
in the alloy at 7th and cota street:
sent in an alarm. The respondingl
fire fighters discovered a man had.
to destroy it.
The second alarm came at three,
department doused a chimney blaze i
at the John Kubik home on East,
Pine street.
Then at ten o‘clock New Year’s
Day ‘the department was again'
summoned to douse a fire of pa-.
per wrappings and old newspapers
which threatened to get out of con- ;
trol in the fireplace at the A. Y.l
Bennet home at Fifth and Final
No damage was listed in either;
the Kubik or Bennett alarms, Fire*
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Longest Vacation‘
After the longest Christmasl
vacation in their history, Shelton]
public schools will resume classesI
next Monday at the regular start-1
ing times, with rural schools fol-1
lowing suit. I
The Shelton schools were closed
two weeks prior -to their regular-
ly scheduled Christmas vacation.
because of the flu epidemic which
reduced attendance
thus making almost a full month.
of vacation.
Some lural schools enjoyed ad-
ditional time off over their reg-
ularly scheduled Christmas vaca«
tions, but not all rural schools did
and the extra time varied in dif—'
ferent districts.
But all classrooms will reopen
next Monday with teachers and
students alike buckling down to
catch up lost time in studies, Ac-
tual time lost by the closings will
not have to be made up, however.
Sam Moffett Reported
Stricken I'n Bellingham
Friends of Sam Moffett of Lli-
lieutenant governor, will act as liwaup have been informed of his
seriouswli rated as Hoquiam's chief threat
installing officer to induct HomerI sudden serious illness when afflict-
record for 1940 was: Olympia comes here for an ex- opening the program at
6:30
Jan- -------------- --21;July --------------- ~21 hibition slated to get
started at o'clock.
Feb. .202Aug «37 eight o’clock, John Glann of Chehalis, Kiwanis
Mar?" 261391“ ~32 The Cams have played together
APT11 ~-21|0°t- for several years and annually
May --32lN0V- ~27 have been one of the strongest Taylor,' new
presldcnt: Bob Al-
---- --29lDe°~ teams in the Southwest with such Ian, new vice-president;
’M laces as Earl Lewthwaite, Ken Zintheo,re-clected secretary-treas-
Whltaker, Bret Huntamer, and
LTON 107'o AHEAD OF HOME
BUILDING AVERAGE IN NATION
at least $100,060 to the year's con-
structiOn total, They will prob-
ably appear on the 1941 records.
however, so perhaps a new record
for the coming year is in the
making.
Even at the present rate as
represented in the 1940 building
permitS. Shelton is 10% ahead of
the national average in home con-
struction, Hendry said 9. represents
ative of the HA. informed him
a. few days a
Of the 53 pe
nineteen reple ntod new home
construetion, 3 teen represented
renovations, improvements or ad-
ditions to existing structures, ten
represented new garageS. and
seven represented new buildings.
The largest valuation l‘epl‘esent.
ed in any single permit in 1940
was the 36,500 new lgichfield ser-
viCe station recently completed on
Hillcrest, while the $6.000 Valua-
mer experimental job, both tion placed on the new Hi-School
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its issued in 1940, i
other ex-Olympia. prep stars.
strongest lineup for this game for:
work shifts for some of the play-l
ers fall just right this week for.
all key men to be on hand for the l
game. Homer Taylor is coaching
and managing the Pirates this
season.
Stolen Car, Blood
Arouse Officers
Law officers request anyone
seeing a car bearing .1941 license
plates D-3132 to notify Sheriff
Gene Martin or State Patrolman
Cliff Aden immediately as the car.
has been reported stolen froml
its owner in Everett and was|
seen passing through Mason Coun- i
ty New Year’s Eve.
The driver of the car drove off
without paying for ten gallons of
gas obtained at the Brockshink
ed with a stroke in Bellingham
M. C. Monday of this week. It is report-
ed Mr. Moffett, former commis-
urer; and Directors S. 8. Ander- sioner of Public Utility District No.
son, Bud ,Daviscourt, Ed Faubert,
Frank Travis into their new posi-
tions.
Quiet Observance
Of New Year Here
One of the quietest New Year’s
celebrations in .Shelton’s recent
history was experienced this week
with peace officers making but
one arrest and no accidents or
tragedies of any description mar-
ring the holiday.
The one arrest was made by
Deputy Fred Hickson when he
jailed: Evar Jacobson of Lilliwaup
on a drunk and disorderly charge
New Year’s Eve.
His hearing is scheduled for Sat-
urday.
Despigle fog and frost which
made riving conditions excep-
Jacobson laterv
posted $50 bail and was released.‘
1, is critically ill in a Bellingham
The Pirates will field their Roy Kimbel, Dr. ,J. T. Shimck and hospital.
LAST BABY OF 1940
A baby son born to Mr, and
Mrs. Floyd Casto of Route 1 at
Shelton Hospital last Monday was
the last birth of 1940 in Mason
County.
TONIGHT——City council meeting.
8 .p, m., city hall.
TONIGHT—City league basket-
ball, 7 p. in., Lincoln gym, three
games. '
FRIDAY—V.F.W. post and aux-
iliary meetings, 8 p. m., Mem-
orial Hall. _
FRIDAY—Moose Lodge meeting.
8 p, m., I.0.0.F. Hall.
FRIDAY~Town team basketball,
8 p. m., Lincoln gym, Pantor-
ium Cleaners, vs. Cammaranos
of Olympia. ,
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service station five miles north tionally hazardous, there was
not.SATURDAY—~Superior court. 10
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and pants.
of Shelton on the Olympic hig-h- a single report of an automobile}
ch _ way. Mr. Brockshink reported the accident at either the sherif”s of-
” _are now wellstarted. The SachIce quarters at Seventh and driven
had' blood on his hands fice or the city ball over the holi-
. “Nets together would add Alder 'runsla close second.
day.
a.,m., courthouse.
SATURDAYw—Active Club instal-
lation of officers, 7 p. m. dinner,
Shelton Hotel,
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
GRAPEVIEW TOTAL 53.53
INCHES LAST YEAR
Grapeview, Jan. 2 - At 53.53
.inches, 1940 rainfall was approxi-
mately normal for this grape rais-
ling'center, Weather Observer Wal-
ter Eckert reported today.
1939 total was 44.56 inches.
February was the heaviest
month with 10.76 inches. The
monthly totals follows:
The
Jan. ........ .. 3.92 l July .......... .. 1.02
Feb. .1076 l Aug. 0.46
March .... .. 7.38 1 Sept. ........ .. 1.41
April ...... .. 5.51 1 Oct. .......... .. 8.82
May 2.48 l Nov. 532
June . 0.04 l Dec, .......... .. 6.41
SHEEMRGOES T0
ABERDEEN FRIDAY
FOR HOOP OPENER
Oonfo’nenoc Shafts I940 PIavy This
Week: Hoquiam Favored To
(lop Pennant Again
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Northern division teams of the
Southwest prep basketball con-
ference spring the lid on their
1940 season this Friday evening
with three games which should
give an inkling of where the,
strength in the circuit lies.
Shelton goes to Aberdeen, Mon-
tesano to Elma and Raymond to;
Olympia in the three openers to-l
morrow evening, with the defend-
ing champion Hoquiam, drawing
the opening night bye.
The Grizzlies once more enter
the season favored to cop the
title on the basis of pre-season|
practice games. Aberdeen is
Ito supremacy, but Olympia and
Raymond have shown flashes of
potential strength in their latest
practice games which may turn
either or both into stiff con-
tenders. Elma, 1.00,. may prove
to be a surprise package with a
veteran, although somewhat un-
dersized, club.
Montesano and Shelton do not
rate with the other‘five clubs of
the league, Shelton even will be
doing well to improve on its 1939
record of no victories in confer-
ence competition this coming sea-
son. .
Shelton will not-appear at home
in a conference game until Jan-
uary 14, when Montesano comes
here, for the Highclimbers draw
the bye for the January 10 round
of play. On that date, however,
the Highclimbcrs will entertain
Bellarmine of Tacoma, a. non-con-
ference opponent.
The big game. of
opening round will be the clash at
Olympia between Raymond and
the Bears. Olympia. tied for the
conference title with Hoquiam last
year but lost the playoff struggle.
However, loss of all but one mem-
ber of that co-championship squad
, makes the Bears a dark-horse en-
try in this year's race.
tomorrow's
SATURDAY—«City league has-
ketball, 7 p. m., Lincoln gym,
three games.
MONDAY—County commission-
ers, 10 a. m., courthouse.
MONDAY—Schools reopen after
Christmas vacation.
MONDAY—Special city
meeting, 8 p. m., city hall, to
seat new city officers.
MONDAY~City league basket-
ball, 9 p. m., Lincoln gym, two
games;
TUESDAY—Kiwanis club instal-
lation and ladies night, 7 p. m.
dinner, Shelton Hotel. _
TUESDAY—American Legion
post and auxiliary, 8 p. ml.
Memorial Hall.
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counc“ vation project is in need of warm
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101.9] INCHES A'l‘ LAKE
CUSHMAN NOT UP TO NORM.
Lake Cushman, Jan. 2. Even
‘though 101.91 inches of rain was
recorded at the weather observing
station here, 1940 was below nor-
mal, reported. A. S. Read today,
At the present moment there is
less snow on the surrounding hills
than normal, he reported. 4
The year’s precipitation was‘
pretty well distributed with no
exceptional deluges, in contrast to
the previous year's record. Tile
heaviest fall of the year was re.
corded in February with 19.68
inches, while October was close
behind with 19.67 inches. Against
this sort of distribution 1930 had
one month with 35 inches, another
with 22 inches. then no more with
over ten inches. The heaviest 24-
hour rainfall was a mere 2.91
inches on March 1. On January
1, 1939 a 5.68 inch deluge was
recorded.
The year was pretty even
throughout, for the warmest tem—
perature reading of the 12 months
was 92 on June 25th while the
coldest was a 26 degree rea
approached the extremes
tered at the Shelton weat
tion.
The monthly Lake
rain figures follow:
Jan. .......... ..12.23.Juiy
Feb.
...19.68;Au
t
March . ....12.04lSep.
April 6.85‘Oct.»
May 8.761Nov -‘
June
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One of the most succes:
ing alleys was brought t8
last midnight with Everett‘ 1
re and Charles Savage pickinlf 0m"
first prize in a ragtime doul Off
tournament which ran for £1“
weeks with their 1442 score. . ‘
That total barely withstood the
challenge made by Shorty Aron‘
son and «Bill Smith. who rolled a'
1440 total thanks to the 703 act-
ual pins Aronson hung up, one
of the best individual scores of
the current bowling season.
During the six-week ragtime,
469 teams participated in the
event to compile a $234.50 pot, of
which the winners took 60%, the
runnersup 40%.
DcMolay Election Due
At January 6 Meeting
A special meeting is scheduled
for Mark E. Reed Chapter of the
DcMolay for next Monday eve-
ning with election of officers, read—
Ing of a. special petition, and plans
for the coming chapter program
to be the main business.
The session will open at 7:30
o’clock in the Masonic Temple and
all members of the Chapter are
especially urged to be present.
, Crutches For Needy Man
With Broken Leg Asked
ful bowl-
close
A call for a pair of crutches for
loan to a public assistance re-
l cipient who suffered a broken leg
last week was sounded today by
Miss Gore. Barber, social 'securit
administrator for Mason County.
She'also reported that the reno-
clothing and coats to be made over
and given to needy families dur-
ing the winter weather.
N0 VISITORS ALLOWED
Mrs. Lew Wiley, active lodge
woman here, was released. from
Shelton hospital today but under
doctor’s orders cannot receive
visitors pending further recupera-
tion from her illness.
dino
on De - new management.
cember 15' nelther “f “1 ch \ Among the new busmesses stark
led ‘
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ing, enlargement of the Wilcox
Variety Store and its move into
the former Mac’s Corner restau-
rant. location, Robbins Electric
Store enlargement and move into
the former Wilcox location, and
the enlargement of Tony’s Place
to include the space vacated by
Robbins Electric.
Firms Change Hands
Among changes in management
of Shelton firms was the sale of
Guy McKinney's interests in the
Assnciated Service station to Tom
Holt, sale of the Shelton Sand
and Gravel company by John Mc-
‘Kinney to Burt Hurst, purchase
by W_ A. Magoon of the real 5.
tate and insurance bllni'eas of
,Earl F. Dickinson, s19 of Jess
Barrett's! Richfield sevice sum-m
t0 Cy ,Murphy on” Jack White-
“tad, Em“? Lizctte’s purchase of
El” Rogals .lELrber shop, Miss
Dorothy Strlkwell’o purchase of
the Hlllcr‘fit Beauty Salon from
Thfilna Moore, sale of his
G Wr o‘hop by Buford Rose to
Lg) .J’Smith, and change of the
Rig Cabin Service Station from
,nfield to Maxwell products un-
ed during 1940 in Shelton are the
Hillcrest Hardware, the new
Richfield Service Station on Hill.
crest, the Shelton Sporting Goods
Store, the Cohn Auto 811 ply
store, the H. R. Olson Sngcr
Sewing Machine store, the Dick-
inson Oil company with Al Dick-
ins-on's appointment as Mobilgas
distributor in this county. and
Elliot B. Spring’s public account-
office.
Thqsc Gave Up Ghost
A few businesses threw in the
sponge, too, such as Jo—An’l ‘Wo'
men‘s Apparel store, the
son Fruit and Vegetabl
the ~Pcerless Meat” 'fikel. and
the Shelton Adith B“’e”“"
The automobile Hales business
was engaged mthconsnlcrable fluc-\_
nation durlnx 0 year with the
ultim’w that three new agencies .
“,9qu operating here. First
we. old Mason county Motors was
will. up when s. L. Pearson Went
into business alone with the
Plymouth-Chrysler agency and
Glenn Smith taking on the Stude-
baker agency. Smith later moved
to the Shelton Garage and Bill
Pearson, former Mell Chevrolet
salesman, opened a Dodge-Ply-
mouth agency of his own in the
old Mason County Motors loca-
tion. Also during the year, the
Plgmon .Motors was established by
Owen Plgmon with the Willys and
Hudson agencies.
Somewhere under the heading
of changes should come the fine
new quarters taken up by the Hi—
School Service and Lunch follow—
ing the May fire which destroyed
the original building.
ACTIVIANS INSTALL
SATURDAY EVENING
New officers of the Active Club
will be seated at special installa-
tion ceremonies to be conducted
this Saturday evening in the ban-
quetlroom at the Shelton Hotel.
It will also be Ladies Night.
A steak dinner will start off the
l-program at seven o’clock, follow-
ed by the installation ceremonies
which will be conducted by Dis-
trict Governor Art Fairchild of
Raymond. Dancing will conclude
the program.
The new club officers going into,
office are George Dunning, esi-
dent; Chuck Rowe, vice-pres dent;
Frances Eacrett, secretaryotreas-
urer; Link Fraser, Hobart Hed-
rick. Rocky Duckham and Walt
Hakola, directors.
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GLENN SMITH BETTER
Glenn Smith. seriously injured
automobile dealer in a. traffic
sm-ashup December 16. was re-
ported improviug so satisfactor-
ily at Shelton Hospital today that
he is able to sit up for short per-
iods each day now.
