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Touching Highlights in the
Ccmminity's History
acing Growth from Year
1853 when It was Founded by
David and Frances Shelton
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(Amos of New, Brief Sheltdn History Nowl
aliable Through Cooperation of Ray-
onier, Chamber of Commerce
that would be a handy reference
book for local residents and makes
thousands of non-residents better
acquainted with this community
and the pioneers who set the
stage for its development. The
story begins with the birth of
David Shelton in North Carolina
and concludes with development of
the dissolving pulp industry here.
“The booklet is handsomely il-
lustrated with etchings to simu-
late old—time wood cuts, the draw-
ings being made by Rob Rose, a
well known San Francisco artist.
The booklet was produced through
co-operation of Rayonier Incor-
porated with the Chamber of
Commerce, and the Chamber of
Commerce is extremely grateful
to George Cropper, D. B. Davies
and Rayonier Incorporated for this
co-operation. The booklet is print-
ed on paper manufactured by the
Grays Harbor division of Ray-
onier.
“The first printing is 5,000 co—
pies and additional printings will
be made as needed."
PAPER INDUSTRY OF
2} INSULA LIVELIHOOD FOR
111 eXce
20,000, CITES CC. SPEAKER
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eff‘erson and Mason‘
a livelihood directlyl
TIME PROGRESSES
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1.98 ‘3 Shelton Chamber
. the 8 last Thursday eve-
. nyahelton Hotel.
gangs ago there was not
A. wlly living in the vast
‘ M ater empire we now
2'- Qount, ’1. Jefferson an d
coun‘es- When the gov-
, l‘e 42t8d noses in 1940
Oil. '369 residents living
counties, with their
u of income coming
sung; Eind paper industry
Goretiylng industries.
Waco! City Cited
a cunt to paint you the
.‘ Six-y 5’ _the pulp and pa-
. >Y0ubudt in these three
load Won't find this city
,. etitlnaps. It hasn’t a
U 1 Whe ‘3 here on the north
. lief/er trees grow and
=: Q0 IS? a nameless city
tangle into being in less
tit l: century and in its
,5 tan tas a population far
lties ,W0 of the largest
111 the three coun-
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0y nties there are cur—
.A wen‘fd in excess of 2600
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es effectilvgl It fits of four to a fam-
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——"‘d ‘ q 31‘? about 11,000 men,
Colore " ejiholldren gain their
.‘ mod from the pulp
Ithedustry. For every
diet. bfTOnt, there is an-
‘ try ehind the lines. So
arm’ EEnd in the great
tiony 1'1 logging camps,
, inth sl’sterns and the
A- . pm ests necessary to
A“ ago
aie‘lyol‘kers stick
, erShiemphasized that the
,r wp record of the pulp
'nomadm'kers prove they
Workers, but have
W“ in the soil.” He
“t that of the 2077
employed in the
at Grays Har—
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1'1 ex V108 pins denoting
to “33% of five years.
dlCt future growth
. 0n the peninsula,
hig‘di “It would be
atrd a prediction. I
muehhat men who de—
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. generally wind up
-ball. It is rea-
busy seasons and
However, there
uraging signs. Be-
int War there was
Pression in high
and paper army,
up to in excess
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“VVe’ve come a long ways in
a few years," commented Wil-
liam D. Welsh, Chamber of Com-
merce speaker. “It isn’t so
many_years ago a fellow would
pick a bouquet of wild violets
and gallop his pony fifty miles
to give them to a sweetheart
who was clad in the processed
wool of a small band of sheep.
“Today a fellow can buy an
orchid in San Francisco at 8
o'clock one night, grab a. sleep-
er airplane and present t h e or-
chid on the following afternoon
to a New York girl who quite
likely will be clad frorn tip to
toe in rayon garments that only
a few months before were like-
ly a Standing hemlock tree in
the Olympic forest.”
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places that American pulp and
paper mills had neither the re-
,sources nor the capacity to sup-
lply the dombestic market.
[fine performance of the industry
The
in keeping the domestic market
supplied and handling a portion of
the export business has about
wiped out that fallacy.”
Continuous Research
He pointed out that American
industry is spending $30,000 daily
on research and that the pulp and
paper industry was spending a
generous portion of this amount.
“It isn’t so long ago that indus-
trial chemists found new uses for
the fibres of Olympic peninsula
trees and beckoned to the humble
western hemlock to pull on its
overalls and go to work; and it
is reasonable to expect that new
products and new jobs will be
evolved in laboratory test tubes,"
he said.
Good management of forest re-
sources through sustained yield.
fire protection and replanting;
maintaining of plants at a high
state of efficiency; expansion-of
sales efforts and a determination
to maintain a high standard of
quality for “tailor-made products
were cited as part of the indus‘
try's contribution towards 61(1-
couragement for the future, said
the speaker.
Steelhead Catch;~
Displayed By Pall‘
Two excellent steelhead catch-
es made by Emil Lauber, man-
ager of the Mason County Cream-
ery, and Orville
driver for the same firm,
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol—
.lowing excerpts were taken
from a letter written to- Mrs.
Mary “’atson, Rt. 2, by a friend
in London describing the pres-
ent conflict as it appears to
one living in the midst of it
every day. Miss Eve Barton,
the writer, is a noted violinist
and had played in some of Lon—
don’s largest theatres prior to
the war. She and her sister
. Violet are Air Defence “lar-
dens for the district in which
they live. The letter was post
marked January 20th, and
somehow came thru without be-
ing censored).
"Last September 9th a house
jopposite got a direct hitga 1000
,lb. aerial torpedo‘and it just sat
down on the ground! All the in-
;mates were in their shelter ex-
lcept one woman who went down
"with the house and that was the
,end of her! We had a! terrific
amount of blast which smashed all
our windows, door-locks, and two
,ceilings came down, and no end
of damage, but we,
escaped. When the bomb fell at
4 a. m. I was in the kitchen
(kitchen is in the basement~
safest place— and Vi coming
downstairs. We heard and
threw ourselves dow1 “Crash
Bang.”' We thought the packet
was for us‘ Then we picked our-
selves up amid falling glass and
just couldn’t help laughing at
each other. We then dashed out
and there, just opposite, was a
shell of a house, one saw right
LOCAL MEN HURT
IN WRECK FRIDAY
lN KING COUNTY
Mel Decker Suffers Brain Concuss-
ion, Frank Eggers Hurt;
Spokane Man Dies
it
Two ellon men suffered se-
vere inj rit's but miracuously es-
caped death Friday night“ in an
automobile accident on the Ta-
coma-Seattle highway in King
County near the Pierce County
line, while one of two Spokane
men riding in the second car in-
volved in the accident was killed.
Melford Decker, 29, former Shel-
ton high school athlete, suffered
a brain concussion when a car
driven by Frank H. Eggers, 50,
construction worker employed on
the Shelton gymnasium project,
was struck head-on by one driven
by W. B. Haight, of Spokane, Fort
Lewis construction worker. Er-
nest E. Murray, 55, of Spokane,
also a Fort Lewis construction
worker, died in a Tacoma hospi-
tal from injuries suffered in the
wreck.
Eggers and Haight, the two driv-
ers, were not seriously injured.
The two Shelton men were taken
to a Seattle hospital for treat-
ment, the two Spokane men to
a Tacoma hospital.
Haight later was charged with
reckless driving and admitted hav-
ing had “three or four beers”
shortly before the accident, ac—
cording to Seattle newspaper ac-
counts. Haight said his car got
out of control when the left
wheels went onto the gravel strip
between the double-lane highway,
careening over into the north-
bound lane and crashing headon
into Eggers machine. Both cars
were practically demolished.
Locally, traffic affairs Were
quiet despite a beautiful weekend
whiCh attracted hundreds of mo-
orists to the highways and to
Hood Canal.
Melvin Rutherford, 25, Potlatch
Route, reported that an unnamed
driver on the wrong side of the
road sideswiped his car at Hoods-
port Sunday, inflicting damage to
both machines.
A. L. Barnes, 39, Route 2, re-
ported his car skidded into a ditch
on the Shelton Valley road Sat-
urday evening when a brake
“grabbed” on a. curve. Damage
was not listed.
Leonard Ellison of Deckerville
was arrested by State Patrolman
Cliff Aden at Fifth and Frank-
lin street for failing to possess a
driver's license.
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court will be held next Saturday, Company, was admitted to
hospital today for treatment.
Aden said.
thank God‘ A
War Life In England Told
Graphically In Uncensored
Letter To Shelton Woman
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through it! Then other wardens
arrived, to help get people away
‘and keep people back, and count
those in the nearby houses. Vi
is Senior Warden of this road and
is also a Warden at the Warden’s
lPost at the end of the road. I am
a Volunteer and so do many
hours duty»4day or nightfirwhen
my work allows.
Nuns Bombed
“Since that (what seems) far-
,off day, last September, we have
had many visits from the enemy.
:Two months ago a big Convent .of
nursing nuns at the top of the
road was blown up, and did more
damage to our “Happy Home.”’
Vi dashed up as soon as we heard
the bomb and found only a heap
of rubble. She called for the
Nuns, but no answer. Then she
came back to look at her “Log-
Book" to see how many were in,
and found four were there
back she went, and on the way
another H. E. (High Explosive)
fell and blew up more houses.
Four poor Nuns lost their lives
and many people were hurt. Up
till yesterday (ED. NOTE: Jan-
uary 19, 1941) 20 houses on this
road are so badly blasted they
will have to come down. (Sev~
eral have now been pulled down)
but yesterday we had an after-
noon visit and 6 bombs fell at
the end of the road—terrific dam-
age—fibut I’ve told you too many
unpleasant things.
“Of course there are many com—
incidents. The other night I
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SCOUT BANQUET
0NE 0F BESTlN
LOCAL HISTORY
88 Plates Set For Father—Son
Gathering; Mountaineer
Films Outstanding
ic
One of “the finest turnouts for
the annual Boy Scout father—and-
son banquet for the Mason County
district was on hand Thursday
evening at the senior high school
social hall to gobble up 88 plates
of excellent food prepared by the
home economics classes of the
school.
Featuring the ' entertainment
program was a large reel of col—
ored motion pictures showing the
trip to the Grant Teton mountain
country made by the Mountaineers
in the summer of 1939. Bob Pol-
lock, one of the members of the
trip, described the high spots of
the junket as the pictures flash-
ed on the screen. Mrs. Laura K.
Plumb, Shelton librarian, was an-
other Sheltonian who made the
trip.
Some excellent scenes of the
beautiful Teton range and the
Jackson Hole country were en-
joyed from the films with some
outstanding scenes of mountain
climbing technique.
Skits put on by the three Shel—
ton troops added humor to the
program while short talks were
given by Dr. Eugene Browning,
Tumwater Council commissioner
and winner of the Silver Beaver
award for outstanding service to
Scouting in 1940 in the Council,
by M. A. Clothier, and Dick Ed-
dy, active Scouters, and Earl
Sheldon, newest Scoutmaster in
the district.
District Chairman Doane Bro-
die acted as toastmaster of the
program.
Council Opens Bids
On Bonds Thursday
Principal busineSS to be under-
taken by the city council at this
Thursday night’s meeting will
concern the opening of bids on
the $50,000 water revenue bond
issue which goes into affect
April 1 with the last bond matur-
ing in 1961.
The 'council opens its semi-
monthly meeting at 8 o’clock in
the city hall chambers.
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ADMITTED T0 HOSPITAL
Frank Johnson of Shelton, an
The hearing .in employe of the Western Timber
the
NOTICE
Moran, truck
were
displayed at Paul Beret's Shelton
Sporting Goods store yesterday
and Friday .
The catches were made in the
Skokomish River with five taken
birthday.
by the two men in Friday’s catCh’
three in yesterday’s,
very sizeable fish included in the
two displays.
with some
All retail establishments in Shel-
ton, except Drug Stores, will be
closed all day Saturday, Febru— I
ary 22, in honor of Washington’s
b
e Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, February 18, 1941.
ER0K0MTER
SPAN REPAIR
. AUTiloRleP
missioners; Kamilche Point
W'ork Also Given
Approval
Repairs on the Skokomish River
bridge which spans the river on
terday (subject to approval of the
state highway department) which
will cost an estimated $8000, ac-
cording to a resolution adopted by
the board at its weekly meeting.
Immediate work to keep the
the extent of the estimate $8,-
250 {feet of timber approaches and
200 feet of timber decking on the
steel span, plus other incidental
repairs, the resolution declared.
The money would be taken from
the county road fund, since the
bridge is situated on a county
road.
Another road improvoment pro~
ject was authorized by the board
(it, too, subject to state highway
'department approval) for grading.
Agrubbing, clearing,
surfacing the Kamilche Point road
under a WPA project, the spon-i
sors share in the work to cost an
estimated $1000, according to the
resolution adopted by the board.
Three contracts to furnish road
district machinery were awarded
by the ,board yesterday. Huerby
Motors of Shelton was awarded
contract to furnish a 1941 sedan
for the District 2 commissioner
on a bid of $619 net, which was
almost an even $100 under the
bid of Mell Chevrolet, at $718, and
S. L. Pearson at $719.
The bid of the Western Trac-l
tor and Equipment Company of
Portland at $4,898 was accepted
for furnishing a diesel tractor'
equipped with loader and bull-
dozer attachments. It was the
lone bid submitted.
The bid of the Howard—Cooper
lcorporation at $4100 to furnish
la diesel motor grader was ac-
,cepted, being the low bid of three
submitted.
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yest rday’s weekly session was of
a routine nature.
Lower Skokomish
Pupils Present
‘Snow White’ 28th
Lower Skokomish, Feb. 17. —
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“$8000 Project Apme'cd By Com-A
the old highway were authorized.
,by the county commissioners yes-.
000,; consisting of replacing some,
draining and ,
757,000 Fish
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Planted;
, Record Total Released
Comprising the largest single
planting of fish ever made in Ma-
son County, 700,000 silver trout
fry were freed in Lake Cushman
g last week by Game Protector Paul
Hughey, assisted by members of
the Hood Canal Sportsmens Asso-
ciation and state game department
hatchery employes.
The Lake Cushman planting oc-
cupied the best part of three days.
i The fish were reared at the game
department's South Tacoma hat-
Achery. which is earmarking 20%
,of its fry hatch this year for Ma-
ison County.
‘ In addition to the huge planting
:of silvers in Lake Cushman, an
‘ling from 21/2 to 6 inches and av-
,eraging four inches in size were
released in eleven other Mason
County lakes, plus 12,000 perch
r freed in Spencer Lake after being
seined from a lake near Stanwood
in Snohomish county, Hughey re—
ported. The plantings were all
made between February 8 and 14,
he said.
The rainbow plantings were in
the following amounts: Mason
PROPERTY OWNERS
CRACK BALI. HARD
0N TAX PAYMENTS
First Day’s Payments On This
Year’s Taxes 15 Times
Last Year’s Sum
It Would be stretching things a
little to say taxpayers are bat-
tering down the door of Treasur—
er Omer Dion’s office to pay their
1941 taxes, but by comparison
with last year’s early payments
the least that can be said is that
this year is off to a strong run-
ning start.
Setting the payments made the
first day of tax collections last
\year side—by—side with this year’s
first day “take” leaves 1940 mired
at the post, for the respective to-
tal payments as of February 15
on the two years was $174.71 and
$2,826.97, Deputy Treasurer No—
lan Mason reported yesterday, or
more than 15 times as great. This
includes both current and delin-
quent real and personal taxes.
February 15 is the first day the
treasurer can- accept tax pay-
ments, yet Mason County prop-
erty owners have been asking the
treasurer’s office for their tax
statements for the past two weeks,
Treasurer Dion reported yester-
On the evening of Friday, Feb—
ruary 28, the Lower Skokomishl
school is offering as an hour and
a half of entertainment the play
“Snow White," an adaptation of
the same fairy tale which served
Walt Disney as inspiration for
his most famous movie success.
, This version was written by
Mrs. Ruth Hawk, now teaching
at the Lower Skokomish school,
years before the screen gave us
the Disney play, and was given
by the pupils of the Allyn school
where she then taught.
The music will be furnished by
the Primary Rhythm Band and
the harmonica group of the four
upper grades.
Tickets for adults are on sale
at 25c, for children at 100. The
proceeds will be used to secure
library books and wall pictures
for the new school building of
which District No. 2 is so right-
fully proud.
The performance will begin
promptly at eight o’clock, but the
building will be open by 7:30
o'clock.
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BABY DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tveit of
Potlatch Route are the parents of
a baby daughter born today at
the Shelton General Hospital.
Red Heads Play
' Tonite 'in Local
Hoop Feature
Shelton hoop fans will be see—
ing red tonight, but they won’t
be mad about it, because they
will be viewing the famous All-
American Redheads, one of the
nations leading feminine casa-
ba squads and by all Odds the
most decorative team to grace
the local floor this year.
In addition to being Well enfi
tertained, patrons of tonights
encounter can feel they are help-
ing to beautify their city as half
the proceeds will be given to ”
the Garden Club for their Rail-
road Avenue project.
Twice before the Redheads
and the local town team have
tangled, and the result is one
victory apiece so tonight’s tus-
sle is the rubber game.
.The Redheads will take the
floor at Lincoln gym at 8:30
Tuesday evening after a prelim-
inary game starting at 7:30 be-
tween the McCIeary Timber
team of the city basketball lea-
gue and the town team of Mc-
G‘eary has been played.
Reborts indicate a large ad-
vance sale but there will be
P'e'lty of choice seats for fans
bUYIng tickets at the door as
no seats are reserved.
day. They’re fairly “itching” to
pay their taxes, it seems, which
indicates some of the county's
financial woes may be eased a
bit during 1941, especially if dee
linquent taxes are cleaned up in
the same proportion that cur-
rent taxes are.
Yesterday, the second day of
collections for 1941 taxes, found
the treasurer’s office beseiged
again with over 100 tax receipts
being written by the treasurer’s
staff, representing payment, of
$1,756.73 in current and delinquent
real and personal taxes. Second
day payment last year totalled $1,-
823.81.
Dr. Glenn W. Landers, Shelton
optometrist, added another No. 1
laurel to his brow by being the
first Mason County resident to
pay his 1941 personal taxes, while
Ralph Potts of Shelton carried off
No. 1 honors for paying 1941 real
estate taxes.
All current taxes paid before
March 15 are reduced by a three
per cent rebate offered by the
county for such early remittance,
Treasurer Dion reminded the
thrifty who would take advan-
tage of every chance to make a
saving.
Journal Want-Ads—Phone 100
span in,service are necessary to additional 45'000 rainbow
finger"
Lake 10,000; Isabella 7,000; Lost
Lake 7,000; Newatzel 7,000; Is-
land Lake, 2,500; Simpson, Pan-
handle and Stump Lakes, 2,000
each; Benson 3,000; Trask Lake
1,500; and Hank’s Lake 1,000.
These were all raised at the Ab-
erdeen hatchery, which is to set
aside 40 per cent of its hatch
this year for Mason county wa-
ters under the new system of fish
planting which is being made ac-
cording to suitable water and
popularity with fishermen.
Additional fish for Lost Lake
will be released later and other
lakes will also be
Hughey said.
Last week‘s plantings bring the
1941 fish release in local waters
by the state game department up
to nearly 800,000 fish already this
year, with some seventeen lakes
receiving portions of the plant,
some of them never before stock-
ed.
Approximately 40 county lakes
are to be stocked under the sys-
tematic schedule worked out by
Hughey.
CAUTION WARNED
IN EXPANSION OF
DAIRY PROGRAMS
Dairying ln Favorable Position
Now But Export Market May
Play Vital Part
forthcoming,
At the dairy meeting held yes-
terday at the Shelton Valley
Grange hall, dairymen were ad-
vised by A. J. Cagle, Extension
Economist, to consider very care-
fully any expansion in their en—
terprise. At present, due to the
rearmament program, dairying is
in a favorable position. Export
products, however, are in a very
unfavorable position. This means
that unless the government, thru
the A.A.A. program, can continue
to keep a minimum price on
wheat, wheat farmers will start
producing dairy products, poultry
or beef. “Although we do‘ ‘not in
general realize the effect of ex-
port commodities on home con-
sumed products, they are a guide
for local prices,” he commented.
Dr. Otto Hill discussed the need
for better quality and more home
grown feeds. He pointed out how
some farmers are using grass sil-
age to replace. grain and still
maintain the same production.
County Agent Clinton Oker-
manure in production of more and
better pasture and hay. Samples
of sod from fertilized and unfer-
tilized pastures were shovim. Ap-
plication of liquid manure makes
pastures available two to three
weeks earlier in .the spring. Also
it makes possible in many cases
an early removed sliage crop on
the same piece of land.
Because of limited acreage the
necessity of more intensive farm-
ing methods is absolute]
tial, he said. y essen
TWO NEW HOMES
GOING UP HERE
Building permits for two new
homes were issued by City Audi-
tor Gordon Hendry this Week, one
to Howard Plumb for the con-
struction of a $3000 residence at
Eighth and Cedar streets, the
other to Ralph Godden for con-
struction of a new $2000 residence
at McKinley and Stephens streets.
CHIMNEY FIRE
City volunteer firemen w e r e
called to the home of Ed Elliott,
604 Franklin, yesterday to douse
a chimney fire. No damage was
done to the residence.
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FERRY SKIPPER, PASSENGER
COLLABORATE TO DOUSE FIRE
By Della Goetsch
Harstine Island, Feb. 17. -—- The
house-boat in which the C. E.
Harrimans make their home, got
all “het up” Thursday noon and
put on a spectacular performance
that might have resulted in ser-
ious damage to itself and the
,family’s personal property if the
head of the house, who is also
skipper of the more or less fa-
mous Harstine ferry, had not
realized what was going on and
taken prompt steps to stop it.
The ferry had just moved out
of its island slip when the skip-
per noticed an unusual amount of
smoke blowing and circling around
the house-boat. After watching
a few moments, he was convinced
that the fire which he had left
in the livingroom heater had got
out of control and was hungrily
threatening to devour the house
and its contents.
Quickly turning the ferry 'back
into its slip, he said to the only
passenger he happened to have
aboard, the rural mail carrier,
Horace Crary, “My house is on
fire!” Mr. Crary got out of his
car immediately and waited at
the tip of the ferry‘s apron to be
ready to step ashore as soon as
he could do so without swimming,
and hurried" to the burning build-
ing ahead of the owner, who was
obliged to shut off the engine and
make the ferry fast before he
could safely leave it.
A ladder was quickly placed
and, armed with the big fire ex—
tinguisher which he had thought-
fully brought from the engine
room of the ferry, the skipper
went up onto the roof and put
out the blaze which by this time
had eaten a big hole through the
shingles and was hurrying down
toward the tar paper covering of
the lean-to- kitchen. If the fer-
ry had been a couple of minutes
run farther out when the fire
was discovered, the tar paper
would have been reached by the
blaze and probably the building
and its contents would have been
a complete loss. A A
Other members of the family
were all absent from the home at
the time.
Mr. Harriman is unable to ac-
count for the fire, as everything
in and around the heater was the
same as usual, when he left to
make the 12 o'clock trip. Maybe
he had been hurrying around pre-
paring his lunch, eating it and
getting out to start the ferry
on its schedule time,
friction thus caused started the
combustion.
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plantings for other Mason County
strom discussed the use of liquid'
and thel
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] Relocation, Support For
‘ Webb Campaigns Out-
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Four major objectives for ac-
l complishment in the immediate fu-
lture were outlined for the Shel—
lton Chamber of Commerce at the
‘February meeting last Thursday
evening. They are:
1. Active support of Tom Webb
of Potlatch Route for the pres-
ent vacant post in the state game
commission from the Olympic
l Peninsula area; .
2. Assistance in every possible
way in securing a suitable site,
preferably the Eells springs loca-
tion in Skokomish Valley, for a
fish hatchery which the state
game commission is going to con-
struct somewhere on the Olympic
Peninsula this year;
3. Petitioning of the city coun-
cil to establish more parking area.
in the downtown business district
‘ through the removal of the park-
ing strips and curbing surround-
ing the postoffice and also from
in front'of Memorial Hall;
4. Aiding and abetting the State
' Highway Department in any way
possible in hastening the re—loca-
tion of the Olympic highway be-
tween Shelton and Olympia.
' Personal Followup
Upon motion by Walter M. El-
liott, the Chamber agreed to draft
a suitable resolution to be follow-
ed by a committee to wait upon
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie in behalf
of the appointment of Webb to the
game commission. Webb also has
the backing of the Mason County
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Republican Central Committee
and the Hood Canal Sportsmen
Association.
The Chamber’s game and fish
committee was given power to
act in efforts to secure a loca-
tion for the proposed fish hat—
chery even to taking an option on
a suitable site, with the Eells
springs property the first choice.
The matter was brought up by A.
W. Robinson of Lake Cushman
with Mr. Elliott making the mo-
tion for action. , ,
County Cbmmissioner Robert “
Trenchmann suggested the action
on the Olympic highway re-loca-
tion and Mr. Elliott made the mo-
tion for the parking project ac-
tion.
March Date Altered
The March meeting of the
Chamber was advanced a week so
that the rapidly becoming fam~
ous exhibit of tourist advertising
literature prepared by William O.
Thorniley, advertising manager of
the Black Ball Ferry Lines and
president of the Olympic Hotel
and Resort Owners Ass‘n., could
be displayed to the chamber.
Continued on Page Three
Book Review For
Kiwanians Today
Found _Startling
The Kiwanis Club listened to
an interesting and somewhat star-
tling review of a book, “Day of
Our Years," written by a roving
correspondent who was in the
WorldWar and had spent the in-
tervening years at most of the
big events which had happened
in Europe since. Many of the se-
crets and intrigues b hind the
scenes between the 0d world
leaders, the causes of revolution
which brought the proletariat to
power in Russia, Germany, Italy,
and the deals betWeen them, were
made plain as pointing to current
events and the warning to this
country; which was that the So-
v1ets were scheming to take over
the war wasted countries one by
one, and that while Hitler must be
kept out of England the best hope
for the future lay in his suprem-
acy among his own people as a.
bulwark against Bolshevism ov-
erruning all Europe. A reading of
the book was urged for its in-
formation of past as well as pres-
ent day moves in the war game.
Roy McConkey, Ivan Neuen-
sohwander, Percy Funk and A. A.
Bapst were introduced as new Ki-
wanianS, and President Homer
Taylor announced a new commit-
tee for a campaign on cit‘z ’
to lead in the community.1 ensmp
Legionnaires To
Gather Tonight
Shelton and Olympia American
Legionnaires will sit in jointly
this evening to hear Department
Commander Rudy Nichols of Mon-
roe deliver his message on his
official visit to the Fred B. Wivell
and Alfred William Leach posts
in Memorial Hall.
Commander Nichols will
give
his address during the business
meeting which starts at eight
o’clock, but prior to that he will
be guest at a no-host dinner for
Legionnaires at 6:30 in Shelton
Hotel.
Members of the Fred B. Wivell
post auxiliary will be invited to
sit in on the department com-
mander's message, after which
the ladies will serve refreshments
to the gathering, which is expect-
ed to attract a crowd of well over
100 members of the two posts.‘
