28, 1963 SHELTONJMASON COUNTY JOURNAL '\\; Published in "Chr{stmastown, U.g.A.', Shelton, Washington Pa:
Woman Recalls Early Days As
Teacher On Fox Island
by ETHEL DARBy Marcel Fassio (Pete to his local
Mr. and Mrs. H N
daughter Francis mo-
Island on Washing-
where they atten'd-
and celebration of
pioneers, and school heads
of that district, and
Which dated back to the
of Francis Newton Ross,
later to the time in which
at the school, some 30
a real trip down Mem-
for her, back to the time
walk several miles down
road, to the old time
school with the buc-
water and lone dipper to
thirty or more scholars-
their thirst• Back to
le the especially priviledged
of good report, were the
in being premitted
the empty bucket down to
ng to refill, and return to
for drinking purposes.
generations of Mrs. Ross's
the Sunds, have owned the
home on Fox Island,
Was the only member o12
to attend the old school
there. Later she served
Principle, and an event
time Tacoma girl., who
vall. and with a fond senti-
rile WASHINGTON Birth-
a complete historical
cept and written by the
was read. Francis
called Upon to contribute
own store of memory
early and SOmetimes turbu-
and also the pupils she
With.
old time pupils and tesc-
have gone out in the
professional world to
SUccess. There were
' remained only as a me-
ed by time in its passing.
.ose stepping out to meet
was Lela Acheson WaN
teacher of that school,
associate editor
of which
Wallace is
and editor.
district of Fox Is-
merged with Gig Her-
consolidation became
Sula District, and
enjoys modern comforts
as Well as up to the
is Still enjoy!ng her
career, along th her
and is a member of the
Skokomish school.
her small family,
aughter Francie, at
Uuion, where Mr.
his own oyster beds
Hansons returned
spending the
the home of
Hanson at Bellevue
enjoyed being in
grandchildren,
parents Were on race-
Springs.
Lewis of Shelton
Canal) was a dinner
r-night guest of Mrs.
on Friday evening.
the two women were on
to Bellingham, where
With Mr. and Mrs.
',2nd family, and alo
= wontirmation of HeN
L tWelve-year-old daugh-
grand daughter of Mrs.
)n - The Calvin Manns
rn:ra{)f,Years published
±ews, and which
also edited., with
assistance.
Club
i aup
(lard Party
Nell Vauee
Club card
was well at-
of pinochle
score going to
Frank McIntyre
Lee and Or-
pinochle to Muriel
Lee. Muriel Miles
displayed a
in diamonds,
creates a lot of ex-
and Mrs.
were hostesses for
next card part
8, which
and busin
George Kennedy,
of Lilliwaup, who
Last two years at
have returned
and were over-joyed
on the Canal again,
eke their home.
Tom McNally
tUe, spent the
McNally'S
husbanl; Mr. and Mrs.
is visiting his
dly, Mr. and Mrs.
Gore and chil-
spent Sunday
Mrs. Bill IV[c-
Jack Johnston en-
MarioWs
will hold
ess meeting March
Comnnmity
aCeting will be
11 a.m. by the
Pierce. Pothlck
at 12:30 by
Mesdames Zo(
terson, Ilene
Republkan Hear Christensen A t
Lincoln Day Dinner Feb. 20
,on Will be spent i
:Lures of the Work
the Hoods-
Which will
Wonlans
Canal
hostess to
friends) recently purchased a Tay-
lor-Craft two place plane, and
which he keeps at Kitsap Airport.
Long time enthusiast, and since
the day he won his pilots license,
he has put in some of his spare
time crusing aloft along the air-
ways above Hood Canal, .taking
wife Delma along on various trips
about the country side, and who
enjoys flying as much as her hus-
band.
MR. DICK BUECHEL aud son
Ricky took in the boat show at
Seattle last Friday evening and
enjoyed the displays a great deal.
In the exhibit of Seattle artists
at the boat show was a marine of
Fritz Dalbys- and which drew fa-
vorable comment from viewers ot
the painting. Each exhibitor being
limited to one painting of any me-
dia- each having to meet require-
ment as to size limitations.
The Mason County Association
of Past Masters of the Masonic
Lodge were entertained with a
chicken dinner at 6:30 p. m. Sat-
urday at Union Masonic Temple.
Some 40 of the Past Masters
Association attending and enjoy:
ed the event, which was pre-
pared and served by Eastern Star
group. Later following the initia-
tion of three new members, th e
group attended the regular lodge
meeting which followed.
]Yfr. and Mrs. C. T. Rowe are
looking foreword to today and
with happy anticipation, for 'at
that time their son Tom will have
returned home from his six month
duty with the Coast Guard at San
Diego, Calif .
After a couple of weeks race:-
Lion, he will be employed at ih(
new store at Freemont Calif., and
will later be enrolled at Stanford
University.
The Hood Canal Garden Club
convenes March 7 at the Club
House at Lilliwaup. President Lois
Pierce will preside, and hostesses
for the occasion will be Mesdames
Altie Robinson, Zoe Sceva,-. and
Ilene Ager.
MR, AND MRS. LEONARD
Aldrich returned Friday from
Portland, Ore., where they had
spent a pleasant.week at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fish
(their daughter Jane) The Fishes
operate a 300 acre stock ranch
near Portland, raising Guernsey
stock, of which they have 60 head,
and also about 100 head of two
year olds, all registered blooded
stock, i
Reports from Seattle indicate
that Waldo Chase who was injured
in a traffic accident Saturday
evening a week ago is recovering
from his shake-up and shock at
the home of friends in Seattle.
Chase was in a car with Seattle
friends who were traveling in the
directi@n of Belfair, when the car
behind them and which was travel-
ing in the same direction at
tempted to pass the first car on
a curve, and struck the vehicle
in which he was riding, the point
of collision being where he sat.
Fortunately there was a registered
nurse and also a Seattle Physician
in the car in which Chase sat, and
so he was administered to on the
spot. Dr. Cora Browder being in
attendance. X-rays at Swedish
hospital revealed no broken bones,
however, it is said that a dislo-
cated hip caused considerable pain
and also necessitated his being in
bed for a week or more. At the
present time lie is getting around
,the house on a pair of clatches.
He is said to be expected home
next week.
Signing up for .the second course
in Mrs. Cole's tailoring class last
Wednesday evening at Hood Canal
Junior High were: Mesdames
Buechel, Metzler, Cowan, Turner
and Ball. Mrs. Steelman another
member of the first class has not
as yet returned home from Da-
kota, where she was summoned
'by the illness of her brother, and
who has since Passed on.
Ke:nny Dalby taking advantage
or the holiday---spent the week-
end visiting his father Ed J. DaN
by and grandmother, Mrs. Ethel
Dalby. On his return to Seattle
Sunday evening he carried along
two f'{ne salt water cut throat
trout he caught while trolling Sun-
day afternoon.
This year, for the first time,
people can receive tax refunds in
U. S. Savings Bonds. BOnds earn
3.75 per cent interest, compounded
semi-annually, when held to matu-
rity.
The Constitution of the United
States must be preserved and ob-
selwed if we are to remain free,
a gathering of between 250 and
300 attending the annual Mason
County Republican Lincoln Day
Dinner last Thursday were told by
Richard G. Christensen, Republic-
an candidate for the U.S. Senate
in the 1962 election.
The Constitution gives the con-
trol over spending the people's
money to Congress, through the
procedures set up for appropria-
tions. This power has been gradu-
ally slipping into the hands of the
executive branch of the goveln -
ment at a rapid rate since 1933,
Christensen said.
THE PRESENT TREND in gov-
ermnent is that just about any-
thing can be done in the name of
social justice. It is no respector of I
but, penalizes success, Christensen
said.
"Any government which tries to
give man all he wants must either
go crazy or broke", he commented.
Lincoln's popularity was due to
his genius for explaining the Con-
Reception In Skokomish Community
Hall Honors 25th Anniversary
By Mary Valley lbolores Drake and her son Kenny.
SKOKOMSH.--About 75 friends' MR. AND MRS. Chester Valley
and relatives attended the recep-lwere among tile Grange Insur-
tion at the Skokomish Community ance Agents and their wives at-
Hall, last Smlday afternoon in ltending the dinner at Skokomish I
honor of Mr. and Mrs. LesterICommunity Hail as guests of the
Crossan on their 25th wedding an- I Grange Insurance Association. The
niversary. , dinner was prepared by the Glange !
I Ladies Auxiliary and was enjoyed
by all.
Sunday dinner guests at the
Dugger home on Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Pat Dugger. and Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Drake and families.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tanner and
Mate Smart visited the Harry-
VVashburns in Gig Harbor and also
the Bill Crawfords at Belfair on
Sunday.
T/Sgt. and Mrs. Donald Pavel
and family have moved into their
home on the lower Skokomish.
Gary Stevens celebrated his fifth
birthday with a party at his home.
Cake and kool-ade were served to
Pare Hunter, Doug and Lisha
Richert. Dcbbie Redman. Mike and
Ronnie Hudspeth. Kathy and Bert
Stevens. Also helping with the
party were Mrs. Ethel Richert.
Mrs. Ann Richert. Mrs. Dorothy
Rebman and Mrs. Carol Hunter.
I I I
stitution and the American way of
life to the people in language they
understood, the speaker said.
Tile Republican party holds the
key to survival of the nation,
Christensen said, by getting it
back to where the Constitntion is
being observed.
Republican precinct committee-
men were introduced by C. Nolan
Mason, state committeeman.
S. W. Vandcr Wegen, Repub-
lican Central Conunittee Chair-
man, presided at the program.
John K. Bennett was recog-
nized for his work as committee
chairman last vear. He introduced
Les Shelver, \\;vho along with Wins-
ton Scott has served a number of
years as finance co-chairlnen.
Scott was unable to be present.
Christensen was introduced by
Clarence Anderson, banquet ehair-
nlan.
Mabel Burk provided dinner
music on the organ. Entertain-
ment on the program was pro-
vided by a duet of Sandy Lewis
and Pare McComb.
Pioneer Area Girl Wins High Ratine
In Music Contest At Tacoma School
By Betty Ann Shero
PIONEER. -- susan Grunert,
of Leed's Loop Road, was awarded
an Excellent (plus) (2 plus) rat-
ing for her alto solo at the Music
Contest in the Wilson High School
in Tacoma, Feb. 16. The Com-
I munity extends its congratulations
to you, Suzie.
Washington's Birth(my started
out with a bang in this area--
crash .is actually the correct word.
A station wagon driven by a wo-
man veered off the road after
striking a jeep, which was making
a left hand turn, and knocked
down a power pole in front of the
Lawrence Gosser's. The accident
left the district without electric-
ity for more than three hours.
There were no injuries to either
driver or to the small youngster
in the station wagon.
Mrs. Edna Mark, who celebrated
her eighty-first Birthday this
month is in the Shelton General
Hospital. Mrs. Mark is the grand-
mother of Don Gates.
Mrs. Jennie Gruert is now home
from the Clinic Hospital, where
she had been confined for several
days.
LAST WEEN 1 NEGLECTED to
report on the Father-Son Banquet
which was held Feb. 16 in the
Pioneer School. The affair was
quite a success with 75 fathers
and sons attending. The "fellows"
played games, saw a movie on Sun
Valley, Idaho, and, of course, had
refreshments.
The P.T.O. Meeting will be held
Tuesday night beginning at 8 p.m.
in the Pioneer School. Mrs. Vern
Davidson, Mason County Tubercu-
losis Chairman, will show a new
fihn on Respiratory Diseases
The P.TO. Board meeting will
be at the Phil Chapmalfs, Thurs-
day evening beginning at 8 o'clock.
Visitors in the Mary Christen-
sen home over the weekend were
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Christensen and his sister, Kay,
all of Tacoma.
Mrs. Mary Cook has a new
granddaughter. The baby, named
Ira Lee, was bm'n in Columbus,
Ohio, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Cook. Cool( is stationed with the
U.S. Army in Germany and will
not be able to see his new daugh-
ter for a while. The new mother
and baby will be staying with her
parents, the John Thompson's of
Columbus, until he returns.
MRS. MAl{Y WALKER is visit-
ing n the home of her son and
family, the Raymond Walker's of
Bayshore. Mrs. Walker is from
Vancouver, B.C.
Chris Danielson of Ritzvillo
vimted with his mther, Mrs. Ruby
Danielson Sunday on his way to
a threezday training session at the
Statd Patrol Academy in Shelton.
Mrs. Helen Gates had a surprise
birthday cake last Thursday. Nits.
Claude Iivin baked the Cake. The
guests, besides Mrs. Irwin, were
Mrs. Albert Dickgieser, Mrs. El-
mer Julian, Mrs. Gordon Brown,
Mrs. Don Gates, all of the Pioneer
area. and Mrs. R. L. Fitchette of
Shelton.
Sm'prisc company Saturday in
the Jack Shero home were Mr and
Mrs. Glenn Lentz and new daugh-
ter, Sonia Ann, of Port Orchard.
Andy Vender Wal, Della Vik.
Virginia Dickinson and Stell Bun-
nell are attending a cake deco-
rating school in Shelton, Monday
nights.
County Young Demos
Elect New Officers
The Mason County Young Demo-
crats sent five delegates to the
Washington State Young Demo-
crats' Convention February 8-10
in Seattle.
New Officers of the Mason
County Young Democrats elected
at a meeting recently are presi-
dent, Bruce Miller; vice president,
Bonnie Burnett; secretary, Patsy
Caulifield; treasurer, Marie Knee-
land, and sergeant-at-arms. John
Tupper,
The regular meeting of the Ma-
son County Young Democrats in
the Commissioners' Room of the
court house wilt not be held to-
night. However, all Club mem-
bers are invited to attend an infor-
mal coffee hour a half hour earlier
than the usual meeting time at
Olympic Junior College in the
Fireside Lounge.
State club officers elected were
president, Basil Badly; Western - --
vice president, Jerry Marcey; East-
ern vice pesident; Joe Sandell:
secretary, Ann Collier; national
, committeewoman, Arlene Boyer,
and national committeeman, Joe
McKinnen.
Historical Society
To Meet March 4
Reactivation of the Mason
County Historical Society will be
a subject of a meeting of the so-
ciety in the conference room ot
the PUD 3 building at 8 p.m. Mon-
day.
Speaker will be Robert Carpen-
ter, director of the State Capital
Museum in Olympia who will dis-
cuss the museum.
Also scheduled to be discussed
is an interim slate of officers to
serve until the election in October.
Phil Murphy, vice president
and acting secretary of the so-
ciety, will report oil discussions
he has had with Bruce LeRoy, di-
rector of the Washington State
Historical Museum in Tacoma on
what should be done to activate
the society.
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Mrs. Roberta Ragan served the
cake which centered tile beauti-
fully decorated reception table.
Ruth Neff and Mrs. Mildred Put-
wn poured, while Miss Carol Neff
was in charge of tile punch bow1.
Margie Sansilo and Jo Ann Brown
attended the gift table and Betty
Brown the guest book. Mrs. Mary
Valley played several numbers on
the piano.
Out of town gxmsts were Mr.
and Mrs. Lilmer Sund. Mr. and
Mrs. Harold McDonald. Mr. and
Mrs. Norman LilLe. Mr. and Mrs.
James Maddox and daughter, all
of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cross-
an from Kent. and Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Crossan of Auburn.
Mrs. Ida Johnson. accompanied
by her mother. Mrs. Cliff Gender-
eau of Tenino, drove to Tillamook,
Ore. for a couple of days' visit
with her brother and family, Mr.
and Mrs. V¢oody Jone,% and to see
the new baby daughter of the
Jones.
SPENI)ING THE %VEEKEND
with their grandparents, Mr, and
Mrs. Chester Valley, were Mr. and
Mrs. James Valley and daughter
Vicki of Bremerton. and Sue and
Jan Valley of Island Lake. Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Valley and
daughter Tammy of Seattle joined
the group. Later they enjoyed a
dinner and get-to-gether at the
George Valley home at Island
Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coble drove
to Olympia for a visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Warnes on Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Donaldson
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Col-
lins of East Olympia during the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dunham called
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Doak Saturday evening. Other
guests of the Doaks were Mr. and
Mrs. Chuck Minor and family of
Renton.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hughs of Cali-
fornia, are house guests of the Roy
[Cobles. and will be leaving soon
i for Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Baze at-
Inded the funeral of his Aunt. Mrs.
Merritt Johnson on Monday in
Shelton.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Dugger
made a trip to Centralia on Mon-
day to visit his mother. Mrs. John
Dugg'er and also called on some
old friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck
Fitsgerald. They were accom-
panied by their daughter. Mrs.
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