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PASSED SATURDAY
Examiner Compliments Group For
Excellent Average; Only
One Turned Down
Mason County’s largest citizen-
ship class came through with a
remarkable “batting average"
Saturday as the semi-annual na-
turalization hearings were held in
Superior Court before Judge John
M. Wilson and Examiner E. C.
Morse of the U. S. Immigration.
Bureau’s Seattle office.
Nineteen out of twenty appli-
cants for American citizenship
received their final naturalization
papers Saturday and still another
was repatriated. A technical de—
.lay while depositions are complet-
ed holds up one of the nineteen
who passed the hearing Saturday.
Examiner Morse said the class
was one of the finest he has had
in a number of years and pointed
to averages of other recent cit-
quently as many as half Were
turned down.
So, without further ado, meet
the new American citizens na-
Ituralized Saturday (their previous
countries of allegiance listed in
paranthesis)
Marjorie K. Bowman, Route 1
(Britain).
Otto Landgraf. R. F. D. (Ger-
: many).
Louise M.
(Britain).
Robert George Wood, Shelton
(Britain). 7"
Margarete Zott, Route 1 (Ger-
Sullivan, Shelton
many).
Runie Bertha Walton, Shelton
(Britain).
Sever Hill, Shelton (Finland).
Victor Hugo Wolcker, Shelton
(Sweden).
R a m u s Christian Knudsen,
Route (Denmark).
John Wellesley Eager, Potlatch
Route (Britain).
Lucie M. Lessard, Shelton
(France).
Nellie May Herzog, Shelton
(Britain).
Eric Nelson, Hoodsport (Swe-
den).
Leander Geist, Shelton (Aus-
tria).
Cornelis Visscr, Potlatch (Ne-
therlands).
den).
Peter S.
(Norway).
Thomas Ross, Shelton (Britain).
Doris Winona Duyff, Shelton
(Britain), technically delayed
while certain depositions are com-
pleted.
Josephine Sisley, Potlatch (Brit-
ain), repatriated.
Red Cross Relief
Weckhorst, Belfair
Garments Shipped )
Out On Thursday !
.2 {iff under Caldwell
The second shipment of war re
lief clothing made by the Mason
County Red Cross sewing pZ'OJBCt
left here last Thursday, Mrs. Her-
bert Miller, chairman, said and
consisted of 22 complete layettes.
21 women‘s dresses, eight pair of
men’s pajamas, 14 wool sweaters,
15 mufflers, seven shawls and five
pair of knitted wool sox.
A good start has already been
made on another shipment, Mrs.
Miller added.
Sewing today is in charge of
the Methodist Women and Rain-
bow Mothers, Wednesday Degree
of Honor and Baptist Ladies.
Thursday Rebekahs and Lutheran
Women, Friday the Eagles Aux1-
liary, next Tuesday V. F. W. and
American Legion auxiliaries, next
Wednesday Women of the Moose.
Thursday next week Catholic La.-
dies and Friday next week P.E.O..
Mrs. Miller said.
NEW SPUDS ON
You don’t, of course, need to
be reminded that we’ve had an
early spring this year, but the
following proof to that end may
help convince some skeptical
friend or relative back in places
less fortunate than we from a
weather standpoint of the truth
of your brags that we have ‘the
best weather in the country right
here.
Dick Mercer, pioneer of the
Northwest, takes over from here.
He and Mrs. Mercer ate new po-
- tatoes out of their own garden on
Harstine Island on March 10, Mr-
Mercer related Friday as he paid
up his annual subscription to The
Journal.
which fre- .
iVillage, Nova Scotia, where
(to Shelton in 1890, when he built
Anna Kronquist, Shelton (Swe- the home at 919 Cedar street
HARSfiVE ISLAND GARDEN HAS
Consolidated wit'
‘he Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 1, 1941.
N Aviators Slate Breakfast 1
{impugn Flight Tingle. Sunday nun FACES
PIONEER
'SO-Year Resident Led Colorful
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i Life; Sailed 7 Seas Dur-
ing Wooden Ship Days;
Funeral Pending
‘ A colorful life was closed Sun-
;day when death claimed Lewis
lSandcrson, nearing his 84th year,
after a brief illness at Shelton
less an invalid for several years,
Mr. Sanderson was in usual health
until five days before his death,
when his condition required hos—
pital care.
Funeral services have not as yet
been set while word is ,awaited
from the son, Major Lawson
“Woody” Sanderson, who is now
stationed at Puerto Rico with the
U. S. Marine air corps.
Surviving are the wife, Ruby,
in Shelton: two daughters, Mrs.
Fred Elson of Shelton and Mrs.
Eva Kern of Long Island, N. Y.;
the one son, Lawson; and five
grandchildren.
Varied Experiences
From his early manhood Lewis
Sanderson led a colorful life, start-
ing out as a seaman, progressingl
on to logger, railroader, boom—
man, watchman, game warden,
deputy sheriff and other activi-
.ties which kept his life full and
made it well rounded.
As a youngster he
around the world several times in
“windjammers” and saw many re-
mote places as well as a share of
hardships in seven years at sea.
Such romantic places as Australia,
INew Zealand, China, Suez,.Egypt,
the Indian Ocean, Japan, Ireland,
the Red Sea were his ports of call
as a seaman in the days when all
navies were of wooden ships.
He saw the famous old “Great
Eastern,” then the world’s larg-
est steamer, at Gibralter in 1882,
voyagedi
when the big ship had proved too
costly to operate by steam and
’was changed to a six-master and
sailed until it was finally junked.
Beats Desertion Charge
At Gibralter, incidentally, San-
derson deserted his ship and stood
trial as a deserterfbub‘ethdl‘fnarii‘
time court ruled against the cap-
tain and ordered him to treat and
feed his crew better.
Being a husky man in his youth,
as in later years, hc'was a leader
in the move to jump ship in port.
where they were tied up for 37
days waiting sailing orders. His
sea days ended when his ship
reached its home port in Nova
Scotia.
~ After quitting the
years after he married Ruby
Card at his native home, Scotts
he
was born April 11, 1857, the San-
dersons came in 1889 to the Pa-
cific Coast, locating in Redwoods,
Calif, first, then moving to Wash-
ington later in the same year, then
sea, two
which the family has lived in
ever since.
He first worked at Mud Bay,
then for Frank Williamson on the
Mason County Central Railroad
from 1890 to 1898, during 1900
for George Simpson at the head
of Shelton bay, on the booms and
(looks for the Simpson Logging
company for the next 24 years,
his specialty being the boring of
boomsticks. From 1924 to 1928,
when he retired, he was watch-
man at the Reed Mill, but during
the earlier years he served in var-
ious public capacities for 27 years,
as game warden and deputy sher-
and Vogtlin,
nd washimself sheriff here for
four years, leaving a splendid re-
cord for law enforcement.
Kennedys win N.W.
Ju nior Ice Titles
Chalk up another triumph for
the Kennedy kids, Karol and
Peter. In fact, chalk up two
more.
.The Olympia youngsters, who
lived in Shelton until a couple
of years ago, won the Northwest
junior pairs skating title last
Saturday in Seattle and Peter add-
ed the boys junior singles crown
in the Northwest Figure Skating
championships.
They are grandchildren of Mr.
and Mrs. M. E. Kennedy of Shel-
ton.
TABLE MARCH 10
The new spuds were “volun-
teers” grown from seed missed
in the diggings for last year’s
crops. They had fine flavor; were
of large walnut size, had greens
a foot above the ground, Mr. Mer-
cer related.
That’s the earliest Mr. Mercer
says he ever heard of potatoes
being harvested in this country.
and he is a 71-year-old native
son of the state who can remem‘
her when the kids used to race
their horses among the trees
where Second Avenue now exists
in Seattle. .
“Why potatoes aren’t usually
even planted by that time,” the
Harstine Islander exclaimed.
hospital.
Although retired and more or]
Reminiscent of the old days
when bicycle clubsvwand later mo-
torcycle clubs—toured off to an
adjoining city for breakfast, the
Seattle unit of the Aircraft Own-
ers and Pilots Ass’n has picked
Shelton as the site of the first
in a series of breakfast flights
to be conducted this spring and
summer for the purpose of arous-
ing the interest of the public in
aviation, according to a letter
from J. A. Benezra, secretary of
the flying association.
That inaugural flight will be
made next Sunday morning, with
approximately 30 planes carrying
about 50 pilots .and passengers ar-
riving at the Shelton airport at
8:30 o’clook.
At the airport the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce will take
charge of proceedings, providing
a caravan of cars to‘whisk the
flying visitors into town to the
Shelton Hotel where they will be
guests of the Chamber at a ham—
and-egg—and-hotcakes breakfast,
to which the public is also invited,
Dutch treat. Plates will be 500
and reservations are requested by
the Chamber President Ed Fau-
bert.
The public is likewise urged to
join in the caravan to welcome
the flyers. Chamber Secretary
Harold Lakeburg, in charge of
arranging the caravan, asks all
persons who will volunteer the
use of their cars to bring the
aviators from the field and back
Iout again to leave their names
with him.
State Patrolman Cliff Aden will
lead the caravan in his state
patrol car. Orin Ellison, promin-
ent local aviator, has been placed
in charge of preparing the field
as much as pdssible for the ar-
SOAP BOX DERBY SHELTON v
rival ‘of the flying delegation.
YOUNGSTERS PLUS EVOCATIONAL
PLAN URGED BY LOCAL SPEAKER
Inauguration of an annual
Shelton boy's and girl's Soap Box
Derby, for the two—fold purpose
of providing recreation for the
youngsters and bringing shoppers
and tourists into town, was urged
last weekend by Gus Graf, local
theatreman, in an address before
the General Welfare Club.
Pointing out the enjoyment that
adults as well as children would
derive from such a program. MI"-
Graf pointed out the serious need
of some local effort to provide
recreational facilities for the
youth of the town.
“Because of my position ‘as a
theatre manager, in which I come
in contact with, and supervise
the conduct of hundreds of local
children,” Graf stated, “I am be—
coming more and more aware of
the crying need for some program
to divert the children of our town
from the path of mischief, dis-
tructiveness, and general bad
manners into which they are
steadily moving.”
Not An Experiment
Graf pointed out that a local
Soapbox Derby, in which the
children fix up small racing cars
of wood and race them,
provide a real interest for many‘
children. The same idea has
been worked on a national scale
for a number of years, and many
cities in this state have used the
plan to help the children.
Graf 'stabed last night that he
had contacted Ed Faubert, man-
ager of the Hotel Shelton and a
past commander of the local
American Legion post, and that
Mr. Faubert had promised to
bring the ,plan before the local
Billy Parker New
Retired After 44
Years Of Service
William E. Parker, who began
working for the Simpson Logging
Company forty-four years ago, is
now a gentleman of leisure for
fair, having been retired on pen-
sion by the company and ending
his long service with the close
of March. During this time he
has served as brakeman on the
old Blakely Railroad, as fireman
and engineer on the Peninsula
Railroad, as machinist and of 1a-
ter years as property man and
last as dispatcher for the trains.
Raised on the old Maxwell
Ranch at the head of Kamilche
Valley, practically all his life has
been spent in Mason County, and
he expects to _wind up his days
in the comfortable summer home
he and Mrs. Parker have prepared
at Arcadia Point, just tinkering
around and fishing on the bay,
and living the life of Riley with
enough income to see them
through, with the reward from
the company for his long and
faithful service.
Travellers Find
Spring Leading
Here in Shelton
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Angle and
son Grant returned to Shelton
Saturday from Phoenix, Ari-
zona, where the latter have
been spending the winter. Be-
fore starting for home they
enjoyed a visit to Carlsbad
Caverns in New Mexico, where
they met other Mason County
travellers, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Warren of Belfair.
The Angle’s made their re-
turn trip to Shelton by way of
Salt Lake City with stops at
the Grand Canyon and Zion
'National Park whose grandeur
was enhanced by the surround-
ing mantle of) snow covered
peaks. They found indications
of mild winter all along the
Rocky Mountain route but no-
where was spring as far ad-
vanced as was noted on reach-
ing the Puget Sound area with
its abundance of flowers and
blossoms,
would '7
post for their consideration.
“This is not a program which
should become the exclusive prop—
erty of any particular organiza—
tion in Shelton” Graf stated, “But
rather one in which the whole
town and the whole county should
participate. It can be made just
as important and far-reaching as
local effort and cooperation will
take it.”
Tourist Signs Urged
In conjunction with the Soap
Box Derby, Graf outlined two oth-
er programs which he believed
would: prove highly beneficial to
the tdwn.
The? first is the installation of
five or. six highway signs on the
’ highway south of Olym-
ging tourists to turn left
pia and proceed to Sc-
beautiful
Hood’" Canal.
“T_ distance from Olympia to
Br ton is approximately the
s from Olympia to Seat<
, With the exception of the fin“
ry trip 'which should prove an
attraction in itself,” Graf pointed
out, "‘But the real selling point
of the plan is that such a route
would enable the tourist to avoid
the heavy traffic between Olym-
pia and Tacoma, through Taco-
ma, and on to Seattle. This is
one of the heaviest travelled roads
in the state and is becoming in-
creasingly so. In addition the
tourist would be able to see much
more beautiful scenery along the
way."
Vocational Plan Cited
The second plan Graf put for-
iward was the undertaking of some
local vocational program for
,school children, somewhat similar
to the National Youth Adminis-
tration system.
The speaker pointed out the
example of a small Ohio town,
which built a new school and ran
out of money before the grounds
could be landscaped. A plan was
worked out whereby the children
attending the school worked on
the grounds for an hour or two
each day, receiving a nominal
wage for their efforts. In less
than a year the school became
one of the show places of Ohio
and several other town projects
were begun on the same line.
Mr. Graf pointed out that
there are many local spots which
could be beautified through such
a plan, in particular Kneeland
Park.
In regard to the Soap Box Der-
by, Graf pointed out that a derby
for both boys and girls would be
unique, in that other towns have
derby’s only for boys. He also
proposed a. diversion of contest-
ants into age groups, with per-
haps sectional contests between
different city districts to add a
competitive flavor to the event.
lll’l‘ERl/ORKS
Lack Of WPA Numbers, Delay In ,
Delivery 0f Materials May
Handicap Improvement
Project Here
In a municipal sense Shelton
became $50,000 richer this morn-
ing, date when the water revenue
bond issue officially took effect,
but city dads may find it hard-
er to spend the “bonanza” than
they might have hoped.
Reasons: difficulty in getting
delivery of materials ordered, and
shortage of WPA labor.
Mayor William Stevenson con-
sulted with the County commis-
sioners last week with a view to
having the county officials re-
lease sufficient WPA labor to
carry out the extension and ini-
provement project on the city
water system entailed in the $50,-
000 revenue bond issue.
Shortage Anticipated
But the mayor learned that
the commissioners themselves are
worried about having sufficient
WPA labor to carry out county
projects already approved, that
the county officials
that by July 1 there will be very
few men left available for WPA
works in this county already au-
thorized.
At the present time there are
only 125 persons in the county
eligible to WPA rolls, of which
90 are men. Public Utility Dis-
trict No. 3 is now employing 80
of those 90 men on its power
line extensions, leaving only ten
for county road work. Only very
recently another county-wide
road project calling for WPA la—
bor was approved for 1941, so
as quickly as men are released
from P.U.D. work they will be
absorbed in county road work. the
commissioners pointed out, leav-
ing no overflow for the Water
project.
Contract May Include Labor
With that situation in view,
Mayor Stevenson wrote City En-
gineer Blirwell Bantz suggesting
that he prepare a call for bids
to sink the new deep well and
lay the pipe lines designated in
the water system project to in-
clude the labor required in the
contract, leaving the way open
for the city council to delete the
labor clause if it is later found
that WPA can supply the men
needed.
An even more disturbing diffi—
culty confronting the water sys-
tem is securing delivery of the
materials necessary to complete
it, Mayor Stevenson said. De-
liveries cannot be promised soon-
er than from 60 to 120 days, he
explained, which will make the
improvement project of little ben-
efit to the community this sum-
mer.
Twin Daughters Born
To Sheltonians Monday
Twin girls, the first born in
Mason County this year, were
born at Shelton hospital yesterday
to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Kinney
of Shelton.
The mother is the former Mar-
guerite Butler. Both mother and
twin daughters are “doing very
well,” the hospital reported this
afternoon. Each twin weighed
slightly over four pounds.
InSurance Convention
Calls Shelton Agent
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Wilson
spent the, last three days last
week in Seattle while Mr. Wilson
attended the President’s Conven-
tion of the Metropolitan Life In-
surance Company agents in the
Northwest.
Mr. Wilson was one of three
from this district to earn the trip
to the convention.
The Kiwanis Club heard today
a first-hand story of life in Aus-
tria before as well as after Ger—
man occupation, and of the hard—
ships imposed on the Jewish peo-
ple there, from Mrs. Augusta
Goldschmid, who managed to get
away and came to this country
seven months ago, now living
with her son Otto, a chemist at
the Rayonier plant.
Her own family was engaged
in textile manufacture, the busi—
ness dating back for several gen-
erations in Vienna in cottons,
silks and of late years rayon, and
her husband served for the Ger-
mans in the World War, but when
Hitler moved in, first by the Ges-
tapo and then throwing out the
Austrian government and issuing
almost daily decrees against the
Jews, their business and proper—
ty was confiscated. Mr. Gold-
schmid was sent to a concentra-
tion camp, where he died.
The Austrians did not believe
that this could happen, especially
as the country was more than
ninety per cent Catholic, and ex—
pected Italy to aid them against
Germany when the test came; in
this they learned their mistake.
The plight of the Jews under
Hitler was very bad, they being
FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF JEW
ABUSE IN AUSTRIA TOLD CLUB
anticipate '
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
South Fork Road
PledgedBy Board
After Resolution
Commissioners Agree To Construct Road Con-
necting Cushman Road With Forest Ser-
vice Road and To Ask Forest Ser-
vice to Build Bridge Needed
éiORiSMEN BACK
sour FORK ROAD
AS won or VALUE
Arguments Fly Over Fly Fishing
Topic; Orvis, Lockwood In
Battle Of Words
Weight of the Hood Canal
Sportsmens Ass’n was thrown be-
hind the movement to secure con-.
struction of a road which would
open up the scenic, recreational
and mineral resources of the
area adjacent to the south fork
of the Skokomish River when the
canal organization passed a mo-
tion to draft a resolution voicing
such a request and address it to
the Mason County commissioners.
Acting President Harold Ellis
appointed George Hixon, O. K.
Linscott, and Herb Dickinson as
a committee to draw up such a
resolution.
In presenting the motion Mr.
Dickinson pointed out many of
the values of such a road, tying
in the fact that the area has
valuable manganese ore deposits
which would be opened up and
made available for the new smelt-
er which is now just being start-
ed at Hill Creek, between Pot—
latch and Hoodsport.
A motion by Howard Lock-
wood, seconded by Lco Johnson,
that the Hood Canal Sportsmens!
Ass'n support John Keyes of
Grays Harbor for the post of
director of the Department of
Fisheries was voted down.
As expected, the fly-fishing ac-
tion of the state game commis-
sion, which was supported by the
Hood Canal Sportsmens Ass’n at
the last State Sports Council
quarterly meeting, produced fire-
works. “Poggie Joe" Orvis of the
Thurston County Poggie Club
talked at some length in opposi-
tion to the action, which set aside
the south fork of the Stillagua-
mish River and Pass Lake for fly
fishing only this year, and also
in opposition to a salt water fish-
ing license, which is being voiced
more and more often of late.
Howard Lockwood, one of the
Hood Canal delegates who voted
to support the game commission’s
action on the fly-fishing matter,
spoke in support of the action and
idea, mincing few words in the
process.
Senior Scholars
At Irene S. Reed
High Announced
Scholastic leaders among the
seniors of the class of 1941 were
announced late last week by Irene
S. Reed high school authorities as
follows: ‘
Carol Jean Hatcher, Shirley
Jones, Virginia Look, Margareet
.Mallows, Eloise Meininger, Clara-
bella Morris, Phil Palmer, Walter
Snelgrove, and Thelma Turner.
The list is alphabetical, not in the!
order of ranking by grade aver-
ages.
Highest average set by any sen—
ior of the 11 in the class was 3.80
points. Under the rating used 4.0
would be perfect as an A grade
is rated 4 points, a B as 3 points,
a C at 2 points, and a D as one
point.
The class average is 2.12 points,
with the quadrille classifications
as follows. first quadrille, 3.80 to
2.62 points; second quadrille, 2.60
to 2.14 points; third quadrille. 2.08
‘to 1.66 points; fourth quadrille,
banned from business, schools,
colleges, theatres, parks, and ev-
ery association with Gentiles, and
only allowed a trifling sum to get
out of the country. Mrs. Gold-
schmid’s three sons managed to
complete their education, one son
going to Australia and gaining his
doctor's degree, and another, Ot-~
lto, finishing his course in Cali—
fornia and finding his first \job
at the pulp laboratory in Shel-
ton. The third son finished in
England and is serving that coun-
try, but the mother is pleased to
be away from her home country
although worried about the plight
relatives.
Food was scarce and the better
class barred from Jewish families
land the mother was most impres-
lsed after. seeing the Statue of
Liberty by the wonderful variety
of food that Americans enjoy and
the reasonable prices, the peace
and contentment she finds and
the joy of living in Shelton after
the years of hardship which only
those who have been through it
can understand. She adds the
warning that there can be no peace
in Europe with Hitler, and while
he lasts there is danger to the
American way.
Of her sister’s family and other,
1.65 to 0.77 points.
Horse-Team Driver
Hurt In Accident
Charles Biehl, Purdy Canyon
resident, had a narrow escape
from serious injury in a freak
traffic accident last week in which
a team of horses he Was driving
figured prominently.
A car with 3. Thurston county
license, while passing the Biehl
team near the Navy Yard-Olym-
pic highway junction, hit the off
horse in crowding over to avoid
colliding with a truck approach—
ing from the opposite direction.
Mr. Biehl was thrown to the
ground, landing on his back and
10th Land Auction Dated For May
24; $100 Set Aside For Ton-
sil Clinic; Three Con-
tracts Awarded
If the U. S. Forest Service now
will be as willing to do its part
as the Mason County commission-
ers are theirs, that much—sought
road to open up the area around
(the south fork’ of the Skokomish
lRiver is “in the bag.”
The county commissioners yes-
terday pledged to build the road
connecting the Lake Cushman
road with the forest service road
at .the south fork and to write
to the supervisor of the Olympic
National Forest asking that de-
partment to build the bridge
which is necessary to span the
south fork and link the two roads.
A letter was immediately draft-
ed by the county board and dis-
patched to Carl Neal, Olympic
National Forest supervisor, with
the requesb for the bridge con-
struction.
Sportsmen Submit Request
The county board decided
undertake the south fork road
construction after receiving a.
resolution from the Hood Canal
Sportsmens Ass'n yesterday in
which it was pointed out that
opening of the south fork area
would be highly desireable to
make accessible large manganese
deposits and excellent fishing and
recreational areas, as well as the
value such a road would be for
forest fire protection. ,
A similar request signed by 42
freeholders in the vicinity was
filed with the board last Decem-
ber, adding weight to yesterday’s
request from the Sportsmens
Ass’n.
Another action of the board
yesterday set May 24 as the
date for the tenth in the series
of public auction sales of tax title
land held by the county. Appli-
cations for the purchase of tax
title land at the May 24 sale will
be accepted up,to noon on April
12, the board stipulated.
Tonsil Clinic Financed
At the request of Dr. H. L. Ken-
nedy, the board set aside $100
from its medical fund for a Mason
County tonsil clinic for the re-
moval of tonsils for borderline
cases in the county. No date for
such' a clinic was set.
A temporary change in the
Harstine Island ferry schedule was
ordered by the board yesterday
as an accommodation to crews
employed by Public Utility Dis-
trict No. 3 during construction
work on the island. The change
ordered by the board delays the
regular two o’clock trip until 2:30
until further notice. '
Three bids were opened and
contracts awarded yesterday by
the county board. Mell Chevro-
let’s bid to supply a car for road
district No. 1 was accepted as
being low of two submitted when
a $84.01 net, after allowing trade-
in of a 1939 model sedan, was
offered for furnishing a 1941 se-
dan. Huerby Motors submitted
the other bid with a $421 net.
Prisoners Should Get Fat
The bid of the Shelton Hotel
Coffee Shop to furnish meals to
to
60c per day (two meals a day)
was accepted and contract award-
ed for the ensuing year. It was
the only bid submitted. The menu
calls for a breakfast of hotcakes,
toast, two eggs, fried ‘potatoes,
bacon or ham, and coffee and
cream; a dinner of roast beef or
other meat, potatoes and some
other vegetable, bread and butter,
pie or pudding, and coffee and
cream.
The Journal was awarded con-
tract for county official printing
in the ensuing year under the
same terms as last year. It Was
'the lone bid submitted.
The annual contract with the
City of Shelton for use of the
library facilities by county resi-
dents was renewed under the
same terms as heretofore, $15 a
month being paid by the county.
Approval of the state highway
department_to proceed with the
Cranberry Creek ' bridge, M a s o n
Lake road and Hammersley Inlet
road projects was received by the
board.
Fred om
. Dies In South
News of the passing of Fred
Dubuque, former Schneiders Prai-
suffering painful injuries.
Man ‘Fights’ Buzz Saw,
Gets Eye, Knee Injuries
he doesn't recommend it as
healthy form of exercise.
to one eye and knee are his
marks of the “battle.”
George King, Route 1 resident,
tangled with a buzz saw Satur-
day and lived to tell about it, but
a
Painful but not serious injuries
rie resident and father of Mrs.
Ted Skelsey, former Shelton resi-
‘dent, in Santa Ana, Calif., Friday
has been received here by Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Skelsey Sr.
Mr. Dubuque had been critically
ill since Christmas and had been
in podr health for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Dubuque moved to
California two or three years ago
for his health’s sake.
Funeral services were held yes-
terday at Santa Ana and burial
was also there.
county prisoners at 30c apiece, or '
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