Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-27
MARY'S MEMOIRS
Mary and Sam continue on their
quest to find a car in Detroit to drive
back to Belfair and end up buying a
new, black, four-door Dodge. Now that
they have wheels, they are out and
about doing what Mary and Sam nor-
mally do: explore the area.
They visited people and places and
even threw in a couple of movies. En-
joy!
Thursday, Aug. 13, 1936
Got up late and dressed while the
train was stopped at a station. Ate a
fine breakfast too. Breakfast cost $1:60.
Saw some grand farming country and
winding rivers. We are no z going up
into the hills toward
Glacier National
Park and it's grand
out. Looks a great
deal like country
around Crater Lake
to me. They log pine
here and saw sever-
al trucks full. It's so
By CLYDENE wiggly I must stop
now. Just saw the
HOSTETLER engine on our train
for the first time as
we went around a curve.
The photo is of a business card Mary
where she and Sam stayed.
very wonderful. To bed early.
Photo courtesy of the Mary Theler Collection
Theler had put in her diary to show
and went home. Ate some Chinese dish
and it wasn't so hot. Went home and
Sunday, Aug. 16, 1936 filled up on apples to get the taste out
We got up very late and ate break- of my mouth.
fast. Then we walked to the carline and
rode as far as where we thought we Monday, Aug. 17, 1936
could walk back by a number of used Up fairly early and ate breakfast.
car lots. We must have walked more Down to see a used car dealer and
than 5 miles. Saw plenty of cars but, finally ended up buying a new Dodge
Friday, Aug. 14, 1936 the secondhand ones are just as high four-door sedan, black. Had to wire
All day we rode over prairie coun- as the new ones. We visited the "Cov- home to the bank for money so when
try. Never saw such dry places in my ered Wagon" dealer and rested in two the wire came we went down to the
life. Very tiring to look at. of his easy chairs. Then we walked to Western Union station and got the
the depot and got my fiat-heeled shoes draft. We ate barbecued spareribs for
Saturday, Aug. 15, 1936 and took a taxi out to the park. It cost lunch and they were good. My, how
Got up early and dressed before $1.60, too. Woe is me. Saw hundreds of we enjoyed them. We got the new car
there were too many people in the people swimming, riding bicycles and at 4 p.m. so we drove downtown and
dressing room. We landed in Chicago driving Shetland ponies etc. Saw signs around the park again. Went to the
at 8:38 a.m. and what a station. I'll in the park "No Parking After Dark., greenhouse and saw lots of fish and
bet I walked about two city blocks to Also saw canoes with old-fashionedthe islands around the park are natu-
get to the ladies room. We got on the photographs in them. Everything ral and very beautiful and are full of
Wabash R.R. to go to Detroit. It was a for romance! And the monkey tree. weeping willow or leafy trees of like
chair car and not as comfortable as the About 50 monkeys going and jumping, build. Very charming. Went past some
one we left. Saw farm after farm full scratching, biting, doing about all the very fine homes and big car factories.
of cornfields and grain. We arrived in tricks a monkey can do. The place was We ate at a kosher restaurant. Sam
Detroit at 4:30 and took a cab to the surrounded by people. One monkey had a cheese sandwich and beer and
Hotel Detroiter on Woodward Avenue. was trying to eat a rubber ball. I could I had a tomato and lettuce sandwich
A very good hotel on a main street in hear the rubber squeak when he pulled and potato pancakes. They were
the center of town. We walked around on it with his teeth. We drank some cooked in deep fat so tasted quite dif-
some and went to see "White Fang" pop out of 11 ounce bottles and ate a ferent than those we make. Went back
and "Meet Nero Wolfe." Neither one hotdog. Then watched the ball gameto hotel and wrote a letter to John.
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1936
We drove from Lake Detroit to Erie,
Charlie's hometown. Past through
Cleveland and oh what a crowd. Mar-
ket Street in San Francisco had noth-
ing on it. Of course the Exposition was
in town so that made quite a few more.
We came to Erie at about eight o'clock.
Went up to see Charlie's sister but she
had moved so went to his brother's
house and only his wife was home.
Brother was out playing cards. So we
got Laura Mohr's new address and
went up to see her. She was overjoyed
to hear that Charlie was alive and
well. We sat there talking until nearly
11:15 and then ate lunch and went to
a tourist home. We got a good bed and
room for $2.00.
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1936
We got up late or rather the lady
called us at seven instead of eight as
we said, so we slept a while longer.
Visited Charlie Mohr's brother where
he works at an A&P store. He doesn't
look at alI like Charlie and was he
glad to see us! We left there about 45
minutes later and drove as far as Ni-
agara. My, what a tourist town that is.
We ate lunch at the Cataract House
and it was 75 cents a plate but oh
what an old place, built in 1814. High
ceilings and a very famous place.
I think I have shared with you
that as a child I was privileged to
take the train from Portland, Or-
egon, to Chicago several times. I can
remember going through the Rocky
Mountains through twists and turns
and counting 80 cars on our train.
Mary was so right about the Chicago
train station being something spec-
tacular! Thank you for reading this
week's diary.
Clydene Hostetler is a longtime
Belfair resident, local historian, media
archivist and documentary filmmaker
of "Hidden in Plain Sight." She has
been researching Mary Theler's life for
the past 11 years. She can be emailed
at clydeneh@wavecable.com.
o Hood Canal, recently hauled out its
ANNUAL PICNIC OF last logs and closed its camps for good, GUNMAN ROBS NEIL'S
having cut during its life of nearly
GRANGERS Only a little Worse for wear, the
Perhaps the most interesting and forty years all of the private timber in
the Lake Cushman region which lies lady clerking at Nell's Pharmacy on
noteworthy public picnic ever held outside the Olympic National Forest. Monday evening when a robber aimed
in Mason County was enjoyed at a gun at her head and demanded the
Saegers Landing on Tuesday of this During this period the concernmoney from the register was back at
week. It was the annual meeting of has cut and marketed around one work on Tuesday.
the grangers of the county under the and a half billion feet of timber and "I'm
management of the Pomona Grange afforded work and cash for the settleda bit shook, but doing okay,"
and was almost if not quite a feature community around Potlatch and she said, referring to the incident at
of the state. The Pomona grange of along Hood Canal. This now leavesthe pharmacy at 512 West Franklin
the Simpson Timber Company at Street in Shelton.
Thurston county contributed a boat Shelton the last remaining of a dozen "I noticed the guy when he came in"
load of enthusiastic participants who logging road operations in Mason she recalled. "It was 10 minutes to
arrived on the launch Lark about County which have come and gone seven. He was wearing a dark brown
eleven o'clock. Her load consisted of
seventy-four passengers. More than during the last fifty years or more. leather jacket, a cap and sunglasses.
two hundred and fifty persons were
present to join in the program and mm zm, imm
festivities of the day. 34 TO JOIN STAFF AT
CORRECTIONS CENTER
PHOENIX LOGGING
OPERATIONS CLOSED,
ENDING RAIL HAULING OF
TIMBER FROM CANAL AREAS
The staff of the Washington
Corrections Center here grows as
preparations for the opening of the
institution in October progress.
Starting training during September
Don McKay Company contracts to will be an additional 34 staff
remove 40 million feet of timber not members, about half of which are
economical for rail transport, local residence, according to Curtis
The Phoenix logging company, Wolfe, personal officer.
mason county's second largest logging The group will include 30 correctional
r qilroad operation and the last on officers, three cooks and a meat cutter.
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This back to school advertisement
appeared in the August 12, 1921
edition of the Journal.
