Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-23
MARY'S MEMOIRS
Sam and Mary try their luck at
hunting again. Mr. Ryan falls in the
barn, and Sam volunteers to help him
since Mr. Ryan does not want a woman
helping. The huckleberries are coming
to an end. Mary manages to get a couple
movies in this week. Enjoy/
Thursday, Oct. 15, 1936
The stere is nice and clean. Sam
went to Seattle, and we put most of
the stock on the shelves before closing
time. Saw Uncle Louie today. He was
on his way home from the Cape fish-
ing. Received a letter from Elizabeth.
She is staying in Seattle. Mrs. Baldwin
was in and showed me a letter from
Mrs. Burton in Blaine. Mrs. Baldwin
claims Elizabeth opened her mail. She
must be wrong,
because I'm sure
she was too busy to
bother opening mail
save her own. Sam
saw Don in Seattle.
Said he was going
to school to learn to
be an automobile
salesman. He should
By CLYDENE make a good one. A
ItOSTETLER wonderful sunset
tenight. The sky was
a beautiful rosy red, very chilly out.
Mrs. Barchie of Gig Harbor gave me
some grapes. They are very good. Island
Bell's. Sam is going hunting with Char-
lie Thurnquist tomorrow. Wish he'd get
something.
Friday, Oct. 16, 1936
Fairly busy. A lovely, warm day. Mr.
Ryan fell in the barn and is in a semi-
delirious condition. The doctor was out
and said someone should stay with him
all the time.
Saturday, Oct. 17, !936
Sam was up to see Mr. Ryan today,
and he was a little better. Quite a busy
day. Most of the cement culvert Sam is
building in front of the garage is done.
Then the bulldozer will cover over and
it will give us more ground.
Photo courtesy of the Mary Theler Collection
Mary and Sam Theler hold up a deer after hunting in this undated photo.
Sunday, Oct. 18, 1936 care of Mr. Ryan, and Sam went up to
Got up early and got to Eddy's at see him, but he didn't want any woman
5:30. We all ate breakfast at Dudley around the house. So I took her home
Thomas'. Sam was so tired from hunt- again. I really don't think she was so
ing Friday he didn't get up. Friday Sam keen on the job anyway. Mr. Ryan is
hunted until 1:30. Then about 3, I went much better. Sam went to Seattle and
to the beach. We moved all the flow- got home about 7:30 p.m. Cleaned up
ers in the garden out front to the side money orders and all post-office work.
garden. Took the truck and all rode Ruth put up bulk goods and dusted
in up to Maine's first camp and hiked glass case. Doug hauled wood up to
back over the woods a mile. It was very little house back of store and fixed wir-
foggy. Dudley chased up a big buck ing so the lights can be turned on. Gor-
but couldn't get a shot at it. Dorothy don Orr married Erma Kern at South
shot but missed it. About 10, we were Bend at 10 o'clock yesterday. Wanda
beating a thicket and Russell killed a was maid of honor and Vernon Wyatt
big buck. Then we went to one more was best man. Clara Beard and Charlie
thicket and went out toward the car. did a big two weeks washing. The had
They sent Ray to drive the car closer lines all over the beach. An enormous
to the deer, so Sam found us through washing too. Received a fine lette from
another hunter, and we all ate lunch Bochs. Must write to them soon as I
together on the open burn. Went up can. We had a burglar alarm put in at
three more thickets but never saw any the store. Now if someoffe breaks In, at
more deer. Home at 6. We went to town least the neighbors will hear the alarm.
and ate noodles and saw "Craig's Wife."
Not very good. Very late. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1936
Fairly quiet. Not many huckleber-
Monday, Oct. 19, 1936 ries. Rode to tewn with Mrs. Judldns
Mrs. Landon came up early to take and got some new shoes for store wear
and a few hankies. In the at rnoon,
Grace, Mrs. Coady and I drove to Aunt
Polly's, but no one was at home but
Wanda. We saw she had a diamond
ring, so perhaps she and Vernie are "re-
ally" engaged. We stayed for an hour
and a half waiting for Aunt Polly but
had to go home, without seeing her.
On the way home I stopped in at Mrs.
Anderson's. She is fine. Lives in a fine
old home - a real homey place. In the
evening, Ruth Ruff and I went to see
"The General Dies at Dawn" with Gary
Cooper, but it was very morbid and I
didn't enjoy it all. To bed very late.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1936
A quiet day. We changed the veg-
etable rack to its winter location. Then
we put the paint back on the rack
and cleaned up back of the store and
the entire warehouse. So by night, it
certainly looked very good. Sam went
to Mr. Ryan's today with Bill Orr and
gave him a good bath and put on all
clean clothes. Today, Sam made the
sale of Mr. Ryan's place to relatives of
Phillip's. They paid earnest money and
tomorrow close the deal in Seattle. The
place sold for $6,200. Mr. Ryan was
very pleased. Sam went to Mr. Glad-
win's to find out if there was a hospital
at Soap Lake. Sundstrums were there,
so they had quite a visit. I put away all
the big ironing Clara did and mended
some things. To bed at 11 o'clock.
I can remember as a youngster when
it was a special occasion, my grand-
mother would send a card with a han-
kie in it. Today, I carry a hankie that
was my mother's. Don't see those often
these days since tissues are so handy.
Thank you for reading this week's di-
ary.
• Clydene Hostetler is a longtime Bel-
fair resident, local historian, media ar-
chivist 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@waveca%le.com.
50 YEAR AGO • Oct. 22, 1964
Closing Fair Accounts Car, Bear Collide
The officers of the Mason County Bob Keenan of Union got a 400 pound
Fair Association held a meeting on black bear last Thursday night-with
Tuesday afternoon to pass on the his car.
various accounts and arrange for Keenan and his wife were on the
closing up the affairs of the year. way into Shelten on the Purdy Cutoff
It was found that the expenses Road about a mile from the Fish
incident to the last fair were $222.81, Hatchery when the car and a bear
with two small items from the met intheroad.
previous year, besides the balance The car was not damaged.
due on accounts, allowed for the 1913
fair, amounting to about $65.
25 YEAR~• 'S AGO • Oct. 19, 1.989
The receipts of the fair were $507, County Just Can't Take it
and about $200 less than for last year. Anymore
An overcrowded jail, a stretched-
Tale of the Woods; Action, taut law-enforcement budget, and
Counter-Action with Guns increasing demands on local courts
Relating a tale of violence in the plague Mason County budget makers.
woods which ended in the capture
of guns from two young hunters who
threatened a party of three older men
whom they attempted to drive from
the latters own camp, J.C. Markham
and Carl Phitznmyer, both of Tacoma,
and a third comPanion whose name
But if it's bad in Mason County,
where law-and-justice costs take
up a hefty 53 percent of the current
budget, it's worse elsewhere, say
officials from other counties.
Mason County elected officials and
was not revealed reported to State other government leaders joined
Patrolman Ted Cole Sunday how forces Monday with directors of
they recaptured their camp and statewide county organizations and
administered a physical beating to decided to go after the legislature in
the younger men. earnest.
We ~lom;~t~ ?,~ Rust at the Republican
prk~aries f~ Sta~ Seaator from the twenty~
thh~d fiiztric~ on |5~ platform ~' B E T T E R
ROADS k, ading to B~TTER SCi~O0~," a~d
we will elect him in NovemL~r if we agabi werk
Thi political advcrtiaemcnt apuarcd in
the October 29, 1920 edition of the
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