Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-27
MARY'S MEMOIRS
You don't hear "Armistice
Day" very often. Sam gets
elected to the Road Club and
duck hunting is still going
strong this week. Mary takes
in a couple of movies and a
dance.
Sam is going to
take Mr. Ryan on the
train to Minneapolis
so he can live with
his sister. Busy week.
Enjoy !
Thursday, Nov. 5,
1936
We ate our four
ducks and, my, were
they good. It was
Charlie's birthday,
Emmet's house. My, how An-
nie exclaimed over it. They
plan on moving in pretty soon.
John and Annie left at 6:45 for
Seattle so we drove to town
and saw Jack Holt in "End of
the Trail." A very
good picture. Home
very late.
By CLYDENE
HOSTETLER
Monday, Nov. 9,
1936
A cold, sunny
day. Sam received
a telegram from the
doctor at Soap Lake
saying Mr. Ryan was
no better, so Sam
sent Doug to Seattle
and went to Soap
but we never thought about it
until the next day.
Friday, Nov. 6, 1936
Very busy. John and Annie
and Louise came out. Sam and
John went to the Road Club
meeting and Sam was elected
president. To bed late.
Saturday, Nov. 7, 1936
Another busy day. The bull-
dozer pulled stumps and dug
the ground up all along the
lumber shed and toward Ernie
Cox's place. We can see way
down the highway now. Doro-
thy Eddy, Leona Thomas and
Camellia Pearsall went to the
dance with us. We had a very
good time. Laughed so hard
on the way home we ached!
Sunday, Nov. 8, 1936
Slept until very late. Then
ate breakfast and went out in
the boat for an hour when the
sun was nice and warm. My,
we saw so many ducks! Henry
and Richie had 10. We left the
men home and drove down as
far as Union then up to see
Lake to bring Mr. Ryan home.
We were fairly busy. The bull-
dozer worked half a day and
tore'up most of the backyard.
Received two more new books
today and a magazine. How
will I ever get them read? Lots
of business in the post office
today. Lots of mail too. Lionel
Housen and Sam Herrick are
cutting Christmas trees this
year. They did well last year
at the same business.
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1936
Another fairly nice day.
Not very cold out. Sam and
Mr. Ryan came home at 7:15,
and I went to the beach, made
beds and fixed things for the
night. Then back to the store
and put some things in a
basket for Sam's lunch at the
beach. Sam went to get my
dad, Charlie Irving, Glenn
Harris, Bickle, Bill Tumeyer
and Bill Orr to come down for
a little visit the last evening.
I went to the show with Ruth
and Chet Ruff. Saw Kay Fran-
cis in "Give Me Your Heart"
and Shirley Temple in "Dim-
ples." Enjoyed it very much.
Home late and to bed. Nearly
1. We ate hamburgers at the
Wigwam and, of course, that
took some time.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1936
Armistice Day and a good
day. The sun came out and
was nice and warm. I got up
early and made breakfast for
Sam and Mr. Ryan. Then I
put away some laundry, etc.,
until Charlie came back from
duck hunting at 9. Mr. Ryan
wanted to see his trunk, so
Charlie took them up to the
old store. Then he went down
to the beach and stayed all
day with Charlie, who put
buttons on his pants and
pressed them. Received a
Present from Sam's mother,
my mother and Mrs. Sund-
strom today. Some pretty
things. I'm surely lucky. Sam,
Charlie and Mr. Ryan went
to Seattle, where Sam and
Mr. Ryan take the train for
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sam
expects to be home Monday
night so we can attend a meet-
ing in Seattle. Mr. Ryan had
tears in his eyes when he left.
He really didn't want to go, I
guess, when the time came. I
felt very sorry for him. Bu¢ he
looks pretty good and will feel
more at home when he gets
back to where his sister lives.
Hope he doesn't get too tired
on the trip.
m
My eyes got a little teary
when reading about Mr.
Ryan, I couldn't help think-
ing that Sam was a pretty
good friend looking out for
Mr. Ryan and traveling with
him on the train all the way
to Minneapolis just to get
right back on and return
Photo courtesy of the Mary Theler Collection
Sam and Mary Theler pose in this undated photo.
home. Thank you for readingdocumentary filmmaker of
this week's diary. "Hidden in Plain Sight." She
has been researching Mary
• Clydene Hostetler is a long- Thele s life for the past 11
time Belfair resident, local years. She can be emailed at
historian, media archivist and clydeneh@wavecable.com.
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the 48-state mural competition for the
Suffrage is Defeated, Dry Claims
Section of Fine Ares, Public Buildings
Oregon
Cincinnati- Partial returns from Administration, last week.
all parts of Ohio indicate that the The mural photographed and sent
amendment extending suffrage to to The Journal shows a group of men
women has been defeated; that the appearing to be of Mexican nativity
one asking for state-wide prohibition garbed in early American dress making
has met a like fate and that the home camp on a plain on which there is not
rule for cities amendment will probably a tree in sight except for one weather-
carry beaten snag and a small log on the
Portland, Or. - The prohibition forces ground. Two-wheeled, ox drawn carts of
a type with which no one who has seen
are claiming 12,00(! majority. Scattering the picture is familiar are lined up clear
returns seemed to 4ndicate that the back to the horizon.
country precincts would deliver a large
50 YEARS AGO • Oct. 22, 1964
vote for the drys, while many towns and
county seats were reporting strongly
against the wets. Construction Projects Progressing
Construction activity is bustling
75 YEARS AGO • Oct. 31. i939
around Mason County as work
progresses on two new apartment
houses, a new business building
25 YEARS AGO • Nov. 2, 1989
Mural Choice Protested;Is There
Error?
which will house five businesses and
Richard Haines .Of Minneapolis additions to the Post Office and Pacific
Commissioned; Nothing Typical of Northwest Bell Teleph6r/e Company
N.W. in Picture Sent Journal building.
Richard Haines of Minneapolis, Work is also moving ahead on the
Minnesota, will paint a mural, construction of the next section of the
depicting American life, on the walls new freeway between Shelton and
of the new Shelton post office, but local Olympia, the addition of the Simpson
residents hope it won't be the mural of Timber Company to its Insulating
which a picture was sent to The Journal Board plant.
Major Court Ruling
A recent court decision on the
dispute between Mason County and
its Teamsters Union bargaining group
has far-reaching implications for
negotiations between public bodies and
unions, says attorney John Buckwalter.
Buckwalter has represented Mason
County through the succession of legal
actions that followed a resolution by the
county commissioners in January 1985
to nullify a Teamsters' contract with
Mason County for 1985 and 1986.
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This advertisement appeared in the
November 1, 1962 edition of the
Mason County Journal.
