Ell CESSS
VE DUTIES
.1 or $2500 Sought In
11 Call; War-Time
‘ In Mapped For
0Pganization "'
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Workers set out yes-
,»hieve a goal never be-
ed by Mason County
rchapter for its annual
zVe.
Faced with war
time conditions,
I which call for
El double last year’s
efforts and pro-
gram, the Mason
County chapter
seeks a $2500
sum for the 1941
roll call drive.
w h i c h started
after over 20 district
. Sub-chairmen adjourn—
’kickoff luncheon held
. ,ton Hotel. The drive
“6 until the end of
l'
Cl’lairman Myron Lund
t0 th_e luncheon ga-
the American Red
been placed upon a
"‘ during the last!
*’ doubled the number]
3 and the number of
r,hECessary to be car-
;each individual chap-l
bluabl’e Services
numerous instances!
“past year where the
"f Red Cross had fig-
..V in the saving of
elieved suffering, and
ble information to
. ' may‘save-‘lives in
'all this being done
.blishment of high-
Pcy first aid stations,
1fe savingrand"s'w&"lh~
‘ and giving assist-
Ons sick or in dire
.
. IJund explained that
33 keynote now in its
a program is to pre-
war. and among the;
" chapter must do to
red is to train 125
-&id instructors, 100
. and lesser numbers
finergency relief per-
,hlentioned that Mason
l'le enviable record of
l S percentage of fail—
fitudents in its first
' ‘ classes than any
"the state.
For Success Good
hollliam Stevenson ex-
l,peful outlook for suc-
,. V ,,"1'941 roll call despite
T {' because “their is
"“‘ toward the work
cross among the peo—
cOmmunity and the
"1Ves undoubtedly are
'1 cial circumstances
roll call this year,"
hair-man S. B. Air)
“(1 over the lunch-,
-1‘S for the roll call
been established in
Theatre building,
‘ 3 wishing to make
nations may take
1 memberships, and
‘ tl‘ict canvassers will
turn in their member-
mpleting th e i r du-
William Stevenson is
headquarters again
.
, ass
OLLMENT
. first meeting was
t, the Red Cross
aid class to be
,‘Mrs. Elmer Smith
91‘ enrollment by per-
d she announced to-
11 meet each Tues-
», eSday evening in the
School.
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.. JECT OFFERS
‘ RELIEF wonK
terested in assisting
Sewing project may
three types of re-
elng carried on by
Mrs. Herbert Miller,
zmall, pointed out to-
d and other coun-
g from aggression, a
covers preparation
°P soldiers hospitals
“ States (not to be
Veterans hospitals),
.phase is straight
“1 the local com-
Miller explained.
(Bil Moves
11g Ahead Day
\-
3 City council meet-
}! Postponed a day
anksgiving Day, so
'1 eight o'clock on
3 instead of Thurs-
1mals announced to-
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VOL. LV—NO. 91
Slated Mon
Hilarious predicaments caused
by trying to play Jekyll-Hyde roles
to suit the contradictory love in-
terests of two daughters form the
theme for “Dollars to Dough-
nuts,” three-act comedy by Glenn
Hughes which a double cast of
lrene S. Reed high school stud-
ents will present for public enter-
tainment next Monday and Tues-
day evenings. Curtain is at eight
o‘clock in the junior high audi-
torium both evenings.
Briefly, the story finds a well-
to-do family pretending extreme
humbleness to impress on daugh-
ter's suitor who is prejudiced
against the rich, hiding away the
big cars and dismissing the ser-
vants, only to have the second
daughter‘unexpectedly pop up withl
Frances LeDrew.
5 COMMUNITY
TONIGHT—Chamber of Com—
merce Nevember meeting, 6:30
dinner, Shelton Hotel.
TONIGHT—Commercial league
bowling, 8:15 p.m., bowling al-
leys.
FRIDAY—City league bowling, 7
and 9 p.m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Moose Lodge weekly
meeting, 8 p.m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY—Deadline for de-
positing entry ballots in seventh
-week of Merchants-Journal foot-
ball sweepstakes, 10 a.m., bal-
lot boxes at Ralph’s Grocery
(I—Iillcrest), Wilson's Cafe, Mun-
ro’s. L. M.. Journal.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a.m.. courthouse.
SATURDAY~Opening of 1941
42 trapping season.
SATURDAY—Organization meet-
ing of Mason County School
District Reorganization com-
mittee, 10 a.m., commissioners'
room in courthouse.
“SATURDAY—Deadline for filing
applications for purchaseof tax-
title land at 14th in series 50f
SENTIMENT KEEPS BATTERED
OLD MILK C
As near as Everett Fourre can it away among his youthful keep-
sakes.
remember it, that metal milk bot—
tle carrier he uses to tote quarts
up to porches of his customers
each morning is nigh onto 20
years old now.
Which is a considerable span of
service for an article which ordi-
narily lasts around five years,
more or less.‘
However, there is considerable
sentiment attached to possession
of this particular milk bottle car-
rier for its signifies a life’s ambi-
tion of the young prOprietor of
the 4-E Dairy.
Back in the dim past of his
youthful memory there has al-
ways been an ambition to drive
a milk wagon, and that ambition
seemed to date from the time as
a youngster before he started
school that he found an old, bat-
tered, discarded milk bottle car-
rier in a vacant lot near the Ma-
son County Creamery, Everett re-
collected the other day.
He took it home and stowed
EXCISE
ON ALL CAR
Prep Play Performances
MONDAY Character TUESDAY
Earvin Loop ........................... ..James Boland
.......................... ..Earvin Loop,
Betty Jo Gardner. ..Henrietta Boland.. .Dixie Simmonsl
Jack Wright ....................... ..Chester, their son ....... ......
..Jack Wright
Iris Wells ....................... ..Caroline, elder daughter.....
Charlotte Lynn
..Hortense, younger daughter
Carol Pierce ......... .. ...F‘lossie, sister of Henrietta
.................... ..Nita King
Jane McKay . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Helen
....................... ..Thelma Holthusen
Donald Riebow ............................. ..George ............... .3
............ ..Donald Riebow
Harry Austin ............................... ..Piggott . . . . . . . . . .
..Harry Austin
Leslie Young .......................... ..Prince Sergei
..................... ..Wesley Maulden
TUESDAY—Active club weekly
TUESDAY~Second presentation
by the Fourre family, Everett res-
cuing the carrier from the gar—
bage can when his parents moved
from downtown Shelton to Hill—
crest, again dragging it out from
under the barn where it had been
thrown after the family moved to
Skokomish Valley.
ity to realize his youthful ambi-
tion, to operate a milk route, some
four years ago. Out came the bat—
tered old six-quart milk carrier.
Everett hammered out the bends
and twists and dents as best he
could and painted it up bright
,and clean, almost like new even if
antiquated in design and style.
Shelton and Mason County homes
every morning, and if sentiment
can prolong its life it will con-
tinue to do so as long as Everett
Fouree is in the business of oper-
atlng a milk delivery service.
TAXES TO BE HIGHER
E. 861'“
day, Tuesday
a European prince ..suitor whom
she wishes to impress with the
family’s position and wealth.
Anxious to please both daugh-
ters, the family tries to play the
game of rich andypoor at once. A
flighty maiden aunt is pressed in-,
to service as housekeeper and the
pompous local minister is dis-
guised as the butler.
What success the family attains
so that both girls can win their
men is the basis for this Glenn
Hughes comedy which has earned
a wide reputation in the enter—
tainment world and is widely
sought for high school perform-l
ances.
Miss Ellen Opal Coy is faculty
director of a cast which consists
of the following characters: . '
...... ..Alice Klink
Consolidat
ed wit
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, November 13, 1941.
TIME Til THINK
‘OF CHRISTMAS
I MAILING DATES
' Yuletide Packages To Distant Lo-
cations Shouldn't Be Neg-
lected Much Longer,
Postmaster \Varns
| If you have any friends in Aus-
tralia or the Fiji Islands to whom
you want to send Christmas pres-
ents you'd better step on the gas,
Mr. and Mrs. Mason County, for
if you’d have those presents reach
them in time you‘ll have to mail
them tomorrow.
It's already too late,,if you
haven’t mailed ’em yet, to get
presents to New Zealand and The
Netherlands Indies, for the last
mailing date reaching those dis-
tant lands by the time old St.
Nick pays his annual visit pass-
ed last week, Miss Jessie Knight,
Things have simmered down in
hunting circles now to a point
jwhere a nimrod doesn’t need a
secretary to keep track of all
‘ the seasons running currently and
;concurrently, the elk season hav-
ing closed Tuesday to leave only
the duck season still in force with
the trapping season to be added
Saturday, but one Shelton hunt—
er probably will have a hard time
simmering down to normal after
his experience hunting elk last
' weekend.
That huntsman is Emil Lauber,
manager of the Mason County
Creamery. He has hunted 20 years
or more, actively and persistent-
ly, but he never had more fun
nor more excitement than he did
last Sunday, he related today.
His is a 20th century saga which
rivals some of the tales of buffalo
hunting before the turn of the
century. He lived through an elk
Shelton postmaster, reminds.
Other “last dates” for mailing
Christmas packages and cards
to reach beyond American bor-
ders by Christmas are approach-
ing rapidly, too, she adds in warn-
CALENDAR
public auction sales, noon, coun—
ty auditor’s office.
MONDAY—County commission-
ers weekly meeting, 10 a.m.,
courthouse.
MONDAY—Journal publication
date, moved ahead because of
Thanksgiving.
MONDAY~First presentation of
“Dollars to Doughnuts,” high
school three-act comedy, p.
m. curtain, junior high audi—
torium.
MONDAY—Eagles aerie weekly
meeting, 8 p.m., Moose Hall.
MONDAY—Ladies league bowl-
ing, 8:15 p.m., bowling alleys.
TUESDAY‘—Kiwanis club week-
ly luncheon meeting, noon, Shel-
ton Hotel.
dinner meeting, 6:30 p.m., at
Moose Hall, moved ahead be-
cause of Thanksgiving.
of “Dollars to Doughnuts,” high
school three-act comedy, p.
m. curtain, junior high audi-
torium.
ARRIER USEFUL
Twice it survived moves made
Then came Everett’s opportun-
But it’s still toting milk to
MAKES FOR 1942
Mason County motorists will pay
increased excise taxes on their
automobiles when they purchase
their 1942 vehicle licenses in De-
cember, according to a list of ex-
cise tax rates released this week
by County Auditor Harry Deyette.
The increases range from $1-75
on lower-priced cars to $5.50 on
the more expensive models. Gen-
eral sale and distribution of 194]
automobile license plates will be-
gin December 1, although Per‘
sons wishing to reserve “special”
numbers may begin doing so Sat-
urday. These reservations may
be made only until the general
sale begins on December 1, for
after that date plates will be
issued only in order, Auditor Dey-
ctte said.
In applying for licenSe plates,
motorists pay a flat license fee
of $3.25, plus the excise’ tax, which
is determined by the age and
make of the vehicle.
Following are the high and low
extremes in 1942 excise taxes on
private vehicles of the more pop-
ular makes:
Austin, $3.50 to $1.
Buick, $24.75 to $2,
Cadillac, $36 to $2.25.
Chevrolet, $10.50 to ‘ $1.75.
Chrysler, $30.50 to $2.
DeSoto, $13.50 to $2.
Dodge, $12.25 to $1.75.
Ford, $10.50 to $1.75.
Graham. $6 to $1.50.
Hudson, $12.75 to $1.75.
Lincoln, $31.75 to $2.25.
Mercury, $12.50 to $5.
Nash, $12.75 to $1.75.
Oldsmobile, $15.25 to $2.
range between
motor
make, model or
a license fee of
motor vehicles manufa
to 1935 must pay a
specxally built or assembled mo-
tor vehicles, all motor vehicles
With special bodies, all
damaged motor vehicles, all
es, as well as all other vehicles
manufactured prior to 1934, but
not named in the above list, are.
to be appraised specially by the
county assessor and the tax com-
puted by him.
Packard, $28 to $2. ,
Plymouth, $10.50 to $1.75.
Pontiac, $13.50 to $2.
Studebaker, $14.75 to $2.
Terraplane, $3.75 to $1.50-
Wlllys, $9.25 to $1.
Various makes of motorcycles
$4 and $1, while
scooters, regardless of
year, must pay
$1_ A11 private
ctured prior
$1 tax. All
badly
hears-
2nd alf Taxes
Due November 30
Mason Coun
ers still havi
ty property own—
ng second half real
estate taxes to pay were remind-
ed today by Treasurer Omer L.
Dion that the deadline for pay-
ment of second halves of 1941
real taxes comes on the final day
of this month.
HOWever, November 30 being
on Sunday, the treasurer will ac-
cept Payment of second halves on
December 1, he said. Interest at
ten percent begins accruing on
unpaid second halves after that
time.
ing, so truly it is time to get
started on your Christmas shop~
ping and take that time-worn but
nonetheless timely suggestion to
“shop early" seriously.
Foreign country deadlines for
Christmas package mailing in
time to reach destinations by
Christmas are as follows:
Australia, Nov. 14 (airmail Dec.
1)
China, Nov. 24 (airmail Dec. 8)
Fiji Islands, Nov. 14 (airmail
Dec. 13)
French Indo-China, Nov. 24 (air-
mail Dec. 8)
Hawaii, Dec.
22)
Hongkong,
Dec. 8)
Japan, Nov. 24 (no airmail in-
dicated)
Korea, Nov. 24 (no airmail in-
dicated)
Manchuria, Nov. 24 (no airmail
indicated)
Malaya, Nov. 17 (airmail Dec.
13 (airmail Dec.
Nov. 21 (airmail
‘8)
New Zealand, (airmail Dec. 13)
Netherland Indies, (airmail
Dec. 8)
Philippine Islands, Nov. 25'
(airmail Dec. 15)
Christmas mailing deadlines to
Alaska also have been set by the
postoffice, but with the single ex-
ception of Dutch Harbor, all Al-
askan points may be reached af-
ter December 10 mailings.
Christmas packages should- be
mailed by December 10 to Haines,
Skagway, White Horse, and Ya-
kutat; by December 12 to Cor-
dova, Fairbanks, Nenana; by De-
cember 15 to Anchorage, Kodiak,
Seward; by December 17 to Pet-
ersburg, Valdez and Wrangell; by
December 19 to JJuneau, Ketchi-
kan and Sitka. No service except
by airmail is available to Bethel,
Dawson and Nome.
Airmail may be used from De-
cember 19 to December 22 to
some Alaskan points, but many
do not have winter airmail ser-
vice.
These dates are all as of de-
parture from Seattle, so mail
should be placed in the Shelton
postoffice a day or so in advance
of the date listed above.
Former Shelton
Man Promoted By
J. C. Penney Co.
Carson H. LaFollette, former
assistant manager of the Shelton
J. C. Penney store, has been pro-
rooted to the managership of the
same firm's store at Lynden af-
ter a year as manager of the
store at Pomeroy, in Eastern
Washington, according to the Lyn-
den Tribune.
Mr. LaFollette was assistant
manager of the Shelton store for
approximately six years, during
which period he and Mrs. LaFol—
lette gained a wide circle of
friends here. He has been with
the Penney company for the past
15 years, starting with the Ta-
coma store before coming to Shel-
ton.
The Lynden store handles a
volume of business approximately
twice that of the Pomeroy branch,
according to S. B. Anderson, pres-
ent manager of the Shelton store,
so the move is a nice promotion
for Mr. LaFollette.
Early Journal
Due Next Week
Your news and advertising col-
umns in The Journal will reach
you one day earlier next week
than usual because of Thanksgiv—
ln .
gro allow the staff to enjoy
their turkey dinners and holiday
activities in Peace, publication
dates for each issue next week
have been moved ahead to Mon-
day and Wednesday.
Incidentally, “The Journal would
like to acquire .several copies of
the issue of Thursday, November
6, as our supply slipped away un-
noticed to the point where we do
not have sufficient on hand for
our files.
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Tell the prospects wnere you are.
with a Journal Want-Ad
,staff of reporters has
stampede.
’ Trailed Band 11/; Days
It happened, in brief, like this.
Lauber and Miles (Bus) Elliott
of Shelton and Harry Lefler of
Sappho (Jefferson County) caught
up with a band of somewhere
around 100 elk about noon last
Sunday near the headwaters of
the Calawah River in western
Jefferson County after folloWing
the trail for a day and a half.
Lauber was walking through a
sizeable fern studded clearing
(incidentally the first open level
spot they had run onto) when
Elliott, a couple of hundred feet
away, saw a bull and fired. Im-
mediately the clearing became
alive with elk, Lauber recounted,
and about half the band, all cows
except one bull, and a spike, stam-
peded madly directly at Lauber.
Punched His Way Out
“Before I could get anywhere
I was completely surrounded,” the
Creamery manager related. “I
batted them with my gun butt
and beat them with my fists but
they knocked me down, stepped
on me and knocked me down again
every time I got up. I’m telling
you, man, I was as sore and bruis-
ed as if I’d been beaten up by
a gang of hoodlums.” and the
Shelton hunter exhibited bruised,
Student surfs
Busy On School
Publications Now
"Work has begun on the two
student publications put out at
Irene S. Reed high school, the
newspaper Saghalie, and the
annual publication bearing the
same title.
First edition of the student
newspaper is due to come off
the presses this coming Friday
and be circulated that afternoon.
Barbara Kreienbaum is editor,
Karol Kneeland assistant editor,
Iris Wells news editor, Kay
Stensager feature editor, Randall
Jordan sports editor, and Marie
Short exchange editor. A large
helped
whip the first edition into shape
for Friday’s deadline. Faculty ad-
visors are Miss Helen Orton and
Miss Valera Davis.
In the meantime, the less press-
ing task of preparing the annual
has begun under the direction of
co-editors Marjean Berets and
Iris Wells, who direct a staff
consisting of Jim Hillier, business
manager; Rosemary Kidwell and
Kay Stensager,_ assemblies; Sue
Abeyta, Helen Landers, Jean
Briggs and Donna Jean Castagno,
plays; Miss Berets and Gertrude,
plays; Miss Berets and Gertrude
Viger, pictures; Carol Kneeland,
Barbara Kreienbaum, Alta Nelson
and Barbara Keller, senior activi-
ties; Jack Saeger and Jim Hillier,
photography; Mack Wilson, Ran-
dall Jordan, Jack Saeger and Bill
Anderson, sports; Juanita Mc-
Peek, junior editor; Jane McKay,
sophomore editor; Mary Ann Mc-
Donald, Evelyn Cheney and Kay
Stensager, features; Jean Briggs,
Nita King and Jack Clark, art
department. '
I Union Man Pays
$50 For Reward
To Hon-est Youth
Henry M. Newkirk of Union
believes honesty should be re-
,. warded, and, one might add,
richly.
Last week he mailed a. check
for $50 to Bobby Backstrom,
lz-year-old Montesano youth,
as a reward for the return of
a. very valuable pin which Mr.
Newkirk lost and which Bob-
by found one day last summer
while he was visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Shafer on Hood Canal.
Bobby turned the pin over
to a resort owner where he
found it and from there the
.pin found its way back to its
rightful owner—and a $50 check
found its way into Bobby’s
pocket.
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cut and swolen kunckles, a swol-
lcn ankle and bruises on his legs
and arms as proof of his encount-
band, mostly bulls, going up a
ridge at the edge of the clear-
ing. He bagged one which later
dressed out at 670 pounds of
meat, not including the head, and
was declared by game protectors
in the area to be the largest elk
ever taken out of that area.
100 Percent Success
In the meantime, Lefler had
killed the bull leading the band
which had run over Lauber and
Elliott had killed a bull with the
shot which started the stampede,
so the party came out with 100
percent success. Game protect-
ors said it was the best kill taken
from western Jefferson County
in the past five years.
Altogether the trio had nearly
1500 pounds of meat alone. The
Lauber and Lefler bulls each had
five-point antlers while Elliott’s
was a four-pointer. They had to
make five trips to get all the
meat out.
Another fine elk taken by
Shelton hunter fell before
a
the
'FISHERMEN (El
GOOD PRICE FOR
DO'GFISH uvus
Hood Canal Yielding Generously
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UNITE” STATES ARMY
OFFIClAL COUNTY PAPER
Stampeding Elk Run DoWn Shelton
Hunter;__Hc Lives To Relate Talc
gun of Roy Loughnan,
operator. Hunting with
or in the ferns.
As soon as the stampeding elk
had passed over and around him,
Lauber got up, brushed himself
off, took his bearings and dis-
covered the other half of the
boys from his camp near Darring-
logging
f 0 u I“
500-pound elk with a perfect set
of six-point antlers which meas-
ured 48 inches from head to tip
last Sunday while hunting in
Little Rattlesnake Canyon in the
Naches' area of Eastern Wash-
ington.
No Joke After All
Loughnan’s party, disgusted af-
ter hunting several days without
sighting anything but deer, bear
and other ineligible prey, were
driving back to their camp in
Loughnan’s pickup truck, ready to
pack up and close their expedi-
tion, when Loughnan, driving,
caught Sight of three elk going
ton, the Shelton man bagged a‘
CUTTERS BUSY
0N XMAS TREE
INDUSTRY NOW
, Two Firms To Handle Large Ma-
jority Of Volume This Year
With E. D. Payne Out
Of The Industry
Mason County‘s largest season-
al industry, Christmas tree cut-
ting, is now in full swing for
another year with indications
pointing to approximately aver-
age shipments out of this area,
according to representatives of the
major shippers.
The J. Hofert company, hav-
ing acquired the holdings and in-
terests of the late E. D. Payne,
will probably be the largest ship-
pers from Maspn County this
year, a position the firm has held
most of the time during its many
years of operation in this area.
over a ridge. Node of the others
saw them, and when Loughnan
grabbed his gun and started run-
ning they at first believed he was
pulling a joke on them. But when
he fired they came arunning them-
selves.
They found the big bull about
200 yards from where'he had been
hit, leaning against a tree, dead
with a perfect shot through the
heart. Loughnan had bagged his
kill with a single shot from his
light. 30—30 rifle. And to com-
plete the exceptional luck attach-
ed to the kill, the hunters were
able to roll the carcass down the
ridge .right into the truck all in
one piece, ‘
Harold Castle was another Shel-
ton hunter to bag an elk this
season, getting his in Rattlesnake
Canyon Sunday. He was hunting
with his father, Roy, and both
got shots which hit home, but
Harold’s bullet was the effective
one.
Numerous other Shelton hunt-
ers tried the Eastern Washington
elk country but found too little
snow and too much rain for good
hunting conditions. The elk, they
reported, were too high in the
hills.
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Aaivians Urged
To Key Lives To
Nation’s ‘Defense
Urving all Activians to key
their lives, efforts and thoughts
to defense of their country, Active
To Active Group; One Man
Makes $18 In Day
Under current high prices, liv-
ers out of dogfish caught in Hood
Canal are bringing mediumly rich
rewards to a small but active
group of fishermen operating out
,of Union, Hoodsport and other
points along the canal.
Prices ranging between 35 and
50 cents a pound are being paid
by a Tacoma firm which sends
its trucks out to collect the livers
at central gathering points on the
canal.
One dogfish angler at Union
reportedly made $18 in one day's
fishing last week, although, of
course, the average daily take is
considerably lower than that
figure. I
Using set lines with up to 100
hooks on each one, dogfish ang-
lers are obtaining good results in
Hood Canal at the present time,
it is reported. Livers range up
to a pound in weight from each
fish caught and are used to ex-
tract oil rich in vitamins and
equivalent to codliver oil, it is
said. At one time the remains
of the fish were used to make
fertilizer but it is said only the
livers are now being used.
BABY SON BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Morse of Lil-
lwaup are the parents of a baby
boy born at the Shelton General
Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
‘LITTLE OLD LADY KNITS FOR
HOMELAND’ ONCE LIVED HERE
An item of local interest ap-
pears in a recent issue of the
Clearwater Tribune, Orofino, Ida-
ho, under the above heading re—
fers to Mrs. John Haskell, a
pigneer resident of Harstine Is-
land, who has been living with
her daughter, Mrs. Forrest Vaughn
in that city since 1934. She will
be 81 years old in March and
weighs only 56 pounds, but she
is a faithful worker at Red Cross
headquarters, having already knit-
ted five garments, scarfs 11 inches
wide and six feet long, 30 feet of
knitting for the British cause, one
of the few elderly ladies giving
their services.
Mrs. Haskell was born in a
suburb of London, and her par—
ents dying before she was eight
she was brought up in an or-
phanage but spent a few years in
London earning her own living.
Then a brother in Canada sent
for‘v'her and she lived with him
until. she was thirty, when she
met and married John Haskell,
then in King County. After set-
tling on Harstine Island and rear-
ing her family in Mason County
for over thirty years prior to the
death of her husband in 1929 and
a. year or so later going to live
with her daughter in Idaho. Mrs.
Earl Harriman is another daugh-
ter of Mrs. Haskell, and a niece,
Mrs. Harry Sinclair, now owns
and occupies the old homestead.
Ralph Haskell of Harstine and
Raymond Haskell of Olympia are
nephews and Mrs. Daisy Bergeson,
Shelton, is a niece.
John Haskell, popular as “Un-
cleJohn” in pioneer days, operated
a freight boat between Tacoma,
Olympia and Shelton, when most
local stores received their goods
by water. His was a trading
boat and he was .the contact man
for all the housewives along the
route making purchases of stock-
ings, medicines, foods and tools
and taking their eggs and pro-
duce to town in trade, in the days
before there were roads and autos
to hop into for quick shopping.
Friends will be glad to know that
Grandma Haskell is still going
strong despite her years.
International President Art Fair-
child told Shelton members of
the civic organization he heads
that sound homes, cooperation,
honesty and simplicity are the
basic points on which patriotism
is founded in an inspiring mes-
sage brought to the local clubmen
last night.
The International President al-
so presented membership pins to
Pete Melin, Roy Longacre and
Dick Hotz, newest recruits in the
Shelton Active Club, and an-
nounced that the Shelton club had
iWOl'l the October attendance tro-
phy in District One with a 94 per
cent record last month. A beauti-
ful wall banner bearing the club’s
name is the reward.
Following presentation of their
share of the receipts from the
recent Merchants Exposition, the
Activians voted a $25 donation to
the needy school children’s shoe
fund, $10 to the Mason County
Tuberculosis League, and $5 to
the Mason County Red Cross roll
call drive.
I
BREAKS LEG TU ESDAY
Larry Dean Martin, young son
of Superintendent and Mrs. J. E.
Martin was admitted to Shelton
Hospital on Tuesday evening for
treatment of a broken leg. He
was released on Wednesday.
So Start Saving
Sacs, Sister, To
Assist Defense
Here is the bag-inning of a
campaign in Mason County to
save paper. ,
Shelton merchants are faced
with a. shortage of bags,.wrap-
ping paper and cartons, and
national defense authorities are
asking their patrons to see that
none are wasted. '
Here’s how you can help If
The G. R. Kirk company, how-
ever, also a long-time operator in
this area, will run a close race
for volume honors as the firm
has large holdings in Mason Coun-
ty. These two firms between
thenl, with the Payne firm out
of the field this year, will prob-
ably handle better than 75 per-
cent of the total volume of Christ-
mas trees shipped from Mason
County this season.
Several Small Shippers
The remaining volume is taken
up by a number of small ship-
pers, of which the Mattson-Carl-
son firm has become the largest
in the past couple of years. Most
of the Christmas tree cutters op-
erating in Mason County ship
their trees through the Northern
Pacific Railway depot here, al-
though a few truck on through
to Olympia.
The Hofert operations in Ma-
son County this year are being
supervised by Frank Keil, a vet-
eran employe of the firm, with
offices in the Bell Building in the
former location of the Payne
firm. Hofert trees are being
“yarded” on the Island Lake road
near the Shelton Meat and Ice
slaughterhouse.
The Kirk company represent-
ative this year again is M. F.
Simpson, who has established an
office in the N. P. depot yard.
Trees this year are in prime
condition, the shippers report, no
evidence being found of the frost
bite which damaged the crop
last year to a considerable ex-
tent. ‘
First Load Next Week
The first carload shipment of
Christmas trees out of the Shel-
ton railroad depot is slated for
early next week, perhaps Tues-
day, H. E. DeShields, N. P. agent
here, reported today.
The Christmas tree industry an-
nually brings many thousands of
dollars to Mason County, employ-
ing several hundred men in its
various ramifications.
Mr. Keil, the Hofert agent
here. reported his firm has had
no difficulty obtaining sufficient
labor this year, a pleasant sur-
prise to him as he had anticipated
a shortage of available men due
to defense work at Bremerton, Se-
attle and Tacoma.
“The only place we are short
is in reliable inspectors,” Mr. Keil
said. “The men we have inspect-
ing are highly capable men bu
we could use a few more.”
4-H Achievement
Day Is Saturday
Saturday, November 15th, Ma-
son County 4-H Club members,
leaders, and parents will assem-
ble at the Southside Community
Hall for the annual achievement
day. .
The program will consist of
numbers provided by club mem-
bers as well as moving pictures.
“Trees and Homes” a forestry pic~
ture, has been secured from the
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. of Ta—
coma. Also several other enter-
taining, as well as educational,
pictures have been secured from
the state college. The main events,
however, will be the presentation
of the achievement pins and
other awards.
Death Fall Was In
Tacoma, Not Here
Reports that the death of L.
E. Pickett, 27, of Tacoma, in a ‘
235 foot fall from a stack oc-
you have a shopping bag, use
it instead of paper bags. Where
possible, combine purchases in-
to one bag. Please do not use
a larger bag than you need.
Please don’t ask to have small
size packages put into a large
bag if you can conveniently‘
carry small ones.
Identical resolutions making
a joint plea to help National
Defense by conserving paper
were adopted last week by the
Washington State Retail Gro-
cers and Meat Dealers Ass’n
and the Washington Chain
Stores Ass’n, marking another
step in the cooperation of all
stores recently launched by the
Retails for Defense Demonstra-
tion.
So Start Saving Sacks, Sister
Susie !
curred at the Rayonier plant here
yesterday are not correct as the
'accident happened at the Shafer
plant in Tacoma, a subsidiary of
Rayonier.
The confusion evidently result-
ed from radio reports heard by
Sheltonians when the plant was
called Rayonier Incorporated by
the announcers.
Skokomish Grange To
Vote Officers Friday
Skokomish Valley, Nov. 12.
Annual election night arrives
this Friday evening for members
of Skokomish Grange, so a large
turnout of the membership is re-
quested to attend to this import—
ant duty, officers announced to-
day.
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