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Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 - Mason County Journal - Page A-27 MARY'S MEMOIRS Sounds like they had a great birth- day party for Mary's dad. The rain and snow caused the store's roof to leak again, so Mary had to move produce and clean up the mess. Mary and Sam squeezed in a Jimmy Cagney movie in Tacoma. Enjoy/ Thursday, Feb. 11, 1937 A quiet day. Sam went to Seattle and got home at 5 o'clock. The baker brought the cake and we certainly bright. A flame tint and the trees look blue. We watched it until dark. The ducks are sailing all over the bay to- night. My how they can swim! I sent a crazy valentine to John Sellwood and so did Mrs. Roney. The funny part of it was John was in telling me how he sent one to Sam, John, Judkins and Eddie Pope and didn't want me to tell him. Saturday, Feb. 13, 1937 like the looks of it. In the afternoon Mrs. Roney and I made the sandwiches for the party. In the evening ev- eryone met at Louie's down by the gate. We all went up about 8 o'clock. Gladwins, Henry and Laurice, Rices, Walter Eddys, Sundstroms, Grace, Louie, Leonard, my dad, Doug, Charlie, Sam and I were at the party. We played 500 and gave out By CLYDENE HOSTETLER Not so busy. In the af- ternoon Annie and I and Pinky went up to my dad's and slid on the hills with skis. My, we had fun. Pinky fell down plunk just as we finished. How my dad laughed! In the eve- ning, Sam and I went to the supervisors' club din- ner. There were 500 people there. The dinner was very good. The program was prizes. Then we had lunch. Every- one sat around and talked until 12 o'clock. Clara Beard wanted to go to California and Elmer didn't want to go, so she started out alone. Lost her purse in the ladies restroom and called up and said she lost her money. So we sent Elmer to meet her. She didn't show, up so we didn't understand what happened. Found out today that she went back on the ferry and found her purse so stayed in Seattle all night. Then she decided to come home and Elmer promised her he'd go to California with her next summer. So all is over for an- other time. Friday, Feb. 12, 1937 Another quiet day. Sam had Doug and Bud Bickle haul gravel around the store as it is getting so muddy. The truck is running OK Doug has it all done and now we can use it again. Annie and John and Louise came out so we went down to the beach. I sent a letter to Kents. The sunset was won- derful tonight. I never saw the sky so good too, but the dance music was terrible. Met Mrs. Brandelein and her mother-in-law. They wanted us to come up to her place so 11:45 we went and sat there talking un- til 3 o'clock. Mr. Brandelein is the postmaster at Bremerton. Told us several things about the office. The time went so fast I don't know where it went. Never got home un- til 3:30. Sunday, Feb. 14, 1937 Never got up until 12 o'clock. Then ate and sat around during the day. A quiet day. Wind blew some. Charlie cleaned some oysters for stew. John and Annie went home about 4 so Sam and I went for a ride to Tacoma. We saw Jimmy Cagney in "Great Guy." A very good show. To bed late. Monday, Feb. 15, 1937 A fairly busy day. Sam went to Se- attle and came home late. I went home and read until late. A lovely sunny day. Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1937 A dark rainy day. Sam went to Tacoma and Olympia in the af- ternoon to see George Adams but missed him. Not so busy today. Doug and Bud Bickle hauled gravel as soon as Doug fixed the truck. The front looks very good now to what it did. Mrs. Roney's mother-in-law went away so now she has to quit so to take care of the children. So now I'm alone again. My, I do have the darndest times. I wish Ruth was back. Chet Ruff brought a ring from some guy but he bought a real stone for $1.50. I told him I thought he bought a rock. Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1937 The roof leaked in four places and we were forced to move flour, crackers, etc. and swamp out water. Fairly busy today and an awful big mail. Certainly missed Mrs. Roney. Wonder how long she will be gone. Home early and will read for a while. Uncle Louie was in today on his way home from Seattle. Rudy and Sundstroms were in also. Rudy looks fine. Boy have we had some serious rain fall this past week/I have a basement that leaks in one corner and I know all about cleaning up water. At least I have a shop vacuum that sucks up water and a dehydra- tor. I bet Mary would have loved to have those items. Thank you for Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons This movie poster is from the James Cagney movie the Thelers saw this week in 1937. 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 12 years. She can be emailed at clydeneh@ wavecable.com. .Compaq .HP .Blackberry .Handspring • Casio .Dell .Palm & MORE Ba e esP s. We'll keep you smiling in 20151 DENTAL ARTS Hi i1[1|'| W:I lk~lf,.t I[ID ~1 ilililllil]l ~1i Finances of Mason Are in Good Shape Report of State Examiner Shows This County Makes Good Showing A 360-Mile Highway Opening New Fields to Settlers and Tourists Hoquiam, February 16.- A 350 mile drive through beautiful scenery, lakes, sea and mountains, traversing valleys of fertile land, an automobile road clear around the mysterious Olympic mountains, the only unexplored section of the United States-such is, in brief, the story of the Olympic Highway that will interest the Seattle motorist, when completed. Of this great highway, 295 miles are constructed, and only fifty five miles of the road remain to be built, the section on the west side of the peninsula, between Lake Quiniault, in Northern Chehalis county, and The Forks, in Southwestern Clallam county, all but seven miles of it across the Qniniault Indian reservation and Western Jefferson county. As an attraction to the automobile tourist, the value of this great highway is hard to estimate. 75 YEARS AGO • Feb. 1, 1940 Matlock ¢ildman" Comes Out From Behind Beard Tarzan hasn't come to Mason County, for Marshall Sohi lays no claim to the ape-like instincts of the famous comic strip character. The gangling, six-foot-five-inch 21-year-old youth, son of the radio entertainer of the same name may have communed pretty closely with nature in his tiny shack home in the woods near Matlock the past few weeks but that's as far as his Tarzan actions went. He hadn't introduced his face to a razor in those several weeks, so his hairy appearance no doubt contributed largely to the "Wildman" stories which circulated about town yesterday after Sheriff Gene Martin and Deputy Fred Hickson picked Sohl up for investigation. They found him living in a tiny shack he had made himself from cedar shakes. The shack, in fact, was so small that Sheriff Martin was curious just how Sohl managed to get inside to sleep. "Oh I just leave my legs sticking outside," he confided. : Honda Accident Kills Local Man David/klan Stroud, 41, Rt. 2, Box 52, Shelton, was killed when the Honda he was riding left the road and struck a tree early Sunday morning. The accident occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday on the Arcadia Road about four miles east of Shelton, the Washington State Patrol reported. The patrol said he was making a turn to the left when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree. He was taken to Shelton General Hospital by Hughes Ambulance where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Mr. Stroud had lived in this area 17 years and was engaged in ranching. gB~b3"| Df:l I~'f,.TKID ~JB h'lOiS]~IIg Cushman Buried in Snow Snow piled up so deep at Lake Cushman last week that law enforcement and emergency personnel were brought in to help trapped residents. Volunteers and lawmen used a snowmobile, a snowcat with treads and four-wheel-drive vehicles to reach every home in the area to check on people, and in some cases even deliver food and medicine. The Mason County Sheriffs Office kept officers and equipment in the Lake Cushman area Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week to assist those trapped by snow that had reached depths of three feet or more, Sheriff Bob Halter said. BIG "°,' WESTINGHOUSE ,,ELECTRIC direct ai~" flOW S ton =l ,rlc_ This advertisement appreared in the February 19, 1959 edition of the Mason County Journal