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THAT’S NEWS
Feb. 20, 1920
Mason County residents
urged to observe
National Song Week
The National, Week of Song begins Feb. 22, and
its observance is urged as a special phase of com-
munity life. It comes at the close of the 10—week
course in thrift education and it is hoped that the
week will be closed with a big thrift program and
community sing. All organizations, such as lodges,
granges, women’s clubs, etc. are asked to help in
arranging for this community singing as well as
all teachers in the community centers. Information
has been sent out by the school superintendent to
all the schools which are in session throughout the
country regarding the Song Week, with instruc-
tions to carry on the program as far as possible
next week. In the schools which are closed on ac-
count of the influenza epidemic, the work cannot
be taken up at this time, but in these it is expected
that something will be done when they start again.
Notice of this National Week of Song has been sent
by the state office and below is a suggested list of
songs to be used with others that may be pleasing
to different communities.
Patriotic Songs:
' Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean; Star Spangled
Banner, America, Song of a Thousand Years, The
Battle»Cry of Freedom, Battle Hymn of the Repub—
lic, Dixie Land, Tenting Tonight, My Native Land,
Just Before the Battle, Our State song to the tune
of Maryland, My Maryland; Mt. Vernon Bells
Sacred Songs
Rock of Ages, Work, for the Night is coming;
Holy, Holy, Holy; Nearer, My God to Thee; Onward
Christian Soldiers; Come, Thou Almighty King;
- How Firm a Foundation; Jesus, Lover of My Soul;
Coronation, He Leadeth Me; I Need Thee Every
Hour; Precious Name; The Home Over There; Blest
Be; The Tie That Binds; God Be With You
Songs of Sentiment and Home
Speed Away; Home, Sweet Home; All Through
the Night; My Old Kentucky Home; My Darling
Nelly Gray; Auld Lang Syne; There’s Music in the
Air; Juanita, The Last Rose of Summer; Old Folks
at Home; Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes;
Love’s Old Sweet Song; Last Night the Nightin-
gale Woke Me; Believe Me; Of All Those Endear-
ing Young Charms; Loch 'Lomond; The Old Oaken
Bucket; Annie Laurie; Robin Adair; Ben Bolt;
Sweet Afton; Santa Lucia; Spanish Cavalier; Over
the Summer Sea; Jingle Bells; The Wearing of the
Green; Keep the Home Fires Burning; The Long,
Long Trail; Silver Threads Among the Gold; Joan of
Arc; The Rose of No Man’s Land; Perfect Day, Blue-
bird; When You and I Were Young; Maggie; Wild
Irish Rose; Where the River Shannon Flows. ’
Feb. 21, 1939
Sanitorium topic for
committee action
Thursday»
Further consideration of the problems and pos—
sibilities of enlargement of the Oakhurst Sanito-r
rium for the treatment of tubercular patients as
a joint-county institution will be aired Thursday
of this week when a special committee composed
of one member of the board of county commission-
ers from Kitsap, Mason, Grays Harbor, Thurston
and Pacific Counties is held at the sanitorium.
The entire Mason County board gathered with the
five-county group last Thursday at Elma to discuss
possibilities of the project. They heard Dr. Harry C.
Watkins, Grays Harbor county health officer, speak
on the advisability of properly caring for tubercular
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patients in a sanitorium from the early stages, the
grave danger of spreading the disease through the
home treatment, and emphasizing that perhaps
prevention is much cheaper than the cure. A survey
showed that the respective counties were caring
for patients at the Oakhurst Sanitorium as follows:
Mason 2, Kitsap 8, Thurston 10, Pacific 15 and
Grays Harbor 60.
Feb. 17, 1949
Color film to show big
game of Yukon country
Two thousand feet of motion pictures in natural
colors showing big—game animals of the vast, rich,
virtually untouched Yukon country will be shown
in the senior high school auditorium next Tuesday
night at eight o’clock under the auspices of the Ma-
son County Sports and Skeet Club, giving this com-
munity’s sporting populace an unexcelled chance
to do a little armchair big-game hunting. One of
America’s outstanding Wildlife motion pictures,
“From Out of the Yukon,” was filmed by James H.
bond of Portland during five months he spent in
the Arctic gathering material for a book. Filmed in
gorgeous color, the pictures show an abundance of
live game, such as caribou, moose, grizzly bear and
white sheep in their natural habitat. The film lasts
one hour and shows the country in which‘Mr. Bond
gathered the material which went into his book of
the same name, “From Out of the Yukon.”
Feb. 19. 1959
Sheriff’s office has
monkey business?
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office captured a
monkey last Sunday morning on Arcadia Road
after receiving a call earlier that day. The monkey
was running around the area when found by the
officers. They brought it back to the jail and then
left him at Dr. Larson’s animal hospital. The report
from the sheriff’s office did not say. whether or not
the monkey was fingerprinted or had a previous po—
lice record. The monkey did not have any comment
concerning his apprehension.
Feb. 23, 1967 ,
Juvenile runaways
caught here
The Mason County Sheriffs Office picked up
five juvenile runaways from Seattle last week. The
group was stopped about three miles south of Al—
lyn on Highway 3. One of the youths was a recent
escapee from Green Hill Academy and the other
four were from the Seattle area. All five were taken
to the juvenile detention home in Thurston County
where they were being held for Seattle authorities.
Feb. 19, 1976 '
Equipment explosion
wrecks PUD 3 Bayshore
substation
An explosion at the Mason County PUD 3 Bay-
shore substation in the early morning hours Satur-
day caused between $30,000 and $50,000 damage
and left a large section of the county without elec-
tric power for several hours. The cause of the ex-
plostion of the equipment has not been determined,
but it was some type of equipment failure under
oil and could have been caused from moisture geta
vandalism or sabotage. The first outage occurred
shortly before midnight Friday night when a switch
at the substation kicked out. PUD crews put the
switch back in operation, but it immediately kicked
out again and they began patrolling the lines, look-
ing for the problem. While they were patrolling, the
explosion which took the substation out occurred.
The substation feeds the Agate, Lake Limerick, Ma-
son Lake, Harstine Island, Bayshore and Highway
Three areas. All of these areas were without power
for about three hours'before service was restored.
The explosion caused a fire which was controlled
by crews from Fire District Five who were called
by residents in the area of the substation who saw
the explOsion and fire. Many members of the PUD
crews worked from Friday morning until about 8
p.m. Saturday getting power restored and many
were called out again Sunday when the high winds
caused problems. ’
Feb. 18, 1999
Slide menacing several
homes near Lilliwaup
A mudslide that hit last Thursday one mile north
of Lilliwaup along US Highway 101 threatens to
undermine three houses and two trailers, according
to a Mason County Building Department official.
Residents of two of the houses have been notified
not to occupy them. The department is concerned
for their safety and the safety of the buildings. The
third house and trailers are summer residences and
were unoccupied. The topsoil on a layer of clay was
saturated by heavy rains and began moving along a
500-foot swath and is still moving. There’s a series
of fractures in the ground in the area that measure
up to eight inches deep. No one is really sure what’s
underneath. One of the residents forced out by
the slide reports the slide took out her power and
phone lines and dropped part of the driveway to her
house some six feet. Crews from the Washington
State Department of Transportation worked Friday
morning clearing mud and debris from US. 101.
They were back at work there Tuesday, cleaning
ditches and scooping out mud, silt, stumps and de-
bris from a roadside bank. By Wednesday morning,
some 400 yards of debris had been trucked from the
slide area to the department’s maintenance facility
in Potlatch. '
l Feb. 21, 2019
Public hearing for tiny
homes will be March ‘1 9
After months of lease negotiations and impas-
sioned public testimony, the Shelton City Council
is scheduled to address a proposed tiny homes com-
plex for veterans at its regular meeting at 6 p.m.
March 19 at the Shelton Civic Center. The council
is slated to consider the proposal for a second read—
ing at its meeting at 6 p.m. April 2. The nonprofit
organization Panza established a 30—unit Quixote
Village in Olympia for homeless people, and is
working to establish a similar 30—unit tiny home
complex across the street from Christmas Village
on North 13th Street after receiving a $3 million
grant from the state. Panza is trying to work out a
deal to lease land recently surplussed by the city of
Shelton. Supporters and detractors of the plan have
been stepping up to the microphones for months at
thecity council meetings. Supporters say the tiny
homes will provide homeless veterans safety and
services. Opponents say they are concerned the
units are near five schools and several retirement
communities, and that the veterans would pose a
threat to them.
I Compiled from the archives of the Shelton-Mason
County Journal by Linda Frizzell.