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VOLUME XXXIV. SHELTON, MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920 NO. ii i DEATH CLAIMS TWO OF GEORGE SIMPSON FAHILY .BOTtl MRS. EMMA SIMPSON AND SON SOL SUCCUMB TO IN- FLUENZA .,T POTLATCH HOME LIQUOR BROUGHT FINES Two cases in which "moonshine" figured more or less wm•e tried bo- fore Police Judge Hauptly, and the )rincipals drew fines as a result. James Frew, charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated, paid $131.50, and Ehner Gamfleld, an Olympia truckman, who exchanged his load of furniturc for a tank of booze aml became boisterous, was assessed $25 and costs for being ells- orderly. After a vali0000le of a week FIND ROAD PAVING with the best medical attention and DI] IlDIIITTI- - Mi;lled aid Sol Simpson, son oflGelte LI|IJO OUIJI,IIIllhP ARE Simpson, died at his home "n -I sw • ra , ,,,r,,, latch Friday morning, 1, eb1ary 20th, I ALL YAK IUU llllJll and was followed by his mother, Mrs. Emma Simpson, who passed away .... ,on Monday. Both became victims of LEWIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ±he inflluenza, and were unable to ABANDON PAVING PLAN-- )vercome its hold. Sol Simpson was first taken sick on -Friday, February 13th, and died just a" week later, February 20tlf. Fun- eraI selwices were held in the open air at the home on Sunday and the remains taken to the cemetery at Elma for interment. C. L. Gilbert conducted the service at the home and also at Elma. Mrs. Emma Simpson was stricken while caring for her son and forced to take to her bed on Sunday,. the 15th, and died on the followix)g Mon- (lay evening• She rallied after the death of her son and was able to arrange for his funeral, but later suffered a relapse which endel in her ,death. Funeral reld Hunday The funeral smwice was held Sun- ,day afternoon at the hall of Elma Chapter, Order Easter gtar, of which she was,a charter member, and in- :ferment made in the Elms cemetery• A large number of friends of the -family from Shelton and Mason County joined in the service which was conducted by Mr. Gilbert. Emma Lestina Simpson was born near Olympia, January 21, 1874, and her family moved to Elms when she was seven years old. She was mar- ried there to George Simpson Oc- tober 1, 1890, and moved to Kamilche where Mr. Simpson was superinten- (lent of the Blakely railroad, then affording the only passenger service between the Sound and Grays Har- bor. After the completion of the North(n Pacific and the Blakely railroad returned to its logging, Mr. Simpson&apos;s headquarters were m)ved to Mntlock. Later the family lived in Shelton a shm time, then moved to Potlatch. After several years spent in Ehna on the Simpson fmTn Pot- latch has been the family borne for the past six years, while Mr. Simpson wa r, periniendont of the Phoenix log'in operations. Was Patriotic Worker Mrs. Simp.on was nnnsual]v de- voted to her home and her children, but f(,md time t) sewe as chairman of the local ]ed Cross and 'to tako the lead in other calls of the war perin,1. She has ever been mindful o tho welfare of those about her, helpffl of the mothers and children of the employes, who will miss a kindly friend. Sol Simpson was born in New Ka- milche November 18, 1895, and ex- vept for the years of 1906-7 spent at school in Olympia, has always been at home, the idol of his mother and always thoughtful of his parents. Besides the sorrowing, and doubly- bereaved father and sister, Frances, are left two brothers and one sister of the deceased Mrs. Simpson, Hugh and Ernest and Miss Mamie Eaton. HALF MlP'00x' A m 00FOR CANADIAN TIMBER BY DOLLAR cOMPANY DAVE Mc'INTOSH, WHO LE,ARNED HERE. WIUI, MANAGE LOG- GING OPERATIONS Referoe, wasmade in Monday's isne f The Pro,ince to the lur- " ehse by th Candlan Robert Dollar C, nr)any of exteosive timber hold- This m;onrty coissted of the bold-: in's of Mr• 3". A. Smith at Cbnnlt- lar and the ,-'ib paid was $500.000 cash. Tho limit consists of 9000 n.c, of tlmbor 1,nds, six mile of rn;lwnv ,nnd cam-s ooeratlng on three siclos, with n claih, mtput of 150,000 feet. The m-onort, has a reputation of he'nlr one 0€ the most us-to-date nnd fines logging operations in the province. Th n-reh,,e wa ade by Mr. Melville l")ollr i- hhalf Of his 'com- nanv• Mr• D. Mclntosb is taking over ¢e man,ement of the |ogMng  on(rations. The logs dll be sawn lw tle Dollar fll at Dollm¢on on th north arm o the inlet. Mr. Smith, the fmTner owner of the limtt, is  resident of Van'(purer and ono. of the host known lo,gcrs of Brlti,h Colu,bn. The timber con- sts f fir and cedar of g,o4 cmM- 'itw. Boomin, rm,n¢ls fo thd.ltmlts nve been maintained at Pot Mo0dv. qe l;mlts ,re stretched alon the Comfitlam river and the logs are easily got out. The connty commissione,m hold hetr relar monthly meeting next Monday March 1st. . ! . SAY THEY CANNOT &F- FORD TO PAVE WITH GOLD Winlock, Feb. 25.--The Lewis coun- ty commissioners have abandoned the proposed paving'of the Winlock-Cow- litz road under tile Donahoe road law, petitions for which were recently presented to the board of residents of the district affected. Construc- tion bids were recently opened by the commissioners and the lowest bid submitted was $45,500 above the es- timated cost. As the matter now stands the pro- perry owners will have to present new petitions for the. improvement but it is thought probable that no further action will be taken toward the paving until,, construction 'costs are reduced. As one commissioner put it,"Good roads are needed, but the people can't afford to pave with $20 gold pieces." GOODRO LOGGING COMPANY ADDING STEEL ROAD The Goodro Logging' Company re- cently purchased a locomotive and enough steel to lay several miles of track between their present works and Walker's Landing. Track is now being laid between the rails of the tramroad now in use and will soon be ready for the locomotive. Mr. Goodro has secured enough timber near his present works to insure work for several years and will dou- ble the force as well as the future outputxof logs from the camp. SHELTON SHIPPING POINT Six cars of shingles from the In- gersoll Mill went out by carferry Monday and next trip will bring in two cars of ,';tcel for the Simpson Logging. Compahy, for use in ex- tending the railroads. For the next trip out the ferry will have six loaded cars, three of shingles, one contain- ing the dismantled Isabella shingle mill and two loaded with hat-d wooci lumber from the Skokomish mill. STATE OF WASHINGTON LEADS IN WHEAT YIELDS ISLAND COUNTY LANDS MEDALS AND CASIt PRIZES FOR 1919 WHEAT 'Frid DeWilde of Oak Harbor, Wash., takes the gold medal and $1,000 cash prize with five acres of wheat which averaged 83.96 bushels per acre; John LeSourd takes the silver medal and $500 in cash with 81.33 bushels per acre; and Justus L. Hancock the bronze medal and $250 in cask with 81.24 per acre. Island County notified The Farm Journal, when the contest was announced, that she was going after those wheat prizes hammer and tongs; and she got them all. The northwest corner of Washing- ton captured all the wheat prizes, the northeast comer of Maine, Aroo- stock County, captured all the potato urized. But right there the blanketing of prizes stopped. In the case of corn, oats, chiton and alfalfa no one state got more than a single prize; and the contest was a stiff one, par- ticuIarly with corn. This great national crop contest was announced in 1918, long before any one believed the war could be ended that year. It was intended to stimulate production of six great crops--corn, oats, wheat potatoes, cotton and alfalfa--each of whi'ch would help to win tle war and to feed or clothe humanity after it was" over. There were gold, silver and bronze medals and prizes of $1,000 $500 and $250 for the best three yields of each of the six crops. Well the tumult and the shouting are over; and Washington stands out lreeminently as the wheat-growing section and Island County as the best in Washington. People who once thought of Washington as the (pun- tit which prods(edith;(fly apples and Klondikers will learn something about its real agHeultural possibilities--and :when they add to that knowledge a bit of information about her glorious climate, so largely responsible for her wheat, Washington will win Other prizes tha those which The Farm Journal so cheerfully sends her. BECKONING HANDS BIG TIPlBER DEAL HERE INVOLVES NEAR $300,000 2360 ACRES OF TIMBER NEAR KAMILCHE PURCHASED BY FREDSON BROTHERS LOGGING CO. One of the largest timber transac- tmns listed in Mason County for sev- eral years past is noised in the real estate transfers this week' involving I the transfer from the Tacoma Mill Company to the Fredson Brothers Logging Company of 2360 acres of timber lands in township 19, range our west. The company has recently increas- ed its capital stock in preparation for more extensive logging operations, and the extension of the railroad in- to ncw timber. While the purchase price of the timber is not indicated ether than by the revenue' stamps atttached to the ded, it is not far from $i00,000. The lands lies north of the Ka. milch( valley and were left untouch- ed by the early clay operations from the Blakely Raih'oad. I IECES PAVING WITH $20 GOLD ' '' It wili be noted that Grays Harbor ind perhaps other counties are beginning to doubt the advis- ability of going ahead with the extensive highway paving plans intended, if two prices must be paid for the work. If they feel, as we do in Mason County, that there is a'limit beyond which they will not go, it will at least have the tendency of holding down bidders to a reasonable figure which will in- sure them a fair profit without placing too high a premium on the uncertainties of labor. The price of .cement should be fairly certain, and as the labor required in paving work need not be particularly skilled, the present wage is not likely to be exceeded this summer. The Journal is inclined to think that because • there are but few contractors equipped with the necessary nmchinery and financial backing to hart- dle these large paving contracts, much of the in- creased bidding is due to their desire to take advan- tage of the situation. The remedy lies in competi- tion, and this can be brought about by encouraging some of our local small contractors to join hands in a concern large enough to undertake a contract and to carry it.through with local support. They could do the work with home labor and largely avoid the floating trouble-inaking element, and would gain the needed experience with their first contract to fit them for the future work of the county. The county could spare several of its large trucks on rental, and the contractors would only need to invest in a mixing machine. Elsewhere appears the call of the state high- way board for bids for highway work, and we are hoping that some of our local men will take heed of the suggestion above offered and get in the game-- breaking the road-contractors' combination and doing a good job for Mason County as well as mak- ing a nice profit for themselves. The first three miles of paving on the Olympic highway, and also two miles of gravel to connect the Navy Yard high- way are called for. The work must be well done according to specifications and under supervision of state and county inspectors. If we must pay a big price--within the limit--for this work let it be to home contractors. NO SNOW IN OLYMPICS Robert Doherty, who nmkes hi:' home at the camp five miles above Lake Cushman and operates an ore pack train, was in town vesterdav returning from a trip to" Tacoma. Mr. Doherty commented on the very €lry season,, and stated that there is less snow in the Olympics this win- ter than ever before in the memory of the ohter residents. Whether this shortage will be felt in the flow of water clown the Skokomish Hver net summer remains to he seen. AIRPLANE PATROLS WILL LOCATE FOREST FIRES THIS SEASON FOUR TWO-PASSENGER PLANES WILL OPERATE OUT OF CAMP LEWIS OVER WOODED PARTS OF STATE Airplanes promise to be common birds in this section hereafter, when the four air-patrols, each composed of three two-seater DeHavillands, will operate out of Camp Lewis during the forest fire season this year in the sewice of the forestry department. The present plan calls for air for- est patrols to sail high over the wood- ed sections of the state every day, and each plane will carry a wireless operator to send word of fires located in the woods. Major Albert D. Smith, who arriv- ed last Frtday in Seattle after a rec- ord flight from Marchfield, Cal., will have charge of this service. Doubt- less the fine landing places afforded by the prairies in this vicinity will be taken advantage of occasionally. ENGLAND SERIOUSLY ATTACKING NATIONAL PROHIBmON QUESTION BRITISH NEWSPAPERS POINT OUT THAT PROHIBITION IN THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN FAILURE Oxford, England, Jan. 81. It has been said that the political issues of Great Britain are usually the American issues of five years be- fore. 1 am not prepared to defend this view as a whole• Often, I think, the order is reversed. But there is one great exeeption before the Brit- ish peol)le to(hey which bears out the :'.xi<>m. 1 mean the prohil)itim ques- RAISE FLU BAH AFTER TWENTY DAY SHUT-DOWN SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY AND LOCAL ,ACTIVITIES AGAIN TAKEN UP WITH EI)I - I)EMIC ON DECLINE After existing as a closed town for the past twenty (lays the flu ban was this week raised by Dr. N. E. Roberts local health officer, and the various businesses and activities which were abandoned at that time will be again taken up. The local schools which have been closed for .three weeks will open Monday morning and churches will hold sewices on Sunday. The Lyric theatre gave its first show on Wed- nesday evening. The health officer reports the epi-" demic well on the decline with very few new cases• Locally the cases are all well in hand but there are several rather serious ones in some of the country districts where the disease hit much harder than it did in town. Last week there was a large number of cases reported in the Stadium district. In his opinion every pre- caution should be taken to ward off colds and not allow the flisease to ret a foot-hold. To date the influenza has been the cause of only four' deaths within the county. ELKS PUT HORNS ON FOURTEEN LOCAL MEN IN OLYMPIA MONDAY FOUR MORE CANDIDATES UN- ABLE TO BE LOCATED AT OPPORTUNE MOMENT Fourteen local candidates were ini- tiated into the Elks' Lodge at Olym- pia on Momtay night• Four others made the trip to the Capital City for that purpose were unable to be locat- ed at the final moment and so missed the ceremony and will have the horns put on them at a later date. Twenty veteran members of the lodge from here made the trip to Olympia to see that the neophytes rode the "goat" in the proper manner. The ceremony was followed by an oyster feed at the Elks' hall. Eigh- teen gallons of local oyster' furnished the feed for the evening. The crowd arri,ed home at an early hour Tuesday morning. It!on. :m,rica's experiment is. novel and 05 so large a scale that was bound to attract a great deal of attention on this side of the ocean. I,,'al conditions, too, have ten(tedl to tn'inff the question into re'emi- nence. During tle war ri;'id /ctric- iom v,',we Iflaced upon the sale of liqtior, both as to hours and qu:mi, ity. The good results of this policy, i eomnarativcly small, are 'enerally tadmitted. Lord Northcliffe's. papers, and especially the Daily Mail, trove been strong anti-prohibition, yet the Daily Mail Ahnanac of 1919 attri- [butes the greater pm't of the de- [crease in crime (|uring wartime to /the restrictions I have inentipned. Iewspape Unfriendly So far as the press is concerned this is almost an isolated instance. Most of the best newspapers in Eng- I land have not only been unfriendy toward prohibltion, but in my opinion have engaged in a deliberate cam- paign of misrepresentation regard- ing the movement. For example; the Times, whose articles on foreign af- fairs are usually considered author- ira(ire, published early 'in December an article pointing out that pr0hibt-: (ion in America was entirely ineffec- tive, since a liquor dealer ih New York had written to distillers in Scotland that he could use a consid- erable quantity of whiskey at Christ- mas time if prompt delivery could be guaranteed. Anyone .familiar with the situation could tell .at a glance that the order was given on the chance that the wartime act would be declared unconstitutional, giving a few wet weeks in December and January. But the article made no mention 'of the special circumstances and seemed deliberately framed to give the idea that the constitutional amendment was already in force, and was ineffective. Examples of this sort 9enid be quoted indefinitely. During the last week or two the pre.s has quieted, down considerably. , on the snb3ect, and has even pub- l;shed some favorable material. Lord Leverhume, the great soa manufacturer, returned the other day from a visit to the United States, and ave to the press a statement in which he praised the restflts b' prohibition in America, and oointe,i to the great financial saving it was effecting. "Tley, our creditors," he said, "are saving money. We, tlieir' debtors are wasting it." So serions is the economic situation here that I suspect the press are afraid they may find it in a few months neces- aar.v to torn around and support the movement. In America we used to think that (Continued on page 8) so T!e can(lidatcs from here were: it Dr. N. E. Roberts, George Michael, Gilbert Valley, Will Valh, y, Maurice Needimm, Purl Jemison, J. E. Angle, Edward Carlson, Frank Fredson John ,,om, tl. E. Drew, P. H. Canty, Earl 3,)hnson, 3. G. lia!ler, C. ],. Johnson. R. I. Kneeland, W. E. t'arker and Jolin Fro;well of Union. TO I)JITST TIMBER ASESSMENT County Assessor Shelton is prepar- ing to go over the county cruise on the timber lands of Mason County this spring with the view of checking up the inequalities which have bees found in pat yeai's and equalizing the taxable values of"the timber, whicl in 'some ' sections has 'been placed much lower than in others. While the higher ratings will not be disturbed the timbe found not to be bearing its fair proportion of taxes will be brought up. A readjustment :iS  also pla,nned for the improved lands where more or less inequality has been found o exist. Under the recent laws all property is supposed to be taxed at fifty per cent of it rear value, MISCREANT STEALS ' BATTERY FROM CAR .. OF SEATTLE VISITOR LEAVES CAR STRANDED NEAR ItERE---RErI RNS NEXT DAY "l'O FIND IT DISMANTLED BY THIEVES " Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cotter;It, accom- pan;eel by Dorothy and Donald Red- inbaugh, Misses Hazel'Cole and Ev- elyn Berg, motored over from Se- attle Saturday to spend Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. Thomas. That is, they ahnost got here when their car broke down and stranded them. E. D. Cotterill came over from Se- attle next day with a new wheel, but their troubles were not over for some miscreant sneaked the battery and other movables from the car dur- ing the night, which had to be re- newed'before the party could return. Mason County people enjoy a good reputation for leaving other people,s things alone, but there are so many passing strangers these days that nothing is safe that isn't piked down, Ater hree weeks of enforced va- cation the Shelton schools .will open next Monday if the health condiion continue to improve as now,