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Thursday, March 1,2018 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-17 HISTORY AT.4 GLANCE The following is from a memoir written by Chester Rosenberg, who was born in February 1895 in Shelton. He grew up in the Agate area, near Chapman's Cove, also known as Swindal" s Cove - a channel about a mile long extending eastward from Oak- land Bay. In earlier days, we drove to town with horses and buggies or wagons, taking produce to sell and bringing home needed things and the mail until a rural route was established. We usually went no more than once a week, because it took a whole day to make the round trip of 9 miles each way. There were hitching posts and feeding mangers at Lumbermen's, for people to tie up their horses while shop- ping. W'hen cars first came into use, the horses would just about panic when meeting one. If there were two people in the wagon, one would get out and take the horse by the bridle to calm it. It was really scary if you met a car where the bank was high, just beyond the city dock. The road was new, no trees on the lower side, so you looked right down to the water. If mother was along, she usu- ally got out and walked until the excitement was over. In later years we started go- ing by boat -- it was about 4 miles to town by water. If you were down bay and wanted to go to Shelton, you started on the incoming tide to get to town before it turned, then tied up at the dock and walked up the boardwalk to town and did your shopping. If you bought just a few light items, you carried them back to the dock. If your items were too heavy to carry, both the stores (Thomas O'Neill and Lumbermen's Mercantile) delivered to the dock a couple Thomas O'Neill Store, on the did its shopping. of times in the afternoon. If you had brought any produce to sell, you put it on the dock and the delivery man took it back on his return trip. The trick was to get your supplies to the dock and make it back to your destination on the outgoing tide. If you didn't, you were in for some hard work bucking the tide, as you had no motor, only oars. Some- times in the fall and winter the fog got thick on the wa- ter. When you got away from shore, every way you looked seemed the same. To know where you were, you paid strict attention to sounds. To the right you might hear a dog northeast corner of First Street Courtesy of the Mason County Historical Museum and Railroad Avenue, is where Chester Rosenberg's family bark, farther on to the left a asked the folks to go for a ride going anywhere in particu- cow moo or a rooster crow, etc. to Harstine Island. On the lar. Mr. Daniels was really There weren't many places on agreed to Sunday, we were up frustrated by then, and he the inlet back then, and you early and away. Everything could cuss pretty good, so he knew who owned them, and went fine till the motor died. answered, "No, &#%%@*, no, the sounds would help guide The tide was going out, so just going with the tide." you in the right direction. In we drifted merrily with the the summer if I missed the current till we got to Skoo- Chester Rosenberg served tide I had to wait two or three kum Point and drifted into in World War I and was a hours before I could get into a whirlpool, where we went charter member of the Agate the cove, so I would run the round and round. We had a Grange. He, his wife, Clara, boat ashore and anchor till the rowboat along, so we got into and their two children lived in tide came in. While waiting, I it and towed the launch outSkokomish Valley, where they would pick up small Olympia of the whirlpool, then kept on raised Christmas trees. Ches- oysters, open them and slurp drifting until the tide turned ter died in April 1985. them down. and we drifted toward home. I remember my first ride in Along the way someone came Jan Parker is a researcher a Naphtha Launch, so called out in a row boat, to see if with the Mason County His- because they used naphtha- they could be of help, and torical Museum. She can be lenefor fuel. Mr. Daniels had asked Mr. Daniels if he wasreached at parkerj@hctc.com. THAT'S OLD NEWS March 1, 1920 Flu Ban Ended After Twent, After existing as a closed town for the past twenty days, the flu ban was this week raised by Dr. N. 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 services on Sunday. The health officer reports the epidemic 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. To date the influenza has been the cause of only four deaths within the county. March 2, 1939 Transfusion Bank Scheme of Red As a life-saving measure for emer- gency accident cases, the Mason County Red Cross chapter may at- tempt to establish a blood transfusion "bank" to serve Shelton and Mason County. The general plan would be to list under the various blood types there are, those people willing to do- nate blood to accident victims need- ing transfusions to save life or speed recoveries. All individuals willing to aid such a plan would undergo tests to determine what type of blood they possess. Then the names would be catalogued under the various blood types so that physicians could have at their fingertips sources of any type of blood needed by an accident victim. In emergency cases where time is a highly important element in saving of life, such a "bank" would be of great assistance. March 3, 1949 Hoodsport Library To Open The Hoodsport Public Library, a branch of the Regional Public Library serving Thurston and Mason coun- ties, opens Saturday in the Hood- sport Mercantile. This new branch library will be open every day from 8 to 8. A constantly-changing col- lection of some 600 books will be on the shelves. There will be books to read for pleasure, novels, mysteries, Westerns and love stories; books to help you in your work and with per- sonal problems; books about hobbies and books for all ages and for varied tastes. Additional books will be avail- able upon request. Once a week, a trained librarian from the headquar- ters in Olympia will fill requests and bring other new books to change the collection. Residents of Mason County may get library cards without charge. The same library card may be used in the Hoodsport Branch Library and on the bookmobile when it starts running on its regular sched- ule beginning March 21. March 2, 1959 Miss Mason County Contest Called Off The contest to pick a Miss Mason County, which was planned for this Saturday night, has been cancelled. The event had to be called off because of a lack of entries and sponsors. Compiled from the Journal archive by Linda Frizzell