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The Nan in the
Window
will tell you about it, if you haven't already heard
from the man 011 the street.
They are coming back. Most of our 1914 Christ
mas Club members have enrolled with us again, and
others, too. The best argument we have is increasing
numbers.
A well-known citizen of Olympia praises our
Christmas Club plan. He says it is the easiest and
surest way to have money for Christmas
Why struggle through the holidays every year?
For that new pipe organ; for that new church,
our Christmas Club points the way. Remember,
there is power in numbers.
All easy way to pay your taxes. An easy way to
throw off the burden of Christmas and to make of
it a season of happiness, free from the worrisome
thought of finance.
Our Christmas Club Still Open
5c makes you a member
You do not need to be a depositor to join. Enroll
while you can —NOW. You cannot become a mem
ber after January 4th.
OLYMPIA
NATIONAL
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GOOD SURROUNDINGS
/>v in the grocery line are always
on Ba * e ' n our establishment. »■
The Bplce that ' B ntce>
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I And the mustard that's lit
are among our fresh seasonings of
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\ \T~ OUR FINE GROCERIES
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\ an enviable fame. He who won't
\ \ \ be advised can't be helped, but we
can llelp you " you wlll purchase
C (2'***' our good tea, coffee, etc.
SCOTT'S GROCERY
Cor. 4th ft Adams Sts. ' '' Olympla. Wash.
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TH E WASHINGTON STANDARD. DECEMBER 23,1014
| ADDITIONAL COUNTY NEWS |
LACEY
A large number of young folks en
joyed skating last week.
Mrs. Roy Porter and daughter of
Olympia attended the program given
at tlie school last week.
A large number of the students of
■St. Martin's College have left for
I their homes to spend the holidays.
The entertainment at Union Mills
was well attended and everybody re
ported a good time.
• « * •
TENINO
Tenino's new state bank, organized
last week and known as the Citizens'
Bank of Tenino, opened for business
this week in the rooms formerly oc
cupied by the defunct Tenino State
Bank. It is capitalized for SIO,OOO
and the officers are S. M. Peterson,
president; P. C. Kibbe, vice-president,
and J. J. Roberts, cashier, and besides
these men the other directors are H.
J. Keithahn, George Mayes and Oscar
Neuerberg. The other stockholders
are John S. Baker of Tacoma, J. S.
Barclay, W. J. Cass, G. F. Schultz,
Dr. F. W. Wichman, John E. Zenner,
David Copping, T. F. Mentzner, Del
Axtell, Myrick & Kinsey, N. W.
Everts, A. A. Battista, J. H. Chatter
ton, John Deshaler, N. Clowers, Fred
Dammonn and Harry Gorline.
C. Frank Smith and family have
returned from Victoria, where Mr.
Smith had been working during the
summer.
City Engineer C. O. Mannes has
just completed a new map of Tenino.
Miss Sadie Kramer and Louis Rair
don were quietly married at the home
of the bride's parents Tuesclajf of last
week, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. Mr. Miller. They went on a
honeymoon trip to British Columbia.
Miss Bertha Hill and Mr. and~Mrs.
Spink of Seattle were recent visitors j
of the Morsbachs in Bucoda. ,
The Bucoda Sunday school and
church are uniting in an old-fash
ioned Christmas tree celebration at
the church Christmas Eve, the move-,
ment having been Btarted by Miss
Cassie Cales, the Sunday school super
fntendent.
• • • •
Edward Horton, the 17-year-old
boy who was taken Into custody last
Saturday by Sheriff Fred McCorkle,
charged with having stolen an auto
matic rifle two months ago from the
M. A. Wages' home, about three miles
north of' town on the Gull Harbor
road, will be turned over to the
authorities of the Chehalis training
school by the sheriff, who communi
cated with them the forepart of this
week. Horton was first sent to the
training school about three years ago,
after having been convicted of rifling
the till of Ramberg's grocery store,
on East Fourth street, and was re
leased last May. He admitted the
theft of Wages' gun, the sheriff says,
and took the officer to his home on
the Eastside, where the leather gun
case was found. The gun was recov
ered from a local second-hand store,
where it had been recognized by a
neighbor of Wages, who later identi
fied it. The proprietors of the store
said Horton had traded the gun for
an old Colt's revolver.
• • • .
Fourteen guests assembled at the
home of Mrs. Mary Trosper in
Brighton Park last Saturday evening,
when her granddaughter, Mrs.
Howard Thayer, entertained in her
honor. The evening was delightfully
spent, the hostess serving delicious
refreshments.
• * • •
An error was made in last week's
issue when it was stated that the
Good Roads' association of Road Dis
trict No. 1 would meet at the Lacey
school house Christmas afternoon to
nominate three candidates for road
supervisor of the district. The meet
ing is to be held Saturday afternoon,
December 26, Instead of Christmas
day, and every taxpayer in the district
is urged to attend it.
* • * *
First planned to be held Christmas
eve, but unavoidably postponed, the
Christmas celebration for the chil
dren of Tumwater, provided for in
the will of the late Leopold F.
Schmidt Sr., is to be held at the
Tumwater clubhouse at 2:30 Sunday
afternoon, with Miss Philippine
Schmidt in charge. Every child in
Tumwater is expected to attend—
well-to-do and poor alike, and there's
to be a Christmas tree and a Sanfa
Claus, too, and candles and nuts and
fruits and remembrances for all
alike.
• • * •
Three cougars and a big brown
bear were killed one day last week
in Chehalis county, just across the
Thurston line, on the north branch
of Porter creek in the Black hills, by
Henry Munson, an employe of the
i..cCleary Timber company.
puyallup valley
OBJECTS TO japs
TRUCK FARMERS SAV THEY CAN
NOT COMPETE WITH
ORIENTALS.
The aid of the state legislature in
preventing further inroads by Japa
nese truck gardeners and dairymen
was requested by Henry Benthien, re
tired truck farmer of Fife, Pierce
county, at a recent meeting of the
legislators-elect of that county, when
he told them that he was forced to
retire from business because he could
not successfully compete with the
alien truck growers. This is the sec
ond time within two months that
prominent farmers or business men
have complained of the Japanese in
vasion of the Puyallup valley.
1 Mr. Benthien was one of the pio
neer farmers of the Puyallup valley
and one of the first farmers to engage
in growing truck for Tacoma and
other markets on a large scale, and
his story carried great weight among
his hearers, most of whom knew him
personally. He began modestly about
27 years ago and built up an exten
sive farm. He declared that he
forced to retire two years ago after
having lost $9,000 In four years try
ing to compete with Japanese gar
deners.
The statement that a Fife farmer
was unable to dispose of his apple
crop in Tacoma until he had turned
the fruit over to a Japanese startled
the legislators. Another startling
statement was that after the Fife dis
trict had expended $20,000 In enlarg
ing the school, on the opening day in
September it was found that 13 of the
25 pupils in the first grade were Jap
anese children. Mr. Benthien de
clared these children were really sub
jects as they were regis
tered at birth by the Japanese consul
and a record kept of their life and
whereabouts.
Mr. Benthien argued against the
leasing of land to the Japanese and
intimated that the farmers would in
troduce a bill in the legislature pro
hibiting th" owning or leasing of
land by aliens until they had declared
their intention of becoming citizens
of the United States. He referred to
the California alien land bill and de
clared that the Jap dairymen had
driven the white dairymen out of the
White river district.
"The Japs don't pay taxes, yet we
build t)ie roads for them," do.lared
Mr. Benthien. "They say they pay
rent, which is the same as taxes, but
that does not answer the question
fairly. There is a firm in Auburn
making a specialty of 99-year leases
to the Japs. They cannot own land,
but their children can, so they import
a number of wives and the land is
held in trußt for the children. When
it comes to the labor problem there
are hundreds of white men out of
work; but have you ever seen a Jap
out of work? We could compete with
farmers working eight hours a day,
but we cannot compete with the Japs
working 16 hours a day, and Sundays.
SOUTH UNION.
Mr. Fred Schulze, who has been
sick this last week, is improving.
An entertainment and Christmas
tree was held in the church Christ
mas Eve. ,
Quite a number of South Union
people attended the shooting match
Sunday at A. Koch's
Mr. Henry Gunstone spent Satur
day in Olympia doing his Christmas
shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ferguson spent
Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. L.
R. Campbell.
Mrs. John Ismay spent Tuesday
with Mrs. Lou Randall.
Miss Esther Bergh is spending her
vacation with her parents.
Mrs. A. Q. Hopkins returned to Se
attle Thursday.
Mrs. John Gunstone and daughters
spent Sunday with Mrs. W. K. Ball.
South Union was well represented
in Olympia last Saturday.
A. G. West and family spent Sun-
Jay with Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Glasford.
• • • •
PLEASANT GLADE.
Miss Margaret Cook, teacher in the
Pleasant Glade school, is spending the
holidays with her parents in Kent.
Mrs. John Rodgers arrived home
Tuesday after a three weeks' visit in
Seattle and Tacoma.
Mrs. J. R. Bobbins and son Frank
are spending the holidays with rela
tives in the vicinity of Seattle.
Mrs. H. C. Ellis, who has been very
sick with an abcess in her head, is
better now.
Mrs. Joe Longmire spent Christmas
with her husband at St. Peter's hos
pital, the day being their twenty-ninth
wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Spencer of
Taylor are here spending a few weeks
with the former's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram Spencer.
Mrs. George Sleater has been on the
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A happy New Yew- to all, and many of them. We wish to
thank our patrons for their appreciation of our efforts during
the past year. We know they are pleased with our groceries
and our methods; that makes us pleased. For the new year we
can promise to do no more thorn in the past, but we do promise
that our high standard of excellence shall be maintained and
to ask only a fair price for our good groceries. Begin the new
year right by trading at our store.
Our feed is clean. Our prices right.
REDER & PHILLIPS
207 East Fourth Street PHONE SOS-SIM
MORE EVIDENCES OF
PROSPERITY.
LOWELL, Mass. The Tre
mont and Suffolk cotton mills are
running 24 hours a day, having
begun last Monday. About 400
employes will be hired on the
extra orders. An expected de
mand for fabrics early in the year
is given as the reason for the in
crease in production.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Announce
ment of the sale of 24,200,000
pounds of flour to the government
of Holland has been made here
by the sales agent here for mills
in Kansas. The contract Involves
more than $600,000.
TOLEDO, Ohio—Contracts for
$500,000 worth of poles and the
same amount in tents have been
let to local companies by C. Vassa
darkis, of New York, Oreeg consul
general to the United States, and
a representative of the Pamagol
oupolous company, of Athens,
Greece, general contractors for the
Balkan states.
SEATTLE!—The contract for
supplying 1,200 portable bunga
lows to be used by Belgian
refugees whose homes have been
destroyed by the warring armies,
has been awarded to the Take-
Down Manufacturing company, of
this city. The order came from a
foreign power, presumably Eng
land, and calls for immediate de
livery. The bungalows will cost
approximately 9600,000. In the
fulfillment of the dFTSr the com
pany will purchase 5,000,000 feet
flr, 30,000 sashes and
doors, |12,000 worth of hardware
«nd expend about |200,000 for
labor.
i BELLINGHAM—The Whatcom
I Falls mills, one of the largest
, waterfront manufacturing plants
In the city, will start work De
| cember 28, after an enforced idle
ness of seevral months on account
i of a slack market. Approximately
250 men will go back to work.
: _____
' sick list the past week.
Mrs. Gates Avery is spending the
holidays in town.
Mrs. Fred Hawthorne's parents,
from Tacoma, are spending the holi
days here.
The Pleasant Glade Grange will
hold an open meeting Saturday even
ing, January 2, for the installation of
officers. Refreshments will be served.
Fred Robbins met with a painful
accident while out duck hunting
Tuesday when, as he attempted to
pull the boat in which he was rowing
up on the beach, a shotgun in the bot
tom of the boat was accidentally dis
charged, the shot striking his left arm
just below the elbow, inflicting a large
flesh wound. The injury is not con
sidered serious.
• « 4 •
On a bid of SIOO, J. M. Baker was
this week awarded a contract by the
county commissioners to clear, grub
and grade the Dale-Kelsey road from
its present terminus west to the east
line of William Dale's land, about two
miles north of the city in Orchard
Park. This road was established
three or four years ago, but this par
ticular portion of it had never been
opened for traffic.
many attend PETER
m'kenzie's funeral
PIONEER OF MUD BAY WAS
NATIVE OF CANADA—CAME
HERE IN 1864.
When the last words of the Im
pressive Masonic burial service were
said at the cemetery last Sunday
afternoon, the last rites of the funeral
of one of Thurston county's leading
pioneers, Peter McKenzie, 76 years
old, who located at Mud Bay In 1876,
had been performed.
At the funeral at the Presbytertaa
church, held Just previously that
afternoon, when Rev. D. A. Thomp
son, the pastor, officiated, George H.
Greenbank sang Mr. McKensie'a
favorite song, "My Ain Countree,"
a male quartet sang "Beautiful Isis
of Somewhere" and "Lead, Kindly
Light," and many friends from all
parts of the county Joined with th#
relatives In the services.
McKensie was of Highland Scotch
ancestry and the family had bees
Scotch Presbyterians for generational
His father, Donald McKensie, was
born in Invergordon, Scotland, and
came to Canada on the death of s
brother, who had preceded him and
who had owned the site now occupied
by the city of Montreal.
Born April 1, 1889.
Bhortly after arriving in Canada*
Donald McKensie married Miss Annie
McQuaig and settled on a farm near
Lake St. Francis, on the south bank
of the St. Lawrence river, where
Peter McKensie, the oldest child, wbs
was born April 12, 1839, near St.
Anicet, Huntington county, Quebee,
where he and his brothers spent their
boyhood days. This farm soon be
came known as one of the beauty
spots along the St. Lawrence river,
with its old white stone house and
four great trees that could be seen
for several miles up and down the
river.
Peter McKenzle remained then
until be was 25 years old, when be
caught the "gold fever" ,and came oat
to the Pacific coast, landing at Cari
boo, British Columbia, after having
gone by ship from Quebec to the
Isthmus of Panama, crossed the Isth
mus by rail, and proceeded to his des
tination by boat. He spent the sum
mer at Cariboo, coming to Olymp'a In
the fall of 1864 and for the follow
ing 10 years engaged in mining and
logging, traveling up and down th*
coast considerably, making his head
quarters in this city.
Leaves Many Relatives.
In 1875 he bought the old Morgan
homestead, at Mud Bay, which he
farmed and made his home until hie
death. The year after he located
there he was married June 28, 1878,
to Miss Mary Woodruff, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Woodruff of Olym
pia, who survives him, as do also four
sons and four daughters, A. D. and
Clyde McKenzie, who live on the
farm; K. R., of Berkeley, Cal., and
R. V., of Montana; Edith, a teacher
in Seattle; Ethel, an employe of the
county assessor's office, and Edna
and Inez, who are employed by the
state insurance commissioner. In
addition three brothers also survice,
A. S. and J. A. McKenzie, who live
near Yelm, and W. I). McKenzie of
Seattle, who came to this state a few
years after their elder brother lo
cated here.
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