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VOL. LVIII. NO. 1.
DEFINE POLICY FOR
NIK HUD BONDS
COMMISSIONERS ADOPT RESOLU
TION PROVIDING FOR SPE
CIFIC ANNUAL TAX.
A declaration of policy, setting
forth that enough money shall be
retained each year out of the regular
road and bridge fund with which to
pay all the Interest on outstanding
bonds and one-twentieth of the prin
cipal, is expressed in a resolution
adopted by the county commission
ers at their regular meeting this
week.
The resolution, which is quite
lengthy, pledges the commissioners
to carry out this policy so that the
taxes levied for road and bridge pur
poses in this county, including inter
est and principal payments on the
bond issue, will not at any time ex
ceed the taxes levied for road and
purposes this year. The pol
icy becomes effective in the event
that the 9600.000 issue is authorized
at the special election March 26.
Text of Resolution.
The full text of the resolution is:
Whereas, federal and state co
operation and the sum of >36,000 has
been tendered the county commis
sioners of Thurston county to aid in
the completion of the paving of the
Pacific highway between Olympla
and Camp Lewis; and,
Whereas, the war department has
approved the plans for a viaduct
over the Des Chutes waterway as
part of the Olympic highway; and.
Whereas, the maintenance of grav
elled surface on the primary high
ways In this county under the in
tense traffic to which they are now
subjected is not only unsatisfactory
but very expensive; and,
Whereas, "the «o*csf!ed hard sur
face construction of highways seems
to be the best and the most econom
ical under present conditions; and.
Whereas, it is apparent that the
construction of paved highways to
any considerable extent on the "pay
as-you-go" policy would materially
Increase the already heavy tax bur
den upon the taxpayers of Thurston
county; and,
Whereas, the commissioners be
lieve a plan can be adopted with
state and federal co-operation to pave
the public highways and pay for the
same in annual payments over a
number of years without increasing
the present rate of taxation for high
way purposes; andT
Whereas, the county commission*
ers have called a special election to
"be held on the 26th day of March,
1918, to submit to the voters of the
county a proposition to bond the
county for certain permanent high
way construction purposes; and,
' Whereas, It* Is dealrable that the
-voters and taxpayers be fully In
formed as to the plans and inten
tions of the commissioners to provide
funds to pay bond Interest and prin
cipal without increasing the levies
for road purposes over the levy made
In 1917;
Statement of Policy.
Now therefore, be It resolved,
First: That It is the declared inten
tion of the commissioners in the
event that such election results in
an approval of the bonding proposi
tion. to ascertain each year, as the
-work progresses, the amount re
quired to pay the annual bond Inter
est and one-twentieth of the princi
pal and thereupon to levy a tax of a
sufficient number of mills to raise
the necessary amount and such taxes
will be placed in a fund to be known
as the "bond interest redemption
fund," and that the amount of mills
so levied shall be deducted from the
amount of mills levied for road and
bridge fund as levied for 1917, but
not to a greater extent than three
mills; provided, that if at any time,
in order to raise sufficient funds to
meet Interest and one-twentieth of
the principal more than three mills
are necessary, then, to that extent, a
reduction will be made In the road
district fund as levied In 1917.
The commissioners at this meet
ing also adopted the following reso
lution and telegraphed it to the
"board of directors of the federal re
serve bank at San Francisco, who
are passing on the local bond Issue:
Only taoo.ooo Now.
"Raaolved. That no part of the
Washington £tani>ari>
ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860,
WAR SECRETARY IN FRANCE.
Baker Goes to Battle Zone (or Per
sonal Inspection of War Prepa
rations.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
and a staff of seven experts arrived
in France Sunday, to inspect the
progress of American preparations In
France and to confer with General
Pershing, commander of the Ameri
can expeditionary forces.
Secretary Baker is the first mem
ber of President Wilson's cabinet to
go to the battle zone. The official an
nouncement says that he is in Europe
as the president's official representa
tive and the fact that it Is his war
secretary and not a diplomatic repre
sentative who went is regarded as
evidence of tho determination of the
president to press the war aggres-
slvely to victory.
Government Takes Pershing.
The General Pershing, an auxil
iary schooner of 4,000 tons, has
been taken over by the United States
government. This was the second
vessel built in the yards of tho Olym
pia Shipbuilding company, the first
yard to be established in this city.
The first ship, the Wergeland, was
not taken. The third ship, the Kors
naes, is having the finishing touches
put on.
MINUTE WOMEN TO
START NEW DRIVE
PLAN ANOTHER CAMPAIGN FOR
FOOD CONSERVATION AMONG
HOUSEWIVES OF COUNTY.
A new food pledge card drive is to
be inaugurated soon among the
housewives of the county, by the
Minute Women under the direction
of Mrs. /. W. Mo well, It was an
nounced this week, to enrol those
who did not sign the cards in the
first drive several monthß ago.
Additional information as to food
conservation will be given out in the
new campaign and strong efforts
made to list every home in the coun
ty and place it on the economy list.
Three Districts Unorganised.
The Minute Women organization
is reported complete In every com
munity center of the county except
at Tono, Lacey and Hunter's Point.
The original organization at Lacey
disbanded shortly before Christmas
through a misunderstanding over the
Council of Defense pledge cards,
while the women who were asked to
join the organization at Hunter's
Point failed to answer the letters
from the local headquarters.
"There Is a mistaken idea in some
districts about the Minute Women,"
Mrs. Mo well said this week. "The
women are thoroughly loyal and the
work they are doing for the govern
ment Is of exceptional value.
Not Secret Service Operatives.
"They are not secret service oper
atives. They are not engaged In any
campaign to run down slackers or to
get information as to the loyalty of
Thurston county citizens. They are
taking it for granted that everybody
is loyal and true. They work on that
principle.
"Of course, sometimes thoy find
outright disloyalty and they report
such cases directly. But these cases
are few. I believe that if everybody
understood the work of the Minute
Women the workers would have no
difficulty."
The Minute Women, in addition to
the food card work, also plan to con
duct an educational campaign re
garding War Savings Stamp*, ex
plaining the workings of the "baby
bond" financing plan.
Carl Zamberlin, a well-known local
boy, freshman at the University of
Washington, has enlisted in the navy
and is attending the radio school In
Seattle.
bonds authorized beyond the amount
required for paving the Pacific high
way between Olympta and Camp
Lewis, and the construction of the
bridge on the Olympic highway over
the Des Chutes waterway be issued
without the specific approval of the
capital issues committee."
The expenditure contemplated for
these two projects, as set forth in the
official call for the special election,
Is $200,000, equally divided.
"HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918.
THREE MM TRUSTEES
FOR LOCH CRUDER
MARTIN, WOHLEB AND PRIG
MORE NEW DIRECTORS—
STOCKING RE-ELECTED.
The annual election of trustees of
the Chamber of Commerce, conduct
ed Tuesday, prior to the annual
meeting that evening, resulted in the
selection of James Martin, Jos. H.
Wohleb and George D. Prigmore,
and the re-election of Fred W. Stock
ing.
It was first afnunced that C. A.
Rose had been elected, but the re
count showed a tie with Stocking and
on the flip of a coin Stocking won.
The other three new members suc
ceed O. W. Draham, C. A. Marshall
and C. H. Springer, who were not
candidates for re-election.
President P. M. Troy, who pre
sided at the later meeting, gave a
brief resume of the work of the past
year, his second term as president,
and referred to the negotiations for
a new hotel for Olympla, which were
further considered at a special meet
ing of the trustees Wednesday. The
reports of the secretary, B. F. Hume,
and the treasurer were also submit
ted.
F. R. Klumb of the Capital City
Creamery furnished buttermilk for
the evening "feed" and cigars were
also passed around.
Car Shortage Hits Tono.
The Washington Union Coal com
pany's mines at Tono were closed
Friday as the result of a car short
age. A query from the fuel adminis
tration, however, and subsequent ar
rangement for supplying cars result
ed in the mines starting up again
Saturday.
Assigned to Sub Chaser.
Olaf Slmonsen of this city, who re
cently enlisted in the navy, has been
assigned to a submarine chaser for
foreign service, according to word
received by relatives. He is on his
way home on leave before beginning
active service.
LOCAL BOY TELLS OF
MUCK ON TUSCAWA
Lester Twohy Says He Did Not Get
His Feet Wet, but Lost
Everything.
Lester Twohy, the local boy who
was on the Tuscania when it was tor
pedoed last month and was rescued,
is now in England, says a letter re
ceived Tuesday by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Matt Twohy of Mud Bay.
Referring to the submarine attack,
he said:
"We had a fine trip across the
ocean-until we were torpedoed. Then
it was not so nice. I fared pretty
well and did not even get my feet
wet, although I lost everything I had.
I had no overcoat or hat and was Just
going down to supper when it hap
pened. It was 6 o'clock, February 5,
just off the Irish coast, so the sur
vivors landed first in Ireland.
"I suppose in a little while there
will be some of the boys coming from
American Lake. I don't envy them
their trip across. I don't want to
make it again until the war is over
and all the subs called in.
"I will remember the wreck as
long as I live and Ireland certainly
looked good to me. We were out in
a boat from 6 o'clock at night to 4 in
the morning."
Arrest Crazy Man at McKenna.
Reports from McKenna that a
crazy man there was hunting an ax
to kill his wife caused the Pierce
county sheriff to send a squad of dep
uties Monday afternoon. They took
Frank Demich Into custody. He was
given a hearing in Judge Basterday's
court and ordered committed to the
Western Washington hospital for the
insane at Steilacoom. At times it
took four men to hold Detnlch.
An additional allotment of $520,
making a total of $1,020 as the
county's quota, was ordered paid by
the County Council of Defense at its
regular meeting Wednesday night,to
the Y. W. C. A. fund. The money
was all derived from the pledge card
fund of the Council.
EXPECT APPROVAL
OF TWO PROJECTS
BOND ISSUE ADVOCATES CONFI
DENT OF FAVORABLE DECI
SION BY GOVERNMENT.
A reply approving the expenditure
now of SIOO,OOO for the paving of
the Olympla-Camp Lewis highway
and of SIOO,OOO for the Westslde
bridge, out of the $600,000 road
bond issue to be voted on March 26,
is expected from the directors of the
federal reserve bank at San Fran
cisco, who have had the local project
under consideration this week.
After being sent direct to the cap
ital issues committee of the federal
reserve board at Washington, D. C.,
the Request of the county commis
sioners for a decision on the advisa
bility of the proposed bond issue dur
ing war time was referred back to
the 6an Francisco bank, which has
charge of this district. It was then
referred for investigation to Ralph
Stacy of Tacoma and M. F. Backus
of Seattle, Northwest representatives.
While no statement was made by
them as to their recommendations,
local men are confident that the
board will approve the first two im
provements proposed to' be carried
out if the bond issue is authorized.
On this assumption the commission
ers adopted a resolution Monday and
telegraphed it to the board, pledging
the county not to undertake any fur
ther expenditure under the plan dur
ing the war, without first submitting
the project to the capital Issues com
mittee.
Pending receipt of the board's de
cision, which is expected daily, pro
ponents of the bond issue have been
quietly arranging the details of the
campaign they plan to wage in favor
of issue and which they expect to
stan next week. A Jotntmeetingof
the committees representing the Po
mona Orange and the Westside Im
provement club was held the latter
part of last week, at which a cam
paign committee consisting of A. S.
Caton, Senator P. H. Carlyon and
Acting County Engineer W. H. Yea
ger was authorized.
STMT WORK HERE NOW
ON THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
Chairman O'Leary Names Large
Committee and Calls Meeting
Saturday Night.
Chairman Tbos. L. O'Leary of the
Thurston county campaign commit
tee for the Third Liberty Loan, has
appointed a large committee to direct
the local drive in the nation-wide
campaign which starts April 6, and
has called the first meeting of the
committee for Saturday evening.
The amount, terms and conditions
of the loan remain to be specified
by legislation still pending in con
gress, but it is taken for granted
that the total will be larger than for
either of the previous two and hence
the local quota larger. Thurston
county exceeded its allotment in
both the other drives and the com
mittee hopes to exceed this record in
the coming campaign.
Chairman O'Leary has named the
following assistants: Bige Eddy and
James Mosman, Telm; P. F. Knight
and L. H. Hubbard. Tenlno; Jennings
Johnson, Bordeaux; Fred W. Lewis,
Brighton Park, and Rev. R. F. Hart,
W. V. Tanner, Eagle Freshwater, F.
G. Blakeslee, S. L. Lester, Mrs. J. W.
Mowell and Mrs. W. W. Manier of
Olympia.
"CuHmut*" Sticks on Ways.
Stuck on the ways at the high tide
Wednesday evening, The Culbarra,
second vessel at the Sloan Shipyards,
was expected to take the water
Thursday evening. The boat was
christened by Miss Florence Lister,
daughter of Governor and Mrs.
Ernest Lister. This Is the first se
rious difficulty that has been encoun
tered In five launchings at local
yards.
Quite a number of Oiympia people
went over to Camp Lewis Monday
evening to hear Madame Melba, who
sang at the Liberty theater there
that evening.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LOCAL STORES TO FEATURE
"WAR SAVINGS DAY."
Special Booths and Window Displays
to Be Arranged for Next
Wednesday.
Special booths and effective win
dow displays in every store in Olym
pia will mark the observance here of
"War Savings Day" next Wednesday,
proclaimed by Governor Lister. Plans
for these features are being worked
out by the merchants' committee,
consisting of Geo. D. Prigmore, Noyes
Talcott and Watson Filsinger.
Local high school girls will be in
charge of the booths and their efforts,
together with the window displays
and the publicity given the day, are
expected so to Impress the Thrift
campaign upon people generally that
everybody will buy at least one
Thrift or War Savings Stamp.
Window display of War Savings
Stamps this week are being featured
by Talcott's, the Union Pacific depot
and Hlck'B grocery, while booths are
installed at the Mottman Mercantile
company and the Harris Dry Goods
company, and a special display, de
signed by C. Stiger, window dresser
for Harris,' has been arranged In the
Columbia building.
ASSOCIATION GAINS
MONOPOLY ON GAMP
GENERAL ORDERS GIVE IT EX.
CLUSIVE RIGHT TO SUPPLY
ALL VEGETABLES.
General orders granting exclusive
sale of vegetables at Camp Lewis to
the Thurston County Dairy & Farm
Products Association were put into
effect by General Greene, the com
manding officer at the cantonment,
plying the camp Is now belnfc handled
entirely by the, local Association.
The issuance of the general orders
indicates that the military authori
ties at the camp, after putting the
Association on trial for several
months, are convinced it can handle
the entire concession. For a 'month
or two other organisations and deal
ers tried to upset the Association's
concession, but now everything is
settled favorably and the Association
is gaining the full benefit of the con
cession obtained last summer. It is
now furnishing from 1,100 to 1,200
gallons of milk a day.
Meetings of farmers were held at
the Chambers' Prairie Grange hall
Wednesday night and the McLane
hall Thursday night, by County Agent
Bergstrom, to ascertain in just what
way local farmers desired to submit
proposals on the call for bids issued
by the quartermaster's department.
Pier 11, Seattle, for 150 tons of po
tatoes to be furnished the camp. The
question is whether the farmers want
to bid individually or as groups in
communities, or through the Associa
tion.
During February the Mason Coun
ty Produce Association supplied 80
tons of spuds to the camp and plans
to submit prices on the present call
for 150 tons. Bids and samples have
to be furnished the department not
later than next Monday.
SPURGEON CREEK RED CROSS
HAS 88 MEMBERS.
Auxiliary, Steadily Growing, Makes
Large Quantity of Articles.
The Spurgeon Creek Red Crosa
auxiliary, which was organized Sep
tember 13 with a membership of 17,
has steadily grown until it now num
bers 38 members, 14 of whom are
men, the secretary, Mrs. E. M. Rob
erson, reports. It meets at Grange
hall and all winter has held all-day
sessions every two weeks.
In 13 meetings the members have
made the following articles: 64
sheets, 121 pillow cases, 20 draw
sheets, 7 bed spreads, 4 wash cloths,
24 comfort kits, 6 ice bag covers, 12
bath robes, 19 bed socks, 39 pajamas
and 99 towels.
Monday's payments on taxes at the
office of County Treasurer Fred W.
Stocking totalled SIOO,OOO, the
Northern Pacific slipping In with a
check for $86,000. The time for
paying personal taxes before they
become delinquent expires Friday.
WHOLE NUMBER 3003
TEH HM HERE HO
DM SECOND DFUET
WAR DEPARTMENT CALLS 90,000
OUT OF 800,000 TO BE MOBIL*
IZED THIS YEAR.
Thurston county will .send 10 men
from Close I as its quota for the first
increment of 95,000 ordered lato
army service by the war department
this week, in the second draft which
is to total 800,000. The local draft
board announced that the following
had'been summoned to report March
29:
Charles Edward Pfaff, Puget Sound
Lumber Co., Tacoma; James ross
Astoria, Ore., who registered at
Yelm; William Allen Dunkelberger,
Route 1, Olympia; Horace Arthur
Somers, Little Rock; William John
H. Stack, city; Ivan Dale Goldsby,
city; Clarence H. Morris, Tumwater;
George Henry Knittle, Wests!4s;
Hulton H. Loughman, now of Ho
quiam, and Richard B. T. Morris.
Yelm.
Three alternates, to take the
places of any who fail to appear:
Theron Mell and John Blake of Olym
pia and Alfred Huenergardt, Seattle.
They have been notified to report
to the local board at the courthoase
at 9 o'clock Friday morning, March
29. In the list originally ordetad
appeared the names of Lock Bea, a
Chinaman, and James Tobin, an In
dian, but the call specified "white
men" In Class I and Captain Irvine
W. Ziegaus, in charge of draft oper
ations in this state, ruled that this
excluded Chinamen aad Indiaas.
The state's quota on the present
call is small, being only 688, which
is explained by the fact that of the
96,000 now called, 80,000 of them
will be mea of the first draft of 68T,-
000 of the Eastern mad Middle Wset
into the service, because of camp aad
supply conditions. Washington com
pleted Its quota of the first draft, so
is called now only for its share at
the 75,000 on the second draft.
The movement starts March 29 aad
is to continue five days. Tfetl incre
ment is the flrjt of a aeries to he
called throughout the year, prob*
ably every month, until the entire
800,000 have been mobilised by the
first of 1919. This group plan Is fol
lowed so that there will be no sad
den withdrawal of large numbers of
men from Industry aad agriculture
during the coming summer, the oflh
clal announcement says. , f
THRIFT CLUB AT CASE SCHOOL.
War teTtan Society Orfaalacd aft Hw
Close of Patriotic Meeting.
A Thrift Stamp clab of 25 mem*
bars wh organised In the Case aeLoot
district, naar Rochester, following an
enthusiastic patriotic meeting last
Friday night, in charge of the Rev.
R. Franklin Hart, chairman of the
local division of Four-Minute lien.
The work of the County Council of
Defense, War Savings stamp activi
ties and the Third Liberty Ltan cam
paign starting next month, vm
briefly discussed by Rev. Hart; Coun
ty Agent C. H. Bergstrom explained
the need for increased food produc
tion and suggested plans to ha fol
lowed in this county, abd then H. F.
Giles, county Thrift Club organiser,
formed the war savings society.
WOMAN'S CLUB CELEBRATES.
Local Organisation, First In States
Observes Thirty-flfth Anniver
sary.
Mrs. Anna S. Hartsuck, who is 90
years old and is probably the oldest
member of a woman's club in this
state, was the guest of honor at the
luncheon at which members of the
local Woman's club, the first in thte
state, celebrated its thirty-fifth an
niversary Mnoday afternoon.
The telling of reminiscences of
the early days of the club by Mrs.
Hartsuck, Miss Moore, a charter
member, Miss Cowles, Mrs. Blank
enshlp and Mrs. Johns, and a letter
from Mrs. Ella T. Stork, now of
California, a review of the more re
cent history by the president, Mrs.
J. W. Mowell, and several musical
numbers made up the afternoon**
program.
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