Short Stories – September 1910

Short Stories

*Miss Inez Underhill has gone to Montesano, where she will again wield the birch and teach the young ideas how to shoot during the coming year. She has taught there during the past two years, and met with great success.

*Madame Demarest has on display this week the grandest assortment of fall hats, hair ornaments, Persian ties and new patent leather belts every brought to Castle Rock. Don’t fail to see them.

*Charles Huntington left Monday afternoon for Lange’s homestead at Spirit Lake, to bring in some gentlemen who have been looking over the mines in that region.

*For Rent, for One Year—House, two lots and seven acres of land in Castle Rock, Wash. Rent, $20 per month, payable one year in advance. For particular apply to M.L. Alford, Castle Rock.

*T.N. Crane met with a painful accident while at work in the woods near Jess Smith’s mill, Monday. A splinter of steel from a wedge struck him in the right eye, cutting through the lid and injuring the eye proper to such an extent that Tom is laid up for repairs and suffering considerable pain.

*Edmunds building in which the butcher shop is located ha been raised this week and a fine new cement walk made by Mr. Shaffron, who also laid the one for Madame Demarest, and now the whole block, extending from A street to Cowlitz avenue, is fronted by a fine cement walk. Castle Rock has now much more cement walks than nay other town in the county, and in a few years she will have more of everything that is good than any of them. Just watch our smoke.

*John Johnson, who was a popular teacher in our high school during the past two years, will be principal of the Little Falls school during the coming year. He has been in training for the position all summer by working at the Swift & O’Neill sawmill, on the West Side.

*R.L. Towne, who is employed at the depot, received a letter a few days ago from his wife, who is visiting her parents in Pittsburg, Pa., in which she says she is glad she can come back to good old Castle Rock, because she does not want to live in that region any more.

*While out driving not long since we had occasion to cross the ferry over the Cowlitz above Olequa and were shown a large pet beaver which belongs to the ferryman. The animal is very pretty and loves to be caressed. In fact it acts very much like a dog when one pays attention to it. The animal was caught in the river when quite small and is kept in a house near the ferry. It is allowed to go into the water occasionally but shows no inclination to get away. The owner feeds it on bread and milk, on which it thrives.