GOOD OUTLOOK FOR BUILDING IN 1907
ONLY ONE CLOUD EXISTS ON LOCAL HORIZON
Tacoma Daily Ledger December 23, 1906 (p. 20)
H. E. Salsich, the Eastern investor, who recently purchased 1,300 acres along the Nisqually and near Yelm, from F. W. Carylon, is arranging for the erection of a big sawmill upon the banks of the Nisqually, and [...]

The people of Yelm have always had a special relationship with their mountain. The mountain provides resources and recreation to the surrounding areas, and in the past, Yelm was an important stop for people on their way to visit Mt. Rainier. Some of Yelm’s most important historical events and people have been closely linked to [...]

UP ON MOUNT TACOMA 
August 5, 1891
 Explorers from Sumner Make a Successful Trip
JOURNEY OF PERIL AND DANGER.
Twenty Miles Southeast of the Snowcapped Mountain King is a Volcano in a State of Eruption
Special to the Ledger
SUMNER, Aug. 4, — Doctor E. A. Stafford, D. R. Tucker, H. Paulson and S. E. Gline, who were members of a [...]

Edith Corbett Stone climbed Mt. Rainier in 1891. Her brother, Laurence, scaled the peak the following year. The 1890’s were a period of increased fascination with mountain climbing among the residents of the northwest. The Washington Alpine Club was organized during this era and its members were ceaseless advocates of mountain climbing. In the 192os, [...]

Introduction: The state archives in Olympia, Washington, contain some records from the early years of public schools in Yelm. The following information regarding teachers and their salaries is taken from those records. The dollar amount was the monthly salary of the teachers. Contracts were usually for three month school sessions.

1888-1889 …………….. Emma Mythaler Oliver
1-6-1891 ………………. [...]

The Morning Olympian September 6, 1894
Receipts and Disbursements – Facts about Teachers and Teaching
Miss Case, the county superintendent, has prepared her annual report, for transmission to the state superintendent.
The report shows that of children between the ages of five and twenty-one years residing in this county, there are 1741 male and 1612 females. Of these [...]

Washington Standard April 10, 1875

Olympia School District #1
Ed. Standard: Will you please publish the enclosed report for the past six months’ term of the Olympia District School. . . .
N. Crosby, Esq., Clerk Board of Trustees, Olympia School District No. 1.
Sir: The contract entered into between the Trustees of this district and the undersigned teachers [...]

August 10, 1894   Washington Standard
At the session Monday Mrs. Keyes opened the work on “Word-making,” and Miss Stowell gave an interesting talk on studies from nature, in which she dwelt upon the benefit to be derived from use of the eyes as a means of self-aid. Prof. Beeler gave some instructive exercises in algebra, and Mrs. [...]

Washington Standard April 15, 1876

We have heard a good deal of inquiry regarding the changes made in the Common School Laws, at the last session, so we publish the following two short laws, which comprise all the legislation on the subject that was perfectd.
The first is an amendment to the Common School law, passed, in [...]

The Morning Olympian

Now for Another Winter of Hard Brain Work.
Education Too Often Obtained at the Expense of Nerve Force. Parents Study the Problem of Keeping Up Health at School. School has been open nearly a month. The streets are crowded with “shining morning faces,” full of eagerness and ambition. Anxiety of parents begins. Will those [...]