Jessica: How long was your school year? I know that it’s 180 now, but there must have been more time off?
Dillard: We started right after Labor Day and we always got out the last of May. Usually around May 29. Yeah, because I don’t think we had any spring vacation. But, yeah, we always got [...]
Washington Standard
P. B. Van Trump, who can date reasonably far back as a pioneer of our city-say nearly forty years-who for a couple or more decades now was the “Nasby” of Yelm, now residing in Seattle, visited his old time home last Saturday, and found a few friends remaining, who knew him in the days [...]
Washington Standard
O Yes, Mr., Editor, I nearly forgot one of the speakers at the goldbug rally, and that was P. B. Van Trump of Yelm. He told how the Democratic party had run off and left him away out here in the wood, and you could almost see the tears running down his cheeks. The [...]
The Nisqually Valley News
Thursday November 18, 1971
The Yelm School Board played before a packed house last Thursday when they held their
regular meeting.. .Several change orders were discussed by the board… The dress code
change, formulated by the students, was on the agenda with the full house yelling for
change. The three board members John Cullens, Harold [...]
June 10,2004
Kristi Mizner: How did your father feel about the war?
Wayne Christensen: He didn’t really talk much about the war but when he did he said it
was a serious time. He was right out of high school around the age of 18 to 20 so he
didn’t know what to expect and the war really [...]
June 9,2004
Kristi Mizner: How did you feel about WWII?
Jack Rice: We did what we had to do to protect our country and to keep it from being
taken over by foreigners, because Japan and Germany wanted control of the U.S.
K: What year did you leave Yelm?
J: January 9, 1942
K: What did you do in [...]
June 8,2004
Kristi Mizner: How did you feel about WWII?
Wayne Vancil: I was hyped up about the war, but I didn’t want to go to war. I knew my
number was up so I went to Seattle to sign up for the military. Before I was called to go
anywhere I went to Alaska for a while [...]
Nisqually Valley News
Pfc Phil Martin, Son of Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Martin, now of Tacoma, was at home on a short furlough this week. Phil spent Tuesday in Yelm visiting with friends here. he is a graduate of the Yelm high school with the class of ‘41. he has been stationed at Jefferson Barracks, MO., [...]
During World War 2 the war effort enveloped the daily life of Yelm’s citizens. Everything a person did was expected to add to the war effort. The government helped encourage this idea by creating a point system on rationed foods, providing jobs that made the worker feel like an active participant, and providing many other [...]
Introduction: Norma Zimmer was a longtime singer on the Lawrence Welk Show. In her memoir she talks about working in the fields around Yelm.
Her Story
Dad’s third bout with pneumonia occurred the following spring. He almost died of suffocation by was saved when the doctor cut out a rib section and inserted a lung drainage [...]
