YELM VISITED BY FIBE WHICH DESTROYS THREE LARGE BUILDINGS
Waddle’s Hotel, Hettrick’s General Merchandise Store and Verville’s Saloon Burned—Insurance Is Light
(Newspaper and Date Unknown, Very likely 1907)
Fire swept the business portion of Yelm yesterday afternoon, destroying three of the largest buildings and thus all but wiping out the business portion of the thriving little town. [...]
Yelm schools teach more than town youngsters
The Olympian March 7, 1983
By Mike Wales
Glen Nutter, superintendent of the Yelm School District, said he believe his system is not only teaching children reading, writing and arithmetic, but is also responsive to the needs of the community at large.
Despite cutbacks forced on the district by a recession-ridden economy [...]
Only thing missing from restored school is kids.
The Olympian March 24, 2003
By Mildred Kavanaugh
Lackamas could again hold classrooms after tedious restoration led by former student.
Yelm – When 68-year-old Dillard Jensen drives by Lackamas School, located 10 miles east of Yelm, he’s flooded with fond memories of his school days.
Jensen, a lifelong resident of Yelm, was [...]
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Washington Standard May 15, 1908
The capital stock of the Salsich Lumber Company, near Yelm, has been increased from 350,000 to $450,000. They had under construction a modern lumber manufacturing plant.
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Washington Standard March 4, 1910
George W. Whitlatch, of Yelm, died at Centralia Wednesday. He recently sold his farm, the old Lotz place for a good price.
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Washington Standard May 20, 1910
Loggers are protesting against the Nisqually bridge, alleging that the river is a navigable stream and the piers will interfere with logging. This matter had been referred to the War Department at Washington.
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Washington Standard July 28, 1911
An apparently irreconcilable warfare has arisen in the Yelm school district regarding distribution of property involved in consolidation. It is another instance in which District 28, representing the dog, to use a homely smile, refuses to be shaken by the tail.
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Washington Standard July 28, 1911
Rufus Neat, of Yelm, had four fingers amputated this week, that had been jammed and smashed in a fall block.
City and Country
Washington Standard December 8, 1911
J. A. Piper has begun suit against this county for $25,000 alleged damages to a son from explosion of a dynamite cap found by the boy on the road between this city and Yelm. The loss sustained by Bennie Piper, the son, is a thumb and two fingers. It [...]
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Washington Standard December 15, 1911
Work is in progress on the ditch from Lake Lawrence to the Light and Power reservoir to ensure a depth of 40 feet for summer supply. As the ditch will necessarily have to be run over a county road, and realizing the possibility that portions of the thoroughfare may be flooded, [...]
