By Ross Garmon (2004)
Nisqually Valley News editorials, during 1942-1945, cast a light on how World War II influenced the daily lives of the Yelm, McKenna, Roy, residence. Nisqually Valley News papers from 42-45, showed how small the Nisqually Valley area was. With Boy Scout picnic articles making the front page, it’s hard to imagine that [...]
By Max Peterson
Yelm has always been a patriotic city. The city’s proximity from Fort Lewis ensures that many of the citizens are connected to the military in one way or another. Therefore, during World War II, Yelm was largely connected with the war effort and contributed what it could. In the local newspaper, the [...]
Nisqually Valley News
A lifelong resident of this state is Ed Brown of the Browns Bros. Garage, for he was born at Roslyn, raised in Roy, and hat resided in Yelm since 1924. Before this date he had occasionally worked here as an assistant to his brother, George.
While on a leisure trip to Los Angeles during [...]
Nisqually Valley News
A jackrabbit might be attributed as the cause for Louis O. Cochrane’s ten day trek by mule team for Central Oregon to Yelm in 1914. Jackrabbits, which are neither good to eat nor pleasant to smell, combined with a semi-drought which swept the Big Bend Country of our neighboring state at that [...]
Nisqually Valley News
Making his living off other persons’ pains and complaint hasn’t tainted Dr. D. H. Frisbies sociable outlook on life. With the solemnity of Methusalah he regales his patients and the Yelm Lions club with jokes and a rarity indeed, he doesn’t betray beyond a twinkle in his eye he thinks his stories are [...]
Nisqually Valley News
Born in Pendleton, Oregon the land of the Indians, horses, and festive annual round-ups, Crawford E. Williams of the Puget Sound Power and Light Co., still must confess to an inability to “sit” a horse in true western style.
“I was only a spectator at the round-ups, not a participant,” he modestly answered [...]
Nisqually Valley News
When local farmers purchase farm supplies from H.E. Wolf at H. L. Wolfe and Company, they probably do not realize that Mr. Wolf knows exactly what they need, for he was born and raised on a Michigan farm which has been in the Wolf family for over one hundred years. His twin brother [...]
