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Page 1 ALDERWOOD MANOR NEWS CLIPPINGS NEWSLETTER OF THE ALDERWOOD MANOR HERITAGE ASSOCIATION
Volume XXI, Issue 1 March 2012
Advertised as a great place for families to live
on five or 10-acres of their own land, Alderwood
Manor sounded like a dream come true. However,
the people arriving here found there was a down-side
to the dream. Before you could plant a garden, you
had a lot of stumps to remove. When the loggers left,
the stumps and snags still remained—they covered
the land.
If you are old enough to remember helping
your father struggle to remove those old stumps so
that a garden could be planted, or you simply
remember the days when Alderwood was still
covered with stumps left from its logging heyday, you
may find these suggested methods for removal
interesting.
The Edmonds Tribune-Review of October 8,
1926 published this article regarding stump removal:
War Explosives Available for Blasting
Stumps. Pyrotol, the stumping powder being made
under the directions of the U.S. Bureau of Roads from
the explosives left over from the World’s War, is
again available for Snohomish county farmers. This
is the same powder that was shipped to many farmers
last year.
Arrangements have been made with the First
National Bank, The National Bank, both of
Stanwood, the State Bank of East Stanwood, the State
Bank of Silvana, Mr. E. Y. Scott of Lakewood,
Citizens State Bank of Arlington, the First National
Bank of Everett and the Snohomish Fruit Growers of
Snohomish to receive the orders. When sufficient
orders can be secured for a carload shipment, the car
will be ordered and shipped to one of these seven
points. Several cars have been ordered this year, but
anyone wishing to place an order should do so at once
in order to be assured of getting the powder early in
the fall. ARNOLD Z. SMITH, County Agent (Continued on page 4)
NOSTALGIA CORNER
THE STUMP FARMS OF ALDERWOOD MANOR By Betty Lou Gaeng
Standing on this stump, from left to right are (first row) Gladys
Deming, ? Miller, Grace Deming, and Ralph Deming; (second
row) two Miller boys and De Ette Miller; (at base of stump)
Mildred Little Deming (the Little’s daughter), Wilma Miller (the
Little’s niece), Alice Brayman Little, and James Little. The size
of the stump can be estimated from James height—six feet, two
inches. The stump was located on James and Alice Little’s
property on Cedar Way (now 44th Ave W.) about two miles
northwest of Alderwood Manor. This photo is c. 1920.
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President’s Message Alderwood Manor Heritage Association
PO Box 2206 Lynnwood, WA 98036 425-775-4694
Web Site: www.alderwood.org
E-mail: [email protected]
Heritage Cottage is at 19903 Poplar Way
Board of Directors
President Cheri (Stadler) Ryan
(425) 483-1385 (206) 399-7345 cell [email protected]
Vice President Kevin Stadler (206) 660-7080
Secretary Jennifer (Davis) Bell
(425) 485-1874
Treasurer Jan (Canfield) Nofziger
(425) 771-0827
Dennis Boser (425) 672-1800
Jim Corcoran (425) 776-8603
Betty (Deebach) Gaeng (425) 245-5785
Gary Lee (425) 338-5605
Bob Meador (425) 745-1306
Sandy (Smith) Phillips (425) 776-9575
Lisa Utter (425) 778-0182
Sandy (Forsgren) Konikson (425) 481-9452
Tiffany Villigan (425) 743-3895
News Clippings Editor - Cheri Ryan
Production - Shawna Higgins Mailing - Dale & Donna Hoggins
The first order of business at our January board meeting was to elect
officers for the AMHA Board of Directors. Our 2012 officers are President--
Cheri (Stadler) Ryan, Vice-President--Kevin Stadler, Secretary--Jenifer
(Davis) Bell, and Treasurer—Jan (Canfield) Nofziger. Also appointed to the
board for a two year term are Sandy (Forsgren) Konikson and Tiffany
Villigan. We thank you all. This meeting was followed by a workshop to set
goals for the upcoming year and to review our many accomplishments in
2011.
One of our largest accomplishments is with our newspaper digitizing
project. This project is ongoing and will continue during 2012. To date, with
the help of a Snohomish County Community Heritage Program Grant we
have scanned almost 13,000 pages of the Enterprise newspapers from 1964,
1965, and 1970 to mid-year 1976. This represents about one-fourth of the
project. Once the newspapers have been digitized the images are run through
Optical Character Recognition software, which converts the images into
actual text that is word searchable. What this means is you can use the
software to search a keyword or name to locate specific articles. This is
much easier than the days of spending hours and hours searching through
microfilm or the actual newspapers. We will soon be inviting you to the
Cottage to share our newest asset!
Our newest exhibit “Century 21 Seattle World’s Fair” is now on
display at Heritage Cottage. If you ever think of an idea of something you
would like to see us share in an exhibit please let us know. We are always
looking for ideas and also donations of items and photos that we can use in
future exhibits.
And since spring is here that means you will soon be invited to our
annual “Don’t Come Event.” I wonder where it won’t be this year?
Cheri (Stadler) Ryan
1940 United State Census
Sno-Isle Genealogical Society invites you to an event that only
happens once every 10 years! After a waiting period of 72 years, the 1940
decennial United States Federal Census will be available to the public on
April 2, 2012.
Carol Buswell, the Educational Special from the National Archives
in Seattle will explain the significance this census has to each of us and how
to access it. We will be able to see who was living in Alderwood Manor in
1940.
April 4, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Heritage Cottage
19903 Poplar Way
Lynnwood
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Welcome New Members Margaret (Salisbury) Rogers moved to Alderwood
Manor with her parents Eathyl and George, and
siblings Betty and George in 1938. They lived on
Poplar Way in a home that had originally been the
hotel on the Demonstration Farm. She went to
Alderwood Grade school thru the 8th grade when
her family moved to Monroe where she graduated
in 1951. Margaret lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bob and Marilyn Lether live in Lynnwood. Their
children Kathy, Greg, and Joanne attended Spruce
Elementary, Alderwood Jr. High and Lynnwood
High School.
Charles and Aaron Wenkler of Anacortes,
Washington.
Dennis Boser has purchased a gift membership for his
mother, Anne Kittle of Bothell.
“Tour Historic Sites, Lynnwood,
Washington” is a new brochure produced by the
City of Lynnwood. This guide will take you a tour
of 27 of Lynnwood’s historic houses, buildings, and
properties. Many of these historic structures date
back to early Alderwood Manor. Brochures can be
picked up at Heritage Cottage, the Visitor’s Center
in the Wickers Building, and the Lynnwood
Convention Center, Library, City Hall and AAA.
Wanted--Needed
Magnifying glasses
old gardening items (for future exhibit)
Volunteers to help us scan photos
Office chairs (on wheels)
Does anyone know...?
This is a new section where we will
publish questions and answers about anything
Alderwood Manor that you might have
wondered about. We encourage you to send
or email a question (no genealogy, please) that
you might have, and then we hope that one or
more of our members might have an answer
which can be sent or emailed to us. We will
then publish the answer.
Here is an example: "Does anyone
know what happened to the Gatjens House,
which was of the same style as the Wickers
building? Why did we have this style of
building in Alderwood?" If you have an
answer, please send it to AMHA, POB 2066,
Lynnwood, 98036, or emai l us
at [email protected]. You can also email
answers to me, Jan Nofziger, at
We would like to thank the folks that
contributed to our food drive at our Holiday
Open House. We donated 72 pounds of food to
the Lynnwood Food Bank.
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Shortly following this article regarding Pyrotol
as a tool for stump blasting, the use of the blasting
powder came to an end. The free encyclopedia,
Wikipedia, reported about the explosive Pyrotol and
about the end of its usage:
Pyrotol was an explosive available for a time
after World War I. It was reprocessed from mlitary
surplus cordite and smokeless power. Usually used in
combination with dynamite, it created an incendiary
blast. Since it was very inexpensive, it was often used
by farmers to remove tree stumps and clear ditches.
Production of pyrotol dwindled in the 1920s after the
Bath School disaster where the substance was used to
blow up an elementary school and kill 45 people,
mostly children.
The Bath School disaster consisted of three
bombings in Bath Township, Michigan on May 18,
1927. Killed in the bombing were 38 elementary
school children, two teachers, four other adults and the
bomber himself. Most of the children were in the
second to sixth grades (7-14 years old).
Upon reading newspapers articles about
farmers and others using explosives to remove stumps
I found several accounts of fatalities and injuries. It is
just as well that most used much safer methods—that
of human muscle power, or a chain fastened to an old
truck.
A n o t h e r
bit of nostalgia
regarding stump
removal came
from our own
helpful power
a n d l i g h t
company ten
years later. This
article appeared
in the January 10,
1936 issue of the
Edmonds Tribune
-Review.
C e d a r
stumps, roots and
all, can now be
burned out below
p l o w d e p t h
without leaving
large holes to be
filled and roots to
be pulled out.
While the electric forced air draft method of
burning out stumps as here described has proved most
economical in getting rid of fir, hemlock and spruce
stumps, it did not work too well on cedar until Mr. D.
C. Pettibone of the Puget Sound Power & Light
Company devised a means of feeding diesel or
strained crank case oil into the fire.
With the assistance of the oil can arrangement
described above, cedar stumps, no matter how wet and
soggy they are, can be completely destroyed with a
minimum of effort and cost. About 6 gallons of diesel
or crank case oil is required to destroy a four-and-a-
half foot stump. The flow of oil is regulated by a
cock, and is left to drip into the tube just fast enough
to keep the fire burning vigorously. A small amount
of oil cuts the stump faster than a large amount.
Representatives of the Puget Sound Power &
Light Company are always glad of an opportunity to
help their customers in connection with land clearing,
and other problems involving the use of electricity on
the farm. (See the diagram)
We all have different memories we
carry with us from childhood. For myself, I have fond
memories of eating the berries from the many
huckleberry bushes found growing out of the tops of
those old stumps.
(Continued from page 1)
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Jim Daniel--Powder Man by Tiffany Villigan
James (Jim) Daniel was a well-known logger,
fire warden, stump-blower, and laborer from
Meadowdale. Born in Arkansas in 1883, he was the
fourth of eight children. In 1899, Jim and his oldest
brother, Charles, journeyed west to explore and find
new opportunities. The pair spent six months traveling
by bicycle, first to Canada then to eastern Washington.
There, Jim felt that his father, who had been ill in
Arkansas, would be better off in Washington, so he
sent for his parents, youngest sister, and youngest
brother. After some time in Whitman County, the
family moved further west. Jim worked his way across
various logging camps, notably Pope and Talbot at
Port Gamble and the Puget Mill Company branch of
Pope and Talbot in Alderwood Manor, where he
helped make way for the five-acre tracts and chicken
farms. In the 1920s, Daniel worked as the Puget Mill
Company’s fire warden in Alderwood Manor.
In addition to logging and fire protection, Jim
Daniel was also known throughout the area for stump-
blowing. On the 1920 census, he listed himself as a
“Powder man” “clearing stumps,” and in 1930 he
claimed his occupation as “laborer,” again “clearing
land.” As a powder man, Daniel had a hand in many
major projects in the area during the 1920s through
1940s, including clearing stumps from Alderwood
Manor, and land clearing, grading, and stump shooting
during the Depression.
Perhaps the most noteworthy project he worked on
was Highway 99. Daniel was responsible for blasting
all the stumps from the King County line halfway to
Everett prior to grading for construction of the road,
which opened in 1931. His wife, Muriel, and daughter
Bobbie later recalled how one specific incident
exemplified Jim’s character. As Jim cleared the path
for the highway, a landowner protected his property
with a shotgun and threatened to shoot Daniel if he
stepped on the man’s land. Daniel sat down with the
man, listened to his complaints, and agreed that it
would hurt if someone tried to take away his property.
However, he said, progress was necessary. The man
eventually let Jim continue with his job of blasting
stumps for the road, including on the man’s property.
Bobbie remembered “how soft spoken and reasonable
my dad was. Obviously this landowner felt someone
understood—and it made the difference.”
Jim Daniel was known as a strong but quiet man,
“very calm, very kind and a perfect gentleman.” A
neighbor once said that Jim was “always doing
something for his neighbors and for the community.”
His wife said that “all he ever wanted from his life was
to have a comfortable home, loving family and to do
kindnesses for others.” With his strong work ethic,
even in his final days, he refused to quit working,
saying that he wouldn’t be happy unless he was
working. Daniel died in 1950, and is buried at the
Edmonds Memorial Cemetery, with the headstone
“Jim Daniel – Logger – Powderman – Friend.”
Source: For the Love Of It, Bobbie Daniel
Sherman, unpublished manuscript, 1996. AMHA
archives.
Jim Daniel, fire warden for the Puget Mill Company,
stands atop the tower he built at the present
intersection of 36th Ave W. and 164th St. SW.
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1934 Montgomery
Ward Catalog
Where I Have and Have Not Been
I have been in many places, but I've never
been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go
alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.
I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one
recognizes you there. I have, however, been in
Sane. They don't have an airport; you have to be
driven there. I have made several trips there,
thanks to my friends, family and work.
I would like to go to Conclusions, but you
have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical
activity anymore. I have never been in
Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to
visit there. I've been in Flexible, but only when
it was very important to stand firm.
Sometimes I'm in Capable, and I go there
more often as I'm getting older. One of my
favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets
the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old
heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can
get! And more and more I think of the Here
After . . . several times a day, in fact, I enter a
room and thing "What am I here after?"
From the Edmonds Tribune-Review
April 1, 1932
Alderwood Poultry Attracts Thieves
ALDERWOOD MANOR, Mar 31.
--Chicken thieves have been very active in Alderwood
during the last six weeks. The Demonstration Farm has
lost a number of birds at three different times during that
period. Murray Pennell in North Alderwood has been
robbed twice, and the Harold Bennett home was robbed of
all but one bird, just recently.
July 15, 1932
ALDERWOOD PEOPLE RECEIVE PAYMENTS
Stockholders of the Washington Cooperative Egg
and Poultry association in the Alderwood Manor district
are receiving checks in aggregating $19,250.40 in
retirement of stock issued in 1928 together with
dividends, Harold Bennett, local branch manager,
announced yesterday.
This distribution is in accordance with the plan of
the association to retire stock issues annually from the
profits.
Much of this will be re-invested in the association,
Mr. Bennett stated.
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If you are not yet a member, you are invited to consider joining the Alderwood Manor Heritage Association.
The only qualification for membership is a desire to support the mission of improving quality of life through developing a sense of
our community's history and soul through preservation, interpretation, education, outreach, research and fellowship.
Please mail your check, payable to AMHA to:
AMHA Treasurer
P. O. Box 2206
Lynnwood, WA 98036-2206
If you are a member, please share the above form with a friend or relative.
Individual $20 Family $30
Benefactor $100 or more
Heritage Partner $50
(A special category for Business and Organizations.)
Name(s):
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________
City/State/Zip: ______________________________
Phone: (______)_____________________
E-Mail: ____________________________________
Special Donation towards General Operating Fund: $________
If you are (or have been) a local resident, what year did you
first live in this community? 19_____ 20_____
Please send me information about volunteer Opportunities.
AMHA is incorporated as a non-profit Tax Exempt Organization as described in
section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is affiliated with the League
of Snohomish County Historical Organizations, the Washington Heritage
Resources Center, and the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.
You are invited to become a Member of AMHA
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary
of the Century 21 Seattle World’s Fair
Our newest exhibit at Heritage Cottage is a brief glimpse into the 1962 World’s Fair that
took place in the center of Seattle, still home of the Space Needle. While researching sources for
this exhibit we came upon the following editorial that was in the April 30, 1957 Seattle Daily
Times.
Near Lynnwood
Editor, The Times
SEATTLE’s Civic Center site of 55 acres would only be big enough for a parking lot for a
real World Fair. In my opinion, the proper location for such a fair would be out near Lynnwood,
between Seattle and Everett, where 400 acres could be purchased for less than 55 acres in Seattle.
What’s more, all our northern neighbors, such as Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace,
Lynnwood, Everett etc. would feel that they were joint hosts along with the big city of Seattle.
Such a location would be handy to transportation facilities. And, our course, there’s just a
bare possibility that part of the Seattle-Everett freeway would be operational by 1960—which
would add to the desirability of the Lynnwood location.
---GEORGE SALGET
612 W. 47th St
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Mark Your Calendars
Seattle Icons
AMHA April Meeting and Program
Julia Swan from the Museum of History and
Industry will present Seattle Icons: A historic look at
10 of Seattle’s most iconic sites. This one-hour
exploration is part of the museum’s Adult Outreach
Program.
April 15th, Sunday
1:00 p.m. Coffee and cookies
1:30 p.m. Program
Alderwood Manor Youth Club
19719-24th Ave W.
Lynnwood
The Future Remembered
April 21st, 10:30 a.m.
Sammamish Valley Grange
14654-148th Ave NE
Woodinville
The Book-It Repertory Theatre brings the story of
the Century 21 World’s Fair in Seattle to life in a
performance adapted by Annie Lareau from the book
The Future Remembered by Paula Becker and Alan
Stein. Witness the excitement of a city about to come
into its own in this 40-minute performance that
highlights a post WWII, pre coffee and computer
Seattle. This performance is hosted by the
Woodinville Historical Society and sponsored from
4Culture Heritage and Arts.