When a lad of but ten years he began working for a telephone company and was thus employed until he reached the age of twenty, since which time he has been active in the lumber and logging business, serving in various capacities and gradually working his way upward. His increasing powers and Tiffany & co ability led to his organization of the West Coast Lumber Company in 1914 and since that time he has directed its affairs as its president. This company does a wholesale business in lumber and shingles and also owns and operates mills at Wickersham, Washington. With every detail of the business Mr. Peterson has become familiar from long experience and is therefore capable of wisely directing the growing interests now under his control. In 1906 Mr.

 Peterson was united in marriage Tiffany outlet to Miss Madge Shannon, a native of Michigan, and they have become the parents of four children, Charlotte Dorothy, Kathleen Myrtis, Frederick Caithness and Patricia Shannon, all now in school. Mr. Peterson is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and a life member of the Elks. His political support is given to the republican party and he is a public-spirited citizen, enthusiastic in his support of his native state Tiffany and co and believing firmly in its future. In his business affairs and as a citizen he has wrought along lines contributing to the public good, and the family name has been an honored one in the state since his father arrived in Washington in early pioneer times.

 George B. Astel, editor of the Sentinel, published at Stanwood, was born at Blackville, New Brunswick, February 28, 1893. His father, James P. Astel, is also a native of that province and a representative of one of the old families of Irish descent who had settled there in pioneer times. James P. Astel became a successful agriculturist of New Brunswick and in 1903 removed westward to Washington, taking up his abode near Milltown, in Snohomish county, where he is now engaged in general agricultural pursuits and dairying, his business affairs being carefully and wisely directed. He married Lydia Underhill, a native of New Brunswick and a representative of an old family of that country, also of Irish lineage. She, too, survives and by her marriage she became the mother of nine children, of whom eight are yet living.

 George B. Astel, the eldest of the family, largely acquired his education in the public schools of Stanwood, Washington, and in the State University, which he attended for three years. He completed his high school course with the first class graduated from the Stanwood high school and he was also among the early graduates of the Washington University. There he Tiffany and co outlet studied journalism and on the completion of his course, or on the 15th of April, 1Q15, he purchased the Stanwood Tidings, which paper had originally been established in 1902 by Fred Ornes. It afterward had various owners until it passed into possession of tiffany jewelry Mr. Astel, who is making it a popular paper. It is independent in political complexion. It is published weekly and has a circulation of one thousand.