Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-27
WHOLE NO. 968
CHERRY picking is in order.

CHERRY picking is in order.
The steamer Dakota left the West
side wharf, yesterday, at noon.
The steamer Zephyr brought up
the Dakota s freight Wednesday even
ing.
DREss-MAK1NG is now taught, as q
regular branch, in many of the East
ern schools.
TIE weather in this vicinity con-
tinues thick and hazy but not un-
comfortably cold.
Rev. DR.. Wood, an eminent Eng
lish clergyman advocates the use of
hedgehogs and rats for human food.
The able-bodied directors of the
Fair association are going to put in
another days work on the grounds
to-day.
The harbor of refuge question
now involves the discussion of tho
merits of other places-Cape Argo,
Crescent City and Port Oxford.
By dint of picking up old scrap
iron and bottles, oui small boys
are accumulating a fair amount Of
Fourth Of July spending money.
A TELEGRAM sent by our citizens
announcing that large amount of
freight awaited her, caused the
steamer Dakola to come to Olympia
Thursday morning.
Our strawberry raisers have more
orders than they can fill. Their
fruit does not ripen fast enough to
satisfy the gustatory propensities Of
consumers.
MEssRs. Etheridge and Dof1e-
myre are building nondescript sort
of sailing craft of the unusual pro-
portions of eleven feet in length and
nine feet beam.
The Olympia consignees Of freight
by the Dakota we're as follows:
american Pipe Co.. 4 Eararaher.
@. B. Bagley, ~ ID. II QbNMhoxms
E. Clark, q. RosenthaIs
n. Sabin, l.. Bettman,
NJ. Dobrin & Son, NJ. Raymond,
Otto Ranke, r. Frost,
S. G. Ward, S. StOrk,
8. Williams, STANDARD,
Toklas & Goldstein, Transcripi,
T. N. Ford Il Co., Woodruff, Van Epp9,
w. N. Horton, w. e. Anderson,
W. +. Crosby, Young Bros.
A BUSINESS man who never adver-
tised in the EXPERIMENT, has lost one
fourth of his accustomed weight
since the advent of low prices in
this place, and talks Of emigrating
to Alaska. His neighbor who has
literally patronized us, says times
were never better, and talks Of es-
tablishing several branch houses in
the vicinity Of Olympia.
Rev. Shelton Jackson, D. D., Of
Colorado, will deliver q lecture in the
Presbyterian Church, this FRI
day. evening, at 8 o'clock. Subject.
Alaska" DR.. jackson has travelled
extensively in that Territory and il
we'll qualified to impart valuable in
formation concerning it. Being an
able and interesting speaker, the
lecture will doubtless prove an at
traction. Everybody is cordially in
vited.
IT may not be generally known,
though fact, that most of the oak
lumber used in the building of Capt.
STAIRS new steamer, at Seattle, il
sent from the sawmill on the farm
of Mr.. Nathan Eaton, on Chambers
Prairie. For years, that mill has
turned out some of the finest speci-
mems Of oak plank and other lumber
that has ever left this Territory.
while an abundant growth of that
! valuable timber still remains in and
about the vicinity.
MAIN street was rendered lively,
the other day by the appearance Of .
stout individual, making abortive
attempts to show people that he
was not drunk. To casual observ
es:, he appeared to be laying out the
ground for rail fence, to the NO
small annoyance and disgust of wo
men and children, as they had to
give him the whole of the sidewalk.
Strange, passing strange. isn't it,
how much quicker drunkenness and
indecency is observable in Siwaah,