Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01
LOOK out for accidental fires,

CHERRIES are going into retirement.
The gravel on the streets is fast
becoming packed.
No material change as yet occurs
among the strikers at the Seattle
coal mines.
Mr.. E. A. Light, of Steilacoom,
paid the city visit, Monday, and
returned the next day.
CARPENTERS are at work putting
up press-room for Mr. G. B. Bag
ley, in the rear of the present Cour-
Ter building.
A LITTLE girl of our acquaintance
wants to know why everybody says,
How warm it is" when we all
know it without being told.
THE haying season is drawing to q
close and the average crop, which
has been secured equals, if it does
not exceed, any crop Of its kind in
former years.
MEssRs. Hartsock & Littlejohn
are putting up a building on the va
cant lot between the building form
erly occupied by L. A. Treen and
the beer hall of P. Hiltz, for Mr..
Anderson.
WHILE te-fying is one of the
pastimes in all our neighboring cities,
the practice seems to have lost it's
attractions with our Cinnamon, as
we'll as with the juvenile element Of
our population.
The authorities of Oregon City
have passed an ordnance prohibiting
minors from appearing on the streets
after nine o'clock in the evening,
without written permit from their
parents or guardians.
The lumber business is not suffer-
ing .sosmuah from the prsyai]ing d.,
r4ession in the Eastern sections, az
along the Sound. Late advices say
that all the mills in the vicinity of
Dayton are running on full time.
WHILE we read the accounts of the
fearfully no. weather now prevail
ing in all the Eastern cities, it is
consoling to think how we are built
up in body and spirit by our cool,
bracing nights and are thus pre-
pared to endure the heat Of another
day.
A VISITOR from Portland says that
the directors OF the local railroad
should make some effort to derive
advantage from the Saturday excur-
sion parties, at half-fare rates, which
have become so popular this Sum-
mer. He believed that many of the
pleasure-seekers would come to this
place, and return by way OF Tacoma,
if the railroad company would make
like concession in fare, and let the
fact be generally known to our Ore
gon neiyhbo1s.
WE had pleasant call last Thurs
day from Mr.. Donald Macleay, of the
firm of Corbet & Macleay, Portland.
He is returning from his annual
visit to the Puyallup hop-fields, and
tarries day to visit relatives in this
place. He informs us that there is
| a prospect that the price paid for
hops this season will make up the
losses of previous years. He paid
IL and 12A cents, and expects to
realize about Is in the market. MIR.
Macleay has been of great service to
the hop-raisers in the management
of their business, and we are graft
fed that fair prospect awaits
this years operations.
DESPITE the fact that the season is
far advanced for such things, there
is an encouraging amount OF i'm
provements going on all over our
city as we'll as in Tumwater. ID
more than one instance, these i'm
provements proceed mainly on the
hypothesis that there is, in the near
future, general revival of business,
not only in our own vicinity, but
through the entire northwestern
coast. We therefore impress upon
our citizens the Importance of striv-
ing to make the best Of whatever
seeming adverse circumstances they
may be led to encounter. We be-
lieve, in the fullpesS OF time, all viii
be right, "a