Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-01
Mere Mention.
Town election next Monday.

4 seasonablc Situation" April
Fool"
TIL Zplw' brought up Il tons Of
freight Monday.
The Territorial Board of Educa.
ton will meet in this place on Mon
day next.
Mr.. Mcintosh was thrown from q
horse yesterday and had his thigh
bone broken.
Rosenthal's grand opening of new
goods has been the sensation the
past few days.
The Methodist Sunday School in
tend holding q concert in the church
next Sunday evening.
High Mass will be celebrated in
st. Michael's Church, next Sunday.
at half-past ten A. NJ. Nespers ct 7
z. NJ.
Mr.. Van Epps has Just received
a splendid assortment of wall paper.
The patterns are all new and quite
different from anything ever exhibit
ed in this market.
The text in the Congregational
Church. next Sunday morning, will
be, Let us die the death of the Right
eous. Mr.. Huntington will preach
at Tumwater at 3 p. NJ.
The names of DR.. Steele and Mr..
Young are mentioned in connection
with the Office of Mayor; those of r.
Mack, Thos. Prather and j. w.
Craig with that of Marshal, and j.
V. Yantis is named for Clerk,
The Blue Ribbon League re-elcct
ed Mr.. j. H. Munson, President.
Messrs. G. A. Huntington and VIM.
Castor we're elected Vice Presidents,
c. A. Hunt (re-elected) Secretary
and Mrs. Betsey Craig, Treasurer.
The selection of the remainder of the
officers was deferred till the next
meeting.
The eagerness with which other
wise sensible men seek for offices
which do not pay anything except
curses, illustrates strange anomaly
in human character, Without profit,
without honor. what can it be that
attracts % We submit the question
for some student of mental philoso-
ply to decide.
Mann's drug store seems to have
been under an unlucky star this
week. A second alarm, yesterday
noon, was caused by fire in the roof
of that building, which had caught
from defective hue. The fremen
were promptly out with their oppar.
aratus, but the application of few
buckets of water was sufficient to
subdue the flames.
Rev. j. r. Thompson will conduct
the usual public worship in the Pres
byterian Church, next Sunday, at
eleven o'clock; likewise the opening
service in the evening, at 7:3C
O'Clock. In connection with this
service, Prof. Eldridge, of New Ta.
coma, will deliver bis lecture on
Little Things" Mr.. Thompson
will preach in South Union Church
at 3 o'clock p. NJ.
Washington Enc ampment Champ
ions of the Red Cross has added
eis hit new members to it's roll the
past month, and applications are re-
ceived al almost every meeting. The
superior advantages afforded by this
organization for cheap life insurance
and the substantial benefits enuring
during the lifetime of its members
are beginning to be better under
stood, and the result is as stated, a
growth which will doubtless he
steady and permanent.
Quite an excitement occurred in
Mr.. Mann's drug store last Monday,
occasioned by a sharp report fol-
lowe by the appearance of sheet
of flame back of the shelving in the
rear end of the salesroom. The
prompt application of means at
hand soon subdued the fire, but had
it occurred at night time or during
the temporary absence of the in
mates, serious disaster would have
inevitably resulted. The fire was
undoubtedly occasioned by spon-
taneous combustion from O union
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