Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-10-13
Mere Mention.

OF the zeal old-fashioned orthodox
kind.
While the rain fell in torrents,
last night a: the dread hour of twelve.
Preparations for the Fair next
week indicate au unusually fine dis
play. !.
1t looks as if the rainy season had
set in, II month III advance of the
usual time, this year.
\ Harvest Concert will be held on
the evening of tie 22I instant, III
the [ niturian Church.
Religious services will be held 10y
Rev. Daniel Bagley, i'll Unity Church,
next Sunday morning.
Ethc., the infant daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs Geo. p. Budiong, died i'll
this place, Friday evening, ard was
buried Sunday.
Mr.. Williams block now presents
quite city-like appearance: with the
well arranged stores opened to the
brisk Fall trade.
Rev. J. r. Thompson conducts
services in the Presbyterian Church
next Sunday, at the usual hours,
and at TuInwater at 3 P. NJ.
Mr.. Robt. Watkinson, delegate
from Mason county to the Terntor-
ial convention, made pleasant cali
at our sanctum last evening.
a street lamp on Williams cor
ner, and another at the Postotfice,
are among the late improvements
that receive universal appreciation.
There was born to the wife of Mr.. !
H. H. Hickiin, i'll this place, on the
9th instant, son; and at the same
date, 10 the wife of Mir. r. G.. Ester
ly, of Tumwater, son.
Mr.. Luther By,ei, of Cnehalis
county. aid VS. y. 80. :; II rn...,
OF TINS place, ".Ie m.lil,.., TIE
residence of the brides parents, in
Olympia, last Wednesday.
The Ring candidates are now bob
bling around like corks i'll basin of
water. 1t is surprising how the
Peoples movement disturbs them if
there is no strength i'll it, as they af-
firm.
The price of butter has now adj
vanced to G5 and 20 cents for 1.-TWO
pound" rolls, of such light weight
that the purchaser really pays, in
many instances, from 40 to As cents
per pound.
Mrs. Clara Kubel, of Los Angeles,
daughter of E. A. Light, Esq, of
Sieilacoom, has been on brief witt
to her parents, and this week came
to Olympia and spent few days
among old friends.
1t is Iumcred that the heirs of
Howard Smith, the Young man who
accidentally shot himself, in this
county, few years ago, are likely to
come into the possession of fortune
by The death of a relative in the
East.
1t is the Emma Udycard instead
OF the Monntdin Queen which is TO be
brought from the Columbia river to
run on the upper Sound. She was,
at last accounts, ut the Gateway"
waiting Il chance to get out.
Mr.. J. I. Weston, Il brother of
our towusman, MIR. II. 5. Weston,
has been spending few days i'll
town. He is engaged III selling q
grain cleaner for manufacturing
firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Mr.. L. n. Ford, Representative to
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, which met in Baltimore last
month, has arrived home. The most
important change in the work he re-
ports, is the institution OF the degree
of Uniformed Pa;liarchs.
As the late lamented Pacific Ti-
bune would remark, had it not de-
parted this lie for Hades: Jupiter
Pluvius has the past week reigned
supreme, while Old Boreas has bus
tered with unusual severity; which,
reduced to English is: 1t raint d and
it blew.
All interested ladies and gentle
men are respectfully invited by the
Managers of the Fair, to meet at
Columbia Hall on Saturday and
Monday, the 14th and lG.h to assist
in decorating the walls, arranging the
tables and doing such other work as
may come to hand.
While the Conrier hasn't the po-
likeness to place Mr." before the
names Of people it is making faces
at, it is painfully obsequious to those
it expects to use. This peculiar dis.
position has led it to burden our
young friend on the Clique ticket for
Probate Judge with the wonderful
appellation Of Thos. NJ. Reed, Jr.
Esq. That gentleman should SUE
for damages. Tie name as printed
suggests the idea of the small boy