Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
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Mere Mention.

The children are beginning to talk
about Santa Claus.
Mr.. {. II. T.lcott has been ailing
the pas: few days.
Mr.. Van Eprs has been quite i'll
tue past week. but is now improving.
The weather has been usually
cold for the season and county the
past few days.
The cost of publishing timber land
notices IN the STANDARD, for the pres
en:, will be 50
Charley Moore claims that he has
the best assortment of candy in the
place. Try it.
The Methodist held husband
milk festival at the parsonage We'd
nesday evening.
The NJ. E. Sunday School intend
to give a concert 10 their church
Nnext Sunday evening.
>Dr. Turner new brick is now APP
preaching completion. and is an or
nament to our principal street.
Alki Council No. 1,03S Legion of
Honor, will meet in Odd Fellows
Hall, next Wednesday evening, at
7 o'clock.
Services ct the Congregational
church, next Sabbath, morning and
evening. Morning subject, "The
Third Commandment"
Mrs. Mary Ann Yeager, wife Of
VIM. Yeager, of this place, died last
Wednesday, aged SO years. The
funeral took place this afternoon at
the Nj. E. church.
Do not fail to inspect the stock of
Toklas & Co. before making your
purchases. The reasons for selling
off their present supply at reduc-
ton are given in their advertisement
this week.
Read Mr.. Rosenthal's new adver-
tisment. His stock is one of the
largest and best selected in the
place, and you can foim ~ opinion
of the bargains offered, by inspec-
ing the goods and prices.
Mr.. Bettman's new store will soon
be ready for occupancy, when be
will be prepared to make an extraor-
binary display of his new stock now
on the way. In the meantime, ex-
anime his goods now offered at sac
rifce.
The new sidewalk fronting DR..
Turner'S building is great benefit
i TO the business houses on that side
of the street which have been serious
ly disconnected tho past few months
by the blockade of mortar.beds and
line barrels.
Most of the boarding houses have
put up The price OF meals to fifty
cents, which is an exorbitant price,
unless the quality improves cores
pondingly. The "eolden mean"
between twenty five and fifty cents,
would have been the proper figure.
The Secretary of the Washington
Industrial Association having failed
to furnish Us the report of ar
iicles on exhibition at the late Fair,
promised for this issue, we must
forego it's publication. 1t would be
quite stale readin, a month after the
exhibit, to say nothing of longer de-
lay.
Col. Hawkins delivered a tenn.
porance lecture in CO lumbia Hall,
Saturday night, and another in Ia
coma Hall, Sunday afternoon, to
fair-sized audience on both occas-
ions. He is forcible speaker, and
represents the National Christian
Temperance Union, having its head
quarters in New York.
A man named Aleck Gonier, aged
about As yeats, logger, we'll known
a to many of our citizens and univer-
ssally respected, was found drowned
in Squaxon Passage, last Tuesday.
The situation in which his remains
were discovered indicate that be had
committed suicide, and the verdict
of the Coroner's jury was in accord
:ance with this belief. It appears
that the deceased had rowed out into
the passage in bis boat, and after
weighing his body with rocks, had
attached the painter to his neck and
jumped overheard. The remains
were brought to this place Wednes-
day, and inferred yesterday in Odd
Fellows Cemetary, the deceased be-
ing a member of that fraternity,
which paid the last sad rites to his
memory.
A man aged so years, stranger
whose name is unknown to anybody
near the scene of disaster, was run
over and instantly killed, at Tenino
by freight train Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Tuesday afternoon
1t seems that he had been left by the
passenger train at some station soutl
OF Tenino, and had walked to that
place and ordered his dinnor wh or