Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-12-17
MERE MENTION.
A heavy frost last night.

Santa Clans is getting his properties
ready for the chimney-swrcp act.
Miss Lucy Munson has returned
from visit to friends at Pnr, Gamble.
The Olympia Collegiate Institute
closes to-day, for two weeks vaca-
ton.
We have been enjoying in the main
beautiful Spring-like weather the past
week.
Mayor Chambers has fine crop of
peas in blossom in his garden near the
Capital.
Lawyer Bausman, of Chehalis, is on
brief visit to the Capital City
(Olympia).
The Eureka Restauranthas been re-
opened by Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Corliss, of
South Bay.
Messrs. Angle & Durham contem-
plate starting paper at Shelton, in
Mason county.
Brewers window in the Northern
Pacific Express building, is blooming
with Christmas blossoms.
Mr.. l.. G. Abbott has Just received
fine assortment of novelties in the
grocery line direct from Chicago.
The show-windows of the White
House present an exceedingly tasty
appearance, in their holiday array.
Mr. J. J. Westbrook, an old-timer of
Olympia, now of Tacoma, visited his
old camping-ground" few days ago.
McLeod's team took brisk run this
morning and caused brief vision of
the milky way from Eastide to the
peninsula.
The general delivery of the Olympia
postoffice will be closed in the after
noon of Christmas till the mail arrives
in the evening.
The most suggestive indication OF
cold weather is seen in Talcott Bros.
Windows fine assortment of the old
fashioned ice skates.
Last Tuesday Josiah w. Edwards
and Miss Mary H. McAllister, both of
this county, were united in marriage
by Squire Hartman.
Miss Rose Stannus, an elocutionist
of some note in Tacoma, gives an en-
tertainment in Columbia Hall, this
evening. Admission so cents.
The household furniture belonging
to Mrs. Irving will be added to the sale
OF the large assortment of goods at
Fords auction roo ms, tomorrow at IL
L..
That ubiquitous chap, the oldest in
habitant, says the present run of smelt
into the upper waters of the bay equals,
If it does not exceed, that of any former
year.
Capt. A. w. Kellar, master of the
ship Fresno, came up from t. Port
Gamble Tuesday, on a brief visit to
relatives on Eastside. He returned
Wednesday.
Mr.. Robert Rawson has leased the
Jacob Smith hop yard, a fewsmfles
from town for term of years, and in
tends to engage permanently in the
business of hop-raising.
Walter and Bruce Milroy, lawyers,
of North Yakima, are on visit to
their parents in this place. Walter
may possibly remain here, but Bruce
will return in few days.
The receipts of the New England
dinner and sale given by the Ladies'
Aid Society at Columbia Hall, last
Tuesday afternoon and evening,
amounted to about $500.
Mr.. c. B. Bagley, of Seattle, was up
on visit to the Capital this week.
He contemplates establishing a pub
fishing house at the metropolis, )"
somewhat after the plan of Harper's.
Mr. Brewer has just received so bar
rels of choice spruce gum, fresh from
the pineries of Maine, quite enough to
supply prizes for the largest of gradu-
ating classes in first-grade seminary.
The Olympia "Chinese Conspira-
TORS" Bales, Hetsell, Gooding, Joles
and Montgomery, have been released
from the U. S. Penitentiary, their
term of sentence, six months, having
expired.
1t seems about time that our people
were manifesting some interest in the
municipal election. If you have any
thing to say why change should not
take place, say it now or forever hold
your peace.
Mr.. Rabbeson, a few days ago, re-
celved letter from his sister in Da-
kota which states that the temperature
had been from 80 to 40 degrees below
zero in that Territory, the latter part
of November.
The veterans of the Indian war pro-
pose holding grand campfire in
Olympia, ON the evening of January
Sth-Jackson's Day. Old-time REM
iniscences will be the order of the
night and the biggest liar will doubtless
sit on the tallest stump.
Mr.. Lawrence Cormier visited Seat
tie few days ago to attend his broth
er Romon, who was seriously injured
from fall he received while working
on q boom of logs on Olalla Creek