Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-12-31
MERE MENTION.


Let liz turn over new leaf
The season for good resolutions.
Take a good motto and follow it.
Day, length, 9 hours, 81 minutes.
All the schools will reopen Monday.
Hn Tor the new year! a sigh for the
old
The Christmas new moon presages
rain.
Mrs. W. J. Craig still lies in a criti-
cal condition.
Supreme Court meets in this city
next Monday.
The rainfall the past week has been
unusually heavy.
This is the month for the highest
tides Of the year.
The new year tallies with the Jew
ish period OF 5,647.
Next Thursday. the 9th, will occur
the Jewish Fast OF Tcbct.
Mr.. J. II. Long, of Chehalis, is max
ing holiday visit in town.
Mrs. Josie Ferry, of Seattle, is on a
visit to relatives on Eastside.
The days are growing longer, about
80 seconds in twenty-four hours.
Mr.. A. Farquhar has added gas-tit-
ting to his other varied enterprises.
Most of the Sunday Schools will
hold their annual elections next Sun
day.
About fifty loggers will leave town,
next Monday, for their various fields
OF labor.
Migratory birds have yet to fix a
day for their departure from the Sound
country.
The annual ball, tonight, promises
to equal any of its predecessors in all
respects.
Judge Sparks has begun the new
year by Illuminating his residence
with gas.
Ten volumes of Chambers Cycle
paedia have been added to the Central
school library.
10. McCarogher is now engineer on
the steamer Biz, which is engaged
mainly in towing.
The many friends of Miss Eva Os-
trander will regret to learn that she is
quite seriously i'll.
Mr. E. S. Horton has sold his
plumbing business and stock to Sam
uel Williams, Esq.
The Ingersoll boys have opened a
skating rink in the old hall in the
lower part of Tumwater
The STANDARD acknowledges the
compliments of Mr. Dolan accompany
ing package of fine cigars.
Next month will be remarkable for
the occurrence of two eclipses, one of
the moon and one of the sun.
The train was an hour behind time
Tuesday evening, in consequence of
detention on the Northern Pacific.
Five church bells will hereafter unite
their brazen tongues in waking the
echoes of a Sunday morning, in Olym-
pia.
The Gold Bar Restaurant reports
that it has served from 200 to $50
meals per day during the holiday
week.
During the holiday week just end
ing, the town has been full of loggers,
trimming over with jollity and good
cheer.
Miss Florence JoneseOf the Anna
Wright Seminary, Tacoma is spending
the holidays with her family in this
place.
Ed. Austin and Mrs. Mary Carlin
were united in marriage, at the Cath
Ole church in this place, Monday
evening.
AS the STANDARD goes to press, there
is no positive indication as to the re-
suit of the Postal Telegraph suit now
pending.
The first snow fell Sunday morning,
to the depth of about an inch. 1t was
succeeded by rain and soon dis
appeared
FIX. Y. L." had sent his name
with his communication, it would
have appeared in this issue of the
STANDARD.
Although the late snow brought a
temporary sureease of rain, "hyu
snass" is not an inappropriate express
sion at present.
MIR. H. H. Browning, of Portland,
superintendent of the Northern
Pacific Express Company, has been in
town, this. week.
A new heating apparatus has been
set up in the basement of the Presby-
terrain church. Mr.. Samuel Williams
furnished the outfit.
Eggs steadily remain at 80 cents
per dozen, which is considerably
cheaper than the price during the holi-
day season of last year.
Olympia's freight by the steamship
Elder, brought up by the Emma Hay.
wdrd, this week, is pronounced to be
an unusually large list.
MIR. Squires makes his appearance
IN a new advertisement in this issue