Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-09-03
MERE. MENTION.


Did YOU secthe Night Blooming Cercus
The Sisters school began last Monday.
Next sunday. the last oi the deg days.
The Pact Sound Indian summer has
come.
The work Of gatherin. early apples
has begun.
The present rain will put a damper on
hop picking.
Ben Turner has forty men working in
his logging camp.
Misses Myrtle and Rena Basley re
turned home last Monday.
Dan Mcdonald left by to-day's train,
for week IS visit to Elensbuig.
Capt. Gilbert, Of the coast survey
corps, has commenced work at Anacortes
There will be communion service at the
Presbyterian church, next Sunday morn
inn.
The provi,lent Street Committee have
begun another job of graveling the
streets.
Miss Grace Hughes has returned iron
Seatco. where she has been visiiin.
friends.
Indian agent Edwin Eells, of Tacoma
has been in the city, th, week on otficia
business.
After a vacation from labor, Miss Will
lard has resumed her instruction il
piano music.
The new bridge oi E;i>tsidc is 800 fee
long, 20 feet wide and the planking
inches thick.
Mr. Ford has sold his stock OF hard
ware to Messrs. Samuel Williams ana
Robert Frost
The gas company have reduced tn,
price OF the Illuminating fluid t. SIS pc
thousand feet.
\ brilliant meteor passed over thi,
city, towards the northeast, in the earl,
evening yesterday.
Miss Mary Shelton left for Snohomisl
City, last Saturday, where she expects
to remain several weeks.
Ar. j. NJ. Hays, wife and child, o
Portland, have been visiting relatives il
this city. during the past week.
Have you shaken hands with the Re
publican candidates? How lovingly
they squeeze the proffered palm!
a log was bought up from Ellis camp
Tuesday, which measured 40 feet in
length and 80 inches at the small end.
Ii you want a good quality Of coal OF
go to the East Olympia Store, where the
genial Mr.. Byrne is the presiding gen
JUS
The Republican county ticket is very
generally regarded as a light weight
and likely to be knocked out in the first
round
The general verdict is that good irui;
drying establishment would abundantly
pay in Olympia. Who will make the
venture?
J. 7 Harting, an employ ina logging
camp on the Skookum Chuck, sustained
Il severe cut in the ankle joint few
days ago.
A noteworthy coincidence OF the East.
ern earthquake was the total eclipse Of
the sun within but few hours Of thai
disastrous event.
Rag, Tag and Bobtail are the name,
Of the Siwashes who have been passin.
through town during the week, enroute
to the hop fields.
The lumber delivery wagons of til,
Olympia saw mill are threading aimos
every street in town with bran new
building material.
Capt. Wiley owner of the steamer
Willie left on Tuesday for San Francisco
During his absence Capt. James Aver.
has taken the wheel.
Read the new advertisement Of Mr.
G. B. Mann in this issue. He has some
thing to say Of interest to farmers, a
well as the public in general.
Mr.. w. II. Lee, left last Tuesday, 70
Albany, Oregon, where he enters upol
his duties as one of the faculty of tn
Collegiate Institute in that place.
Prospective school children are puttin
in their best efforts to utilize in play tn
few remaining hours between this tim
and next Monday, at 9 o'clock, sharp.
To produce the apparition of a hungr.
cow with bell on; open your front gat
and then go into the house. The effec
will be instantaneous, we have tried it.
Mr.. J. NJ. Swan, left for Boston to-day
He will attend the Peoples Territorial
Convention, at Tacoma, enroute, and e
by way of the Canadian Pacific Rail
road.
A young man named Huntley, Of Littl
Skookum, was brought up on the steam
er Jessie Wednesday, with bad cut il
his foot. He was in the employ of Ed
Callow.
The Secretary Of the Washington In
dustrial Association has received from
the Commissioner of Agriculture pack
Of turnip seed, of several varieties, TO
experimental purposes.
In regard to the oft-repeated question
as to why Governor Squire did not brin;
General Logan to the capital city, W
answer, with pathos, there was BIZ
Thomas cat in the meal tub.
The Episcopal denomination b2ve sole
their lot and church building ON Mali
Street to Mr.. J. A. Silsby, who, We un
derstand will transform it into bushes
stand. The price paid was $3.50.
Van Epps has just received dray
load of school states OF every possible
size and style, every one Of then
warranted to bring correct answers t
the children's arithmetical problems.