Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-08-06
MERE MENTION.

Judge Jud>"n. al Tacoma, lia> ,c, II
in town tn, past lew days.
Mr.. Jos. NcCarroghcr las lren
quite Ill the pa.I lew dnl>.
Read the new Al crti-,I'.rnt ui lh,
New York Cash Store in this issue.
Fashionable ladies' are coming to
their senses in adopting low heelcd
shoes.
The smoke from forest fires has
been. at times, the past week, quite
oppressive.
The wife of Wash Littlei"hn. Of
Bush Prairie, has been quite i'll the
past fortnight.
Canaday & Jones havea fine dis
,lav Of oranges, lemons, berries
and other fruits
Dan Mcdonald went to Victoria. a
few weeks ago, and is expected to re-
turn tomorrow.
Mr.. L. g. Abbott, the grocer. re-
ceived the first shipment of sweet po-
tatOes this week.
A Lawn Sociable will be held at the
Methodist parsonage on Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
Farmers are cutting the last few
acres of their meadows and will soon
be engrossed in grain harvest.
Arrangements are in progress for ex-
tending the gas mains up Jefferson
and Adams streets above Union.
: Ellis Bigelow is again driving the
team that ran away with him and
boasts that he is as strong as ever.
Judge Julson' is the alltcrativc
designation that is now rendered APP
propriate by possible contingencies.
Last week was Il season of accidents
and casualties. During the last few
days there has been happy respite.
A new sidewalk has been built on
the north side of Eighth street, be-
tween Main and Washington streets.
Carpenters are at work repairing
and charging the cottage on the north
east corner of Fifth and Plum streets.
The steamer Messenger has gone
back to her old route between Tacoma
Olympia aud points in Mason
county.
Frank Mossman left Sunday morn
ing, in charge Of an officer for his old
quarters i'll the penitentiary at Salem,
Oregon.
Mr.. Mark II. Draham has bought
Mrs. Munn's interest in the Columbia
House, and will hereafter conduct it as
sole proprietor.
Mr.. L. P. Yemen will he candidate
for the Office of County Auditor, sub
ject to the decision or the County Re-
publican Convention.
Hon. NJ. z. Goodell, of Montesano,
visited the Capital City few days
ago. He reports times as improving
in the seaboard county.
The Democratic primaries will be
held in this county tomorrow. That
Of Olympia precinct will assemble in
Columbia Hall, at one p. NJ.
:. Mrs. w. II. Clark and little daugh-
ler arrived from San Francisco, last
Saturday, after an absence Of several
months in Southern California.
Rumor has it that temperance
paper will soon be started in Olympia
If so what will the Partisan do; Rich
ards occupation will be indeed gone.
Herbert Parker is acting master of
the steamer Messenger during the fur
Tough of his father who is detained at
home on account of the illness of Mrs.
Parker
Rev. J. c. Baker, Superintendent Of
Baptist Home Mission for the North
Pacific Coast, will preach in the Bap-
fist church next Sunday, morning and
evening.
Read our new adj vertisements, and
old ones too. 1t will pay you to pat
ronize our enterprising business men
who hang their banners on the out
er walls"
Mr.. Hiel Barnes and party of two
others leave tomorrow for Eastern
Washington, by way of Cowlitz Pass.
They go on tour of pleasure and
discovery
Mr.. A. Farquhar has found room
enough on the new front of his store
for half dozen more sign legends.
Narrowed down to single word, his
motto is business"
Small posters in various parts of
town are sOlemnly warning pedestrians
that the sidewalks whereon they are
treading and trundling their baby car
riages are in an unsafe condition.
An Olympia Chinaman has turned
house painter and the way he -four
ishes the brush would indicate that he
knew something about the business
before leaving the Flowery Kingdom.
Mr.. John Y. Ostrander has assumed
the duties of Register of the Land
Office, in this place. 1t is indeed re-
freshing to see Democrat in that
Office, after the lapse of quarter of a
century.
The new engine house, AS seen from
town, evidences that the railroad COM
pany have still local habitation within
thn Il