Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-01-13
MERE MENTION.

Master Rufus Henry is recovering
from quite severe illness.
As the days begin to lengthen, now
the cold begins to strengthen.
Mr.. S. c. Woodruff, Of Fort Steil-
accom-. was in town, this week.
The late cold weather has had the
effect to call all the bell COWS into
town.
Capt Gil Parker is again in COM
maud OF the fine steamer Emma Hay
Mard.
The New Brunswick theatre is
numbered among the things that
were"
The tugs Politkofsky and Yakima
took away booms of logs last
Wednesday.
Fractured w.ter-pipes and frozen
house-plants are among the trophies
OF Jack Frost.
Mr.. Allen Weir, editor of the Port
Townsend Argus, is in this city, and
will remain several days.
Capt. Doane is packing Dolan's ice
house with fine blocks of the con-
gealed fluid from Capital lake.
Miss Lulu Mitchell, student from
Collegiate Institute, has been en-
Gagged as teacher in the Yclm Prairie
district.
Peter Brotherson has been APP
pointed guardian of Mary Darcy, a
minor clild of Michael Darcy, de-
ceased.
An electric light now beams like a
yeritable Star in the East, from the
intersection of Plum and Fourth
streets.
The measels having expended its
main strength, no more danger is APP
pretended and children are back in
school.
Capt. Roeder, of the Council, is
seriously i'll of pneumonia. He has
been confirmed to his bed the past
few days.
The citizens of Olympia propose to
give grand reception to the Legisla-
tive Assembly, in Columbia Hall, next
Friday evening.
Forty-eight marriage licenses were
issued by the Auditor of .Thurston
county during 1887. This is seventeen
more than for the previous year.
The steamer Yakima was in the
harbor Tuesday, and made her land
ing at the new Long Wharf. She
brought up considerable feed for log
ging camps.
Adjusted water-pipe, in Messrs. Tok-
las 4 Kaufman's warehouse, Wednes-
day night, flooded the premises and
did considerable damage to several
cases of dry-goods.
The natural philosophy class in
charge of Prof. Follansbee, of Cole
gate Institute, visited the gas works
last Wednesday evening, to study the
mysteries of electric lighting.
That dangerous fight Of stairs
which has so long been an eyesore on
franklin street, opposite the Court
House, has at last been torn away
and the sidewalk nicely graded.
Mr.. Hidden has served us with a
sample lot of the ginger ale he is man.
ufacturing at the Olympia Soda Fac
tory. It is pronounced by connoiseurs
to be equal to the best in the market.
A fall of about an inch Of snow last
night. and frosty wind from the
north this morning, reminded people
more of an Eastern winter than any
experience we have SO far had this
season.
A number of tramps and tin-horn
gamblers, driven out of Tacoma and
Gesttls. came to Olympia few days
ago, and received q peremptory order
from the City-MaYshal to move on"
They passed.
The iron-work for brick vault, in
which to store the records of the Dis
trict Court, has arrived, and work will
begin upon it as soon as the weather
permits. The vault will be by 9 feet,
inside measurement.
Last Saturday evening, Prof. and
Mrs. Follansbee gave q reception to
the graduates of Olympia High School
Of the class of 1887, and the Normal
class of 1888. It was said to have
been very enjoyable occasion.
A large skating party went out to
Barnes lake, last Tuesday night.
Come OF the boys report that those
who could not stand up. sat down on
the ice till the teams were hitched up
for returning to town. No reflections.
Mr. L. V. s. Ames, of st. Louis,
sister of Gov. Eugene Semple, arrived
Thursday evening. to spend several
weeks on visit to her brother. The
Governor has taken rooms for her at
the residence OF Capt Percival, on
Westside.
Articles of incorporation have been
died with Secretary Owings of the
Housekeeper's Bazaar Company, of
Olympia. Its corporate life is limited