Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-18
MERE MENTION.

MERE MENTION.
Smoke.
Forest fires.
The picnic season is at hand.
The halcyon days have come.
High winds have prevailed the pa
few days.
The steamer Willie is receiving ne
coat Of paint.
Mr.. w. II. Clark, OF Shelton was j
town, last Monday.
All sorts of garden vegetables ar
becoming quite plentiful.
Church festivals are beginning TO b
displacedby church picnics.
The STANDARD, in its enlarged form
is meeting long felt want"
Mr.. H. NJ. Brooks, of Seattle, is nov
freight clerk OF the Hayward.
Charles H. Aver, City Attorney, il
very i'll of typhoid pneumonia.
Business is good and there is q
prospect that it will remain so.
.Semi-occasional visitors from abroad
will have it that Olympia is growing.
The Clara Brown brought in an un.
usually large list Of passengers yester-
DAY.
Messrs d. r. Jones and z. 8. Eestcr
of Hoquian,, were in the city yestcr.
day. !
= Mrs. Al. Littlejohn, Of Tacoma, Is
visiting friends aud relatives in this
city.
Our maple shade trees are now in
full perfection OF their luxurious YER
dure.
The Gold Bar restaurant now sup
plies ice cream at fifteen cents "A
plate
The Presbyterian Sunday school
will go down the bay picnicing, next
week.
Long Wharf has become the FASH
ionable promenade these fine summer
evenings. ..., .~
Much real estate is now changing
hands in and around Olympia. at
good prices.
A red warehouse now looms up like
a beacon ightfrsM the extreme end
Of Long Wharf.
The sun by day and moon by night
begin to show the effects of smoke
from the forest fires.
Mrs. Dolan is on a visit to San
Francisco and Pat is for a time
"grass widower."
Monday the Hayward brought in
over sixty passengers, and heavy
consignment Of freight.
The Surveyor General now occupies
elegant Offices in Mayor Chambers
6re-prooi brick building.
Mr.. E. w. Emery, the Aberdeen
lumberman, was in town this week, on
BUSINESS and pleasure combined.
The finest favored ice-cream can
be found at all times at that favorite
resort, the Capital Restaurant. -
Messrs. C. H. Gilbert and c. F.
Leavenworth, Of Cosmopolis, were in
Olympia on business yesterday.
The temperance coffee house in
Good Templars' Hall, will, it is
thought, open for business next Mon
day. /
Considerable damage was done by
the. forest fires, south of this. place, in
, the destruction Of fences and cord
wood. i
Mr.: Byrne, the grocerymen, has
bought the fine block OF lots opposite
Mr.. Barnes residence. Consideration
5000.
DR.. Riley took a trip down Sound
this week. He is negotiating for the
purchase Of timber land in the vicinity
of Shelton.
Mr. Isaac. Ellis, the well-known log
ger, proposes to build another logging
railroad, to be used by his many camps
near this city.
Prof. Brintnall's private school COM
menced in the central building, last
Monday, with a fair number of pupils
in attendance.
Some midnight street-walker gave
E..stside IRE Mar6a ben = tap, last
Tuesday night, but failed to arouse the
snoring citizens.
Wednesday, at the Columbia House,
Justice Ready tied the nuptial knot
for Mr.. C. A. Allen and Miss E. Hur-
ley, Of Kamilche. 80. t-
Shall we celebrate our National an
niversary, this year. or shut up and go
visiting? That is question that must
be answered soon. ,xs
On the Hth inst, w. W. Black, of
Pierce county, and Ada Patterson, OF
King county, we're unitea in marriage,
by Judge Ready.
Mrs. Cullen, wife of our Efficient
Street Commissioner, returned few
days ago from an extended visit to her
old home in Ohio.
Messrs. Simon johnson and John
y. Ray, well-known Aberdeen citizens,
we're noted among; 0lympia's many.
visitors. Monday.
The teachers and students Of Col
legiate Institute are working with
might and MAN,, preparing for com-1
mencement exercises.
Mr.. J. H. Munson and son, A.,
went to Shelton Wednesday. AL. will
act for time there rs clerk in = geII-