Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-01-06
MERE MENTION.
Protect your waterpipes.
Cold and frosty mornings.

High tides are now prevailing.
The public schools will reopen next
Monday.
The cit! election takes place next
Monday.
Nearly everybody is now afflicted
with Il " bad" cold.
The present cold bracing weather
makes cracking fire real luxury.
Preparations are on foot to erect
the first electric light on the East
side.
Miss Laura Mari who has been sick
with the measels, is rapidly recover
ing.
Ex-Gov. Chadwick, OF Oregon, is
over on a visit to the Territorial cap
ital.
A line of electric lights now extends
from the foot of Main street to the
Capitol.
Mr.. 1ngersol offers property on
Eastside, at a dedided bargain. Read
his advertisement.
Another barber-shop has been
opened on Main street, in Stevens
building, next door to the Western
Union Telegraph Office.
Twelve young men and several
young ladies, all from abroad, COM
menced the new year as students at
the Collegiate Institute.
Buy your goods of the merchants
who help to pay the taxes, and whose
permanency and business standing
is guaranty of fair dealing.
The China laundrymen have raised
the price of washing % per cent.
Now is the time for the establishment
of laundry by white labor.
The new passenger coaches on the
Olympia and Chehalis Valley Rail-
road are equal in elegance and COM
fort to those of any first-class road.
Col B. F. Shaw, arrived last even
ing from Vancouver, to take part in
the organization of the Third House.
He appears in excellent health and
spirits.
The House of Representatives ad-
iourned yesterday till Monday, as a
mark of respect to Hon. W. J. Thomp-
son, of Pierce county, whose wife died
Wednesday.
You can add very materially to
your comfort these cold days by secur-
ing one of those fine overcoats that
Joe Chem is selling at such UMPIRE
cedently low prices.
Charley Sprague's first destination
on his eastern trip will be Hot
Springs, Arkansas. He leaves in
few days, and will be gone several
months. During his absence, Mr.. F.
R..Brown will act as Conductor on the
Olympia-Tenino trains.
Madam o. Esperanza Luis, of Hayti,
will deliver u lecture in Columbia
Hall. Monday evening, on "The
Negro-His past, Present and Future"
She is said to-be 4 natural orator, and
to depict the misfortunes of her race
ia a most pathetic manner. Admis-
sion Is cents.
Jack Frost has been up to his old
tricks the past few days, and numer-
GUS have been the waterpipes that
leaked after being grasped in his icy
fingers. The plumbers can afford to
set 'em up" for him every night in
\ the week, az long as the mercury keeps
fooling around amid the teens and
twenties.
Last Monday, DR.. Riley amputated
the leg of August Reisenweiber, OF
South Union, patient at the Sisters
Hospital. The limb had been subject
TO painful disease for many years,
and finally grew SO bad that the alter
native of losing it or his life was pre-
sented. The patient is doing well.
The tendency of business to gravi-
tate TO the waterfront since the COM
pletion Of the Long Wharf, will be in
some degree counteracted when the
Hnisan gets fairly entrenched at
the upper end of Main street.
There need be no apprehension that
the municipality will tip up with that
weighty luminary as balance for the
Brunswick Theater.
Nearly everybody has entered upon
+ the New Year with courage, hope and
determination. Business has been
good; the prospect is that it will con-
tinue so, and the outlook therefore
iills the heart with gladness. Under
these circumstances we can wish our
patrons a happy New Year with the
knowledge that it is something more
than mere salutation that custom
J. sanctions.
Mr.. Cavapaugh has been awarded
the contract for printing the laws
+ and journals, of the present Assembly,
compensation for the former being
IS cents per thousand for composition
and 40 cents per token for presswork,
end on the latter 40 cents and 81
cents for those items respectively.
But one other bid was submitted, that
Of Mr.. Gale. Toms prospect OF" wind
pudding" is good.
A e.. n, kao,