Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-12-28
MERE MENTION.

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Care for the poor.
Frost on the windows.
The sun is retrOgradlng.
Listen to the blackbifds.
Look to your water pipes.
Let us turn over new leaf.
Hear the small boys drum.
Next Tuesday is New Year.
Skating on the neighboring lakes.
The smallpox excitement is daily
abating.
The hospital is dispensing its usual
comforts
In your prisons, tonight, remember
the printer.
Miss Ada Beatty is visiting friends
in Olympia.
Mrs. L. c. Long, of Seattle, was in
town on Monday
Miss Minnie Freeman is visiting
friends in Tacoma.
The present issue of the STANDARD
is worth preserving.
Daylight is two minutes longer than
it WAS one week ago
Prof. L. f. Folansbee made down
Sound trip this week.
New moon, next Tuesday and a
change in the weather.
The coming year, 1889, will be $3.50
of the Jewish calender.
Old Santa Claus left at early dawn
on Wednesday morning.
Venus now holds a brilliant rccep-
ton every clear evening.
The town is resonant with the ring
ing shouts OF good cheer.
Olympia markets are tastefully
decorated with evergreen :
The smallpox seems to have left in
quest of a warmer climate.
Chilly winds are signing through
the dismantled shade trees.
The sudden freeze-up left muddy
streets in n rough condition.
Fred Guyot and family are spend
ing holiday week in Olympia.
A good many drummers are spend
ing holiday week in this city.
Plumbers are busily engaged in
mending cracked water pipes.
DR.. Wintermule and wife, of Tacoma,
are visiting relatives in this city.
Benny Morrill,, of Shelton, spent a
portion of the week in Olympia.
Mr.. J. A. Gale, of Kamilchie, was
in Olympia several days, this week.
The camps have shut down gener-
ally, and the town is full of loggers.
Have you a grudge against your
neighbor? Give his boy toy drum
The piles have been driven for the
shore end of the new Third Street
dock.
Two lots in Calkin's addition, near
the Capitol, were lately sold for 49,
600.
Begin your subscription to the
WASHINGTON STANDARD with its next
issue.
The Carlton House treated its
guests to sumptuous Christmas
dinner.
Mr.. Cullen has several teams hauling
gravel to patch up few dAapidated
streets.
Mr.. A. E. Isham returned from a
few weeks visit to Walla Walla last
Monday.
A number of Eeighboring logging
camps will resume operations early
next week.
Master Eddie Stevens is acting as
messenger boy for the Olympia Tele-
phone Office.
Mr.. Ellery Eastman, one of Tum-
waters Old-time citizens, is now resi-
dent of Olympia.
Veteran hunters report all kinds Of
game to be plentiful within reasonable
distances of town.
Mr.. G. s. Horton, having removed
into his new house, proposes hence
forth to live at home.
Collegiate Institute re-opens next
Monday. The public schools have one
week longer vacation.
Thos. NJ. Reed Jr., and wife, spent
portion of the week, with relatives
and friends in Olympia.
The usual Christmas festivities were
held at the Methodist church in Tum-
water on Christmas eve
Small boys complain that the grad
ing done on Adems street has spoiled
the sidewalk for coasting.
The machinists had the steamer
Fleetwood in charge last Monday max
ing some needed repairs.
A slight rising of the temperature.
Tuesday night, resulted in a few drops
of rain the next morning.
Mr.. Jessie Springer and Miss Elma
Shaw, were united in marriage ut Tum-
water, on Christmas day.
David Provoe has been appointed
guardian of Louise Bouchard, a mi
nor, by the Probate Judge.
Frosty mornings, balmy afternoons,
and sharp frosts at night have made
up the weather programme.
Fully five hundred children were
the happy recipients OF Christmas-tree
fruits, last Monday evening.
Mrs. Sarah Woodland, of Portland,
aunt Of DR.. A. B. and A. E. Woodland
Westslde, is visiting in this CITY.