Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-02-08
MERE MENTION.

Logging camps are lively.
The new moon holds water.
Mrs P. d. Moore is quite i'll.
ST. Valentines day, next Thursday.
What did you get for your corner
lot?
Apples are selling for one dollar per
box.
The town clock is keeping standard
time.
Garden shrubbery is putting forth
leaves.
Small boys are offering their sleds
for sale.
For reliable business locals, read the
STANDARD.
Four tramps cheerfully left town
last Tuesday.
Mrs. p. c. Hale made a down-Sound
trip, this week
The Potter brought up lO5 passen-
gers last night
Mr.. e. Leavenworth, OF Gray's Har-
Dor, is in the city.
Collegiate Institute is preparing for
term examination.
Several new and pretty cottages APP
pear on the Westside.
The Olympia sawmill is temporarily
shut down for repairs.
A daughter born to the wife of J.
V. Yantis Wednesday.
Mr.. John Grimm is shipping brick
to down-Sound points.
Mrs. L. NJ. Sizer, of Seattle, is visit
ing friends in Olympia.
A woman proposes to open a real
estate Office in Olympia.
Revival meetings are still continued
at the Methodist church.
Tacoma is the banner city from
which land-seekers come.
Room for one more real estate
Office. Who will open it?
Odd Fellows Temple is assuming
the character of beehive.
A daughter was born to the wife of
E. S. Horton, last Monday.
The pipe factory is finishing up a
large shipment of material.
Judge Root has moved his Office to
elegant rooms in Temple Flat.
A veteran logger says Olympia has
struck the right kind of a boom.
The telephone Office has been re-
moved to room in Temple Flat.
S. Williams & Son are fitting up
tin shop in the rear Of their store.
The principal employment, now, Of
Eastsiders is stalking off corner lots.
Mr.. J. NJ. Hopkins is showing his
eastern visitors around the country.
Quincy cab courtship is now the
popular thing, five tickets for dol
lar.
The County Commissioners ad-
journed, to-day, till the first Monday in
May.
Mr.. I. C. Van Epps opened his real
estate Office, this week, in Williams
block.
A new crossing appears on WASH
ington Street, at the intersection of
Third.
A new court house and new school
house are among the next public ne
cessities.
Mr.. A. o. Damon, OF Gray's Harbor,
is in town, looking after real estate,
of course.
Mr.. 7. H. Cavanaugh of the Parti-
san, spent several days in Portland,
this week.
Thirty conversions are reported at
the Methodist church sine. the week
of prayer.
A number Of strangers in plug hats
are taking in the lay Of the land in
Tumwater.
Mr.. L. P. Yemen holds his first reg
ular examination Of teachers next
Wednesday.
Well-to-do farmers have commenced
spring operations and predict an album
dant season.
The wood and coal house in the
rear of Odd Fellows Temple is now
ready for use.
The young folks will be pleased to
learn that our city is soon to have
candy factory.
Seventy-ive cents per capita is the
school apportionment in this county,
January, 1889.
Those having the matter in charge
propose to make the party Of the 22d
a brilliant affair.
If China lily bulbs be thoroughly
cared for they can be preserved
through the year.
Mr.. Fred Stocking, of Grand Mound,
is in town, preparing for the annual as
sessment business.
The bell destined to proclaim the
hours from Odd Fellows Temple
weighs 500 pounds.
Mr.. Jacob OF is building a small
store room on Washington Street, near
the corner of Fourth.
Olympia is to have telephone sys-
tenn managed by corporation con-
trOlled by the Bell Co.
Street commissioner Cullen is patch
ing the uneven streets with gravel
from the Eastside bank. /.
Mr.. J. NJ. Buckley one Of the rail-
road magnates of Tacoma, took in the
city and smiled, this week.
Physicians are forced to admit that
the most prominent feature about the
smallpox was the "scare."