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

A new business firm will speak
through its maiden ad. in the next
issue OF the WASHINGTON STANDARD.
The teachers examination, next
Wednesday and Thursday, will be
held in the upper room of the court
house.
Old settlers who made note OF the
fact, say that the winter OF l8G9-7O,
was a truthful prototype of the pres
ent season.
Miss Emma Hood is back to her
former position, salesman in the con-
fectionery stand, now kept by Messrs.
Tusten & Co.
The members of the Normal class
have undertaken the work of properly
decorating the assembly room OF Cole
giate Institute
A bright meteor in passing over
Olympia, towards the Northern sky,
the other evening, got entangled in
the Bears tail
Two well defined earthquake shocks
were felt in this city, ut twenty min
utes to six o'clock P. NJ, last Wednes-
day, the 9th inst.
The "wheels go round now in the
town-clock, and soon the the deep
the fieeting hours.
The Tumwater Lumber Co. has
opened a fine stock of miscellaneous
merchandise, in the Biles hall build
ing, in that village.
George Jones has added musical in
struments to his stock OF hardware,
tones OF the bell will note the passage OF
and now, when he sells stove he
throws in an" organ"
Mr.. Tweed, the County Auditor, re-
quests us to state that after the 18th
instant, no papers will be filed for
record until the fees are paid.
The stages are so crowded between
Olympia and the lower Chehalis valley
that travellers have to resort to private
conveyance. Alki, railroad.
Messrs. J. B. Jonis, K. II. HANDLE
and S. S. Lawrence, of Yelm, were in
town this week transacting school bus
mess before the County Commission
ers.
At the last general census, Thurs
ton contained less than 1900 children
of school age; now it contains over g.
600 young candidates for public in
struction.
Venus will be at her greatest elon-
CATION on the 18th of the present
month, and will continue to act AS
brilliant hostess of the evening till the
last of April.
One of the finest real estate Offices
on Puget Sound has been opened in
Odd Fellows Temple, by those shrewd
and experienced business men, Messrs.
Sawyer & Co.
Tuesday morning, Mr.. Thomas
O'Neil Was united in marriage to Miss
Nettie Mcdonald, both of Mason coun-
ty. Rev Father Classens performed
the nuptial ceremony.
The people of Westside have al
ready embarked in the house building
industry and neat cottages are begin
ming to dot the heretofore vacant cx-
panse of that thrifty suburb.
The large building now being erect
ed adjoining the Olympia sawmill is
enclosed and it is expected that the
new machinery will be ready to start
into operation by the first of March.
Mrs Lillian E. Peel, of Centralia Wis
tied Olympia this week. She is not
wholly stranger to the STANDARD
readers, having contributed a weekly
letter to its columns for several years
past.
Mr.. Geo. Cook, a pioneer resident of
Olympia, died at the Columbia House,
last Tuesday. He had been a resi-
dent of this city for the past 81 years
He had no family but his death is
mourned by many friends.
A philosophical chap undertakes to
account for the existence OF the
present mild weather along the upper
Sound by saying that it is owing to
fever heat engendered by the real
estate boom in the Capital city.
Mr.. R. F. Wells, Superintendent of
agencies of the Seattle Insurance
Company, passed through this city
this week, en- route for the thriving
cities in Chehalis county, where he ex-
poets to establish local agencies.
Died, at Grand Mound, in this coun-
ty. January 28th, John Laity, aged So
years., 8 months and 20 days. De-
ceased Was born at Cornwall, England,
in 1885, came to this Territory in 1870,
and leaves wife to mourn his loss.
The recently arrived new-fangled
seats are queer things. The students
say they are too narrow for two young
men and much worse in that respect
for two young ladies, but Just per-
feet fit for young man and young
lady.
Messrs. jackson and Crawford, of
the Westside, propose to live in high
life. The former has just erecteda neat
dwelling at or near the summit of the
hill, while the latter is building
house even higher up on the bluff than
his ambitious neighbor.
Rev. ]. X. Chaplin, Of Otsego,
Michigan, has been called to the pas
tOrate of the Congregational Church
in this city. He brings his family, a
wife and four children, and manifests
the proper sort OF a spirit for becom-
ing a permanent resident.
Irrepressible Ben Turner has bought