Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-12
MERE MENTION.
From the daily Of Tuesday

Tie camping season has begun in
good earnest.
Everybody goes camping except the
jaded newspaper man.
Bathing in the bay is getting TO be
fashionable pastime.
Tho Hayward brought lo3 passen-
gers to Olympia last night.
Observe the sanitary injunction and
keep your back yar!s clean.
Nice ripe plums are quite abundant
in the markets and fruit stores.
The first idle man has yet to be
seen in Olympia since the Fourth.
Jupiter is evening star, now, and Al
beautiful object for the amateur as
tronomer.
The postoilice building is once more
i'll its normal position as regards the
sidewalks.
Mrs. Rose Clark Laberee and her
little daughter left, to-day, for her
home in Ellensburg.
During several days past, farmers
have cut their grass in the morning
and hauled it in as good hay in the
evening.
The Sullivan-kilrain brush has
come to close and it is to be hoped
that savory dispatches will once more
traverse the wires.
Several Eastern people came up on
the Hayward last night for the pur-
pose of looking around for homes in
the vicinity OF Olympia.
Miss Flora Parsons, one of the
teachers in the Seattle public schools,
is spending vacation with her parents
on Chambers Prairie and among old
friends in this city.
A lady correspondent wants to know
If there are any printers devils in
those offices that employ young lady
compositors. No, dear; devils never &c
where angels abound
A man lately arrived from the At
lantic States writes to his friends. II
you would sleep all night like a baby
come to Olympia" OF course he
means the Olympia baby.
The topography of the upper por
ton of the city has been entirely
changed within few weeks past, or
account OF the extensive grading now
in progress in that vicinity.
The Signal Service Office reports
minimum thermometer, so degrees
maximum thermometer, 80 degrees
weather cloudless, no rain; barometer
falling from 1902 to $3.50 inches.
An OLyMPIAN reporter was in Taco
ma yesterday, when he met two gen
tlemen, one from Iowa and the Other
from Ohio, who propose visiting Olym
pia with the intention of investing cap
ital and building homes.
Mr.. John Grimm is authority TO
the statement that another kiln o
brick will be put up at the Eastsid'
yard before the machinery is removed
to the company's new grounds,
short distance down the bay.
The forty per cent. increase il
school children, for the current year
forces the conviction upon the mind
of our citizens that school buildin
adequate to growing demands mus
be one OF the next improvements il
this city.
The Street Commissioner is steadil
pursuing his work with an efiicien
force of men and teams at his disposal
and there is fair prospect that as tn
autumn sets in. Olympia's thorough
fares will be in better condition thai
ever before in the history of the city.
Much interest is manifested b.
school patrons in regard to the text
book question now under consideration
by the Territorial Board of Education
This subject is becoming every yea
of more absorbing interest and ever
citizen should be well posted in il
details.
Col. John l. Booge, of Spokan
Falls, Secretary of the Constitutions
Convention, is in the city and regis
tered at the Carlton House The Co
onel presents quite stunning appear
ance with his orange-colored tie an
81 carat diamond, and will make a
efficient officer.
Capt. Ben Ure, residing at Decor
ton Pass, came up to Olympia on tn
Hayward, last night, to attend to som
land business Capt. IRE, or as he
4 better known Uncle Ben," is on
of the oldest pilots on the Sound. A
most thirty years ago he commando
the schooners GROWER, Lizzie Robert'
Rustler and others that ran betwee
WILDLY island and this city.
Mr.. D. w. Sanders, of Du luth, Mimi
4 is on visit to our Territory with
view of engaging largely in the lumber
ing business on the Sound. He is on
of the noted timber men of that STATE
Last year he marketed over eightee
million feet, and the year before thirt
million feet, employing about thre
hundred men during the four month
which, each year, constituted the log
ging season. He visited this Territ'r
several years ago, and the impre'
sion he then obtained Of our resource
in that branch Of industry has induce
him to come to stay.
The Territorial and Thurston cour
ty Teachers Institute met in join
session At nine O'Clock, this morning
hon. ). II Morgan presiding. Abou