Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-25
MERE MENTION.

Olympia is about free from tramps.
Where do the strangers come from?
Listen to the booming OF the boom.
The days are perceptibly lengthen-
ing.
Geo. f. Cole, OF Spokane Falls, is in
town.
Mr.. Chas. Bagley, OF Seattle, is in
town.
The last vestige OF scarlet fever has
left the city.
Are you out OF employment? Take
homestead.
Mr.. w. W. Work is busily engaged
in shop work.
The street lahorers are waiting for
better weather.
Mr.. Al. Laberee is confined to his
room by illness.
What are the wild waves saying?
Business ahoy."
Mr.. d. l.. Ward, of Seattle, visited
Olympia this week.
The Central Olympia school is
crowded with pupils.
Mr.. A. Tousey, OF Tacoma, was in
the city last Monday.
The waters OF the upper Bay are
swarming with smelt
Mr.. Jos. Simpson, of kamilchie, was
in town last Tuesday.
Mr.. Geo. Z. Atkinson, Of Tacoma, is
at the Carlton House.
- Mr.. w. B. McAllister, of Tenino,
was in town, this week.
The Presbyterian Sunday School is
replenishing its library.
The painters are at work on DIR.
Ostrander's new cottages.
Olympia still rejoices in the general
prevalence of good health.
Mr.. C. 7. Blossom, of Vancouver,
visited Olympia, this week.
The county commissioners will meet
a week from next Monday.
Victoria, b. c., capitalists are in
vesting in Olympia real estate.
Mr.. John Arthur, of Seattle, is at
the Carlton house, this week.
Passengers by the Chehalis stages
are complaining of moist roads.
The Eastern mail has failed to
arrive several times the past week.
Miss Rebecca Henry has just re-
covered from quite severe illness.
Mr.. J. M. Hopkins, went down the
Sound, last Monday, on business
trip.
"Where is the telephone office to-
day?" is a question of considerable inn
port.
Would you become public bene-
factor? Then build nice little cot
tage.
Would-be city officers are playing it
polite to the newly elected Council
man.
Mr.. j. J. Weisenberger, of What
4 com, is examining the clay OF the
knd."
Mr.. Peter Cochran, a we'll known
Eastsider, is teaching in Chchalls
county.
Bishop Paddock, of the Episcopal
churcA, aesoiied in '4slsvonx sn.ai, -aa.s
Sunday.
Mr.. Farquhar has planked por-
ton of Adams street in the vicinity OF
his store.
A number of new logging camps
in this vicinity will soon start into
operation.
The steamer Fleetwood has been
laid up for repairs several days the
past week.
All the sawmills and planning mills
are crowded with orders from home
consumers.
A pleasant series of Shakespearean
readings are being conducted at Stu
dents Home.
The building industry continues to
be carried OH in lively manner by
the Eastsiders.
Ladies complain that the sidewalk
along the north side Of Turner block
is very muddy.
BY doubling teams, wood dealers
are enabled to haul an honest cord to
your woodshed.
so easy, isn't it," she said, "to
write items for the papers" Make
few we answered.
Messrs Bush and CASTOR are making
extensive Improvements in and about
bsr logging camps.
The pastor of the Methodist Church
is discoursing nightly to full house
OF attentive listeners.
The new furniture ordered for Col
legiate Institute is daily expected to
arrive from Chicago.
The Gold Bar Restaurant can feed
five hundred men per day. Go and
make one Of the half thousand.
Mrs. Snow, from Vashon Island, is
visiting her daughters who are in at
tendance at school in Olympia.
Every steamer and train brings an
army Of land-seekers, putting an old
settler in mind Of Land Office days.
1t is estimated that the next enum-
Grafton will give two thousand child
rem OF school age in Thurston county.
The Gas company are utilizing
each high tide in the shipment of coal
from Long wharf to their coal house.
Seattleites are as thick upon the
streets of Olympia as bees in clover
blossom time. What's up, gentle