Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-01-04
MERE MENTION.

Look to your house plants
Have YOU written the new year?
Miss Clara Shaw died at Nisqually
last Friday.
The OLYMPIA public schools will re-
open next Monday.
Mr.. +. Bascom, of Montesano. was
in the city this week.
Now that the holidays are past, let
us proceed to business.
January 4th and fat cattle are clip
ping the green heritage.
Mr.. A. J. Littlejohn, OF Tacoma, Wis
tied Olympia this week
The steamer F7eetwood was on the
"gridiron" last Monday.
1889 is more musical in its articula-
ton than its dull predecessor
Boxing gloves have supplanted the
foot ball among Olympia students.
Mr.. B. W. Johns has bought the
Houghton property in the upper part
OF town.
Mrs. L. Siger has returned from Los
Angeles and is now visiting her friends
in this city.
Joe. Cheim says if you want to see
the noblest work of God, just step into
the White House.
Twenty centuries must pass away
before we can again write three sue
cessive Is in the year.
Puget Sound editors thrill with
cold when they read their Eastern
: Washington exchanges.
The Olympian Rod and Gun club
holds its annual election of officers
next Wednesday evening.
Physicians assert the present cold
wave is advantageous to this vicinity
in a sanitary point of view.
Messrs. A. D. Bowles, Walla Walla,
and c. F. Merry, Spokane Falls, are
registered at the Carlton House.
Mr.. G. kaufman, of the New York
Store, paid brief visit to his relatives
and friends at Seattle this week.
There will be a meeting of the
Ladies' Relief Society, Thursday, at
the Hook and Ladder Co.'s room.
Mrs. Rudolph Peterson has been
adjudged insane by Judge Root, and
sent to the Hospital for the Insane.
Mr.. Isaac Chilberg, former resi-.
dent of Olympia, now living in La.
Conner, is visiting relatives in this city
Mr.. Mark Davis, of San Francisco
brother of Mrs. Jos. Chem, passed
the holiday with his relatives in this
city.
Work was resumed last Monday al
Collegiate institute, Tuesday however
being turned over to the students as q
holiday.
Church bells were ruhg at the sol
emn noon of night, in the Capita
city, as the old year was relieved by
the new.
Public worship will be resumed a
/ the Congregational church next Sun
Lday by Rev. J. r. Chaplin, of Otsego
Michigan.
The late cold season has made wa,
with good deal of fuel in town, ant
teams are busy, early and late, haul
ing wood ana bark.
Acre lots in Charley Billings pla
on the Westside, sold very rapidly a
500 each, and the land lies abou
four miles from town.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Lammon sold, last week
his farm on Black, one of the best il
the county, for 5000. Mr.. Nelson
Sargent was the purchaser.
The thermometer plainly indicate
an abnormal lowering of the temper
allure, during the continuance of tn
eclipse, last Tuesday afternoon.
Edwin Smith and Jos. NJ. Dewitt, o
San Francisco, young men Of mean
will visit the Sound soon with q vie'
of securing location for business.
The executive committee of tn
Women's Relief Association will b
glad to receive donations of clothin
foruse in their philsnthropic work.
Rehearsals are in progress for
grand opera to be performed q
Columbia Hall, by Olympia talent
Particulars will be given in due time.
Physicians report one or two case
of scarlet fever in town, but the ps
TENTS are recovering and there is n
apprehension of the spread of the di
ease.
The evening star, Venus, is no
only about three degrees south {
Alpha Aquarii and the twain make
beautiful sight for amateur astron'
mers.
Mr.. w. H. Clark, who was wounde
in cutting affray, last week, at She
ton, is thought to be wholly out ,
danger, and his physicians predict hi
speedy recovery.
Mr.. III. l.. Forrest, late of Garrne
Kansas, an experienced business MAJ
has formed partnership with M
Alfred Thompson, in the land bushes
and designs making Olympia his pc
manent home.
The upper bay was violently az
tated about the beginning of the sol
eclipse, last Tuesday, without any a
parent cause. Long swells broke upt
the Eastsidc beach, as if from Il
wake Of passing steamer.
The sky was overcast with thic
leaden clouds all day, last Tuesda
thus precluding the possibility of sc
ing the eclipse of the sun, althoul
many Of our citizens had made prep
rations for taking observations.
Work Is nropressinp m the exte