Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-05
VOLUME XXVIII.-NUMBER 32
MERE MENTION.


Picnics are losing caste.
1t never rains but pours.
Mrs. Ella Irving is on the sick list.
The neighborhood about Ayers hill
resembles small village.
| Painters are engaged on the inside
work of Mayor Conveys house.
The popular thing now is to cal
your family physician by telephone.
Miss Mary O'Neips private schoo
was brought to an indefinite close to
day.
| A squad of what looked to be tn,
advance guard of lobbyists came in las
night.
Ground is being prepared for three
more new dwellings on upper Fourtl
| street.
The Tumwater Lumber Company
made an assignment, on Wednesda,
in favor OF John +. Convey.
From all appearances large number
of drummers and commercial agent.
will take their lay-over season mex
week in this city.
Mr.. A. F. Gum, representing the
publishing house of Ivison, Blakemar
& Co., made friendly call at tht
OLYMPIAN Office to-day.
About score of strangers are now
coming in by steamer and rail, eacf
day, and it is notable fact that they
come here professedly to remain.
According to advices from the coun
try, there has been little damage sc
far, done to the hay crop. Improved
agricultural machinery now render
great losses by bad weather almost
impossible.
Casual visitors, from distant points
say that Olympia is provided with bet
ter means for gas and electric illumi
nation than any other similar town on
the coast. And yet its own citizens
do not forget to complain.
Surveyor Brown is about finishing
a large job of plating within the cor
porate limits of Tumwater. In few
days he will begin the work of survey
ing and plating ten-acre tract adj
joining the Woodruff addition.
An attempt was made to burn the
Eastside school building sometime las,
night. 1t seems that fire had beer
kindled on the floor, and was seen b,
the night watchman just in time to bt
extinguished before serious damage
was done.
Engineer Tillotson is removing int
his new and beautiful residence JUS
completed on the Westside. Hi
house is about as slightly as the dial o
the town clock, and will doubtless
prove the nucleus about which Other
cottages will gather.
The telephone is proving a great
convenience to the people of Olym
pia and their friends in Tumwater
There are at present two Offices in the
latter place, one at the real estate
Office of George Gelbach and one in
the south part of the town.
One of our compositors married Miss
White to the wrong man, yesterday, in
this column, and utterly spoiled the
reporters joke in his suggestion thai
the bride had obtained wealthy hus
band. The lucky man was not Mr.
Henry, but Mr.. Harvey Rich, who
doubtless will be the last man to see
anything suggestive of hilarity in such
errors.
William Rawley, an old soldier liv
ing at Tenino, went home yesterday
the happiest man in Thurston county
He had suffered for over 20 years from
the effects of large swelling, which
every doctor he consulted since the
war, called an incurable hernia, and he
has spent most of his earnings for medi-
cine and trusses. Two doctors had
examined him for a pension and de-
scribed his trouble to be hernia of the
worst and most dangerous kind, and
made affidavit to that effect. The 9TH
er day a friend advised him to see a
q surgeon in this city who had not
previously been consulted, and who
after careful examination, informed
him that his trouble was not hernia,
but hydrocele, and, therefore, perfectly
curable, and proved his diagnosis to be
correct by an operation which removed
the enlargement at once.
From the daily Of Saturday.