Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-10-17
MERE MENTION.

Rubber goods are lIhdlil% 4 ready
sale.
The duck hunting season is i'll its
prime.
Sweep the falling leaves from your
sidewalk.
Where is the motor for the street
railway?
Mr.. James Campbell, of Seattle, is
in the city.
The whooping cough is whooping
up its merits.
The demand for comfortable dwell
ings is increasing.
Painters and carpenters are the
busiest men i'll town.
The building industry goes steadily
on despite the rainy season.
The revenue cutter WolcoH was in
the lower harbor yesterday.
The McKenny building is assum-
ing magnificent proportions.
Mr.. John Byrnc's fifth store building
is nearly ready for occupancy.
And still they come-students for
enrolment in Calathea College.
Lodging houses are crowded and are
obliged to hire extra outside rooms
The boss burglar and his lambs are
determined to go through Olympia.
Schooley Moore is confined to his
home with severe attack Of typhoid
fever.
The electric light company are
rapidly extending their incandescent
burners.
Married, in this city, October ODD,
Mr.. Charles w. Hayton and Miss Annie
Ittlejohn.
Good coal at Sc per ton is pro-
nOunced much better than fir bark ut
s. per cord.
Polite drummers with their samples
of fall and winter goods are besieging
Olympia dealers.
1t seems that the new moon brought
with it cold wave and stormy wealth
er in good earnest.
An honest countryman says the
Thurston county Republican party is
cracked wide open.
Mrs. Belle Oppenheimer leaves on
Tuesday, next, for visit among
friends in Portland.
Mrs. Bettman returned on Tuesday
from long visit among friends and
relatives in Portland.
The new Land Office is already
calling crowds OF home hunters from
all parts of the country.
A good quality of coal at reasonable
prices is making marked inroads in
the wood and bark trade.
Miss Edith Wallace, of Astoria, Ogn.,
after few days visit to friends in this
city, returned home yesterday.
The population of Olympia has in
creased 1900 since census week and
the influx is yet undiminished.
The rails have been laid nearly il
not quite the whole distance between
the old depot and Long Bridge.
Two scow loads of fir bark, from
Hartstein Island, were deposited al
the foot of Fourth street, yesterday.
Do not forget it that the day il
near at hand when it will be too late
for voters to register their names.
Mr.. G. S. Prince, of Bucoda, next
sheriff of Thurston county, paid his
respects to his Olympia friends this
week.
The Thurston County Democratic
Club, meet every Tuesday and Satur
day nights at Up. NJ, in the Israel
building. ~s
Loggers are rafting piles under
Eastside bridge for. the use of the
Union Pacific railroad company in the
=. upper bay. = 3
Read the WASHINGTON STANDARD
during the campaign and you will be
inclined to vote the straight Demo
cratic ticket.
Christmas is coming and so is the
announcement that Olympia is the
Capital of the sovereign State Of
Washington.
Mr.. Henry Meyer is delivering Blu
coda coal to any part OF the city. His
Office is at the stable OF Drewry &
Son ON Main street.
Gen. r. G. O'Brien has returned
from an official inspection of the State
militia. He reports that service in q
satisfactory condition.
Mr.. L. R. Byrne, Democratic candi
date for County School Superinten.
dent. has been in the city during the
week. counting up his malorities.
The many friends of Hon. VIM
McLane, Of Mud Bay, will regret to
learn that he has been Frustrated by
quite severe attack of pneumonia.
Prof. w. H. Roberts has resigned the
position of Clerk in the Office of the
County Auditor, to engage more &C
lively in his canvass for County Clerk
Olympia burglars are, as a rule
provident people about this time Of
year. They are trying hard to lay in
a winters stock of food and clothing
Mr.. Henry Gilmore and wife, of Ten
inc, were in the city this week, max
ing arrangements for the education
OF their two sons in Calathea College
The local mills are sending large
quantities of lumber, sash and doors
into the country, where the building
industry is carried on in lively man
ner.
Mr.. Jos. Chilberg, Spokane Fail
Commissioned, is home on brief visit
and reports many compliments for the
fine display Of Thurston county pro.
ducts.
The Young Mems Christian Associ
alton, OF Olympia, has grown from q
small beginning to be regarded as one
of the great moral factors of this COM
munity.
A good fire is now maintained dur
ing the day at the Good Templal
Reading Room and the place is becom
ing a popular resort for strangers in
the city.
Rev. H. H. Dobbins, travelling repre-
sentative of the San Francisco Occi'
4.