Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-12
MERE MENTION.
To-day has been quite smoky.

NtiiIN l,'NO l"ol'iC iiaNS icSlStcIcu
Tumwater is to have graded school
The days are rapidly growing short.
The city Is environed by railroad
camps.
Register" should be the voters
shibboleth.
Now is the time to pick your apples
for keeping.
The new water service will soon be
in operation.
Dense fogs have prevailed the past
few mornings.
Mrs. Emma Manvill has been quite
i'll the past week.
Farmers throughout the county are
threshing their oats.
Mr. David T. Drewry is sufterin g
from sprained ankle.
The Legislature adjourned sine de,
Thursday at l 80 r. NJ.
There are over 500 pupils in the
public schools OF Olympia.
Another large warehouse is being
constructed on Horr's wharf.
A special meeting Of the Council
will be held Saturday evening.
Born, last Sunday, to the wife OF d.
H. Hendrickson, Of Eastsidc, boy.
The special session Of the Legisla-
ture will cost the people about SD 900.
Another brick building is to be erec-
ell on Third street by Schall brothers.
The people Of Lewis county want to
be attached to the Olympia Land Dis
trict.
Mr.. Geo. A. Barnes has gone to the
Hot Springs for the benefit Of his
health.
Henry OFT has returned from Ia
coma and is confined to his home by
illness.
The Didascalion, of Calethea Col
lege, will hold regular session, this
evening.
The infant child of Mrs. VIM Hol.
man died on Sunday and was buried
on Monday.
The incandcscent system of electric
lighting, will be formally inaugurated
this evening.
Miss Amelia Dittman has been en-
ployed as teacher in the Puget City
district school.
Teamers and expressmen are happy
now, since they can drive over the
Eastside bridge.
Messrs. Ralph S. Dorr and Benz.
Dettmar have opened first-class sa.
loon at Tumwater.
Olympia now furnishes over a
thousand pupils to the various public
and private schools.
Mr.. Mears has an excellent supply
OF English porter on draught at the
International saloon.
At Chambers prairie, on the Sd in
slant, a daughter was born to the wife
OF Mr.. VIM. Littlejohn.
Mrs. Ella Irving is preparing to
leave for Ellensburgh, whittier she
goes to visit relatives and friends.
The chill days of autumn have
come, and cracking fire mornings
and evenings imparts a grateful
warmth.
The Republican primaries in this
county are to be held next Tuesday.
The County Convention meets on the
Goth inst.
A gold locket was found which the
owner can have by calling at this of.
fee, proving property and paying fol
this notice.
Now that the bridge is finished, there
is fair prospect that East Fourth
will be soon graveled for the emergen-
cies of winter.
Mrs. ]. ]. Gilbert left Thursday for
California to join her husband, who
has been stationed there in the service
of the coast survey.
Mrs. Fannie Jenkins, proprietress Of
the Columbia House, left Sunday for
her former home in Missouri, to be
absent several weeks.
White labor has been largely en-
gagged, this year, in the work of hop
picking, although employers say that
the Siwashes are the more profitable.
The steamer Detroit was sold Tues
day, by the U. S. Marshal for debt,
and was bought by the Port Blakely
Mill Co. The price paid was IS, 200.
The travelling public will be pleased
to learn that the elegant steamer
Potter is now on the way to the Sound,
to run on the route between this city
and Seattle.
Messrs. Schall will begin imme-
diately the construction OF a large two
story brick building on the north side
of Third street, between Main and
Washington.
Wednesday evening q carload OF
hogs was brought in, consigned to
James Brewer. This is the first con-
signment of hogs that ever came to
this city by rail.
Fifty railroad grading carts have
been received by the Olympia Con-
struction Co., with which to prose-
cute their grades on the several streets
now under contract.
The new Eastside bridge already be-
gins to act as q potent argument III
favor of the widening of Fourth street.
The contrast between the two sections
is painfully marked.