Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-05
MERE MENTION.

no. LOT lllt iiitdAiN pl'tHiiIS-
Its Governor I.auchton now.
Only twenty days till Christmas.
DAYS lcngth.-9 hours and IS min
utes.
Oysters and clans were never more
plentiful.
Rev. J. Il. Thompson, OF Vancouver,
is in the city.
James Connolly is once more citi-
zen OF Olympia.
Wild game is quite plentiful in the
various markets.
Another restaurant has been started
on Long Bridge.
The contemplated snow storm has
changed to rain.
The frugal moon spent her last
quarter yesterday.
Mr.. S. d. Lawrence, of Yelm, was
in the city, this week.
A good many household Christmas
trees are in contemplation.
Tenino is aspiring after the leader
ship in Thurston county cities.
Ayers hill, as it once existed, is rapid
" becoming a thing of the past.
Fred Guyot, warden at the Insane
Asylum, was in town, this week.
Calethea College had large increase
in its membership, last Monday.
Charlie Hartman left Monday for
q short visit to his eastern home.
Adams street, from Fourth to Third,
will soon be a newborn thoroughfare.
Slowly but steadily the big dredger
is doing the work of an army of men.
A scow-load of rails arrived this week
for the Olympia Construction Com
pany.
The upper Sound country has yet to
experience the first severe frost of the
season.
The WASHINGTON STANDARD is the
veteran weekly newspaper OF Wash
ington.
A special session of the County
| Commissioners will convene next
Monday.
Rev. ]. r. Thompson spent a por-
ton OF the week among old friends in
Olympia.
Mr.. L. G. Abbott and wife are living
on their place below the bridge on the
Eastside.
A turkey for Thanksgiving, a goose
for Christmas and the twain for the
New Year.
Mrs. George Bell, of Chehalis Indian
Reservation, has been visiting friends
in the city.
Now is a good time for saint and sim
ner to retrieve the faults of the ex-
piring year.
Olympia is said to have never been
more free from sickness than at the
present time.
Nesqually bottom is the acknowledge
ed happy hunting grounds for Olym-
pia's experts.
Large quantities of apples and pears
are being shipped to northern and
eastern points.
The County Commissioners meet
next Monday, to take care of some I'M
finished business.
Mrs. Mary M. Miller left last evening
for New Haven, Conn.,, where she will
spend the winter.
Loaded vehicles can now be driven
from Jefferson street, via Third, to
Washington street.
The second term of Calethea COL
lege began last Monday, under most
encouraging auspices.
Olympia is progressive. She has
now new city charter, and q new
board of councilmen.
Rev. T. B. Ford, of the Methodist
Church, of this city, is on q business
trip to Gray's Harbor.
Where is my boy, tonight ?"
Looking through the Christmas show
windows, in all probability.
Many students who visited their
homes in the country are again deep
ly engaged in their studies.
The cities that didn't want the
Capital are just beginning to be heard
from and their name is legion.
Don't scold your belated child for
lingering at the holiday show windows.
Think how it was with yourself.
After a short season of active indus
try, loggers will again gather in Olym-
pia to celebrate the holidays.
The bazaar show windows of Olym-
pia are all ablaze each evening after
The gas is turned ON and lighted.
Mrs. John F. Convey, accompanied
by her son Frank, returned home
from California Wednesday evening.
The Northern Pacific .restle now ex-
tends from Union street to within
short distance of the Garfielde property.
Long stockings are quite appropriate
Pbout this season of the year, among
The small boys; the longer the better.
All the hotels and restaurants are
making big preparations for a big turn
put of hungry guests during the holi-
days.
Miss Lottie st. John of Claquato,
has been spending a few days in
Olympia, the guest of Miss Laura
Marr.
The street graders are now unload