Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-03-06
NJ ERE MENTION.
The first week oi Spring.
The windy month has come.

Tumwatcr i having revival in r.
li.ion
Listen to the music Of the hammer
and saw.
Winter j. thoroughly ous,cd from
the lap Of Spring.
\ thin stratum Of lee covered the up.
per bay, this week.
Mr.. F. Il. Brown, OF this city, is ~
ing i'll at Portland.
Dir. Calhoun. Of Tacoma, visited
Olympia this week
The welkin is re-ounding with the
songs oi robins and other birds.
Mrs. Senator Kneclind and two chill
drcn. Of shelton, are in the city.
Tie spring term of Calethca College
will begin Tuesday, the 10th inst.
Carpenters are framing the timbcr>
for the Seventh street railroad tunnel
The skating rink on the Ellis dock
was opened to the public last evening.
Communion services will be held at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday.
Mr.. Alexander Farluhar is inclosing
his mammoth new building on Eighth
street.
Hotels and lodging houses are not
only full but literally crowded with
guests.
A son was born to the wife of Mr..
I. J. McBratnev, of this city, Wednes-
day evening.
March came in like Mary's little
lamb, and now will it go out like a
roaring lion
Captain Gilmore Parker has been
transferred from the steamer Potter to
the Greyhound.
A number of Olympians who have
been Frustrated by sickness are hope
fully convalescent.
The question as to who shall be Su-
perior Judge is now agitating the law
yers of Thurston county.
Lawyer W. II. White, of Seattle, is
in the city transacing legal business
before the Superior Court.
Mr.. T. Stapleton, has leased the Co
lumbia House, and will hereafter con-
duct general hotel business.
The Daily Tribune assumes the re-
sponsibility of making up time table
for the street railroad company.
Some very creditable records have
been made by the students of Calethea
College during examination, this week.
Gov. Laughton has appointed Sol.
Smith, the present Clerk of the Su-
preme Court, Superior Judge for Kick
itat county.
Manager Hanna writes that the
Hess Opera Company will visit the
Sound and, of course, appear at Olym-
pia Theater.
Every house at Tumwater now has
tenant, which indicates decided re-
vival of the prospects of that pictur-
esque village.
The break in the gas main across the
Main street section of the railroad tun-
mel has been temporarily spanned by
rubber tubing.
Mr.. T. c. Van Epps is filling his lot
on the south side of Fourth street
bridge, preparatory to the erection of a
business building.
Olympia wood dealers assume to be
growing honest and are putting four
horses on their wagons to bring cord
of wood to market.
Despite the late cold wave, dubious
plants are pushing their way up
through the mold and many varieties
are even poisoning.
The solicitous wives of many legis-
lators arrived, this week, to see to it
that their honorable lords should safe
ly reach their homes.
Another sneak thief attempted to
provide himself with pair of shoes at
Harris e. Sons store, Wednesday, and
was promptly arrested.
The Street Commissioner has laid
down a temporary sidewalk from
Fourth to Fifth streets on the east
side OF Chestnut street.
Washington street, between Sixth
and Seventh streets, is being filled
about four feet with earth taken from
the railroad excavation.
A devil fish, or octopus, was killed
at Long wharf, Tuesday, by Tom Allen
and companions. 1t was very large
specimen of this horrid monster.
New corners are clamoring for houses
to live in, and to meet the demand
many old buildings are being fitted up
for their temporary convenience.
Itseems that the lawyers of Thurs
ton county cannot agree upon candi-
date for Superior Judge. The Cover
nor will soon cut the gordian knot.
Monday evening party of twenty
Knights of Pythias of this city went
to Shelton to institute Pacific Lodge
No. 66, which starts out with % men,
bers.
One fact renders the past Winter
anomalous, and that is, the plumbers
have brought in no bills for the repair
of broken water pipes on account of
frost.
Contractor Treehouse took dose of
poison by mistake last night, and for a
time it was thought he could not sur
vive. He is now thought to be out of
danger.
Good news for Young America