Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pies from new apples are in order.
The new comet begins to expand its
tail.
The planet Venus is now evening
star.
State Auditor Grimes is at Ellens.
burgh.
Vashon College opens on the 18th
proximo.
Catcrpillars are disappearing from
the fruit trees.
Cougars are engrossing the attention
of Chehalis hunters
Cherries and currants are now plen-
tiful in the markets.
Cinnamon are peddling wild black
berries on the street.
The County Commissioners have adj
journcd to Angus, lst
The season of luscious watcrmelons
= i"IlhiN approaching
Strawberries are still holding their
own at ten cents per box.
New potatoes are supplanting the
tubcrs that grew last year.
The County Teachers Institute will
convene in this city, July 81.
1t. Johns Sunday School went on a
picnic TO Buffers Cove to-day.
Haymakers are at work upon the
campus of Collegiate Institute.
4 season of general good h, alth is
prevailing in town and country.
six feet of water at low tide" is
full OF music To steamboat men.
Real estate business is growing more
lively since the glorious Fourth.
The sun rose this morning at 4.32
and will set at 7.39 this evening.
A good many people of leisure have
closed their houses and gone camping.
Forest Cemetery. East Fourth street.
Is putting ON AN attractive appearance.
The work OF grading Eastside boule-
ward WAS commenced Thursday morn
ing.
ur. Charles T.. Hartman, Of Port An.
geles. left Monday morning for his
home.
Shelton people think Olympia is too
near their town To ever amount 10
much.
The man in the moon IL again pit.
ting his lantern against the electric
lights.
The pile driver has been at work
this week. alongside 81 the Pcrciysi
wharf.
Tom cod are said To be- plentiful in
the waters surrounding Browns
wharf
Mr.. George Hartman Is visiting his
daughter. Mrs. Walter SCANNED, in
Tacoma.
Incoming visitors all agree that
Olympia is entitled 10 he called " The
city Of Roses"
Fruit dealers are busily engaged in
packing and shipping superior quail
ties Of cherries.
Red raspberries have appeared in the
fruit stores as the rightiul successors
to strawberries.
To cure your dread Of hard times. 20
into the country aud hire yourself out
As \ farm hand
II has been discovered that an
Olympia seamstress steels the dresses
OF her customers.
Olympia never had better steam.
boat service than that which prevails
At the present time.
Miss Fanny Langridse, OF South
Bay, has commenced a five months
school at Puget City.
The Union Pacific railroad is not
dead yet. It's managers are paying its
taxes through this State.
When you hear man growing
about hard times" avoid hin, AS you
would deadly pestilence.
John Brewer. Of Shelton, came up
yesterday to see "O'Dowd's Neigh
bors" and returned today.
The Bowers dredger has passed the
halfway point between the end OF
Long wharf and the city front.
Mr.. w. II. Washbourne, formerly Of
this place has returned from Alaska
after xn absence OF sixteen years.
Look TO your stove fues. This 10
more easily done than extinguishing a
big FIRE in the middle OF the night.
Miss Mary Chilberg. a teacher in
the cisy schools. IL spending her vaca.
ton st her old homo at LsConner.
II Is said that the original species OF
speckled trou. have become practically
extinct in the lower Deschuies river.
The steamer /" The Doctor" 10 now
making two round trips each day be-
tween Olympia and k4milchie Point.
The accordion player sitte.h on the
street corner with the battered tin cup
in easy reach. THIS time IL 10 y wo-
man.
California cabbagcs are now sold as
cheApiy In tho Olympia markets A.
those pediled by the Chinese huck.
stcrs.
Mrs william Callow. Ms. Hattie
Csllow and Miss iIulda Cumming, Of
kamilehie. were visiting In Olympia,
this week
The inevitable forest Gfes have
made their appearance Ia various
qusrtofs aud the smoky SEASON will
still follow.
Mr. NJ. 6allihef. al old pioneer oi
Olympia. bat nov a resident 81 Ia