Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-11-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Registration closes tonight.
Who will be our next Mayor?
Katie Putnam, Monday night.
Empty dwelling are filling up.
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving.
The battle-cry on every tongue.
Travel hy steamer is increasing.
Jupiter Is now the evening star.
sunshine has succeeded the storm.
Tie county roads are quite muddy.
The world is governed too much"
City election week from Tuesday.
Mud Bay Is a ilyorite hunting plac
II. Ramm will soon reopen hi.
saloon.
Give IL fewer officers and lower
salaries.
The city election will be an excit-
ing one.
Tom Brown has been sent to the
poor farm.
The snow disappeared as quickly
as it came.
The street arc lights are turned on
before o'clock.
Councilman Lammon has been i'll
the past few days.
O'Connor sells wall paper as cheap
as I cents per roll.
Sheriff Prince and wife paid visit
to Seattle this week.
F. &. Deming, of The Olympia, was
in Tacoma yesterday.
Very little doubt is left but that
winter is approaching.
Mrs. F. G. Deming returned from
her trip East last Saturday.
A son was born to Rev. and Mrs.
J. S. McCallum, last Sunday.
Our Sheriff sometimes uses a nap
tina launch to serve his papers.
Keep your eyes peeled" for the
Dramatic Chronicle tomorrow.
A "Pie Social" was held in the
Westside chapel, Tuesday night.
Charles Clapper, of Tumwater, has
applied for an increase of pension.
DIR. and Mrs. Adams have been glad.
dened by the advent of little son.
The almanac reports that there will
be indications OF snow on the 3Oth.
Judge d. E. Bailey has returned
from an extended tour in the East.
When wages 60 down let salaries
be adjusted on corresponding basis.
John Cloudy was admitted to citizen
ship by the Superior Court last Tues
day.
The Northern Pacific has discon-
tinued its Sunday trains through this
city.
An addition has been built to the
city tool house at the foot of Franklin
street.
Order your turkey for Thanksgiving.
Either Chambers or Brewer will sup
ply you.
Small children are rejoicing over the
fact that there will be no school next
Thursday. =
Snow, frost, rain and sunshine has
been the weather programme for the
past week.
The STANDARD has not missed q
number during its existence OF thirty
three years.
The furniture of the Washington
Club was sold, a few days ago. to A.
A. Lindsey.
Our people awakened yesterday
morning to find a couple of inches of
snow on the ground.
1t is reported that John Cain will
engage in fruit raising, either in Ore
gon or near this city.
The best government is that which
imposes the least exactions upon the
law.abiding individual.
The Charity Ball, at The Olympia,
next Thursday evening, will be the
social event OF the season.
Mrs. ]. C. Stone, of Cleveland, Ohio,
delivered temperance lecture in Ia
coma Hall, Tuesday night.
The Board of Trade meets to-
morrow night in the courthouse to
hear the report of committee.
John Cain, the boss items-man, ar
rived in this city last evening. He
has been absent since last spring.
A new restaurant is soon to be
opened by Herman Breager on Fourth
street in the building of N. H. Owings.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will hold social at the resi-
dence of w. T. Cavanaugh, this even
ing.
Miss Blanche Lamont has returned
from a prolonged trip to the East.
She has been absent about seven
months.
A Populists' meeting. in Columbia
Hall, Saturday night, promises to be
the central point of interest for that
evening.
Among the stragglers returning
from the big show we're E. H. Wright
and J. H. Littlejohn, who arrived here
this week.
The cases in the Superior Court for
the 3Oth, which is Thanksgiving day,
have been transferred to the 4th of
December.
"Gee" Horton has just returned
from the Worlds Fair, New York and
Boston, and is full OF enthusiasm over
his travels.
The Masonic Lodges of this city
contemplate celebrating St. Johns
day, Dec. 7th. with grand banquet at
The Olympia.