Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Tie Daughters OF Veterans viii
meet Monday evening.
Revival services are in progress a,
Il" First Baptist Church.
The issue OF school warrants is said
t. bc beyond the legal limit.
The man in the moon is making
Wy with his first quarter to day.
{. III. Carpenter. now in New York
j. expected home by the 1st OF June.
The Capital Commission has adj
journed zuEIect to call OF the Governor
Captain q. :. Allen made a down.
Sound trip with his steamer this week
The various colleges OF the State
are preparing for commencement
week.
Wood AMI bark are cheap, very
cheap, hut the price is still going
down.
Workmen are engaged in grading
Easthay avenue, in front OF the old
brewery.
otto Stuth, last Wednesday, was
fonnd guilty OF disturbing a religious
meeting.
J. J. Browne, of Spokane, has re-
signed the position of Regent of the
University.
The residence OF jeff Whitney, on
Mud Bay, was destroyed by fire,
Wednesday.
People who have nothing else to do
are busily engaged in hunting for
small game.
F. G. Deming has purchased the
residence property OF w. A. Rogers,
on Westside.
Mrs. Mitchell Harris returned
Wednesday from a two months visit
10 OaillOrula.
J. w. Day, Auditor of Mason
county, has been admitted to practice
in the Superior Court.
The prudent orchardist will kill the
caterpillars on his trees before they
begin to spin their nests.
Day after tomorrow will be Whit
Sunday, and the church calendar will
tell you what that means.
Did you say you have nothing to
dos Then 60 and join the common
wealers and Murray for Coxey.
We have the State house plan and
details, now let us nave the broken
ground and granite foundation.
The Thurston County Sabbath
School Convention, meets in the
Presbyterian church this evening.
John P. Tweed, former Auditor Of
this county, now temporarily residing
at Seattle. was up on visit Sunday.
A new voting precinct has beer
established by dividing McLane, and
naming the new precinct Black Lake.
Ernest Hartsliorne received thu
silver medal for defamation at tn.
Congregational church, Friday even
Wing.
Frank Van Eaton is now in charge
OF the shoe department Of Harris
store. He is a good man for thu
place.
A" Mclean" band was employed t.
precede the funeral procession of {
heightened defunct Chinaman, in thil
city to-day.
The odious commonwealers have
thus far steered clear of the capital
city, and none other than favorable
comment is in order.
L. v. Mossman, an old resident o.
this city, who now lives in Oakland
CAL, is on visit to his relatives ir
this State and Oregon.
An intercollegiate field day for ath
letes will be held at Tacoma to-mor.
row, but as Olympia has no college
her boys are not in it this time.
The quarterly examination of teach
ers is now in progress at the court
house, conducted by Miss Case, Mrs
E. B. Stephens and Prof. Beeler.
1t is just about nip and tuck be.
tween fresh eggs and porterhouse
steak, but the eggs, like the dog in
the Arkansas wolf story, are leetle
ahead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mari, of East.
side, celebrated their 25th anniversary
Of their wedding last Saturday. Quite
a large assemblsge Of relatives were
present.
Matthew A. Kelly, an old-time
druggist of this city, died in Seattle
FAST Sunday, of heart disease. He
leaves . wife, daughter of J. r. Wood
Of this city.
The Palace market is now supplied
with q cold-storage room, in which
meats will be kept at a temperature
near the freezing point until placed
on the block for sale.
Secretary Ford of the Horticultural
Society is in receipt of letter from q
commission house in Minneapolis, re.
Questing him to secure at once Is car
loads of potatoes for shipment to that
city.
" A very pleasing performance, and
much excellent music" was the
frequently expressed opinion of 81
Perkins performance at Olympia
Theater, Monday night. 1t expressed
the judgment OF everybody present on
that occasion.
The steamer Aberdeen has been