Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The sun now rises at D Ia and set
at G:47.
Drummers are talking with OH
business men.
Street preaching is going on ever
night this week.
! Olympic University opens its frs
q term on Sept. 18th.
}. 1t is a happy school marin who ha
' her school engaged.
s Albert ]. Munson, of Shelton, wa
E in the city Tuesday.
Baby carriages and bicycles ar
! crowding the streets.
Early outgoing steamers are en-
,, countering dense fogs.
The camp meeting at Little Rocl
closed Sunday evening.
The city schools open their Fal
terms on the 10th prox.
, DR.. Darrin will begin his week
visit to this city sunday.
Swallows are teaching their young
to provide for themselves.
/ The roof of the Williams block is re-
ceiving coat OF coal-tar.
I Prof. Royal and family have re
turned to Weston, Oregon.
Indians are looking with longing
eyes towards the hop-ields.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Peter Anderson this week.
Sam. McClelland is building an ad.
dition to his blacksmith shop.
A week from tomorrow and Fall, the
"barber Of the year," will be here.
The dense smoke has a marked
tendency to mitigate the intense heat.
RObt. Rawson has gone to the
Rogue river country, in Oregon, to
live.
There is no denying the fact that
travel is increasing both by steamer
and rail.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Miller, at Chambers Lake,
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster, accompanied
by Mrs. Eaton, left, this week, for
Portland.
Miss Mary Page will succeed Miss
Maggie Moore, as teacher, in the Lin.
coin school.
Prof. r. B. Bryan has been rendered
the position of principal in the Aber.
deem schools.
1t is now in order for sight-seers tc
20 to the capitol grounds and inter
view the boss.
Men are engaged in putting the
roof on the new sawmill at the foot Of
Jefferson street.
A partial eclipse of the moon will
occur on Sent. IA and Is, visible in all
parts of America.
There is a general tidying up and
improvement all over the city. Thii
is as it should be.
Mrs. McCebe sustained severe injur
les by being thrown from a buggy q,
Tenino, last Sunday.
Go to the Secretary's Office and &c,
one of those State pamphlets before
they are all distributed.
A daughter gladdens the household
of State Superintendent of Public In
struction and Mrs. Bean.
! Property owners complain that reck.
less boys steal fruit from their trees
that overhsng the sidewalks.
Ray, son of Chas. Lathrop, of South
Union, died of hemorrhage of the nose
Thursday night Of last week.
The Emergency Board has made an
allowance of $349 per month for Adju.
tant General O'Brien's Office.
Sam McClelland is building an add
ton to his blacksmith shop, corner oil
Third and Washington streets.
The Guild OF st. Johns Church held
. Russian Tea, at the residence oil
Mrs. John F. Convey, Tuesday.
Mr.. James, OF Mound Prairie, is said
10 be an heir to . large estate which
awaits distribution in England.
Jacob L. Brown is making some i'm
portant changes in the arrangement
of his cigar stand and barber shop.
A happier and more smiling lot OF
fellows never stood On the street cor.
ners than the candidates for Sheriff.
| 1t revives the spirit of olden days
TO hear the machinery running in the
Olympia sawmill and the pipe factory.
The household OF the Carlton House
with . few invited guests went down
to Buffers Cove yesterday on family
picnic.
Fruits Of the larger kinds have al
ready begun to be shipped from
Olympia to down.sound and Eastern
points.
Judge Stiles passed through this
city last Tuesday on his way to Ia
coma. He has been recreating at the
beach.
The contractor on the capitol ex.
cavation is able to hire all the laborerl
he wants at $3.50 per day to work ten
hours.
| Bev. C. C. Marston has call from
the Fret Baptist Church of Port An.
geles, Wash. He has declined to &C
cept it.