Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Death and taxes come but the rail.
road trains don't.
South Union farmers have plunged
into the haying industry.
TIN. is proving an tf-year for
caterpillar. in this vicinity.
Red raspberries are making their
appearance in the markets.
w. b. Shearer has obtained clerk
ship in the Surveyor Generals Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harmed have gone to
Gray's Harbor on tour OF recreation.
The glorious Fourth has gone to
join its venerable coterie Of the past.
number OF young men came up
from Tacoma last Sunday on bicycles.
Strawberries are holding their own
but without any appreciate increase
in price.
Green apples are getting large
enough for pies and to give small boys
the gripes.
The people of Olympia are having a
taste OF the old-fashioned steamer and
stage days.
Wild blackberries are ripe, but it is
reported that they are not as plenti-
full as usual.
The railroad premises suggest the
thought that there is some unpleasant
ness on foot.
Mrs. E. NJ. Young and family. of
Kamilchie, have been visiting in the
city this week.
The Fourth OF July celebration at
South Bay was reported to have been
grand success.
C stands for Coxey. crank and cut
throat, and ID stands for Debs, devil
and destruction.
We will inform the Olympian that
the big mountain just east of us is
called Mount Rainier.
The Young Mems Literary Society
meet tonight at the Washington
school for the election of officers.
Do not TAIL to avail yourself Of the
La Mode coupon, if you wish to save
money in millinery wear.
Mr.. Shannon has go far recovered
his health as to be able to resume
his official duties as Land Commits
sioner.
The large attendance at the militia
encampment this year was owing to
the hard times, as one of the members
expressed it.
Religious services we're held at Tum-
water, forenoon, afternoon and even
ing, on the Fourth, with basket din
ner at noon.
Bell COWS are having it all their
own way now, eating the nice tender
grass that is springing up along the
railroad tracks.
DR.. A. G. Cook aud wife of Los
Angeles, Cal, are visiting relatives in
this city and will probably remain
during the summer.
The University Club holds . meet
ing in the Congregational Church
this evening At 8 O'Clock, to transact
important business.
The failure of promised railway
service between this city and Wood
land turns out to be q rich harvest for
hackmen and Transfers.
There is music in the sc ream of a
locomotive: that is. we mean. there
was music in it in the olden days
when locomotives used to run.
The Harbor Commission meets next
Tuesday to establish the harbor lines
of Tacoma. The harbor lines of Seat
tie were established last Tuesday.
The annual Teachers Institute of
this county, began in Washington
school building, Saturday. and will
continue its work until August 9Th.
David Lister, Tacoma pioneer, who
came up to attend the encampment,
was taken seriously i'll, and is now
under medical treatment in this city.
And now the sweet girl graduate is
rAnsacking the agricultural journals
to find out whether it is the Berkshire
OF Barrow pig that lays the sausages.
A fact.
The enforced absence" of Mr..
Allen, the Capital Commissioner,
seems to have ended, for he arrived to.
day, and the Commissioners held q
meeting.
Adam E. Cowen, of Hartstein
Island, and Miss Lavina McCay, OF
this city, we're married Monday, Rev.
T. J. Lamont performing the nuptial
ceremony.
The streets have been somewhat
noisy in the "wee sma' hours" for
several nights past, an infallible in
dication of the near proximity OF a
military pest.
Miss Amy Case, County School
Superintendent, is busily engaged in
preparing for the annual Teachers
Institute which convenes in this city
on the 30th instant.
The County Commissioners have let
q contract for building the Benson
Bridge" on the Rainier road over the
Deschutes river, to Savage, Schofield
and Lindland, for SAT-.
Some of the residents on Maple
Park, the Mob Hill" of Olympia, had
private display of fireworks on the
evening of tie Fourth which was ap-
preoiated by all who saw it.
The steamer Aberdeen has been
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