Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-26
r. S. Weston is exhibiting oat,

| IL. -. weston Is exhibiting oats
grown in this county which measure
seven feet, four inches in height, and
a potato which weighs q pounds.
J. Il. Chaplin writes that he has
secured several men who will build
houses in College Grove, near this
city, now residents of Church's Cor
ner, Michigan.
Severe storms of wind and rain
have prevailed the past week; not of
the Kansas blizzard variety but the
steady "drizzle, drizzle, drizzle," the
old lady prayed for and its accompany
! ing sou'wester.
Robert Phelan died suddenly of
apoplexy. Tuesday. He was a native
OF Ireland, G5 years OF age, and was a
seaman in government employ during
the war. He was buried Wednesday,
by Geo. II. Thomas Post, G. A. X.
A team belonging to Charles Col
Inns, took sudden notion to return
to their home in the country, last
Saturday, and made lively time the
length OF Fourth street. When last
seen they were passing beyond the
brow of Ayers Hill.
Every taxpayer should vote for Mrs.
P. c. Hale for County School Superin.
tandent. She will fill the office.
as in times gone by, to the
satisfaction of the people. When you
prepare your ballot see that you place
an Y by the side OF her name.
Attention of our readers is called to
the silver scrip scheme, an advertise
ment of which appears on the preced
ing page. 1t is simply offering a
premium OF five per cent. for your
trade. You get back that amount OF
all you buy from the firms that have
agreed to the plan. Try it.
The Capitol Commission met to-day
to consider the question OF changing
the requirements for stone from
the quarry at Plum's station, but adj
journed till tomorrow, in consequence
of non-attendance of the contractor.
What will cause another delay Is be-
yond the ken of ordinary men.
Two smart confidence men from
abroad have been imposing upon some
OF the ladies of this city by selling
them an instrument" by which they
may prepare their own calling cards,
without enlisting the services of en-.
graver or printer. They have simply
sold them rubber stamps, costing ten
cents apiece, and charged them at ten
or fifteen times that price.
The Tenino Creamery Co. is the
name OF new corporation which falls
upon the ear with musical cadeuce,
presuming as it does the establish
ment of an industry, which will bring
peace, happiness and content to our
people. Its incorporators are Pearl
H. Hebby and Thomas ]. and Mary
McClelland. 1t is their object to
manufacture and sell butter and
cheese, and other products from milk.
May they succeed beyond their highest
expectations.
City officers will not be so desirable,
hereafter, but there will DO no want
for good material to fill them even at
the reduced compensation. The ordi-
nance, now in the hands of the Ways
and Means committee, reduces the
compensation of Clerk from $50 to
$65 per month, that of City Attorney
from 81 200 and fees per month to
$500 and fees, OF Health Officer from
$500 per annum to 500, and the
Marshal from 800 to $40 per month,
and provides that he shall do regular
police duty.
The City Council have awarded
contract to E. L. Van Epps aud Geo.
M. KcClelland for 800 cords OF brush
at $l.25 per cord; to Peter Anderson
for 400 cubic feet OF stone at So cents
per cubic yard; to Savage & Lindl and
for furnishing and driving piles, and
to A. L. Seward, of Nina Prairie,
for 40 tons of baled hay at $3.50 per
ton, all of which are to be employed
for holding the embankment of mud
to be placed by the dredger on the
line of Fourth street bridge. Notifica-
ton has been received by the Council
that the dredger will be ready to be-
gin work on the 1st prox.
The entertainment to be given by
the ladies of St. Johns church, in
Olympia Theater, Monday evening,
promises to be a very popular event,
the sale OF seats starting off with a
rush. The plays to be presented are
1.-TWO Negatives Make an Affirma-
tive" and the old and renowned
farce, "Box and Cox" The price OF
admission is so low that everybody
may avail himself OF this opportunity
to witness really creditable perform
ance by amateurs of acknowledged
ability. The casts comprise Mesdames
Armstrong and Bolton, Misses Corinne
Prince and Z. Cavanaugh, and Messrs.
Gentle, Mills. Woodruff and F. Al.
Convey.
James Shields, a widely-known pros
pectOr, has been awarded $4,000 DAM
ages by Spokane jury against the
Comique theater there. An acrobat
fell on him, iniuring him permanently.