Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

ne lIdCkt'fFf season mas atOu
closed
Mis-, Bryant, OF Tonino. is reported
t. lee quite III.
legislature is coming; where is tn,
cupitol building
Lawyer Hartman, OF shelton, wa.
in olympia this week
The sun and moon are growing rec
in the smoky atmosphere.
The Commissioners are now sitting
as board Of equalization.
Showers Of rain the past week have
revived dropping vegetables.
The Institute wind. up with the
dreaded teachers examination.
Mrs. Benjamin Harmed has been
quite i'll OF hives, the past week
Laborers are engaged in cleaning
ont the cutters Of Fourth street.
Eggs are still holding their own
with the choicest cuts OF beefsteak.
All eyes are watching to see what is
going to be done at the capitol grounds
Camp.mceting began at Little Rock
Wednesday night, with fair attend.
ance
Miss Mabel Brouncr returned yes
terday from "A visit to friends in Port
land.
Mr.. Edward Callow, of kamilchie
paid an overland visit to Olympia this
week.
Next Tuesday will be temperance
day at the camp-meeting at Little
Rock.
A new lodge of Knights OF Pythias
was instituted in this city, Tuesday
night.
Steamboat Island will be subject to
entry on the 10th prox. 1t contains
81 acres.
The sultry weather of the past few
days has been offset by some delight
full showers.
The Women's Relief Corps will give
an entertainment in the q. A. r. hall,
this evening.
Miss Fanny Sylvester has secured a
school for the winter on Maury Island
near Tacoma.
The driver has been placing new
fender-piles in front OF Percival's dock
the past few days.
Mr.. G. A. Young, late of Kamilchie
is in the city and proposes to make
his residence here.
Mrs. Turpin has returned from
California, to attend her mother, Mrs.
Harmed, who is ill.
A number of families from Contra
liza have been encamped at Priests
Point the past week.
William Sternberg has put in posi-.
ton new water-wheel at his machine
shop on Union street.
N. w. Heistand, of the grocery firm
of Heistand & Warner, arrived from,
San Francisco, Monday.
And now another Olympia young
man goes wrong. Heaven save him
He has begun to read law.
The markets are now stocked with
about every variety of vegetable
known to the culinary art.
Rev. ]. s. McCallum is announced
to lecture on Romanism," at Shelton
next Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. E. c. Bickford is now agent fol
the Dorenbecher Furniture Co., oil
Ainslie, Waeh. Read his ad.
Mrs Kittie Langridge, of South
Bay, has been engaged to teach a dis.
trict school on Vashon Island.
The Carlton, under the manage
ment OF Mrs. Clark, continues to be q
favorite resort for the wayfarerer.
Capt. Samuel Wiley is at Hot
Springs to test the virtues of their wa.
ter for removing rheumatic pains.
r. A. McNair and wife have re.
turned from a weeks fishing on the
upper waters of the Skookumchuck.
H. NJ. Sutton, of Montesano, mem.
Der OF the Democratic flock, il tenn
porarily domiciled at Young's Hotel.
One hundred and thirteen persons
in .Thurston county pay taxes on
property valued at more than $1,000.
Miss Hattie Callow will pay q visit
to her Kamilchie home, this week,
accompanied by Miss Addie Manville.
The unstealable umbrella is now in
brisk demand, and the STANDARD holds
patent on the best form OF that arti-
Gle.
Miss Stowell, one of the instructors
IN the late Teachers Institute, re-
turned to her home in California yes.
terday.
Miss Core Teaff, who has been visit.
ing friends in this city and Tumwater,
returned to her Seattle home last
Monday.
Seattle is happy in the prospective
digging of her big ditch and now let
capitol and ditch work 60 on to the
final end.
Tomorrow the County Commits.
sioners will open bids for the construc.
ton OF bridge on the Deschuttes, at
Linkliter's.
The State Land Commission has
bought from District So, Clark county
$1,000 of funding bonds bearing Z per
cent. interest.
Miss Eva Sturdevant, who has been
visiting in the city few months, re-
turned this week to her home in
Columbia county.