Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-08-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

III ~ itI li'ii' az.
7. {. Van Epp, is at shelton
on insurance business.
Grouse hunters are taking adyant-
age o. the open season.
Mis- Hattie Callow il still pursuing
her studies in Tacoma.
Workmen are putting on the lath
in the ncw t. 7. Church.
4 son was recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Kobt. Brand, at Tenino.
Olympia Is becoming famous for
her religious evening meetings.
K. II. Hanna has been appointed
Fruit Inspector for this county.
Olympia clans are making serious
inroads upon the oyster industry.
Mrs Kraudelt is visiting her moth
er, Mrs. II. l.. Alden, ut Shelton.
Very good eating apples raised near
Olympia are coming into market.
Mrs. Francis Murphy, OF Westside,
is suffering an attack OF paralysis.
Ellis new camp at Big Skookum
has commenced active operations.
Prof. l.. =. Yemen went on flying
trip down the Sound last Tuesday.
The City of Puebla's freight was
brought by the Multnomah Monday.
A son was born, this week, to the
wife OF Allen 5. Chase, of Little Rock.
Judge Dennison has removed his
law office to Room |, Olympia Hotel.
Seattle has at last got her canal and
Olympia the Capitol, and now let us
rest.
4 daughter WAS born recently to
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Alden, of this
city.
The season is approaching when fog
whistles will be brought into requisi-
ton.
Sound steamer captains say there is
a perceptible increase in the passenger
traffic.
Jacob Sampler will leave for Cali
fOrnia tomorrow for the benefit of his
health.
Tame pigeons are proving them
selves very useful scavengers of our
streets.
Late visitors from Shelton claim
that that city is the liveliest port on
the Sound.
Enterprising Cinnamon are extend
ing their acreage for the raising of
vegetables.
Ray Sickels is slowly recovering
from a very severe attack of double
pneumonia.
Mrs. NJ. A. Northup, of Centralia,
is on visit to her son, Fred. Northup,
in this city.
Exercises at Chautauqua Beach are
advertised to close on the Sth of the
present month.
The shippers of apples and pears
are already casting about for their
sources of supply.
About so people joined the Northern
Pacific Ocosta excursion from this
place, last Sunday.
The Puget Sound Pipe Co. shipped
lot OF water pipe to Doyle & Elliot.
Shelton, yesterday.
Mr.. Johns. of Puyallup, an ex-
perienced mil!mnn, now has charge of
the Olympic mill yard.
Henry Harris has returned from
California where he has been student
OF Stanford University.
o. V. Linn, Allen Weir and CITY
Attorney Falknor left Tuesday for an
outing in the Olympics.
George Crawford and Anna Smith,
both of Grand Mound, have been
granted license to wed.
T. ]. McBratney has built a new
blacksmith shop, opposite his old
stand, on Columbia street.
A car of shingles and cedar was
shipped to Williamsport, Pa. by the
Olympic Mill Co. this week.
For the finest job printing done
promptly and at lowest prices give the
STANDARD Job Office trial.
Tickets for Sundays excursion by
the MultnOmah are now on sale at
Sawyer & Filley's drug store.
Jos. Cheim has moved to the Horr
building and will hereafter confine his
stock to mems furnishing goods.
The regular quarterly examination
of teachers will be held at the court.
house, beginning on the 9Th inst.
1.-THE bicycle hump" will go down
to posterity as one of the fin de ciecle
fads of the age which gave it birth.
The South Bay mountain climbers
are expected to return home some
time next week, or soon thereafter.
As genuine American humorist,
Mark Twain stands at the head of the
list. Go and hear him on the 9th
inst.
To go blackberrying and can the
fruit in the fields ia one of the latest
departures adopted by provident house
wives.
Last Saturday. Thomas P. Blauvelt
and Nina NJ. Curtin were united in
marriage, at the NJ. F.. parsonage, by
the pastor.
OF course, Mars is inhabited, and
women up there wear boomers aud
ride bicycles. So says our resident
astronomer.
Chas. f. Weed, one of the older
pioneers, is quite ill, and is cared for
by the family of his brother.in-law
David I. Drewry.
Carl, S-year-old son of Mrs. Forney
Stamey, Of Esstside, suffered fracture
OF the collar-bone, Saturday, by fall
ing from fence.
Now is the time when the nail
heads persist in protruding from the
sidewalks and now is also the time to
drive them home.