Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

\ little son OF Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
ellis Is quite ILL.,
Miss Alice Allen j. numbered with
the sick this week.
Read what Bickford has to say in
his new ad. this week.
Chas. Hewitt, the Tumwater drug.
gist, is down with fever.
Miss Addie Wood j. suffering from
lnilammatory rheumatism.
II is about time for the Christmas
stocking to he hanging high.
J. Lehner, the carpenter, is slowly
recovering from 4 severe illness.
The Sisters OF Charity of this city
held Il fair at Shelton this week.
Oar city is thronged with loggers
who are celebrating the holidays.
Miss Addie Wood is confined to her
bed with infiammatory rheumatism.
Mrs. Fannie f. Bles, of Tumwater,
is on visit to relatives in California.
Mrs. A. A. Ahillips has returned
from a visit to her daughter in Jersey
City.
The public schools of this city
closed to-day for two weeks vaca-
ton.
a. Il. Miller, OF Shelton, enlisted on
the Philadelphia for term of three
years.
Chas. IL. Carpenter left Wednesday
for visit to his parents in New York
State.
The Kamilchie Odd Fellows will
give a masquerade ball tomorrow
night.
J. B. Starr, the stationer, is quite ILL.,.
and under treatment at st. Peters
hospital.
Miller's business college students
will take a weeks vacation during the
holidays.
City Marshal Northup. under treat
ment at the hospital, is in fair way
of recovery.
Read the beautiful seasanable poem,
"Mamma's Christmas Trick" on the
fourth page.
A. J. Burr, the old-timer, is in the
city to pass the holidays with his
friends of yore.
Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart has gone to
San Francisco, where she will remain
month or longer.
The representation for Saturday
tomorrow by Old Probs is Cocoa
siOnal rain; cooler"
The STANDARD extends its many
patrons, one and all, the compli-
ments of the season.
Miss Bessie Lee, who has been visit
ing Mrs. Capt. Hatch, has returned to
her home in Portland.
Miss Ida Mann was the champion
at the spelling match Of the Epworth
League last Friday night.
A little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Kenworthy, aged 8 years, died
at Tenino last week of Pneumonia.
Mr.. John L. Luddcn and Miss
Florence L. Johnston were united in
marriage, at Bucoda, a few days ago.
The first snow OF the season fell Sun.
day morning. 1t was only a furry,
and melted about as rapidly as it fell.
A new coat of paint on one OF the
P. I. S. coaches made the Oiympian
believe that the company had been
adding to its rolling stock.
Dan Mcnamara has bought Van
w. Chipman's interest in the Olympia
Soda Works and is now the sole pro-
prietor of that establishment.
The steamer from Kamilchie
brought in sixty members of the log.
ging fraternity, yesterday, who pro-
pose to take holiday vacation.
lie. Anterior, o: St. Paul, Assist
ant Superintendent of the Great
Northern Express Co., was in the
city yesterday on a tour OF inspection.
A second fall of snow occurred
Wednesday night, and yesterday
morning the ground was covered with
slush to the depth of a couple of
inches.
The election of officers of the
County Horticultural Society, which
should have taken place last Saturday,
has been postponed till the meeting
Jan. 11th.
Yesterday the steamer Aberdeen
left half an hour earlier than usual, to
make detour by way of Kamilchie
and carry number of excursionists
to Seattle.
Don't fail to see Schilling's Min.
strels, Christmas eve. The curtain
will not rise till $50 so as to give
everybody chance to "take in" this
great holiday event.
Mrs. M. A. Adams has decided to
close out her business in this city and
remove to Los Angeles, CAL, a deter
mination that will be much regretted
by her many friends here.
The devil, according to orthodoxy,
must be getting his work in in the
most approved shape this winter.
Dancing is going on everywhere and
even Tumwater has card club.
The lOosenlng OF portion OF the
plastered ceiling OF the Congregational
church. causing it to fall, is supposed
to have been due to vibration from
use of that nuisance" the church
going bell.
The steamer Aberdeen carried as
freight between Seattle and Tacoma,
Tuesday, thirteen tons of Arbuckle's
coffee. There we're over 800 cases,
and they filled all the available space
on the lower deck "chuck a-block."
The show-window of Mr.. O'Connor
presents an attractive array of pres
ents for the boys and girls, and in
side the counters CLEAN with articles
to please children of mature growth
suited to all ages and conditions of
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