Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
1t is 1895, see?
Blackbirds are merry.
1t is Chief Northup" now.
Have you written the new year?
Prof. L. p. Yemen has returned to
Vashon.
The public schools re-opened
Wednesday.
Legislature convenes week from
next Monday.
Miss Anna Tarbells condition is
much improved.
Baled hay is coming into town in
large quantities.
Vashon College opened its Winter
term, last Tuesday.
Long bridge is now a practically
solid causeway of earth.
jesse Mills assumed the duties of
Deputy Sheriff Wednesday.
Read the new advertisement of the
Union Block Grocery Store.
A daughter was born, this week, to
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Yandall.
The new county officers will assume
their duties on the 18th inst.
The Pythian ball on New Years eve
was success in all particulars.
John r. Mitchell has removed his
law Office to the Woodruff building.
Providence Academy reopened to
complete the winter term yesterday.
The usual number of drummers are
interviewing Olympia's business men.
The festive loggers are returning 10
their various posts OF duty and indus
try.
Lawyer Lacey writes that he will
return from the east in about ten
days.
Winter schools throughout the
country generally will reopen next
Monday.
This week has been a green spot in
the desert-life of Olympia school
children.
Dr.. Newcomb reports the birth of a
son to Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Butler, of
Eastside.
The steamer Multnomah is now .
floating palace illuminated every night
by electric lights.
The usual larger number of ducks
are desporting themselves in the up
per waters of the Sound.
The Girls Reading Club was enter
tanned Tuesday evening by the Misses
Flora and Ida Chambers.
The City of Shelton is about ready
to take the Willie's old run between
this city and Mason county.
James Radcliffe has been suffering
for ten days past with erysipelas of
the legs, but is now improving.
Legislators are already coming in TO
secure in ample season good lodging
and boarding accommodations.
The late cold weather added small
revenue to the business Of plumbers
in the way of water-pipe repairing.
L. r. Byrne, formerly of this city,
but at present residing in Mason
county, will soon remove to Texas.
Now that the holiday season is past,
it behooves everybody to 60 to work at
whatever his hands may find to do.
Sophia Mills, daughter of N. Mills,
OF Rochester, died recently of con-
sumption. She was l6 years of age.
a Land Office business" was done
by the Register and Receiver last
Saturday, and about 81 600 were taken
in.
The war between Japan and China
is already having a favorable effect
upon the Puget Sound lumber indus
try.
The mammoth sheds at the Capital
grounds were beginning to attract the
attention of strangers passing the
city.
Skating on real ice has been in
duiged in to some extent during the
past two or three days, on Barnes
lake.
Several days of excellent skating
were afforded by the late cold weather,
and Barnes lake, near Tumwater. was
the objective point of seekers for this
invigorating winter sport.
Gen. Booth, founder of she Saliva
ton Army, passed through this city
On Saturdays northbound train. He
was accompanied by carload OF bis
officers OF greater or less note.