Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


sunday.
Wild strawberries are commencin,
To ripen.
Remember the matinee to morrow
afternoon.
\ week from next Thursday will b,
decoration Day.
\ circus is billed for this place OF
the 10th of July.
Mrs. y. ;. Porter is confined 10 he
bed with pneumonia.
Capt. Joseph Alexander went t,
Gray's HarbOr yesterday on his wheel
Born in this city on "Wednesday
morning, to the wife Of Mr.. Carney, 8
son.
J. NJ. Patton has placed us under
obligations for late Phoenix (Arizona'
papers.
j. +. Moore, ex-City Attorney, has
returned from visit to his old home
in Georgia.
The Multnomah has, the past week
delivered the freight of the Umatilla
and Puebla.
County Attorney Hartman and wife
of Mason county, were in the city on
Wednesday.
The tug Beaver brought up scow.
load of brick, Wednesday, for the CAPT.
toll foundation.
Mrs. ID. a. Peterson left by the
Union Pacific yesterday, for Logan,
Utah, for visit.
The local shingle mill has more or
ders than it can fill, although it is run
at its full capacity.
f. Freeburger and Herber Will
liams came up from Shelton Wednes-
day on their wheels.
The wife OF ]. OBJ. Scobey, editor Of
the Olympian. has been quite i'll the
past week or ten days.
A daughter was born to Mrs. Gam
mage, OF Gray's Harbor, at St. Peters
Hospital last Monday.
A carload OF cedar lumber and shin
giles left the Olympic Mill, to-day, for
Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Ralph, son of w. T. Mcdonald, had
bis left instep badly cut by an ak
while splitting wood Monday.
The Shelton people take advantage
of the low rates now prevailing by
steamer to visit the capital city.
Mr.. Hopkins, of Seattle, has an as
sortment OF house. plants on sale, cor
ner of Main and Fourth streets.
The Aberdeen, Tuesday, brought up
two tons of salt for Walter Chambers
cold storage plant, near this city.
Edith Prather won the gold medal
at the contest of class OF six, in the
Christian Church, Monday evening.
Miss Jessie Mcdonald and Miss
Cecil Dunbar, of Shelton, came up
on Wednesdays steamer for a visit.
ID. S. B. Henry has secured a con-
trect from the government for survey
ing two townships in Mason county.
The density of the atmosphere indi-
Gates that the annual forest fires have
already gained considerable Roadway.
The time of holding the camp
meeting at Little Rock, this year. has
been fixed to commence ON August
7th.
A small flow from the county's arte-
sian we'll in the rear OF the court
house was struck at a depth of 143
feet.
Capt. L. Wiley has been Temporal
lily in command of the Multnomah
the past week, in place of Capt. Thos.
May.
G. w. Manville utilities his time in
favor of the State by the manufacture
of soap at tho Walla .aWalla Peniten.
tiary.
A social dance was held in Collins
hall, on Chambers Prairie, last Friday
night. A number Of Olympians we're
present.
Tomorrow will be last day for the
merry-go-round at Shelton. Mr..
Arnold will then take the machine to
Puyallup.
A hand press has been added to the
outfit of the Capital Office. 1t was
formerly used in one of the printing
offices at Shelton.
Miss Jessie Mcdonald, Of Shelton,
who has been visiting the family OF A.
H. Chambers the past few days, re-.
turned home to-day.
Two moonlight excursions are on
the tapis by the Elks and Knights OF
Pythias, but the exact dates have not
yet been determined.
The steamers Multnomah, Aber-
deem and Monticello, carried many
delegates to the Christian Endeavor
Convention at Seattle, this week.
The steamer Aberdeen brought up
Wednesday the household effects OF E.
c. Suitor, who has been appointed to
aposition in Secretary Prices office.
The steamer Monticello, Capt.
Hatch, has entered as a competitor
with the S. Wiley Navigation Co.'s
steamers on the Olympia-Seattle route.
VIII. Asmus and family, of Shelton,
took advantage of low rates now ex-
listing between Shelton and Olympia
and passed few hours here last Tues
day.
Imported strawberries have begun
to arrive. The native crop is always a
little late, but invariably much better
than the crates that come from either
Oregon or California.