Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The upper Sound estuarics are
swarming with smclt.
\ son was born to Mrs. f. +. Viii
der, Of this city Tuesday.
W. s. Garfelde, OF Port Townsend.
was in this city, this week.
Owing to the late heavy rains the
country roads are becoming quite
muddy.
Presiding Elder Sullingcr will
preach ut the Methodist church next
Sunday.
The football mania is on and will
break out tomorrow at the old fair
grounds.
Mrs. NJ. r. Freeman has been adj
Judged insane and sent to the asylum
at StcilacoOm.
The man who never subscribed for
the STANDAAD wants to know how
election went.
Thanksgiving dances are already on
the tapis at various points in the
rural districts.
Work on the Woodland bicycle
track has been suspended in default of
pleasant weather.
The Ladies Relief Society will give
their annual charity ball on Wednes-
day evening, the 25th inst.
Mrs. John Cortin, Of Oyster Bay,
was brought up Saturday, for treat
ment in St. Peters Hospital.
The old silver dollar still holds its
own and is as eagerly sought after by
goldbugs now as before election.
The flower Enclosure adjoining the
Olympia Hotel has been secured
against maranders by lock and key.
There is an opportunity now for the
Oympian to permanently locate" it.
self in the business of raising dates.
The weather probabilities for the
next twenty-four hours are: "Con-
tinued rain and cooler Oh Saturday."
The city election, next month, will
be the next apple of discord for our
peaceful community to wrangle over.
The County Horticultural Society
meets in the equity room of the court
house, tomorrow afternoon, at one
o'clock.
The receipt of goods by the grocery
firms the past week has been larger
aggregate than that of the past six
months.
Miss Maggie Besse returned last
evening from Juneau, Alaska, where
she has been engaged in the restaurant
business.
The Port Townsend Southern train
did not get any further than Tum-
water this morning ON account of
landslide.
Thanksgiving week from Thurs
day, and Christmas as soon thereafter
that the goose can say "goOd bye" to
the turkey.
Wednesday was Admission day"
for our State. Washington has been
Il full-fedged member of the Union
just seven years.
Watch for the grand parade that
will file out of the State building on
the morning that the new administra-
ton takes charge.
Both the Olympia and Westside
sawmills are now running all night;
pretty sure indication that business
is booming somewhere.
Superintendent Lockwood, who is in
charge of our harbor improvements, is
ready to contract for brush and rock
to be used for bulkheading.
Mrs. I. C. West to-day removed her
household effects to Port Blakely,
where her husband holds position
with the Port Blakely Mill Co.
Gen. Boutelle has returned to his
former home at Vancouver. He it
was that succeeded Gen. O'Brien as
custodian OF the State arsenal.
A. ]. Burr has fitted up the late
Republican headquarters for a cigar
stand. 1t seems like old times to see
a. j." back at his old business.
A good many housewives who failed
to heed the warning of the STANDARD
are bemoaning the destruction by frost
of their favorite towering plants.
Olympia football players have been
putting in the week in some RESPONSE
BILE practice at Maple Park for the
contest tomorrow at the fair grounds.
A street fakir is "telling fortunes
by aid of a quartette of cockatoos,
which select envelopes for the credu-
lous who deposit nickel with their
owner.
One of the most beautiful sights af-
forded to mortals just about this time
is the evening star VEINS, seen in all
her dazzling splendOr few minutes
after sunset.
The dredger is making progress in
excavating the channel at the rate
of 300 feet per day. The work con-
ssts of increasing the width of the
channel fifty feet.
The new carbon burners are rapidly
taking the place of the old gas jets.
Now let somebody improve the dingy