Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Ii" olympia restaurant has been
closed.
Read the STANDARDS holiday advcr-
ti>cmcnt>
Judge Elwood Evans, Of Tacoma,
WAS in the city.
The steamer Aberdeen will resume
her trips Monday.
The steamship All>i left Seattle for
Alaska last "Wednesday.
The steamship Mexico left Seattle
to-day Tor San Francisco.
Eugene Horton will again engage
in the plumbing business.
The State Board OF Education will
meet in this city on the 2Sth.
New York and Chicago apples for
sale ut Aldrich & Van Eaton'S.
The next steamship for Alaska will
be the City OF Topeka, on the 10Th
inst.
The steamship City of Puebla will
leave Seattle Wednesday for San Fran
cisco.
The dredgcr Oakland makes Il daily
progress of 300 feet, on the channel
work.
Cigars, tobacco and smokers goods
at Aldrch & Van Eaton's, under Ia
coma hall.
Carloads of fir and cedar brush are
coming in by the Port Townsend
Southern road.
All sorts of Christmas and confec-
tionary goods may be found at Aldrich
e. Van Eaton's.
New calendars have made their ap-
pearance representing various local
business centers.
Turkeys are coming to the front,
but where do they all come from is
an interesting question.
Olympia is surfeited with drum
mers representing almost every pos
sible department of business.
The sweetest and best taffy in the
city is found at Aldrich & Van Eaton's,
corner of Columbia and Fourth streets.
Great enthusiasm is manifested by
the officers and members OF the various
Olympia Sunday Schools in their
efforts to prepare interesting Christmas
programmes.
In order to expedite the job, couple
of electric lights have been hung in
the slip at the Fourth street draw and
night force can now work upon the
bulkhead filling.
Several landslides have occurred on
the Port Townsend Southern railroad,
the past week, but they did not SER
iously interfere with the single trip
a day made by that train.
The season approaches when We
frugal landlord seasoneth highly the
dead turkey and prepareth delectable
fsast for We guest who sojourneth be-
meath his hospitable roof.
Mr.. Hall has two of the finest
turkeys in the county, in his store
window, which he proposes to give to
some one of his customers on Christ
mas and New Years day.
Why is President Cleveland's last
annual message like the Book of
Esther? Now don't all speak at once.
Answer. Because the name of God
does not occur in the document.
O'Connor, as usual, leads in the dis
play of beautiful holiday presents.
His stock is bewildering in extent and
beauty. Do not make your purchases
until you have inspected his counters.
Look about straight over your head,
tonight, about IL o'clock, and see the
ruddy planet Mars. He is only few
days past this opposition but is in a
favorable position for telescope scru.
tiny.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. schwagerl will
address Olympia Branch of the
TheOsophical Society in America, next
Sunday evening, in their hall in Hale
block, opposite the Olympia Theater.
The public is respectfully invited.
Many of the new State officers have
been securing homes in this city.
Land Commissioner Bridges was here
this week, with three of the clerks
under the new regime, all OF whom
rented buildings for their families.
The big dredger is approaching the
city front at the rate of two or three
hundred feet per day, and it is thought
by those engaged in the work that
mud will begin to be thrown upon the
brush mating at the draw, early next
week.
The Cook Twin Sisters Uncle Tom
Company, which appears at Olympia
Theater tonight, is pronounced to be
the best organization playing that
standard drama, in the country, As
they play to popular prices, the house
should be crowded.
Mayor Aver has appointed the fol-
lowing committee to make arrange
ments for the inaugural ceremonies of
Gov. Rogers: John Byrne, ]. OBJ.
Scobey, Leon Dobrin, T. ]. Miller,
A. H. Chambers, &. G. Mills, Olaf
Frisch and Geo. E. Thompson.
An experienced farmer emphatically
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