Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

DrschutteS at Tumwater.
Brl-k business requires a night
iorce AT the Olympia mill.
Bryan ladies OF this city have or
gained a Free Silver Club.
Wild geese are taking their annual
departure for distant climes.
The Republicans have "hauled
down. Mr.. Lane from the stump.
The Barber of the Year" is doing
his work among the deciduous foliage.
Over two hundred sacks of oysters
are shipped from Oyster Bay each
week.
Henry NJ. Murphy, of the STANDARD,
visited the Portland exposition this
week.
The school children are looking for
ward to legal holiday on the Sd of
November.
Rubber goods and umbrellas now
occupy a conspicuous place in the
show windows.
Bryan is still swinging around the
circle OF the States while Mckinley sits
on his veranda At Canton.
The almanac makes the Sd of No
vember a snowy day. Let the Repub.
licans prepare for it in season.
Mr.. Edgar Brewer, late of the
faculty of Vashon College, is visiting
relatives and friends in this city.
The schooner Bangor will sail from
the Westside mill. tomorrow, with
100000 feet OF lumber for Mexico.
Julius Sternberg, an old Olympia
boy, is pursuing a lucrative business
as carpenter in Juneau, Alaska.
Sixteen more days of grace, then
comes the tug of war. Trust in God,
and keep your powder dry, voters.
Burning of the Nesqually bridge,
Tuesday, has interrupted train SER
vice with Tacoma and Seattle, the
past few days.
A masquerade ball was held at Mud
Bay last Saturday night, and it was
quite numerously attended by merry
going Olympians.
Black huckleberries, the last pro-
duct of the woodland districts, are
being brought into town in large guam
titles by the Indians.
Horses and mich COW tethered to q
stake are enjoying the plats OF rich
grass within the prescribed limits.
This is as it should be.
Since the discontinuance of the
electric street lights the humble SER
vice OF the old-lashioned lantern is
once more appreciated.
Mrs. ]. c. Horn has opened quite a
spacious conservatory in a building
erected for that purpose adjoining the
Columbia street furniture store.
The name Of John B. Hart, of Sc
attic, has been substituted for that of
Chas. E. Cline, for State Elector on
the Peoples ticket, by request of Mr..
Cline.
Election, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Legislature and Bryan's inaugural
are all coming, each in its own sp-
pointed time. Mark Antony, Mark
Hanna!
Rev. Rufus Chase, of St. Johns
church, this city, delivered a memoir
ial sermon in Seattle, in Trinity
Chapel, Sunday, to the memory OF the
late Gov. E P. Ferry.
The Womens Auxiliary to the
Bryan-Rogers Club will meet at the
Bryan Rogers Club rooms on Satur.
day, October II, at 2 80 p. NJ. for the
transaction of important business.
Miss Mary E. Shields has returned
from California for visit with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. M. Shields, OF
this city. Miss Shields has been en-
gagged in teaching school in San Jose.
There is one labor union that was
never known to tolerate strike, and
that union is colony of honey
bees. Man can learn deal of wis
dom from these insect knights Of in
dustry.
Fishermen report that the sawdust
from the Eastside and Westside mills
has tendency to drive the fish out OF
Olympia harbor, and hence the su.
perior trolling grounds are several
miles down the bay.
At the prices for which good heat
ing stoves are now sold by Olympia
hardware dealers, nobody ought to 60
to bed with cold feet. One establish
ment sports the legend, " Heating
stoves at your own price"
Keep your eye open for The Honest
Dollar Tuesday. 1t will represent a
sound dollar as we'll; dollar that ex.
lists in body as well as in spirit; dol
lar that makes the Ghost wall"
interesting to the wage.earner.
A Woman's Mckinley Club has
been opened in the Stuart corner, and
now it is in order for detachment OF
its membership to pays visit to Ma
jor Mckinley and sit on the grass in
the front yard OF his Canton residence.
1T tastes like the original Mil
waukee," is the expression OF all who
have tried the new Stand
ard' beer, and tits pronounced by those