Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-08-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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John PulIes is on 4 business visit TO
Seattle.
For the true political situation, read
the Standard.
DR.. y. b. Woodland is confined to his
home 10y sickness.
William Raglass, OF Tenino, visited
Olympia this week.
Miss George Allen is visiting
friends at the Queen City.
The present week has been a kite
flying carnival for Chinese.
The Republicans are finding out
that gold rhymes with sold,
The Multnomoh brought up eight
tons OF groceries last Tuesday.
State Printer o. C. White returned
yesterday from Cohasset beach.
Miss Josie Brewer will begin term
OF school at Delphi next Monday.
State Auditor J. E. Frost was one of
the visitors at Ellensburgh this week.
Mr.. l.. P. Berry, wife and daughter,
OF Spokane. were visiting in Olympia
this week.
The contractors say that the new
Tumwater bridge will he ffnishtd d BY
tomorrow.
The planet Mars is now in a posi-
ton to be favorably seen almost the
entire night.
The Tumwater park is steadily
growing in favor with excursionists
from abroad.
Miss Robbie Wallace has been en-.
gagged TO teach the school in Nina
Prairie district.
The quarterly teachers examina-
ton commenced on Wednesday, at
the court house.
The new bridge at Tumwater is pro.
nounced great improvement on all
its predecessors.
An intelligent farmer says our late
rains have been the salvation of the
late potato crop.
Republicans would do we'll to remem.
Der that solemn injunction, "All is
not gold that glitters."
The lower Tumwater bridge should
be the next thing taken in hand by
the County Commissioners.
Sam McClellsnd is building an i'm
mense logging car to be used in Powe's
logging camp, At Mud Bay.
Miss Dora Sternberg has gone to
San Francisco to gather in a supply of
fashionable millinery goods.
DR.. Gentle. late of this city but now
a resident of Seattle, was visiting
friends in Oily mpia this week
Mr.. J. S. Allen, an old Olympian,
and member of the Capital Commits
sion, was in the city this week.
The Tumwaier Park has received a
valuable accession in the shape of a
pair of Royal swans from Victoria.
An Athletic Club is to be organized
at the Olympia Hotel to morrow even
spo ,,pIor tho <l;root;o- oe u.oe M.
tol.
The Woman's Relief Corps gave a
social at G. A. r. hall, Tuesday. This
charitable organization il doing good
work.
E. c. Bickford will sell Imperial
bicycles for $65. The regular retail
price of these celebrated wheels i.
500.
Honey bees are extracting their
sweet food from white clover bios.
SONS that have opened since the late
rains.
The Olympia Bicycle Association
are doing much towards the improve
ment OF the various roads leading into
this city.
The arms used by the late militia
companies now disbanded, have been
turned over to the national guard of
Olympia.
Ernest Hartshorn returned to the
State University, at Seattle, this
morning, after brief visit to friends
in Olympia.
A "bicycle meet" is late coinage,
and judging from the way the nomen-
clature is swelling a bicycle lexicon
will be the next necessity.
Gradually but steadily the nights
are growing cooler forcibly reminding
us that there is no calling to halt in
the stately march of the seasons.
Old non-residents like to come back
to Olympia. Peter Cline who left
here term Of years ago is reviewing
his old haunts in and about the
capital city.
The Methodist camp meeting
opened yesterday at its old-time
grounds near Little Rock. No an
nouncement has yet been made when
it will close.
Ths new bicycle track to Wood
land, when completed, will bring that
little suburb within about thirty min.
utes' run of the corner OF Main and
Fourth streets.
Mrs. Mary A. White has filed suit
against the Peninsular Railway Com
pany of Mason county for SIS, 900 dam
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