Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Il. y. Barnes is again quite ill.,
Did YOU get sliced by the circus ia
kris?
Strawberries now sell at 10 cents
per box.
Mars can now be seen almost the
entire night.
The circus had a "nutty flavor" for
some people.
The Aberdeen is laid up at Tacoma
with broken shaft.
Olympia flower gardens are in the
acme OF their beauty.
Old Probs says the weather will
very likely continue fair
The circus shows how many people
there are in the country.
Oliver & Co. have sold their grocery
and feed stock to o. George.
Very few oysters are being shipped
from Oyster Bay at present.
Farmers are looking after the well
fare of their haying implements.
Mud Bay Indians are making ready
for grand good time on the coming
Fourth.
A number of parties are preparing
to spend the Fourth of July in priv ate,
picnics.
The next steamship leaving Seattle
for San Francisco, is the Umatilla,
Sunday.
Captain j. G. Parker, of Tacoma
was in the city, this week, on bust
ness trip.
The U. S. monitor Monterey is ex-
pected to arrive in our harbor this
evening.
Cherries as big as bullets are at
tracing the attention of the average
good little boy.
Strawberry dealers cay the active
season will begin next week for the
home grown fruit.
Republicans are beginning to
pucker their lips to blow the Nc
kinley ltin-whistle.
The State of Washington will ar
rive about noon Sunday, with excur-
sionists from Tacoma.
The first home grown Strawberries
were formally put upon the Olym-
pia markets, yesterday.
The red lemonade lost its flavor for
those who blew in their hard-earned
dollars on the nut game.
The Multnomah will 60 On the
gridiron Sunday and hence there will
be no morning boat that day.
Grass cutting in front door yards is
in order, and the air is redolent with
the fragrance Of new mown hay.
Fourth OF July only two weeks from
to morrow and some of our citizens
are talking OF getting up celebration.
A meeting of citizens will be held
tomorrow at 2P. NJ, at the court.
house, to decide upon a strawberry
exhibit.
"Class day" exercises are being held
at Vashon College to-day. Com
mencement exercises take place TO-
morrow.
1t was just nuts" for the circus ia
kirs to fleece some OF our citizens who
were too smart to accept a friendly
warning.
The ladies of the Congregational
Society will hold sociable at the
residence of Mrs. Fitch, on Westside,
this evening.
George Talcott, brother OF L. L.
Talcott, of this city, died on the 5th
inst, in Oswego, N. Y, his home, at
the age of 81.
The present week has been quite y
"showy" one for Olympia, counting in
the circus which opened the carnival
OF amusement.
If there is anything that will bring
up the last quarter from the bottom
of the poor mans family stocking, it
is circus parade.
Despite the havoc caused by the
fire, yesterday, in the Boston Kitchen,
meals we're served in the afternoon as
if nothing had happened.
The Women's Missionary Society OF
the Puget Sound Presbytery has held
daily sessions in the United Presbyter-
ian church the past week.
Lon Swafford is patient at St. Pc
ter's hospital from cash cut in his
foot while chopping down a tree in
Mosher & McDonald's camp.
The arrangements for the coming
collegiate year have not yet been an
nounced, but they will probably be
set forth in the new catalogue.
For small farmers to come to Olym-
pia and 60 home with bale OF I'M.
ported hay in their wagons is worse
than shipping Goals to Newcastle.
The members of the Presby terrain
church are making strenuous efforts
to free their society from its indebted.
ness before calling another pastor.
1t isn't "chestnuts," any longer.
Only whisper "walnuts" to some OF
our respected citizens" and they i'm.
mediately have business around the
corner.