Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Don't lend YOUR umbrella

\" noon-mark" is four minutes too
fast to-day.
The season for "harvest moon" is
approaching.
Foggy mornings and pleasant after
moons prevail.
VIM. Langhnrn, OF Chchalis, was in
the city This week.
Remember the concert at Olympia
Thca,cr this evening
Mars i at his old tricks, sitting in
the lap OF the Virgin.
Tom lIolcrait and family have re-
turned from the East.
The season for gathering tinted
autumn leaves is coming.
In all your getting, get us far away
from klondikc as possible.
\ son was born Monday to the wife
of c. J. Sheriff, of this city.
Mrs. Allen, who has been visiting in
Tacoma, returned home last night.
The weather forecast reads, "To-
night and tomorrow Saturday fair"
Indian women are bringing large
quantities OF black huckleberries into
town.
A daughter was recently born to the
wife of Jos. Wicks of the Crescent
dairy.
The oyster is coming to the front as
one of the important factors at church
festivals.
The city schools which opened last
Tuesday, give promise of a full at
tendance.
The injunction against the removal
OF the city MIGRANTS has been sustained
by the court.
The next steamer for Alaska will
be the Topeka, sailing on the 11th
from Seattle.
The regular steamer will leave Olym-
pia for Seattle on Sunday, but no
afternoon boat.
Answer to Enquirer: Granite is
crystalline rock composed of quartz
feldspar and mica.
Rev. Henry L. Badger, of Anacortes,
will hereafter preside over st. Johns
church IN olympia.
Despite the great rain fall few
smouldering forest fires yet remain in
the denser thickets.
Tramp CANNES are mysteriously
disappearing and going, it is supposed
where good dogs go.
Miss Belle Knox, book-keeper for
J. 5. Brewers grocery, is confined to
her home with illness.
All kinds of vegetation are rejoicing
over the late rains except the water
lilies in Sylvester park.
Mrs. John Coons and children left
yesterday for Everett to join Mr.. Coons,
who has employment there.
A good many people took advantage
of lull in the rain and came in to
see the sights on Labor Day.
Mr.. Bert Prince and Miss Alice
Boyer, two we'll known Olympians,
were married in Seattle, this week.
The heartless sportsman kills the
birds and the soulless woman sports
their feathers upon her latest bonnet.
The City of Shelton will soon sport
search-light attachment in addition
to the electric plant she already car
ries.
The greater part of the Thurston
county grain crop has been harvested
and much of it contracted for by
dealers.
John McClelland has returned from
the Frazier river, where he has spent
avery successful season in the fishing
industry.
The Tumwater brewery residence
is being improved and enlarged by q
long needed addition to the original
structure.
When you hear a man talking
about going to Klondike this fall, get
away from him as soon as possible, he
is dangerous.
The Collegiate Institute property
must remain fallow another year
since it appears that the school will
not open this fall.
Rev; G. L. Feese, pastor of the
Methodist church of Olympia for the
last two years, has been transferred to
the Montana conference.
The editor of this paper and daugh-
ter, Miss Rose, are in attendance at
the State Press Association meeting,
at Vancouver, this week.
Rev. +. Hopkins, father OF the Hop
kins brothers, has been re-appointed
for the ensuing year over the Metho-
dist church at Tumwater.
The autumnal equinox is approach
ing, and it will do what the County
Commissioners failed to do; it will
inaugurate an equalization.
To-day is the anniversary Of trio
OF three great events, the battle of Lake
Erie, the full moon and the issue of
the WASHINGTON STANDARD.
Miss Esther Callow came up from
her Kamilchie home last Monday,
and is now fully installed as a student
In the high school of this city.
W. P. Kearney, of New York, an
uncle OF Joseph Kearney, the grocer,
is on visit to this city and will re-
turn home in about two weeks.
Governor Newell, physician in
charge over the Soldiers Home at
Orting, made flying visit among his
many Olympia friends this week.
Remember the dance at G. A. r.
hall tomorrow evening. Harmony
orchestra makes the music, and so a
harmonious time may be expected.
The Executive Council of the Inter-
national Typographical Union have
sustained the striking printers in their
controversy with the State Printer.
AS the cool weather approaches
there is marked increase in the de-
mand for residence houses convenient
to the business centers of Olympia.
At the Methodist conference held at