Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-02

1t j. reported that the steamer city
OF Aberdeen has been laid up for an in
definite period.
Miss Mary Shields has been en-
gagged to teach school in district A.,
Chambers Prairie.
The next steamship sailing from
Seattle for san Francisco will be the
lmatilla, sunday.
The BARRIERS OF this city have signed
an agreement to close their places OF
business on Sundays.
Miss Kittie Langrdgc has been en-
gagged aS teacher in her former school
on Grand Mound prairie.
Service. Sunday evenings in the
Congregational church will hereafter
partake of Il musical nature.
Luna is making her toilet, but will
show her face in about three days
should the skies he propitious.
Quite number of new names We're
added to the STANDARDS subscrip-
ton list during the past week.
The Boston Kitchen will begin to
serve meals under its improved regime,
next Monday, at 6 o'clock A. NJ.
The work OF clearing and repairing
the streets is still being posecuted with
increased energy every fair day.
Ii you want a bicycle, don't buy one
till you have seen l.. NJ. Hall. You
will be sorry if you do. Read his adj
yertisement.
Wharfinger Percival has contracted
for supply of cordwood from Tenino,
to be brought in over the Port Town
send Southern railroad.
r. B. McCausland and family left
for Denver, Col, yesterday. Mr.. M.
has been for several years engaged in
the grocery business here.
There seems to be somebody to fill
all positions, and U. P. Sam the pill
grim fiddler, walking gasometer, and
story teller is one OF them.
The U. s. battleship Oregon is on
her passage from San Francisco, to
60 into the drydock at Port Orchard.
She is due there tomorrow.
Miss Grant, of Tacoma, an artistic in
dress making, will join Miss Wheeler
next week and assist in keeping La
Mode in the lead of Fashion.
You may patronize home industry,
save money and promote health by
using Sawyer & Filley's baking pow
der. Read their advertisement.
The Olympia Board of trade has
memorialized the powers that be at
Washington to return the Olympic
forestry reserve to the public domain.
The rush to Alaska still continues.
Agent Perciyal has been advised to
"Sell no more tickets for the Alki," the
steamer leaving Sunday for the north.
Yesterday was the traditional all
fools day, and the outcome of num-
erous pranks would evidence that the
stored race still lives in considerable
force.
Miss Lulu Eckert, one of the popular
school teachers of this county, will
leave for Dakota next week, where she
is engaged for duty in the same pro.
fession.
Sawyer & Filley will next month
remove their drug stock into the
Chambers building on the opposite
corner, now occupied by Heistand &
Warner.
By virtue of the derivation of its
name, April is the opening month";
and now it is to be sincerely hoped
that it will open a reign of business
prosperity.
An alarm OF fire was turned in from
Box 43, last Monday night, about Il
O'Clock, occasiOned by a small blaze in
Capt. Doane's barn, which was speed
lily extinguished.
The Capital Brewing Co. have q
shipment of ten tons of malt en- route
from San Francisco, which was due
to-day at Tacoma by the steam
schooner Lackme.
The steamer Aberdeen made a spe
cial trip to Port Gamble Yesterday to
bring up Captain Samuel Wiley, who
was dangerously injured by fall at
that place last week.
The steamer Seas ide, Capt. Walter
Axtell, leaves PercivaPs dock Thurs
days and Saturdays at s A. NJ. for
Hartstein Island, carrying passengers
freight and the mails.
Two dollars and half now BUYS q
good honest cord of stove wood, hauled
from three to five miles and thrown
into your woOdshed; quite fair price
for dealer and consumer.
AN order for thirty million feet o.
lumber has been placed with the Ia.
coma Mill Co., for South America, by
F. r. Lingham, a johannesburg CAPT
talist, lumberman and merchant.
Many species of birds reputed 70,
song and plumage are returning tc
make glad their old haunts in town
and country. Let them be kindly
welcomed as harbingers of Joy and
good will.
The State Board OF Control consists
of the Governor, State Treasurer
Young, Auditor Cheetham, Superin.
tendet Browne, State Printer Hicks
and Ernest Lister. The latter is also
travelling auditor.
The applause which greeted the
result of the prosecution of J. NJ
Page, Minute Clerk of the late House
IN Justice Dials court, Saturday, must
have made the executives auraculal
appendages smart.
Had We printed a thousand extra
copies OF the last weeks STANDARD
We doubt not they would have been
sold. Orders came in for dozens OF
copies from all parts of Thurston and
adjacent counties. The extra edition
oil SUt) over rnr,1ar O,,lsnr;.4:.