Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-26

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Ellen>burg, Carrie Shaw Rice, of Ia
coma, and W. J. Hughes, of Fair
haven, members of the State Board of
Education. They are all teachers of
cmincncc. Their term Of service he
gins next Monday.
The new rates for passage from
Olympia to Alaska on the steamship
City of Topeka to Wrangel are, $40
trst-class, s. second; to Juneau, $l5
and $3.50; to Sitka, 500 and $40. On
the steamship Alki, the rates are, to
Wrangel $50 first-class and $3.50
second; Juneau $40 and s..
With the coming of pleasant
weather many small birds are making
their appearance in Olympia orchards
and gardens. These are all insect de-
stroying birds and property owners
should see to it that they are pro-
tcctcd from the shotgun tiend and the
rubber sings of small boys.
The steamer Multnomah which left
here this morning, met with rather
serious mishap when off Devils Head,
by the breaking of the shaft of her
wheel. She lay at ease till the
steamer Aberdeen came along on her
way from Seattle to this city when
she was taken in tow and brought
safely to this port.
A legislative committee has invited
bids for furnishing quarters for State
offices for two or four years, to be
submitted Monday. 1t is said that be-
sides the McKenny building already
adapted, that the Odd Fellows build
ing and Bettman block, may with a
moderate expenditure be made SER
viceable for this object.
G. F. Cotterill of Seattle, will ex-
plain the provisions of the Cline Dis
pensary bill. in Olympia Theater.
Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. State
Auditor Cheatam and Rev. Spaulding
of Spokane, Revs. G. w. Feese and A.
G. Sawin will also address the assem-
blage. The public generally are in.
vited and especially members OF the
Legislature.
A number of the ladies of Olympia
will give dancing and card party on
Monday evening March LIST, at the
residence of Mrs. A. H. Chambers, the
proceeds to be applied to the lighting
of the St. Peters hospital with cleo
tricity. The evening will be opened
with q musical programme. Refresh
m9nts will be served. Tickets IS
cents a couple.
Twenty-four years ago, citizen of
Olympia made a small ornamental
box of cedar siding, about half an
inch thick, to hold a choice house.
plant. The box was painted bright
green at the time and it has been in
constant use from that day to this,
and yet the sides and bottom OF the
box are sound as when it was made.
This fact strikingly Shows the endur-
ing qualities of Washington cedar.
The committee appointed by the
citizens of Olympia to receive the
Omaha delegates of the Trans Missis.
sippi and International Exposition
will meet those visitors at the Port
Townsend Southern depot this even
ing at $50, to escort them to q night
session of the Legislature which will
meet at 7 o'clock and listento their
presentation of claim for support of
that enterprise.
The dredger Wednesday broke her
suction pipe and has been beached for
repairs. She will probably resume
operations tomorrow, and will finish
taking out the strip of earth fronting
Percival's dock, a job that will require
four or five days. The dredger will
then be taken to Everett to begin pre-
liminary work on a channel which
contemplates ultimately the establish.
n,ent of a fresh water basin at that
point.
One of the most helpful enterprises
for our community, one that brings
the most money from abroad, to place
it in circulation in our midst, is the
Capital Brewery. Its trade is ex-
tending wherever the merits of its
product becomes known. 1t is, I'M
qualifiedly, the best beer made on the
Pacific Coast, and that is saying
much. In the estimation of many it
fairly rivals the famous Milwaukee
product.
J. w. Flanders, agent of J. C. Aver
& Co., of Lowell, Mass, proprietors of
the Sarsaparilla which has gained a
worldwide renown as a blood purifier,
is paying his annual visit to this part
of the Coast interviewing publishers
and bill posters for means of prosecut-
ing the firms gigantic advertising
schemes for the present year. Mr..
F. is genial gentleman, one who it
is always pleasure to meet, and
this qualification seems to have been
recognized by the firm in his long re-
tention in that field of labor.
UNLIKE most proprietary medicines,
the formula of DIR. ]. G. Ayers Sarsa-
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