Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

next Tuesday.
Gen. Hazard Stevens visited Port
land thu week.
Strawberries are highly favored
and high in price.
The steamship Ak leaves Seattle
tomorrow lor Alaska,
Gwin Hicks assumed the dutic. OF
State Printer Yesterday.
The steamer Aberdeen has resumed
her afternoon service I" Seattle.
Mo-hrr 4 MrDonald'S logging camp
closed down yesterday TIL July 9th.
Tie Wild blackberry crop is in it,
prime, and old Mrs. Lo is aware OF the
fact.
Bicyclcnc" is the new name for
the feminine wheel. Remember this,
girls.
Joe Chilbcrg is showing the people
OF Tacoma what he can do with the
N-rayS.
ne DltHi)lIu JUbIIt' - pN'i anu
now it is in order for all to sing, Long
live the Queen
The college commencement season
is Just off and a new crop of sweet girl
graduates Is on.
Miss Alice Langridge who has been
teaching i'll Mason county, closed her
school, last week.
Mr.. l.. ID. w. Shelton, of Seattle, a
veteran land cruiser of the Sound, was
i'll the city this week.
The steamship fare between Olym-
pia and San Francisco remains at IS
cabin and ~ steerage.
A car load of material for the State
Printing office, was discharged in its
new quarters, yesterday.
w. w. Work is opening a paint
shop in the Prescott building, corner
of Main and Third streets.
The big sign on the State Printing
Office, just vacated, has been changed
to White Printing Office"
A number of teachers went down to
Shelton to attend the teachers in
stitute held there this week.
Old Probs says that the probabili-
ties are that the weather tonight and
tomorrow will remain fair.
Prof. Yemen is back from Vashon,
where he has been the past week a
guest of the college OF that name.
The Swimming Club has begun its
season for sporting in the briny deep
in its enclosure at Percivals dock.
Alex. Drysdale, once a resident of
this city, now of Pendleton, Oregon,
was over on visit to old friends last
week.
The steamer City of Aberdeen
resumed her regular runs between this
city and Seattle, on Wednesday of this
week.
Vashon and Maury Island ranch
men report that the prune crop will
be far above the average of preceding
years.
About $50 people left by the Aber-
deem and Multnomah, yesterday, to
participate in the Rose Festival at
Tacoma.
Chas. E. Horton, of Tacoma, and
Minnie B. Chamberlain, of Woodland,
were united in marriage in this city
Monday.
The next steamer for San Francisco
will be the City of Puebla, on Thurs
day. On the same day the Queen
sails for Alaska.
Johnson's hill is to be covered with
layer of gravel, and then the bicycle
path from Olympia to Woodland will
be in good condition.
A fourteen-year-old son of Lem
Whitaker, living near Tenino, killed,
Sunday, a large black bear in the
woods on his fathers farm.
The Good Templars expect couple
of hundred guests to be in this city
on the goth, when they hold a general
lodge session lasting four days.
1t is estimated by farmers that the
late showers will enhance the value of
the hay crop many thousands OF
dollars in Thurston county alone.
The Alumni of the Collegiate Insti.
tute, better known as the o. c. l., will
turn their annual reunion into a pic
mic next Monday, at Buffers Cove.
The State Treasurer has called gen.
eral fund warrants Nos. PAL to 49,
4l5, inclusive. The amount is $780,
1875, and the call will mature July 9Th.
The steamship Umatilla left Seattle
this morning for San Francisco. The
Olympia passengers by her were Ed
ward Grinrod and Miss Carrie Nc.
Cullough.
The STANDARD acknowledges a
pleasant call from w. w. Robertson,
the talented editor of the Chehalis
Nugget, while on q visit to his relatives
in this city.
Miss Lena Shields closed very sue
cessful term of school at Belmore, last
Friday, with a public exhibition,
which reflected credit alike on teacher
and pupils.
The City of Shelton will leave at 8
A. NJ. Monday, carrying those who
wish to participate in the celebration
at that place. She will leave at 4 p. M.
on her return.
Rev. S. S. Sullinger and Miss
Minnie France have been elected
delegates to represent this district in
the Toronto convention of the National
Epworth League.
The shipment of oysters. notwith-
standing they are out OF " season" has
been exceedingly large to down Sound
points, doubtless in anticipation of
the holiday demand.
E. D. Vaut, formerly of Olympia,
now holds a position with Schwa-