Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


nous place.
Moonlight Will >upplant starlight
this month.
Prof Miller Will reopen his night
school Monday.
4 kingti>hcr has hi, eye on the fish
in Sylvester Park.
An oyster lunchhou-c i soon to he
opened in Olympia.
The thrc>lIing machine crew are
making their rounds.
The steamship Alki leaves Seattle
t. morrow for Alaska.
LIT nobody fail to add something to
the watcr-powcr fund.
August Schneider is constructing
fruit dryer ON Westsde.
Mr.. W. II. Clark, {" Billy,') is now
q resident OF Rossland, b. c.
The weather forecast is: "To-
night and Saturday, showers"
c. g. Hefncr. late OF Mason county,
occupies residence on Maple Park.
Miss kittie Langridge commenced
school at Grand Mound, last Monday
Mark Reed came up from his log
ging camp in Mason county Wcdnes-
day.
The Indian women of Mud Bay are
monopolizing the huckleberry bust
ness.
Gertrude Follansbee is now assisting
Mabel Brouner in her kindergarten
work.
Mrs. NJ. I. Sparks and Miss Avis
Mann, have returned from a visit to
Satsop.
Miss Ida Baker, of Colfax, is visiting
in the city, the guest of Miss Marie
Garrison.
A cider mill could be put to profit
able work in about every orchard of
Olympia.
The pigeons and blackbirds are
rendering efficient service as street
scavengcrs.
Savage & Scofield have completed
the construction of the Bannse bridge
at Bucoda.
Bert Wright has returned from his
seasons work in the st. Helens min
ing district.
The Westside mills are once more
awakening the echoes of that quiet
neighborhood.
The hammock has been taken in
from the front yard and gas bills are
again in order.
"Who felt the earthquake?" is a
question asked by more people than
are able to answer it.
The new rector, Rev. Henry L. Bad
ger, will conduct services in St. Johns
church next Sunday.
Small birds take great delight in
playing hide and seek about the foun-
tain in Sylvester Park.
The venerable mountain climber,
William Packwood, has been viewing
his old Olympia haunts.
Remember that " SamI of Posen"
will open his sample-case at Olympia
Theater Thursday night.
The steamship Umatilla left Seattle
for San Francisco to-day, an Olympia
passenger being P. Stixrood.
Now that the leaves are falling the
sidewalks should be swept every day
to preserve their cleanliness.
Miss Margie Henry leaves to-day for
Rochester, where she begins term of
district school next Monday.
James Dofflemyre expects to leave
next week for Seattle, where he has
employment in the shipyards.
The steamship Santa Cruz was to
have left San Francisco to-day for
Alaska, with cargo of powder.
The new moon, now in Its first
quarter promises fair weather for the
ensuing month. We shall see.
The State has paid during the past
quarter $259, 600 of General and $751;
600 OF Military Fund warrants.
A reception was given the new
minister, Rev. o. w. Mintzer and wife,
at the NJ. E. Church, last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Agnew are now
cat home" in the residence just north
of the Silsby store, on Main street.
The person who has that borrowed
copy of Shakspeare's works will do a
favor by returning it to this Office.
Next Wednesday the County Com.
missioners will open bids for improve
ment of the jetty at Nisqually bridge.
Now that Mount Baker in labor has
brought forth gold mine, it is time
for Mount Olympus to make his debut.
The sum of $3.50 was paid to the
city school teachers Saturday, leaving
an Indebtedness still for the past quar-
ter.
On Wednesday Mrs. J. M. Spurlock
left for her home at Junction City,
Kansas, over the o. r. and N. Rail-
way.
Two hundred bushels per acre are
among the potato crop reports coming
from the various Thurston county dis
tricts,