Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-16

tHC W SUI CdttTcT, Is ne
ing fitted for the Bon Ton Restaur-
ant and Oyster Parlors, to he kept bv
Mrs. Fisher.
DIR. Wilson Lockhart, of Spokane,
has been appointed Superintendent of
the Medical Lake Hospital for the In.
sane, to fill the place which nr. SEM
pie signed.
Miss Maggie Cottcr left 10y the Abcr-
deem Wednesday to take passage by
the Umatilla at Seattle for San Fran
cisco, where she will spend a month
visiting friends.
The City OF Shelton will bring up
the Shelton baseball team Sunday.
a match game having been arranged
with our local club to take place on
the Fair Grounds.
The Mexico will make n special trip
to Alaska, leaving Seattle on the 18th
inst, to accommodate the rush that
has resulted from new gold discoveries
in the Clondyke district.
Harbst is putting his bakery and
restaurant in "apple-pie" order, for
the better accommodation of his GUS
toners. He is deserving of liberal
patronage and will surely get it.
The latest diversion of our wheel
men is moonlight excursion parties on
the silent steed." Saturday night
an even score of our best riders en-
joycd a ride to Nisqually and return.
The school-mastcr and school-marm
are nervously brushing up for the Aug
INST examination when he and she will
have to meet the rigid requirements
of the higher standard for teachers
qualifications.
The ranges and their fittings be-
longing to the Olympia Restaurant in
Woodruff block have been removed to
the City Bakery where they will he
utilized to increase the capacity of
that establishment.
The liberal patronage bestowed upon
the bowling alley and gymnasium, on
Washington street, both day and
night, does not suggest the thought of
stringent times or hot weather among
their jolly frequenters.
The Deschuttes river is about at its
lowest ebb, and yet the falls at Tum-
water if properly harnessed, could fur
nish enough electrical motive power
to set a-humming all the machine
shops in the Puget Sound country.
There are two excursion parties on
the tapis. One by the Presbyterian
and the other by the Methodist Sun
day schools, to Point Defiance. The
latter will occur on the 2Sth, but the
date of the former has not yet been de-
termined.
Olympia Lodge No. l, /. o. o. F.,
installed the following officers Mon
day night: Arthur w. Jones, n. g.;
j. 1. Lehnherr, V. g.; o. B. Frisch,
r. S.; w. III. Roberts. p. S.: w. ].
Foster, Treas; G. H. Libby, w., and
N. S. Porter,C.
A daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Shinke died at their home at South
Bay, Sunday evening, from spinal
trouble of long standing. She was
eleven years of age. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by P. d. Moore,
Tuesday, and interment was made in
Masonic cemetery.
An army of men are engaged in the
preliminary work of removing the
Christian church from its old site to
its new grounds, corner of Eighth and
Franklin streets. On account of the
great size of the building and the diff
ference of grade along the way the
undertaking is quite an arduous one.
What is everybody's business is
generally nobody's business, so the
city authorities had better look after
an old barn that is topping over on
Third street. 1t is only waiting for q
brisk south wind, when it will fall
upon the sidewalk and stand good
chance of killing the children that are
playing in and around it.
Professor Yemen has prosperous
Greek and Latin classes, but he can
find time to accommodate few more
students if application is promptly
made. BY the course he pursues,
which is method of his own, pupils
can pass from the Latin grammar into
Cesar or Virgil and from the Greek
grammar into Xenophon or Homer,
as may be desired. Special advant-
ages are offered to those theological
scholars who wish to read the New
Testament in the original and beauti-
full Greek.
Mrs. Walter Chambers, of this city,
sustained severe injuries from fall
from cherry tree, one day last week,
at her husbands farm in the country.
In falling she dislocated her shoulder,
and as several hours interviewed before
she could be brought to town for sur
gical aid the injured part was badly
swollen before the bones could be re-
united. After the swelling was re-
duced, two fractures were found, but
it is not thought that they are of
serious nature. Mrs. C. is in a fair
way for rapid recovery.