Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
1t i Postmaster Cayanaugh now

i. G.. Eathhun and family have
moved 10 Seattle.
Prof Eaval and family have re-
turned t. Eastern Oregon.
Through the grace "f unwrittcn law,
the oyster season Is now open.
The heavy rains are driving campers
back To- their homes and to duty.
Mi, Mabel Brouncr will reopen
her kindergarten school Monday.
W. 7. shelton, graduate of Nashon
College. i visiting friends III the city.
l.. 7. Yemen has gone down into
Mason county for Il weeks recreation.
Ii there i anythln" in the signs OF
lunar wcAthcrology, tn" rain has come
To- stay.
Mrs. nr. Ncwcumb and daughter
lett Tuesday for their home ut Mcli
cal Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Grim have been
rendered happy by the advent OF Il wee
daughter.
Miss Esther Callow, of kamilchie,
came mp to-day to attend Olympia
high school.
\ number oi people have gone to
Pullallup from this county to aid i'll
hop-plcklng.
A boy baby appeared at the domicile
of Mr.. and Mrs. X. +. STEINER Wednes-
day morning.
On Sunday the Multnomah will
make her regular morning trip. No
afternoon boat.
Frank Littlejohn and wife are pre-
pairing to leave for Skaguay by the
next outgoing steamer.
Studies in the public schools will
not be resumed till Tuesday, as Mon
day is public holiday.
Editor Cole, of the Northwest LINN
herman, made pleasant call upon the
STANDARD this morning.
The EpwOrth League surprised DIR.
Lansdale, Wednesday evening, by 4
social call at his home on Eastside.
Word comes from Rossland that W.
H. Clark, one of Olympia's old timers
has become full-pledged gold miner.
General business removals are in
progress and Olympia bids fair to
to have the lions share of upper Sound
trade.
This is no off:year for the larger
fruits, but as one rancher puts it.,
apples and pears will cumber the
ground.
The late shower was a welcome
visitor; it was but modicum, how
ever, of what the parched fields could
still absorb.
Thirteen out of the fourteen APP
plicants for teachers certificates at
the August examination passed the
ordeal safely.
Rev. C. B. Seely, one of the old
0. c. l. boys, passed through the city,
this week on his way to Everett where
conference is now in session.
Rev. J. R. Thompson, formerly of
Olympia, was one of the Speakers at
the laying of the corner store of the
new lighthouse at Gray's Harbor.
Thurston county is not grain-rais-
ing section, but it holds its own in
hay and fruits, and for these products
farmers are surely to receive large re-
wards.
F. B. Covington and Miss Janet
Sharpe, of Seattle, were united in
marriage at the residence of the
groom's parents, on Eastside, Satur-
day morning.
Mrs. c. w. Spurlock, of Junction
City, Kansas, who is visiting her
mother, Mrs. r. P. Morris, in Mason
county, is in the city, the guest of
Mrs. McClurg.
L. E. Brewer, a former Olympia
student, has been assigned to the
model school department in VashOn
College, which opens on the 18th of
the present month.
His Accidency has removed E. S.
Dudney, of Stevens county, from the
Cascade Road Commission, and ap-
pointed Joseph Lavigne, of the same
county to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. Percivars record of steamship
business shows that forty people left
this place during the month of Aug
ust, 36 of whom were bound for Klon-
dixie and four for San Francisco.
The weather report for to-day reads
" Showery to-day and tomorrow
some sunshine this afternoon; south
erly winds and moderate gales along
the coast, decreasing Friday night"
"Samuel of Posen" is booked for
Olympia Theater, Oct 7th; "a Trip
to Chinatown" Hoyt's greatest COM
edy, for the Goth of the same month,
and the Calhoun Opera Co. for Dec.
18th.
The skeleton found at the north
end of the lower Tumwater bridge, a
few days ago, is doubtless that of an
Indian and has been exhumed from a
grave several feet above high tide
made several years ago.
A CLINT of sunshine this morning
dlspelled the gloom that clouded skies
had cast over those bright natures
which, like the clear waters of the
lakelet, reflect the cheerful or somber
hues that are passing overhead.
Weiss has moved his tailoring es-
Enlistment across the street, into a
storeroom of the OFT building, adj
joining Gresl's market. 1t is said that
Ben Vincent will move his shoeshop
into the premises vacated by Weiss.
From late reports there is some
prospect that upper Sound Klondiker's
will return home to spend the win.
ter. Several have already returned to
Port Townsend and Seattle somewhat