Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-06-24
CINT NEWS IN BRIEF.

Having ha~ commenced IN the
c,u>rr iiclI-.
St Martins College at Woodland
closed, thi, week.
The days are growing shorter and
autumn i coming.
u. e. West j. suffering from an at
tack ii appendicitis.
Alternate RAIN and shine are length
cning the strawberry season.
Mrs. y. :. Porter has returned from
4 short visit To- friends ut Tacoma.
Carpenters are putting the upper
works on the steamer City of Olympia
The street sprinkler is taking va
cation through force 0l circumstances
Vashon College sends seven gradu'
ates into the garden oi the world, this
year.
The glorious Fourth will be ushered
in by partial eclipse OF the moon, on
Sunday.
Prof. Halves attended the Pierce
County Teachers Institute this week
at Tacoma.
OLYMPIA visitors to VashOn College
commencement report having an en-
joyable time.
Jack Morrow and Miss Josie Whit
ney, both Of Ed Bay, have been Ii
ccnsed to wed.
Capt. and Mrs. Tew have returned
from an extended tour in the Eastern
and Middle States.
A meeting of the Washington State
Teachers Association begins at Ia
coma next Monday.
The Capital City Band has been re
organized and will go on a tOot II
Sylvester Park Saturday evening.
Tuesday the sun entered the Sum
mer solstice, making it by few sec
Onds the shortest day OF the year.
The Sunday School picnic, set fol
Tuesday, was postponed one week il
consequence of Indictment weather.
Miss Fannie Langridge is preparin!
to leave on a trip to Wisconsin
whittier she goes to visit old friends.
Mrs. Wade is in a fair way of re
covery from the terrible effects of hel
experience with cab-wheels, Monda!
night.
Prof. Yemen has returned iron
Vaslion College, where he went to at
tend the commencement exercises o
that institution.
Olympia is not so "poor" as man,
people have led one to believe whel
her people can subscribe to $l0O,0O'
in bonds in one day.
The sun remained above the hOri
zOn fourteen hours and forty-fiv,
minutes, to-day, quite long enough
for an honest days work.
James Stack paid s. into the cit,
Treasury Tuesday because he did no
know that it was illegal to ride horse
back on the bicycle path.
Miss Kirkpatrick, nee Amy Bucklin
OF Seattle, one of the old time student
OF Olympia Collegiate Institute, is Wis
iting Mrs. Arthur Callow.
Bicycle riders are putting in thei
best efforts in preparing for the con
test on the Fourth. OF course, every
body expects TO win prize.
Special rates will be accorded by tn
Northern Pacific from all points with
IN a hundred miles to persons VIII,
come to Olympia's celebration on tn
Fourth.
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis Ina
been appointed on the Governors stat
rs Inspector General of the Nationa
Guard OF Washington, with the ranl
of Colonel.
The Projectoscope, in the Hor
building, has been giving some inter
esting views, the past week, of even
ings, and photographic exhibits dur
ing the day.
j. W. Bachelor, the horticulturist
has named new variety of strawberr,
originated by himself, the Admire
Dewey. They may be eaten withou
sugar and cream.
The pheasant showers" noted las
week became Il deluge later on, ant
the result has been to shorten tn,
strawberry season and hasten tn,
marketing OF cherries.
The board for civil service examina
ton OF candidates for postal seryic,
meet next month to pass upon the
q"aliilcations of applicants for the
positions OF clerk and carrier
Mrs. VS.. Eddings, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. ID. Moore OF this CITY
and wife of prominent LAWYER Of
Honolulu, s. l., arrived in this city
Monday, on visit to her relatives.
The State Land Commission has r..
appraised the tide lands of first.elas.
fronting Seattle and Tacoma, a,
double their former value, which i.
all Indication that realty is "lookine
up"
T. II. Baker, the Rube" of the
'e'ehgala exhibit at the theater. this
"''N' mas created no little merriment