Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Multn"'nah viii make her
regular trip sunday.
H.. j. IL >narry q. a pot "i beans
vs,r the late election.
White tro>ts are dcSp"iling the
hrWtliul autumn leaves.
Don't modest the blackbirds. They
alr our street scaVcngerS.
TIN bark J. NJ. Coleman is loading
luui,r AT the Wc-tsidc mill.
Pros, Yemen i, suffering from a Sc
v,lc attack OF ntorbus dentis.
The turmoil OF campaign is over
and now let us talk business.
buck shooting has Ia ken the place
oi grouse and pheasant hunting.
DR.. Rcdpath paid Il professional
visit to North Yakima this week.
The next steamship for San Fran
cisco will be the Queen Tuesday.
Even the festive hobos are laying in
their supplies for Thanksgiving day.
Mr.. \. J. Baldwin, one OF Olympia's
pioneers, is visiting friends in the city.
y l2t-round boy was born to Mr..
and Mr., W. n. Harris on the Sd inst.
The forecast is =" Tonight and Satur-
day fair, with frost Saturday morning"
Sore-heads and swelled-heads are
about equally matched since election
day.
Prof. A. c. Jones, OF Vashon College,
was i'll the city yesterday on a business
visit.
1t is high time to prepare your holi-
day ads. for the STANDARD. DO not
delay.
Mary Hanaford died last week at
her home at Bucoda, aged II years and
months.
One hundred and fifty-five sacks of
oysters were shipped down the Sound
yesterday.
1t is pretty evident that the month
of November will not 80 begging for
amusements.
Legislators-elect are already secur-
ing convenient rooms and boarding
accommodations.
The county teachers quarterly ex-
animation has been in session during
the present week.
Business is now carried on in the
new annex recently erected at the
capital Brewery plant.
Mrs. Newcomb, of Medical Lake. is
on visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. p. Wiman, Of this city.
Coronation of the queen will con-
stitute a central figure on the pro-
gramme for carnival week.
West Fourth street, in the vicinity
of the old draw, is now one OF the
finest thoroughfares in the city.
The Topeka sailed to-day from Sc
attic for Alaska with Mrs. Ruth, of
this city as passenger for Skagway.
w. J. Cain, former resident OF
Tumwater, was killed last week by an
accident in mine at Rossland, B. C.
Potato harvesting is one of the last
outdoor industries now being en-
Gagged in by Thurston county farmers.
A. J. Burr has fitted up a neat
cigar stand in the little brick store
adjoining The Fair, on Fourth street.
Thirsty people do not now have to
come from Tumwater to Olympia to
get a nip; that little city has it's own
saloon.
1t is the live, go-ahead dealer who
advertises his holiday goods, and cash
customers throw away no time in find
ing him.
There seems to be no end to the
wood and bark now being hauled to
town from almost every point of the
compass.
The announcement, Rooms to let
has been displayed upon the front Of
about every alternate house in town
this week.
"The Holy Cross and What il
Means" is the subject of free lecture
at Brotherhood hall, in Hale block
this evening.
Tickets for "South Before the War
and Passion Play" will go on sale at
O'Connor's, tomorrow Saturday, al
10 o'clock A. NJ.
A couple OF common-sense cross
walks, seven feet wide, have been con
structed across Main street, at the
junction OF Fifth.
Sit down by warm fire, read Hoods
poem on November" and you will
know better how to appreciate the
comforts of life.
Most Of the migratory song-birds
that charmed us in the summer have
gone to climates more congenial to
their social habits.
a few ladies constituting the van.
guard Of outside Maids of Honor have
arrived in town to be in readiness for
next weeks festivities.
The outcome of election shows un.
mistakably that what some men will
not do for the sake of principle, they
will readily do for gold.