Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-05

gr"@c along the hurlrr> Of the streets
Is question which has been definitely
settled 10y ordinance. The cow will
be hereafter denied that privilege.
The Olympia summer girl now car
rics hen chewing gum in a little nickel
plated contrlvance under her belt.
This i better than the old stvle of
sticking the wad behind the left ear.
1t Is the concensus of opinion
among the better part of Olympians
that the rambling songs of the Sal
Walton army would be barely endur-
able if that fiendi>h bass drum could
be silenccd.
Dread upon the waters" Mr..
Wilson Introduced a resolution at the
Council meeting, Monday night, rails
ing the rate paid for teams engaged in
city work from 1910 to 81. OF course
it was adopted.
The ladies of the Catholic church
gave lawn social, on the grounds in
the rear of the church, Wednesday
evening, and by the sale of ice cream
and cake, realized quite handsome
sum for their beneliccnt work.
Mr.. Percival has on exhibition at
the dock photograph of a log lately
hauled in by the Simpson camp, which
measured over eight feet in diameter
at the butt and is GS feet long. 1t fig
ured up ,l32 feet board measurement.
There is no less than four dryers go.
ing up for service in saving this years
crop, in near proximity to this city.
In addition to those hitherto reported
by us, is that which Daniel Gaby is
erecting on his ranch beyond Tum-
water.
Mrs. Margaret L. Sparks fell from a
chair on which she was standing to
reach to a high shelf, last Friday, and
fractured her hip bone. She is nearly
so years of age, which initiates very
much against the speediness OF her
recovery.
The capital city lost the Republican
Convention 10y one vote, but her ma
tive aspirants for office should regard
this as point in their favor, on the
principle that A prophet is not with
out honor, save in his own country and
in his own house."
And now it is getting along to the
time when men dwell in tents and
put up with many Inconvenience I'M
der the impression that it hardens the
muscles and toughens the tissue. 1t is
a form of ignis fatuus that the throng
follows in the delusive chase for pleas
ure.
At IL o'clock last Friday night the
three-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. L. Holland died from diph.
liberia. 1t was, at first, supposed to
be simply an attack of whooping-
cough, and it was not till the disease
had well developed before medical aid
was summoned.
Mr.. Shepard, who lives near Cham
bers' Prairie Oh the Rainier road, is
constructing fruit-dryer. If we can
not have an evaporation sufficiently
large to serve the whole county, there
seems to be no doubt but that we will
have enough small ones to take care
of the present crops.
]. F. Douglas, of Gate City, left
Saturday, for visit to his former
!. home in New York, which he left
twelve years ago to locate in this
county. He will make an excellent
representative of our resources, for he
can speak from extended experience,
and is we'll equipped for the task.
A reliable gentleman who passed
through Olympia this week on his
home-stretch from Alaska, speaks
authoratively when he says that there
are $4,000 men in and about Dawson
City with nothing to do and no visible
means of making Il livelihood. So the
Sound district is not the worst country
in the world, after all.
On the principle that the hide and
tallow" should 60 with the body OF
the slaughtered animal, Chief Allen
and Driver Scofield have resigned their
positions in the Fire Department.
IT'S we'll; it will now doubtless be seen
whether the objections to these gen.
tlemen were SO potent as to prevent
reorganization, as has been alleged.
Daniel Gaby is erecting n fruit
dryer of a two-ton daily capacity on
his farm near this city. Capt. Mes
segee, 1t Is said will erect another, and
Messrs. Hopp & Dennis will open a
more extensive plant at Tumwater in
the fall, all of which affords assurance
that the surplus OF our fruit crop will
not 60 to ruin this season, after all.
The WASHINGTON STANDARDS resi-
dent astronomer reports that the year
1893 will be rendered famous for all
time on account of the seven eclipses
it will have scored, namely, three of
the moon, three of the sun and one,
the most notable of all, the total
eclipse of the kingdom of Spain, WISH
BILE all over the world without smoked
glasses.
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