Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-10-06

were married in this county in 1898.
James NJ. Price OF Yelm, and Miss
Ruth Nina Meays, daughter of J. II.
Meays OF this city, were united in mar
riage, at the family residence on East
side, 10y Rev. r. c. Glass, last Sunday.
Miss BERTHE Radcliffe, who has been
attending business college at Tacoma
Tor some time past, fell from a bicycle
and suffered dislocation of her
shoulder, and returned home this
week.
Work has commenced on the new
Eastside logging spur and switch, all
differences between the City Council,
the Logging Co. and the Eastside Rail-
way Co. having been amicably adj
justed.
The building known as the Auditor
ium or the Unitarian church, corner
of Ninth and Franklin streets, will be
sold at public sale, to satisfy an execu-
ton, Saturday, at IL o'clock, on the
premises.
Mrs. Ballaine has gone to San Fran
cisco to meet her husband, Capt. Bal
laine, and Mrs. Reinhart and daughter
to meet their son and brother, on the
return OF the Washington regiment
from the Philippines.
The steamship Umatilla leaves the
Sound for San Francisco to-day, Mrs.
Lena Krumm and child being passen-
gers by her from this city. The next
steamship for that destination will be
the Queen, Wednesday.
The pile-driver is working full time
in building the switch and 5O0-foot
extension OF track on Jefferson street,
for the Chehalis County Log Ship
pers' Co. 1t begins just north of Sec
ond street, and branches off to the
westward.
One of the employees in Richardson's
shingle mill, this week, lost two fingers
from his right hand while operating
knee. bolter. He had only been en-
ployed short time, and his name
was unattainable from owner or en-
ployes at the mill.
The STANDARD acknowledges a
pleasant call, this week, from Mr..
Shelley, one of the new proprietors of
"The Fair" and successor to Mr..
Clarke in its management. Mr.. S.
seems to be one of the sort of men to
make popular citizen, and we pre-.
dict for him ample success in his new
venture.
Geo. w. Bell and Miss Mary Agnes
Thompson, of South Bay, this county,
were united in marriage in Victoria,
B. c., on Tuesday OF last week. Mrs.
Bell is a sister of the late Rev. John R.
Thompson, who lost his life in the
Philippines, and Mr.. B. is a prosperous
farmer at South Bay, which place will
be their future home.
Russ Hildebrandt returned from
San Francisco this week, having
failed to pass the physical examina-
ton which was required for enlist
ment in Uncle Sans cavalry service.
Chas. Wilcox and Will Witthorne,
who enlisted at the same time, about
a month ago, were accepted, and are
now doubtless on their way to the
Philippines.
DIR. Riley has returned from a two
years. search for hidden treasures in
the Klondike regions. He has not
been much bettered in purse, but he
returns full of that wisdom which ex.
perience brings. He arrived on the
Multnomah last evening, and the ova-
ton extended him reminded one of the
newspaper accounts of Dewey's recep-
ton in New York.
Those who 60 on the Multnomah's
excursion to the soldiers welcome at
Seattle, will have the privilege of re-
naming over at the Queen City, if
they choose, privilege that is not ac-
corded by the railroad round trip
which is for return the same day. Be-
sides the steamer will make a short
cut in her route and make almost as
good time as the railroad.
The wife of Jos. Trainor, who re-
sides in Little Skookum valley, near
Old Kamilchie, aged 35 years, died
Tuesday morning at o'clock, = few
minutes after she had been safely de-
livered of child. Her death was al
together unexpected, as she had passed
the dangerous ordeal and appeared
cheerful and in fair way OF speedy
recovery. She leaves husban d and
four children to mourn her loss.
Charles I. Lansdale has made very
fiattering success of his effort to intro.
duce the Cape Cod cranberry on
Puget Sound. The product of two
acres, near this city, on which he
planted about 100000 cuttings of half
a dozen varieties, has been eminently
successful and he harvested
this fall berries of larger size, better
color and finer flavor than those inn
ported from their native heath"
Oily "gets even" with a literary
fiend who wrote some most execrable
poetry" for its columns, which it
put in shape" before publishing, to
the supreme disgust of its author, by