Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-07-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Th. camping season is at hand.


shorter.
Ed. Cottcr is engaged in putting the
bicycle paths in order.
Harry Weatherall was in the city
from Oyster Bay Monday.
State Auditor Cheatham left yester.
day for Eastern Washington.
Mrs. H. Scotield is confined to her
home by an attack of quinsy.
Many Olympians passed last Sunday
on the shores OF the lower bay.
Miss NJ. f. Mcdonald, of kamilchie,
was visitor to our city this week.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Norrie, on Eastside
Tuesday.
Frank Owings has been elected Pres
ident of the ewly-organized Mckin.
ley Club.
Clarence E. Claypool and wife of
Seattle, are visiting their relatives in
this city.
The Bryan club will meet tonight
in Equity courtroom. A full attend
ance is desired.
Mr. Holthusen states that his res.
taurant consumed $50 pounds of meat
on the Fourth.
The last of the strawberries are
slowly coming into market and COM
mand 81 cents per box.
A son was born Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Bridges at their home at
Orilla, in King county.
Lindley and Janet Moore visited
Tacoma yesterday to attend the fun.
eral of Mrs. A. Reeves Ayres.
A party OF campers left for the
Lodge, at Nesqually, last evening to
enjoy an outing for few days.
Mrs. w. d. Rogers and Clarence
Underwood, of Alameda, are visiting
relatives and friends in this city.
A number of tax liens against the
Olympia Railway and Mining Co., of
San Francisco, have been filed for FORE
closure.
Mrs. Lee Melleur and son, who have
for the past two months been visiting
in California, will return home in q
few days.
Miss Alice Davenport, a sister of
the noted cartOonist, Homer Daven-
port, was visitor to this city few
days ago.
There is bicycle in the hands of
the committee, drawn on the 4th,
which awaits claimant who holds
"Gray 3O-OO."
Herbert Hoke, the lad who sus-
tanned severe injuries from being run
over by a farm wagon last week, is in
a fair way of recovery.
Harry McFadden, foreman of one
of Bordeaux's logging camps, is suffer
ing from severe attack of rheuma-
tism at st. Peters hospital.
The Tony Faust Restaurant will
be closed from tomorrow until next
Thursday for the purpose of making
Mrs. Georgiana Convey has been ap-
pointed executrix of the will of her
deceased husband, John F. Convey, late
U. S. Consul al Yokohama, Japan.
Frank Dickinson went to Seattle
Wednesday to visit his brother who is
there from British Columbia to under.
go an operation OH one of his eyes.
Hay-making has been the main
avocation of our farmers the past
week, and the weather has been all
that could be desired for that object.
Geo. s. Allen has bought the Puget
Sound Pipe Co.'s steamer frankie, to
tow lumber from his mill to down.
Sound markets. He paid $1,000 for
her.
John Gimblet is again in Seattle,
taking further course of treatment
at the Battle Greek Sanitarium. which
he thinks is doing him considerable
benefit.
Edward Henderson, OF the gallant
Thirty-ninth, at the Philippines, writes
that there has been much sickness in
his regiment. He himself, has been
in the hospital twice.
The large plate of glass in the Nc
Kenny building, broken several months
ago by runaway team, was replaced
this week by q new one ordered spec
tally for it from the East.
Willie, the eight-year-old son of Ed.
Scully, of the Eastside, is in the hos
pital, suffering from one of his feet
having been badly lacerated by his
stepping upon broken glass.
Capt. Pierce's new launch is one OF
, the neatest little vessels yet seen on
this part of the Sound and looks as
though she will 90, too. She is about
ready to make her trial trip.
A new foundation is being placed
under Harry Prescott's building, cor.
ner OF Third and Main streets, and q
new sidewalk will replace the old as q
finishing touch to the improvement.
The Capital Brewing Co. shipped
this week ITO barrels of beer to
Shanghai. Our warlike neighbors
seem determined to have "good time
even though it be amid adverse Cir
cumstances.
The First Presbyterian Sunday
School were treated to an excursion to
Hartstein Island, yesterday, on the
Northern Light, by Capt. Tew. the
party being the guests of the Captains
daughter, Miss Bessie Tew.
DIR. d. Mitchell has bought for his
son James, a third interest in the
olympia Packing Co., and will largely
increase its output OF shell-ish. The
company is making the experiment
81 shipping clans to the Eastern
markets.
Mrs. T. NJ. Reed, Jr., left by the
steamer Oregon which sailed from Sc
astie yesterday, for Cape Nome, to
JON her husband at Dutch Harbor.
Miss Sibyl Simpson went north by the