Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mrs. Harvey McClclland is ill.

A revival is in progress in the NJ. E.
Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Kearney visited
Seattle this week.
II. O. Scotield has been appointed
railway mail clerk.
The January term OF the Superior
Court opened Monday.
Miss Ellen Ware, of Dungeness, is
visitor with Mrs. Troy.
Mrs. John Huber is confined to the
hospital by n severe illness.
James J. Wilson, OF Eastside, is re-
covering from severe illness.
New crosswalks are being laid on
the upper part of Main street.
MARK" Reed and A. B. Govey, of
Shelton were in this city yesterday.
The Sons of Veterans give a social
dance in Grand Army hall this week.
c. +. Leavenworth, of Baker City,
Ore, was an Olympia visitor this week.
Oliver Swayne, of Nebraska, is visit
ing his brother, Charles Swayne, of
this city.
Geo. A. Barnes has been confined
to his home with severe cold the
past week.
The city schools resumed their stud
les Monday, after Il holiday vacation OF
fortnight.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for Alaskan ports will be the
Alki, Monday.
The steamer Aberdeen omitted her
trip Wednesday, owing to break in
her machinery.
The Universal Brotherhood is giving
series of card parties in their hall in
Reed block, this winter.
A large scow is now on the ways at
the shipyard on First street, with John
Hager as master ship.builder.
The Black Hills logging train has
resumed its service of dumping
"sticks" in the Westside boom.
The weather representation for the
next twenty-four hours is: "Occasi-
onal rains; brisk to high southern
winds.
Monday was the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans, as we'll as the
birthday of the junior proprietor of the
STANDARD.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Springer Of Seattle, last
week. The parents formerly resided
in this city.
Thomas {" Bud") Jones was married
on New Years day, at Clear Lake, in
Skagit county, to Miss Phoebe Bartel,
of that place.
Harry Wetherall has purchased
strip OF tide-land about half mile
long, fronting his oyster beds in Oys-
ter Bay, paying for it 1925.
A public installation of the officers
of Olympia Camp No. 5247 Modern
Woodmen of America will be held
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. L. Schmidt, of the Capital
Brewery, is i'll New York. He will
visit the principal cities and DE absent
about three weeks.
A regular meeting of the Thurston
County Horticultural Society will be
held in the Equity courtroom to-
morrow at 1 80 P. NJ.
It is said that Mrs. C. s. Baldwin,
late of Little Rock, has leased the
second floor of Stuart Corner and will
convert it into hotel.
w. w. Binheimer has been elected
to succeed Mr. Boyer as Leader of the
Capital City Band, and E. E. Taylor
has been chosen its Business Manager.
The Euterpe Club held a reception
at the home of Judge and Mrs. M. ].
Gordon Monday evening, at which
delightful musical programme was
rendered.
Eugene Horton, ten-year old son
OF James Horton, who live on East
side, has been committed to the Re-
form School, on application of his
mother.
Mrs. M. L. Price, mother of ex-
Secretary James H. Price, of this city,
died in Portland Wednesday, at the
age OF S. years. She was one of the
pioneers of 1916.
Oily has begun publication of the
syndicate editorials in opposition to
the parcel poet proposition before
Congress to remove the sinch" of the
express companies.
Frank Lawton lately purchased of
6. S. Allen, the flat-iron shaped lot at
the junction of the railroad tunnel
with Jefferson and Eighth streets, paw
ing for it the sum of $500.
Oily in announcing the subject to be
discussed at late meeting of the w.
c. I. u, as Sailors," gravely adds
that it will be of interest to all "who
60 down to the see in snips."
George A. Mix, who was discharged
from the asylum at Steilacoom, on the
Sd inst, was recommitted, Monday,
this being the third time he has re.
lapsed and become unsafe to be at
large.
Adjutant General Fox is happy in
WIG i"ct tn3t iaCe recruit 10 the in
fantry is a stalwart boy; that he
weighs eleven pounds, and that he has
established his headquarters with the
General.
State Superintendent F. J. Browne
has been invited to deliver an address
on School SUPPLEMENTARY" before
the National Convention of Superin.
tendents, which meets in Chicago.
Feb. 9th.
p. Stixrud has returned from the Ar
kansas Hot Springs, where he spent
two months to boil rheumatic pains
out OF his bones. He thinks that he
has been permanently benefited by the
treatment.