Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-05-31
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


yesterday.
Spring weather is now settled down
to a steady gait.
Shelton has raised 800 for 4th OF
July celebration.
Judge NJ. \. Root, of Seattle, paid
our city visit Wednesday.
e. f. Baxter left for St. Paul, Mimi,
Tuesday, over the Q. r. n.
Miss Clara Ansorge, OF Shelton,
was visitor to our city this week.
f. Il. HAYES was up from Seattle
this week on visit to his family.
"Showers tonight and Saturday
fair" says the sentinel from the house.
top to-day.
A. J. Falknor has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an Grafton at Elma
on the 4th.
The two frame buildings on capital
square are now offered for sale by the
commission.
An annual meeting OF the Epworth
League was held in the NJ. f. Church
last evening.
"Pearly" Quinn, who is living with
her grandmother in Portland, is over
on visit to acquaintance.
Guy S. Hobson and Mary J. Thomp-
Thompson, OF Grand Mound, have Sc.
cured official sanction to wed.
The warm weather Of the past week
has made the vegetables catch up
some OF the tardy back-growth.
The merry go-round has entered an
appearance to rake in all the spare
small-change OF the community.
Mrs. H. W. Moore, OF Iowa, who has
been for some time on a visit to friends
in this city, left Wednesday for home.
Oily now enjoys a perpetual sere-
made from the melodrome, in opera
ton corner OF Franklin and Fifth
streets.
About a hundred people came up
from the lower Sound yesterday to
participate in the exercises Of Decora.
zion Day.
Quite a number of our business
men closed their respective places of
trade from dawn to dusk on Decora-
ton Day.
Ike Ellis. Jack Doane and Milley
Tilley, constitute charming hand to
"draw to-" who started this week for
Cape Nome.
The bicycle path on Franklin street,
between Seventh and Tenth, is being
changed from the east to the west side
of that thoroughfare.
Lew Eddy was in the city to-day to
have posters printed and make other
arrangements for the grand Fourth OF
July celebration at Rainier.
Mrs. F. G. Blakeslee left Wednesday
for an extended visit with friends in
Michigan and Wisconsin. She is &C.
companied by her daughter.
d. B. Harrison has bought of T. N.
Ford lot 6, block 10, for . considers
ton of $1l0. It adjoins Mr.. G.'s
property and is unimproved.
The fare to the Pan-American Ex-
position over the Northern Pacific
from Portland and return, is $780,
with tickets good for thirty days.
The joint committee on Fourth
street improvement has decided upon
planking OF some form as the means
OF lettering its condition at present.
The Collector of Internal Revenue
at Portland has decided that the law
does not require use OF stamps in max
ing the courthouse transfer to the
State.
Miss Tarbell began = splendid dis
play of millinery at Tenino to-day,
which will continue over tomorrow,
at Miss Campbells, in the postofice
building.
Edward w. Dixon, a special agent
of the land bureau, is on a tour of in
spection of western offices of his de-
partment and passed through our city
this week.
Temperance" has had wlirl, in
The United Presbyterian church sew.
eral nights this week, by r. E. Dun
lap, under the support OF the county
W.C.T.U.
Miss Tarbell has on exhibit few
specials in children's hats, s0mbreros,
sailors and in the ready-to-wear line.
Give her a call. Fourth street, oppo.
site Columbia hall.
IL. E. Palmer, of Seattle, has sue
ceeded Frank v. Donnelly, as purser
OF the Capital City, and the latter
gentleman has assumed the same
position on the steamer Oregon.
The pleasing intelligence comes
from the northern mines that Ben.
Miller, of Port Townsend, who was re.
ported as having been frozen to death
IN the Agiapuk district, is alive and
well.
Inc "Olympia Boys" sized up a
good record in the first meet at the
Velodrome" yesterday. Cotter, Yea.
ger Rust and Avery all had scalps
ol outside barbarians dangling at their
belts.
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