Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Leg is!dtui''
Frank Ruth. of Rainier, was in the
city Yesterday.
The Wizard oil Co. will visit this
city next month.
Tomorrow Is the last day for pay
ing personal taxes.
The weather has been, in the main,
"ideal," the past week.
Ross Omer and Cora f.. Shotwell, OF
Little Rock, have been licensed to
wed.
Miss Fanny Wright is teaching her
second term OF school at Grand
Mound
Subscribe for the STANDARD. Re-
duced to $l.50 per year, strictly in
advance.
Charles Storrs has been appointed
guardian of George II. and cara Lit
tleJohn, minors.
The County Commissioners have
allowed temporarily an extra clerk
to treasurer nlIllpS.
8. H. Weisdippe of this city has
been awarded a patent by the govern
ment for cord cutter.
The pleasant weather of the past
week drove number of dollars into
the bicycle.path fund.
Joe RAIDER, of the firm OF Reder &
Phipps, has been wrestling with the
grip the past few days.
To 90 lilying in the neighboring
woodlands is now one Of the pastimes
OF children out of school.
The new fsh-canning establishment
on the south side of Long Bridge will
soon be in active operation.
Joe Kullrich, formerly a store-kecp-
err at Kamilehie, has returned from an
extended trip to Germany.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ii. Barbee have
moved to Seattle, in which city they
will make their future home.
The markets have formed "com-
bine" and agreed to close hereafter at
7P. NJ, except Saturday nights.
Taylor & Co. have opened a candy.
making shop in the building lately oc.
cupied by the Light & Power Co.
Miss Annie Tarbell returned from a
trip on business and a visit to friends
in Portland, by Tuesdays train.
A well attended dance was held in
the old hall at Mud Bay, last Saturday
night and good time was reported.
The forecast for tonight and TO-
morrow reads: Ito night and Satur-
day cloudy, with probable showers"
T. r. Pentecost, wife and son, have
arrived in this town, from McCords.
vile, Ind, to make it their future
home.
The new NJ. E. Church was dedi-
Gated last Sunday, Bishop Earl Grams.
ton, ID. d., preaching the dedicatory
sermon.
The steamship Walla Walla leaves
the Sound for San Francisco Sunday,
and the Cottage City for Alaskan ports
Monday.
The City of Aberdeen has been I'M
dergoing extensive repairs the past
few days under the direction of Capt.
Herbert Parker.
Sheriff VOtglin, of Mason county
visited this city Tuesday, to take Jack
Davis to bis bailiwick to answer to
the charge OF larceny.
Hans BOrgesOn, Of Shelton, and
Miss ALEXANDRA d. Haskell, of Hart.
stein Island, were united in marriage,
at the Carlton House, Tuesday.
1t pays to advertise in the STAND.
ARD, a paper that is read by everybody
in the county, as is shown by its we'll.
filled, unsolicited advertising columns.
Licenses to sell spirituous liquors
have been granted by the County
Commissioners to M. C. Cole of TIE.
nino and ]. H. Cooper OF Little Rock.
The Spokane delegation in the
House have lost one of their number
by Representative Miller being called
home by strious illness of one of his
children.
Somebody suggests that On the last
day OF our Legislature both branches
meet in joint session and adjourn sine
die in the newly acquired Capitol
building.
The Jessie Shirley Co. are perform.
ing in Portland this week. They &c
to Seattle next week and open here on
the 18th. After that they play Ia.
coma a week.
Mrs. S. N. Ainsworth has begun an
action in the Superior Court for a di.
vorce from her husband, A. F. Aims.
worth, on the grounds of desertion and
abandonment.
Avery Reed Of this city and Miss
Elsie Hutchinson, of Shelton, were
united in marriage in that city, Tues
day evening, of last week. They will
reside in Olympia.
Mrs. NJ. A. Barbee having resigned
the position OF teacher in our public
SCHOOLS, MISS Margaret Wallace has
been selected by the board of directors
TO bill the vacancy.
DO We wake, or are we dreaming?
Is 1t summer. or only a make believe
trlck OF sullen Old Winter? Twitter.
Ing birds and droning honey bees
most certainly ought not to be mis-.
taken.
The outgoing passengers this week
Dy the Y. 7. and o. r. e. N. are: Mrs,
lda e. Ederbert and two children, for
Abeiene, Ks, Mrs. w. c. Betz, Nc.
Cook, Neb., and Geo. B. Lane for
Omaha, Neb.
Indeed, didn't know it had been
moved there" was the innocent reply
OF an inquiring stranger, the other
eay, when told OF waggish Olympian
mat the Postoftlce was in the new
Capitol building"
The rather novel spectacle of a trio
OF Indian women raking in the mud
Tor CLAIMS below long bridge, this week,