Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-11-29

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Did you get your fill" OF turkey?
Last Friday 3.02 inches of rain fell.
The country roads are reported quite
muddy.
Judge Bailey lett Saturday for San
Francisco.
This is beginning Of the season OF
high tides.
Christmas only three weeks from
next Wednesday.
Business was very generally sus-
pended yesterday.
]. c. Rathbun was up from Seattle
the fore part of the week
The Umatilla sails from Seattle for
San Francisco tomorrow.
Born, last Saturday, daughter to
the wife of John Schuling.
A daughter has been born to the
wife OF Nat Glenn OF Eastside. .
A. W. Wisncr, OF Seattle, is on a
visit to his home" Olympia.
Saturday is the last day for pay
ment of taxes for the current year.
The receipts of the State Land Of
flee Monday, aggregated 5O,97S.25.
Bert Ready left the other day on a
three weeks visit to Southern Cali
fornia.
The next steamship for Alaskan
ports will be the Cottage City to-
morrow.
The dedication services of the Bap-
fist church were largely attended last
Sunday.
"To-night and tomorrow showers"
is the weather prophecy issued this
morning.
DR.. Riley reports the birth of a son
TO the wife of w. ]. Countryman of
Mud Bay.
The way to reach the people of
Thurston county is to advertise in the
STANDARD.
Mrs. Chas. Leake and daughter
Iona, of Shelton, are visiting friends
in the city.
Pat Dolan is quite i'll from a severe
cold and has been under treatment at
the hospital.
The light service has been material
ly improved by the installation OF an
other dynamo.
Miss Agnes Farrell, one OF Mason
county's teachers, is home on a visit
to her parents.
Lot 6, block 81, in Chambers adj
dition, was sold this week to H. B.
Jacobson, for $3.50.
The Capital City Band enlivened
Thanksgiving by an outdoor concert
yesterday afternoon.
"Convict's Daughter" was q good
play and we'll presented, Wednesday
night, at Olympia Theater.
Thanksgiving programmes were rem
dered in the public schools Of this
city, Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary M. Miller, OF Seattle. was
up this week on visit to her mother,
Mrs. McFadden, OF Eastside.
Charles vietzen has bought of Julia
E. Blinn, Al acres situated on Mud
Bay. The consideration was $47O.
Ralph Hartman and Lena Hol-
thusen and J. 0. Parrish and Myrtle
James, were licensed to wed, Wednes-
day.
Oscar Jacobson, the man wounded
. few days ago in an affray in the
tenderloin district, will probably re-
cover.
Miss Ruth Dunbar came up from
Tacoma to spend Thanksgiving day
with her parents, Judge and Mrs.
Dunbar.
The Republicans meet in conven-
ton in the Superior Court room 10.
night TO put up partisan ticket for
city officers.
Miss Jennie Savidge fell while prac.
ticing basketball At the armory the
i. other night. and sprained her back
quite severely.
Leo EeHart has purchased of the
State eighty acres Of timber on section
16. township 10, range 3 west, the
purchase price being 1910.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Bap-
list Church will hold an annual sale
Of articles suitable for holiday pres
ents on Dec. 10th and 11th.
It seems our local dealers have
Matched out an idea that there is
money in corner on eggs. They
now sell for IS cents dozen.
The Schubert musical organization
will appear at Olympia Tbeater on
Saturday night. Dec. 2lst, under the
auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
A box Of silverware received by Tai
colt Bros, from Chicago. a few DAYS
ago, was minus about 500 worth OF
its contents on delivery to that firm.
The Eagles meet this evening to ex.
: tend welcome to Grand Worthy
President Del Cary Smith. who will
pay an official visit to this jurisdiction.
Only $50 voters will have voice in
the municipal election a few days
from now. 1t is thought that fully
thirty per cent. Of our citizens failed