Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-25

proceeding. OF "A Republican conven-
/ ton. Or there may be possibly hope
OF conversion.
The Westside Single mill was sold
| Tuesday by its late owners Wallehan
& Eshelman, to Frank 1omlin and ii.
/ NJ. Groh, of ElOnville, this State, who
will start up the mill soon as the tres
! tie connecting it with the railroad Is
/ rebuilt. In fact the mill has been idle
since June, when the treste gave way
Just north OF the depot. Quite num-
Der of improvements will be made in
the machinery and means Of operating.
The former name of Capital City Shin
gle mill will be retained.
J. b. Jonis, OF Tenino, who with his
son, manages the Lumber Il Power
Co. OF that enterprlslng little town,
visited the STANDARD, while in the
city last week. He seems to be i'm
| bued with the proper spirit for bust
ness success, a perfect confidence in
present conditions and firm hope for
| future results. 1t is to such men
that community owes its progress
and development, and our suburban
neighbor seems to have quite num-
Der of such potentialitie5 at work at
the present time.
H. H. McCray, who has been read.
ing with attention the bean stories"
in the STANDARD, yesterday brought
in bunch of the White Waxen va.
riety, grown in his garden, on Spurgeon
Creek, which contained over 100 pods
averaging about six inches in length.
He brought likewise sample lot of
shell beans, large as the Lima variety,
pods averaging eight and ten inches
in length. These products, with
those previously noted, demonstrate
that we are "some pumpkins" when
it comes to beans.
A telegram received on Wednesday
from Arizona, announces the death of
Mrs. Margie Slater, a sister of Mrs. J.
C.Percival. who had ought that eli.
mate in the vain hope of escaping the
ravages Of that dread disease consump.
ton. She had been there two months,
but without receiving any perceptible
change until death came to her relief
She was born in Olympia, where she
leaves large circle of friends to mourn
the loss of a true friend and exemplary
woman. The burial rites will be held
here, where the body will be removed
for interment.
The unusual event of double wed.
ding was performed at the Carlton
Wednesday. Two couples from Vance,
in Lewis county, were the contracting
parties, and Rev. A. G. Sawin the pas
tor who performed the interesting
ceremony. Their names were Charles
Gardner who welded Leonora r. Orr,
and Paul ]. Orr, her brother, who was
united to Miss Maude Moore. 1t was
q quiet, unpretentious affair although
involving such momentous conse-
quence to twice the ordinary number
of people. The parties will make
their homes at Vance.
The popularity OF our serial, "Land
OF the Changing Sum-" is so great that
it is reported that in one of the coun-
try districts nine families are reading
it from a single copy. Count the
STANDARDS circulation by that method
of computation. the bona fde readers
number about $4,000, which is not
far from correct. The present serial
will be followed in a few weeks by
another, in q different vein, but of
equal interest, 1.-THE Grip OF Honor"
To get it complete and on time, put
your name on our list. You will
never regret it, and wonder how you
could have done without the "Old
Reliable"
The Olympia Development Co. have
made proposition to establish a porch
column industry, which they say will
cost 500, 900, provided the people will
buy 200 of their lots in Percival and
Woodruff additions at 5000 each. A
deposit Of $50 is required, and the bal
ance may be paid in three installments
of $50 each. A porch column" fac
tory is somewhat of an oddity in this
neck of the woods, but we are just as
willing to give it trial as was Arte.
mus Ward to give the country a help.
ing hand when the nation called TO
recruits. 1t makes little difference
how prosperity comes, so it comes.
People care little whether the ad.
vance guard comes riding on q prairie
schooner, palace car or porch col.
umn.
The Supreme Court has decided
that Miss f. M. Mckenzie and Mrs
Rose r. Turner, school teachers dis.
missed by the Trustees of the Cheney
State Normal School, after contracts
had been signed, the former because
the kindergarten department that had
been assigned to her was abolished
and Mrs. Turner being discharged al
the request of Principal Miller. The
courts snstains the content ton of both
ladies that they cannot be thus sum.
marily dispossessed of q privilege re.
sulting from formal contract. The
Superior Court of this county held
that the plaintiffs were not entitled &c
the relief prayed for, but the Supreme
Court reverses that finding and &C
cords the teachers a years pay-$5OC
auV pA,VVV respectively.
Charles Seymour, one of our leading
citizens third of century ago, who
made the plans for Columbia Hall,
then the finest public edifice in the
Territory of Washington, who now
resides in Defiance, Ohio. has sent us
bis subscription for the STANDARD up
to September, 1905. He still has q
warm spot in his heart for the town
where he spent several years of his
life associated with John l.. and Harry
Clarke, A. B. Rabbeson, and others, in
various mechanical enterprises. Thirty.
three years must have borne somew hat
on the stalwart frame then in the me.
ridian of its strength and activity, but
it so, 1t is not apparent in his hand.
writing, which has the same graceful
Spencerian curves as of yore. The
few companions left of a generation
ago will be pleased to hear from one
who occupied 30 deep q hold upon
hearts as we'll as place in business ac-
tivities as did Charley Seymour, way
| hack in the haoinnino If tho 7Os