Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-08

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lnesday, on the ground of abandon
ment. No defense was made.
About 10 members OF the State mi
IItla and its superb band have been
ordered to this city, on the 22d. to act
as guard OF honor to the Pres dent.
james Mitchell has bought of l.. A.
Melton, tract of excellent timber
land IN this county, consisting of 1GO
acres, Tor consideration of 81 500.
John Gleanham, landlord of the
New England Hotel, is recovering
from an illness that has kept him in
bed the greater portion OF this week.
An examination for teachers Ger.
tlficates will be held in this city on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of
next week, in Parlor b, OF Olympia
hotel.
Bernard Haight, OF Tumwater
whose leg was broken by fall from a
building Is undergoing treatment in
the hospital and in fair way for re.
covery.
1t Is none too early to begin think
ing about getting upa grand Fourth of
July celebration in Olympia this year.
The Fourth is only eight weeks from
tomorrow.
A blaze in the roof Of Mrs. Eugley' s
building, on Sixth street, Saturday
afternoon, was extinguished by chemi-
cal machines and few buckets of
water, applied by our firemen.
Walter Beck, a student of the Peo-
pies University, died last night at St.
Peters hospital, of typhoid fever. The
body will be taken to Port Townsend
by this afternoons steamer, for burial.
Preliminaries are being arranged for
a grand encampment of the State
militia with regulars from the Depart
ment Of the Columbia, at some point,
probably at American Lake, in Sep
TENDER.
The Centralia baseball nine will
meet the Olympia Maroons on the
diamond, south of this city, Sunday.
This will be the first game OF the scr.
les for the league championship Of the
Northwest.
The Capital City Band, at their
meeting Monday night, elected the
following officers: President, Alvin
Wiley; Secretary, John Kaufman,
and Treasurer and Business Manager,
Ernest E. Taylor.
Victor c. McNeal and Miss Florence
Frisbie, Of Fairhaven, were united in
wedlock. Monday, at the home of the
groom's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
McNeal. at Tumwater, Rev. X. NJ.
Hayes officiating.
The Board of Directors of the re.
organized baseball club stands: Jesse
7. Mills, E. E. Taylor, F. G. Blakeslee,
G. C. Israel, M. Harris, John Berk-
shire, S. S. Churchill, George Jones
and l.. B. Faulkner.
A small "house" greeted Weston
& Herbert's vaudeville company at the
theater, Wednesday night. The pub
lie seems to have formed an opinion
from it's advertising that it was a
Catch-I Can aggrivation."
Eggs now cell for III and 90 cents
per dozen; -four, $l.15 per sack; po-
tatoes, IS cents per hundred; butter,
ranch As, creamery 50 and So; Cali
fOrnia Strawberries III and 90 cents
per box; hay, E. w., SIS per ton.
Some Of our people do not take
kindly to the removal of telephones
from the court house. The service
will soon be so improved by new ap.
pliances, that with few careful oper-
ators, it will meet all requirements.
The beautiful rain put in what will
probably be its farewell appearance
Wednesday, and has since continued
at intervals, without an encore. how
ever. The week previous to that date
had been the regulation Spring wealth.
err.
Ralph NJ. Drury and Miss Mabel E.
Dyer were united in marriage at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Dyer on
Bush Prairie, Sunday. The happy
couple will begin house keeping at
9l8 Franklin street, this city, next
week.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the Superior Court of Snohomish in q
sentence of twenty years for Joseph
Melvern, for killing a woman who
passed as his wife, known as Gertie
Ambrose. Melvcrn was q dance-hal
piano player.
Mrs. B. L. Hill was pleasantly sur
prised Saturday evening at her home
by a number of her former pupils
Mrs. Hill was presented with a beauti
full cut. glass vase by the party, which
will always serve to be a reminder o
the enjoyable occasion.
L. w. Todd OF this city, and Mrs
Gertrude A. Speake, OF Portland, Ogn.
were united in marriage, q few day
ago. MIR. Todd is we'll known here
He filled the position OF janitor OF tn.
Mckinney block at one time, but il
now employed in the Westside shinglt
mill.
The Lea Lumber Co., now buildin,
q shingle and lumber mill at Tum
water, have bought the timber on ,
tract of land owned by Geo. A. Crodlt
and 40 acres OF land of John Post, OF
the Deschutes river. paying $3.50 ant
$3.50 for the privilege and tract, re
specially.
Arnold's Carnival, the one that ap
peared here last year, will show il
Olympia some time during September
under the auspices of the loca
lodge of Foresters and the Capita
City Band. Among the new feature
this year, will be Ferris wheel sevent,
feet in diameter.
The Golden wedding Of Rev. ant
Mrs. Emery A. Glidden took place las
night, at the Methodist Church.
was a veritable marriage service per
formed by Rev. A. J. Joslyn, of Bal
lard, accompanied by the strains o
Lohengren, flowers and flower girl, rim,
and giving away of the bride.