Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-06

w. y. Patterson and family, late OIL
Iumwater, who have been in reduced
circumstances many years, have fallen
heir to quite fortune in the East
which will place them in easy circum-
stances the remainder OF their lives.
The legacles to each of the members
of the household is said to be about
$4,000. The father has been for
some time an inmate of the Soldiers
Home at Orting.
Services at the Baptist Church will
| be held Sunday as follows Morning
sermon at IL o'clock, subject, "Na.
tional Exaltation," a home mission
discourse; 1870 p. NJ, subject, "Out of
Egypt" illustrated with stereopticon
views. Sunday school 12l5 P. NJ.
WestsiJe school 3 F. NJ. Young Peo-
pies meeting $50 P. NJ. Strangers are
cordially invited. All are welcome.
A. &. Sawin, pastor.
A district convention OF the Knights
of Pythias, under the auspices of the
local lodge, will be held in this city
next Thursday evening. Members will
be present from Shelton, Centralia
Chehalis and possibly other lodges.
District Conventions are held for good
OF the order, and portion Of the time
is devoted to competition drill work.
In this instance banquet will fol-
! low and refreshments succeed labor.
The County Commissioners have
agreed with Westside residents to aid
in opening a road through Orchard
Park. northwest of the city limits,
provided the petitioners furnish ma
| terial and labor to the amount of
$259. A bridge will have to be built
in the Parker Hays addition, but the
highway when completed will give an
open roadway to Buffers Cove, which
has hitherto been reached by land
only by the long hill over the Schnei-
der ranch.
Ezra Meeker, OF PuyalIup, visited
our city in the interest of legislation
for preservation of the early histori.
cal data of the State, this week. He
submitted bill providing for an ap.
preparation to purchase such records
as may not be available otherwise
under the direction OF board of cura-
tors who shall serve without pay or
participation in the fund thus ere.
ated in anyway. 1t seems to be we'll
drafted and should receive favorable
action from our lawmakers.
G. d. Farwell, who sued the Wiley
Navigation Co., in King county, for
damages from thrashing admins.
tered by Capt. Edwards, of the City
of Aberdeen, over q bunch OF flowers
sent aboard by lady, has obtained a
judgment for $3.50, and we observe
that Oily has appealed the case to the
Supreme Court. Mr.. Israel, the COM
pany's attorney, says he is satisfied,
however, in settlement of judgment
for $3.50, when an offer to compromise
had been made to plaintiff for $500.
An examination of intended appli-
cants for the positions of Clerk and
Carrier will be held in this city, on
the 18th inst. All American citizeus
between the ages of Is and As are
eligible far examination, which is in
the ordinary branches of a common
school education. Applications must
be filed with the Secretary of the
Postal Board, Miss Ida A. Chambers,
before the time of closing business on
the 10Th inst. Forms and informa-
ton may be obtained of the Secretary,
at the postoffice, up to the time OF
filing applications.
Some of the local telephone patrons
are anxious to know when the "new
rates." promised six months ago, will
go into effect. The evening paper
intimated, q short time ago, that it
would be when the company had re-
ceived certain supplies that will
enable them to make few changes.
II that be the cause of delay, what AZ.
surance have We that under the pres
ent dilatory trend of affairs, the six
months may not be prolonged into a
year, or two years? Many patrons
have paid the old rate, under protest,
for six full months-all they want to
know now is, how much longer must
the promise made to the ear be kept
from the pocketf
Oily says that the steamer Bay City
has been running under charter of the
"anRep of the Recorder, who thought
that he could make her pay expenses
from passenger traffic and use her to
carry his "slugs" and "dates" from
tie two Tacoma paners both dailies."
TO and from this city. The charter
rate cut such q cash in his weasel
skim" over receipts, however, that the
Bay City has been incontinently with.
drawn. It may have been because
she was Internationally slow. The Ar
row will soon be in the field, and we
suggest that she might be subsidized
to aid the Tacoma enterprise OF ab.
sorbing journalism in Olympia. She
will have speed if there is coin to pay
for il.