Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Go and register
Monday is Labor Day.
Johnny, get your gun.
The oyster season is here.
Grouse-hunting is in order.
The days are getting quite short.
The cool nights are a reminder Of
fall.
Eenati Club has resumed its meet
ings.
l.. S. Barnard leaves Monday for the
Worlds Fair.
Geo. A. Avery has sold his bicycle
store to E. f.. Taylor.
Mrs. j. J. Gilbert left yesterday for
Washington, ID. c., to reside.
Fred Schomber returned yesterday
from business visit to Seattle.
The pay of all rural mail carriers
has been raised to 1920 per year.
Miss Viva Israel has returned from
Il visit to relatives at Little Rock.
A daughter was born to Ben Schinke
and wife, at South Bay, Saturday.
Mrs. Sylvester and daughters have
moved TO this city from South Bay.
Miss Maud McFadden is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Mary NJ. Miller, in Seattle.
Three hundred barrels of bottled
beer we're shipped Monday to Alaska.
Willie Cavanaugh has taken q posi-.
ton in Mills & Cowles' hardware store.
"Dick" Vent left Monday for Eu.
gene, Oregon. where he intends to re-
main.
Col. Lewis Osborne, of South Bay,
made pleasant call on the STANDARD
Monday.
Judge Linn and Mr.. and Mrs. Skill
man are home from an outing in the
Cascades.
J. A. Graham has moved his family
to the new home he recently purchased
on Westside.
Homer Thacker succeeds John Nc.
Clelland as assistant engineer in the
State capitol.
A son was born, Tuesday, to the
wife OF John Alcon, residing at 1920
Seventh street.
Nearly hundred hunters licenses
have been issued here since the open
season commenced.
Mrs. Thomas Macleay has returned
from visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Lachlan
Macleay, in Tacoma.
J. L. Whurton and Miss Elsie Day.
les. both of Seattle, we're married in
this city, last Saturday.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles will
meet Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
All Eagles are requested to be present.
The Congregational Sunday School
made their annual picnic to Point De-
fiance by the Multnomah Wednesday.
The Rebekah Degree Lodge 1. O. o.
F. of Bucods, will hold . basket pic
mic in a grove near that place to.mor.
row.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis r. Harold, in Seattle,
Monday. The parents are we'll known
here.
Baseball games are announced for
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, be-
tween the Senators and the Centralia
team.
Charley Williamson, son of F. F.
Williamson, has gone to Spokane to
take position as clerk in q clothing
store.
The baseball team is making prep
arations for a ball at the Armony, on
the evening OF Labor Day, Monday
night.
Chas. B. Pemberton, of Oakville,
and Miss Susie B. Cawker, of Martin,
Chehalis county, have been licensed
to wed.
The south 20 feet OF lots l and 2,
block ii, we're sold to Emil Marten-
son by William Brand, Wednesday,
for Sis.
A school was opened near Mound
Prairie, Monday, by Miss Shahan,
daughter Of Prof. Shahan, of the PEG.
Piles University.
Mrs. Eliva Mitchell has begun suit
for divorce in the Superior Court
against her husband Henry Mitchell,
alleging abandonment as q cause.
Oly's endeavor to enrich the Eng
lish language is bearing fruit all the
time. He now has a performer at the
Edison doing stunts" on a piano.
The foot-bridge at Tumwater Park
caught fire from some unexplained
cause, Monday, and it required the ef-
forts of several men 10 save the struc.
ture.
Minnie Ellis, who was married to
Thomas A. Ellis, in this city, a few
months ago, has applied for a divorce
in Seattle court. Infidelity is cause
alleged.
Miss Marjorie Henry, of Ketchikan,
Alaska, left Saturday, on her return
to begin a second year of school in
that far-off boundary of Uncle Sans
possessions.
Mrs. Kate NJ. Parsons died in Ia.
coma, Sunday. She was the wife oil
Prof. Parsons, who some years ago had
charge of music in the public schools
OF this city.
Christian Science services will be
held in the Woman's Club rooms, cor.
ner of Tenth and Washington streets,
at ii A. NJ, Sunday. Subject, "Sub.
stance" The public is cordially in.
vited.