Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-03-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Miss Anna Tarbell returned Mon.
day from visit to Portland.
The Married Folks Club will dance
tonight at Grand Army hall.
Miss Mabel Arnold left last night
for Aberdeen to visit relatives.
Harry B. McElroy made a business
trip down the Sound, this week.
/. N. Holmes. local N. P. ticket
agent, is threatened with typhoid.
Miss Gertrude Moore has returned
to this city and is with Miss Tnrbell.
A daughter was born to the wife OF
Us. Butler, OF this city, last Friday.
Harry Dennis has returned from a
visit to his son at Leban, in Pacific
county.
Mrs. Thos Macleay is on a visit to
her daughter, Mrs. j. II. Pelletiere, in
Spokane.
Chas. H. Springer left Wednesday
morning on business trip to San
Francisco.
Louis Schmidt, Tumwater's Mayor,
has quite recovered from his late Sc
we're illness.
Nineteen million feet of lumber
were shipped from this port during
1903 for California ports.
Mrs. Jos. Ellswick has been quite
i'll the past few days at her home on
West Fourth street bridge.
Foster Skillman, of Livingston,
Mont, was on . visit this week to his
uncle Phil Skillman's family.
The household of J. J. Cannon, at
Tumwater. re joiced in the advent Of .
wee daughter, fey days ago.
Geo. w. Rutledge has sold to Edwin
Huston of Rochester, about seventy
lots in that township for $500.
The many friends of Mr.. O'Connor
will be glad to learn that he has quite
recovered from his severe illness.
A large crowd and splendid time
was reported at the Eastern Star card.
party at The Olympia, last night.
A long train Of empty cars came in
q few days ago to meet the demand for
transportion of lumber and shingles.
The Gray's Harbor Woodmen of the
World are coming to the Logrolling
here by special train Saturday night.
Judge Dunbar sustained a severely
sprained ankle from . fall Wednesday
and has to 60 temporarily on clutches.
Mrs. Georgia R. Allison, of Tum-
water, has bought lots 3 and 4 OF
block B of that town, from James
Casleman.
Mayor Richardson's condition was
quite improved this morning and he
thinks he will be able to be out in q
day or two.
The Woman's Club celebrated the
twenty-irst anniversary of the found
ing OF the club yesterday afternoon
with high tea.
The schooner Sequel has been lowed
into the ofiug 70 finish taking in her
cargo Of lumber, which will require
several days to complete.
The Plum Station school, taught by
Miss Alice Yantis, has closed from a
prevalent disease among the pupils
believed to be scarlet fever.
Mrs. James Of Grand Mound, passed
through the city Saturday on her way
to South Bay TO visit At the home OF
her father, George Langridge.
G. J. Melliette, of Los Angeles, CAL,
en- route for New York, stopped over
here Sunday to visit his brother.in.
Law ]. G. Lloyd of Tumwater.
Eugene Horton aud Frank Green,
the two boys arrested for horse steal.
ing, were committed to the State Re.
form School by Judge Linn yesterday.
A. Cartsreill bought q ffteen-acre
tract in section 10, range Is, town.
ship l west, the other day, for the
sum OF $500, or at the rate OF SIS pei
acre.
Two families arrived. Tuesday. from
Ohio to make our town their homo.
George Ambrose and Mr.. Kissel are
their respective heads, and they come
from Ashland.
The steamer Greyhound resumed
her trips Monday, and again the Multi.
nomah's war.cry each morning finds
an echo in the defiant howl of his re-
morseless competitor.
Cora M. Ayers has begun action for
. divorce from her husband Harry E.
Ayers, in the Superior Court OF this
county, on the grounds OF abandon
ment and non-support.
G. o. Young is meeting with ex.
cellent success as State Organizer OF
the Federation of Labor. He has ere.
ated no little interest in the orgauiza.
ton in the Harbor cities.
Councilman G. A. Mar.hall has re.
turned from Kansas City, Mo-. whittier
he was called by the serious illness OF
his father from paralysis, whose condi.
ton has improved somewhat.
Mrs. Jennie Sickles Illingsworth, OF
Seattle. former resident OF this city
and prominently identified with edu.
cational interests. was ON q visit this
week to her many friends here.
The young men of the Strollers
Club are planning to give q return
compliment to the lady managers oil
the Leap Year party, by an entertain.
ment in I. & B. hall on this evening.
The installation of tho new electric
service, or rather change from the
old to the new, will be began at about
three o'clock Sunday morning, and
the workmen will try to have it com.
pleted and all connections made 70,
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