Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-10-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF


have been licensed to wed.
James X. l.. Mitchell returned Sat
urday from his Eastern trip.
The fines and costs in police cases
this month aggregate S23l.JO.
The Presbytery of Olympia has been
in session at Tacoma, this week.
Mrs. Fred. Schomber visited friends
at Vancouver, Wash, this week.
Charles Junk, OF Inwood, Iowa, is
visiting his aunt, Mrs. J. ID. Knox.
J. w. NOVEL; and wife left Monday
for st. Louis to visit the great iair.
John Harbst has purchased the Chi
cago restaurant and is now in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. e. Filley left
Monday Tor a trip to the Worlds Fair.
Rev. Genevra Lake will preach in
Parlor b Hotel Olympia, Sunday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mort Howe left Tues.
day for the East and the Worlds
Fair.
The equinox has been passed with.
out the usual storm Of week or ten
days.
Judge Dunbar's red-polled cattle
took many prizes at the North Yak
ina Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Canaday attend
ed the State Fair at North Yakima,
last week.
Reder & Phipps announce cut in
prices of groceries in this issue of the
STANDARD.
Mrs. B. w. Baker, OF Seattle. is visit
SimensOn.
The Fraternsl Order of Eagles will,
beginning Sunday evening, hold week
ly meetings.
E. ]. Berneche and Miss Mary Ger.
vais, both of this city, we re married in
Tacoma Sunday.
Herman w. Crow has been substi-
tuted for J. NJ. Fish on the Republican
ticket for Elector.
Mrs. Geo. S. Allen, of Little Rock,
visited her daughter, Mrs. Jesse Mills,
in the city, few days ago.
w. H. Bracket has been advanced
to the position of Assistant Cashier in
the Capital National Bank.
w. H., B. F. and Miss Louisa
Turner left Monday for a visit to their
former home at Pomona, Mo.
Miss Louise Glover, of Coshocton,
Ohio, has arrived to spend the winter
with the family of A. 5. Cation.
Capt. Reinhart and Attorney Falk-
nor returned last night from o hunt.
ing trip. They killed four deer.
A daughter was recently born to
Mrs. Shepard, at the home of her
father. J. l.. Morgan, of Tumwater.
Mrs. +. G. Kreider, wife of the form.
or Supreme Court reporter, now Of
Mexico, is on a visit to friends in this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. bigger, Miss
Ruby Bilger and Miss Chappelle Skill.
man are home from an extended visit
in California.
A pear tree growing beside the Of
fee of this paper, OF the Sickle variety,
is putting forth foliage for O second
crop this season.
The stage of the Edison theater has
been moved back to accommodate the
increasing patronage of that thrifty
little place of amusement.
A rate war has begun among the
grocers and now you can get II pounds
OF sugar for dollar, instead of IA, and
other things in proportion.
Mrs. J. A. GAbel left Monday for
visit to her father. Prof. Westendorf,
in Kentucky, who is Superintendent,
of high school in Louisville.
The B. L. Hill Drug Co. have the
contract for supplying the Western
Washington Hospital for the Insane
with drugs for the next six months
term.
The Greyhound and Capital City
carried excursion parties this morning
to Seattle to witness the launch of the
battleship Nebraska from the Moran
yards.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for San Francisco will be the
Umatilla, Monday, and for northern
ports, the steamer City of Seattle on
Sunday.
The City Council have fixed a levy
of - ,,,i1ls for tavaS fh;, x,oo, T.,o
mills are for bonded Indebtedness, two
for bond interest and eight for current
expenses.
F. A. Dryden, Warden in the State
Penitentiary, left yesterday with j. P
COgsdell, the convict who lately es
capped from that institution and was
captured here.
Lewis w. Osborne, of South Bay
and Miss Maggie l.. Hand, of Cen
tralia, were united in marriage at the
home of the groom, Tuesday, Rev. w
S. Crockett officiating
The body of William Oehler, a for
mer resident of this city, was found or
the Seattle tide-fats Wednesday. There
is no doubt but that his end was that
of suicide, AS his pockets had been
filled with rocks, evidently to make
the plunge sure.
The steamship Queen sailed for Sar
Francisco. last Friday, with the fol
lowing Olympia passengers: John
Heath and wife, Miss Mary Chelsor
and John Balm. Same date the steam
ship Humboldt sailed for Alaskan
ports r. E. McDuF being passenger
from this city for Juneau.