Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-08-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

William MCGOWAN visited down.
Sound points, this week.
A daughter was born to the wife Of
c. j. Lord, Sunday morning.
The haze in the atmosphere indi-
Gates the existence of forest fire some
where.
Mrs. Nettie Rogers left yesterday for
San Francisco, over the Southern Pa
citic route.
The finishing touches are being put
on Carsten Holthusen's fine residence
on Fifth street.
The naples on Capital square are
already beginning to show the scar
and yellow leaf"
Teachers examination will be held
next Thursday and Friday in the
High school building.
Fred. Weiss, the tailor. is expected
home the first of the week from a two
weeks visit to San Francisco.
J. H. Scott and David Lincoln re-.
ing trip to Big Skookum, yesterday.
Henry Lang bought of Phil Vincent
so acres in section II township Is
north, range east, this week, for 1925.
Harry McElroy and family are en-
joying an extended outing at Paradise
Valley, in the foothills of Mt. Rainier.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Garrison are
about to leave for q visit to the St.
Louis fair and their old home in Ken.
lucky.
Mrs. A. A. Gottfeld and daughter,
Miss Alice, are expected home this
evening from two weeks outing near
Arcadia.
Mrs. Foster and daughter, OF Sno-
homish, are on visit to the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Lynch, Of
this city.
c. E. Allen is now manager of the
Olympia Theater and it is hoped that
the service will be improved under his
supervision.
Guy Tilley has recently been ap.
pointed Chinese Inspector at New
Westminster, B. G. He is now in the
classified service.
Fred Weiss left by the Umatilla for
San Francisco, last Friday. and by the
Queen Monday, Misses Minnie and
May Evans. left for same destination.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for San Francisco will be the
Umatilla next Thursday. The Puebla
left this morning for that destination.
Mrs. John Gleanham, of the New
England Hotel, and little son and
daughter, returned last evening from
visit to relatives in Maine and the
st. Louis fair.
Miss Tarbell, Mrs. Fred. Wilson and
daughter, Miss Louise Aver, Miss
Bruner, Miss Pendergast and the
Misses Wilson, left yesterday ON trip
to Mount Rainier.
A subscription paper is being cir.
culated to send the crack rife team of
the National Guard to Fort Riley, KS,
to compete for prizes that are open to
the whole country.
The Circus Beautiful" is a name
we'll applied to the Floto Shows,
which performed here Tuesday. It is
not large as some others, but it is
interesting and up-to-date.
The Mills.Gordon outing party broke
camp and arrived in this city Sun.
day evening. The Judge returned to
Spokane and Mrs. Gordon left Tuesday
for Alaska, on a pleasure trip.
The Democratic County Central
Committee has been called to meet on
Saturday, August 18th, and discuss
with the candidates for county Offices
matters relating to the campaign.
David Mitchell is fitting up the
building lately occupied by the shoot.
ing gallery, for an automobile store
and repair shop, to be managed by
Hewitt & Ashley, of Tumwater, agents
for the Odds machine.
An amateur orchestra has been or
ganized, in this city, composed partly
of ladies. Florence Holbrook haHdles
first violin; Nelva Chilberg and T. L.
Laughlin, second violins; H. Maynard,
violincello; Prof. McClelland, cornet
w. B. Wheaton, flute; Guy Overhulse,
clarionet, and Miss Mamie McIntire,
piano.
Mrs. J. NJ. Overhulse, who resides
on Westside, met with a peculiar and
serious accident this week. She had
been an invalid for some time, and fell
from the bed in which she had been
proped up, to the floor, breaking the
bones in an arm and leg. The injury
thus sustained combined with her ill.
ness makes her case quite critical.
Miss Carrie Jones died of pneu-
monia, at her home on Bush Prairie,
yesterday. Deceased had been q resi-.
dent of this county many years. Her
father died several years ago. A
brother, Arthur Jones, of this city, is
the only surviving relative here. The
funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at the undertaking parlors
of Mr.. Whiteside, Rev. A. G. Sawin
in charge.
1t is rumored at Shelton, says q
correspondent, that the Tacoma Mill
Co. have bought A. H. Anderson's
interest iu the Shelton Logging Co.,
and may establish their own camps in
order to control the cost of their own
timber. 1t is also reported that the
Port Blakeley Mill Co. has opened q
new camp on their road, near Mat.
lock, and have two or three hundred
men at work.
A lawsuit is threatened over the
proposed wharf and warehouse con.
struction contemplated by the Olym-
pia Oyster Co., which requires the va.
cation Of Tilton street by the city to
enable it to be done. Israel & Mackay
represent the applicant, and Vance