Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Campliie is now becoming the fad.
DR.. Ingalls,, the eye specialist, has re-
turned.
A son has been born to the wife OF
Ellery Whipple, Of Rochester.
c. F. kaler, the we'll known butcher,
was up from Shelton, this week.
Dick Helser and wife were in the
city from Oyster Bay, Wednesday.
l.. w. Todd is again back at his old
place as janitor of McKenny block.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. d. Garfielde, who
are down from Alaska, will spend the
Summer here.
The graduating exercises Of the 'O4
class at the Peoples University took
place last evening.
re. Bird, who lives on Eastside,
has lemon tree loaded with fruit OF
good size and fair quality.
The Norris & Rowe dog show showed
the price OF strawberries up from 10
and l2t cents box to 20 cents last
Friday.
Mrs. Mckinney left for California
Wednesday, on information by wire
that her daughter, Mrs. Reed, was
seriously i'll.
Miss Maria Blankenship is about to
enter the Northwestern Sanitarium
Portland, to take course for q career
rs trained nurse.
The Greyhound went on the grid
iron at Tacoma last night to have her
bottom scraped. She will be ready to
resume service tomorrow.
Miss Edna Robertson has gone to
San Francisco to visit her sister. She
was accompanied by Miss Rowland,
who is in route to her home in Illi-
nOis.
The Thurston County Prohibition.
lists Convention will be held in Ep.
worth hall next Friday, the 10th, to
elect delegates to the Everett Conven-
ton July 18th.
Chas. S. Lansdale, C. H. Guiberson.
o. A. Bush and G. s. Mills, have been
drawn as this countv's quota on the
Federal jury, in Judge Hanford's court
for the July term.
P. D. Moore delivered the memorial
address at Centralia on Decoration
Day. The duty could not have fallen
upon anybody better qualified by nat
ural gifts and education.
Agreeably with promise, Mayor
Richardson's shingle mill started up
Monday with non-union crew. The
service is somewhat crippled but the
Mayor says it will be maintained.
Surveyor Henry has been directed to
run line over the right of way for the
proposed Sherlock Yelm wagon road,
which is the object OF q petition of
numerous settlers up the Nesqually
valley.
w. w. Hays OF North Yakima is
now in charge of the Coe Commission
Co.'s business in this city, Mr.. Woods
going to San Francisco. Mr.. Hays is
nephew OF w. T. and I. H. Cava.
naugh.
"Buster Brown" is q moving pic.
ture attraction at the Edison which
should prove q success. No vein of
humor has proved more popular than
the weekly comic page of exploits Of
Buster" and his dog Tige."
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Bolton and wife
left yesterday via the o. r. & n. and
Union Pacific for Oneida, New York
Oily.
Nobody thought Mr.. B. was so
much named as the above paragraph
would indicate.
Rev. r. M. Hayes officiated at q
double wedding in Tacoma, Wednes.
day. in which John w. Matheson and
Miss Sadie Everett, both OF this city,
and Harvey Matheson OF Sunnyside,
and Miss Sarah Morrison Of Shelton,
we're united in marriage.
May, this year, has been the dryest
since the establishment Of the Observ-
atory here in 1873, except 1888, when
only twenty.hundredth of an inch fell
and 1890, when thirty one hundredtha
fell. May, 1904, has record of sixty
nine hundredths of an inch.
Benjamin F. Flagg. father OF H. c.
Flagg, bookkeeper of the Westside
Mill Co., died Tuesday, ~ the family
residence, after long illness OF pull
monary consumption. He was born
in Toledo, Ohio, June 10Th, l843.
The burial rites were held yesterday at.
ternoon.
A series OF delightful showers oil
rain succeeded quite q prolonged dry
season Tuesday. and have since con-
tinued at intervals. It was . vel.
coined reviver of vegetation, AZ we'll as
comfort to humanity, inasmuch az
the dust was laid and the rather high
temperature of afternoons reduced.
A telegram received Wednesday by
Mrs. C. A. Billings brought the sad in.
telligence that her mother, Mrs. Mer.
rift Gordon, had died at her home in
Franklin Center, near Montreal
Canada. Deceased was also mother
of Judge Gordon of Spokane, and
grandmother OF Mrs. George G. Mills.
The County Commissioners have
fixed the closed season against burning
slashings, or any kind OF refuse OF
timber in the forests to be between
June 18th and Oct. 1st. Permission
nay be obtained from the Commits
s.9ners to burn under certain restric
tions and with stipulated precautions
It is proposed in a few days te
place the MultnomAh on the ways fol
repairs when the "texas" will be taken
down and the pilot-house lowered
thus removing considerable resistance
especially in head wind. 1t is re
ported that the steamer Arrow may
take her place while these changes
and a general renovation are being
made.