Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-23

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

home in Boston.
Miss Ida Chambers was a visitor to
Tacoma yesterday.
The y. NJ. c. \. gymnasium classes
for the winter term will open on the
2Gth.
J. H. Schively addressed the AS
soclated Fraternities, in st. Louis,
Wednesday.
Olympia Lodge F. and A. VI. are
planning launch-trip to Shelton
Saturday night
Fred w. Stocking and wife were
heard from in Washington, ID. c., yes
to-day, by letter.
Mrs. O. C. White and daughter left
Yesterday for Pasadena, Cal, to spend
the winter there.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Martin have
departed to found new home near
Sacramento, Cal.
John r. Mitchell and wife returned
old home in Virginia.
Gurnsey Chaplin had his collar
bone broken in a foot ball game on the
high-schoul grounds, Monday.
A leap-year party is to be given by
an association OF young ladies, at the
Olympia Hotel. to. morrow evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stearn, of Eureka,
Cal, are on visit to their relatives,
George and Will Hopkins, of this city.
The Attorney General has decided
that the open season does not allow
hunting with dogs except in Novem-
Der.
Chas. E. Hallenbeck, once a resi-
dent of Olympia, and well known to
many old.timers, died at Puyallup,
Monda.y.
Albert Mcintosh and Miss Helen
Eastman were married at Tumwater,
Sunday morning, Rev. II. M. Hayes
officiating.
T. B. Moulton, OF South Union, is
announced to lecture, Sunday, in
Rabeck's Hall, at 10 A. NJ, on "The
Soul OF Man."
The logging camps in Mason county
are about to begin operations after
quite long suspension on account of
over-production.
An effort is being made to secure q
visit from George Turner, the Demo.
cratic nominee for Governor, about
the middle of October
Peter Mckenzie, of Mud Bay, has
been appointed delegate to the Good
Roads Convention, to be held at
Bellingham, next week.
Forest fires have been raging fierce
ly in Lewis county the past week. A
farmers house was destroyed Sunday,
near Grand Mound Prairie.
The next steamship leaving the
Sound for San Francisco will be the
Umatilla, Sunday, and for Alaskan
ports the Cottage City, Monday.
The Republicans have swung ban
ner across the street at their head
quarters above Winstanley & Blank.
enship's fruit and periodical stand.
Lewis D. Osborne departed to day
for his home in Salt Lake City, after
an enjoyable summers visit to his
brother, G. w. Osborne, of South Bay.
Earl Crockett, a nephew of Rev. w.
S. Crockett, has arrived from Clyde,
Ohio, to make our city his future
home. He is, by profession, drug
gist.
The Ladies' Relief Society gave a
card party at the home of Mrs. Geo
ID. Funk, yesterday afternoon. Prizes
were won by Mrs. Madge and Mrs. NJ.
Harris.
The steamer Capital City made the
Greyhound's run to-day, and this, we
understand. will be the regular service
Fridays, giving seven trips a week
twice day.
The County Commissioners refused
to entertain the proposition for a
boulevard to Tumwater, so generally
asked by the people, on the ground Of
Its cost with depleted treasury.
Miss Gertrude Rowland, lately q
teacher in our city public schools, was
married, on the 14th inst, at he,
home in Pittsfield, Ill.,, to James P
Palmer, a hardware merchant, of Iron
Mountain, Mich.
The following passengers left this
week over the 0. r. N. and U. P.
Mrs. ]. w. Lister, Leavenworth, Ks.
Angus Findley, Cornwall. Ont; w. d
Duncan, H. E. Duncan and Theodore
Duncan. Weldon. Col.
Gov. Mcbride has been invited to
attend the launching of the battleshir
Nebraska, at Seattle, on the 7th
prox., and welcome the delegation
from the State honored by being the
sponsor OF the new craft.
]. M. Fish, one of the electors or
the Republican ticket, 10 accept the
nomination for Commissioner in hi.
county (Stevens) has resigned, and the
State Committee will nominate an
other elector in his place.
Roy Mari. the youngest son of Robt
Mari, the Eastside druggist, fell from
moving car. last Friday evening
corner of Fourth and Pear streets
sustaining an injury which rendered
him unconscious for time.
Gus G. Becher, of Columbus, Ne
braska, has been guest of Judge
Millette and family this week, and i,
now at Bellingham. on a tour Of
Western Washington. He is largel,
interested in insurance in the L" Black
water State"
Mr.. Barton has just driven one o.
the best artesian wells yet secured ir
this city. at depth OF $50 feet. It i,
located IN the rear of the old Munsor
residence on Plum, between Third
and Fourth streets, and flows 300 gal
Ions per hour.
M. Dewey, logger employed at The
Mason County Logging Co. e camp No
=, In the Black Hills. dropped dead
Monday afternoon while walking alcne
tne railway track near the camp' The