Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-18
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

CNY NEWS IN BR|EF
The rain was welcome visitor.
Rev. X. NJ. Hayes i, home from the
harbor.
The mornings are putting on fall
appearance.
Butter now SELLS at from 40 to so
cents roll.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Miller was up from
Seattle this week.
Miss Harriet Allen visited friends in
Tacoma, this week.
Sugar has taken a rise and now re-
tails at Ii pounds for a dollar.
Notwithstanding The chilly nights
camping parties are still going out.
Mrs. II. 5. Wyman is spending few
days with friends in the Queen City.
The moonlight nights the past week
have been like glimpses OF fairyland.
Mrs. William McMicken is in Sc.
attic for visit to relatives and friends
Mrs. J. II. Lasityr and her daugh
ter, Miss Clara, are on visit to Sc.
attic.
Gordon Mackay has opened law
Office in the Elks' building, formerly
Woodruff block.
Just 292 tickets were sold for the
Portland excursion. The guaranty war
for an even hundred.
The German battleship Fake, it il
anthoritatively announced, will visit
our city next month.
A slight fall of rain laid the dust
and partially cleared the atmosphere
Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Caldwell, who
have been residing in Hale block
have moved to Seattle.
Mrs. NJ. E. George has returned from
Reddipg, Iowa, whittier she was called
by the illness Of her mother.
Alex. Mckay, the logger, has pur.
chased Roxey's saloon and is making
extensive Improvements to the prop
erty.
The number of factory inspection
certificates that have been issued runs
considerably over hundred at this
time.
Miss Nitia Chamberlain left yester.
day for her home in Albany, Ogn.
after visit to her sister, Mrs. w. L.
Brdgford.
w. r. Sybert, of Bellingham, has
succeeded Claude Aspinwall as book
keeper in the office of the State Board
of Control.
Remember the sale OF county prop.
erty tomorrow. For particulars read
the advertisement in another column
OF this paper.
A little fire in the heater these morn.
nings is q reminder that winter is sp-
proAching aud the woodshed should be
filled with fuel.
Misses Anna and Iva Iverson, o!
Westside, have gone to California
where they will spend the winter
teaching school.
Secretary Schomber has issued a
call for a meeting of the Thurston
County Taxdayers' League, on Satur.
day, the Goth inst.
NJ. E. George has bought the fruit
and confectionery stand in Olympia
Theater from Mr.. and Mrs. Bushman
who will move to California.
B. R. Van Dyke, leading hotel
man of Carlton, Ia, accompanied by
bis son, departed yesterday for home
after visit to Willard Lemon.
The Governor announces that d. c.
Betting of Black Diamond, will prob
ably be appointed Inspector of Goa
Mines, to succeed C. F. Owen, whose
term has expired.
Stella Starlight, aged six years, dice
Wednesday at her home at 6l2 Adaml
street. The funeral will be held at
o'clock this afternoon, Rev. r. M
Hayes officiating.
The Eagles local team, Capt. Hol
thusen, will play two games of town
ball on the League grounds, south o
this city, Sunday afternoon, with
teams from Tacoma and Shelton.
The State Fire Warden reports tina
forest firest have about been extin
guished by the labor of hfs deputie
and several copious showers of rair
that have fallen over the Sound coun
try.
Steve Schmidt met with q severe
shake-up, last Friday, by falling from
scaffold on the new McIntire build
ing on East Fourth street. His in
juries we're not, however, of q perma
nent nature.
The old brick yard on Fourth an,
Eastside streets is being graded, to FL
up the hole in the ground made b.
using the clay for supplying tn
many kilns of brick made there tn,
past third Of century.
State Auditor Claussen's repor
states that the resources OF private
banks in the State have increased from
$26,659,O0O in May, 1904, to $3Oy699,
600 in May, this year, at the close o
business on the last day of that month
B. M. Shotwell, OF Little Rock, wal
accidentally killed by bullet from
his own gun, while on visit to hi
uncle in San Miguel canyon, Califor
MIA. He was 40 years of age, and a
ono time was deputy Sheriff of thi
county.
The funeral Of Mrs. Elizabeth Col
Inns, whose death occurred Sunda!
evening at the family home at Plum
station, was held Wednesday, the ser
vices being conducted by Rev. A. G