Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

CNY NtWS IN BRItf
W. H. kneeland is home from Cali.
fornia.
Miss Hope Chambers is visiting in
Seattle.
p. F. McDuff is down from Alaska
for brief stay.
c.. B. Mann is having a big rush
ON garden seeds.
Charley Billings and wife are on a
visit to Portland.
Mrs. F.. L. Whiteman is reported
i'll with pneumonia.
Miss Ruth Dunbar has returned
from North Yakima.
Mrs. A. Bettman who has been
quite i'll, is recovering.
Mrs. Geo. A. hoffman visited at
Tacoma, few days ago.
Warren O'Bannon has been quite
ill with grippe the past few days.
Geo. F. Lawrence, of Bush Prairie,
is ill and confined to the hospital.
Mrs Fred Lewis, of Bush Prairie,
has recovered from a short illness.
Mrs. A. P. Post has gone to AL
berta, Canada, to join her husband.
Mrs. Theo. L. Brown has returned
from prolonged visit to Wisconsin.
Merritt McCully has returned to
the Washington State College at
Pullman.
The State ownership of shore
lands has been upheld by the Su-
preme Court.
Vice President Fairbanks is ex-
pected to visit the State during the
coming summer.
AL. Munson, Assessor of Mason
county, was up from Shelton on bust
ness, Wednesday,.
Harry McElroy visited his till
Gums eneti Whulge friends across the
SounO this week.
Ralph Hopkins, an old-time Olym-
pia school-boy, was in the city from
Seattle, this week.
Eli J. Null, of Rochester, has been
committed to the asylum for the
insane at Steilacoom.
Capt. Sam Howard is up from the
Soldiers Home, at Orting, for a few
days visit to friends.
A daughter was born yesterday to
the wife of Harry Dickgieser, who
live south of this city.
Charles F. McCash and Alice X.
GOldsby, both of Centralia, were
married in this city Saturday.
Fred Lewis has sold tract of
land on Bush Prairie to John Mclean,
a recent arrival from Montana.
Mrs. Matte Coons went to Seattle,
this week, to visit her son, T. N.
Tallentire; an attorney of that city.
The City Council has again taken
up the project advocated SO earnestly,
for time last year, Of paving Main
street.
Frank Kenney, Secretary of the
Olympia Brewing Co., left . few
days ago on q business trip to San
Francisco.
St. Martins College team beat the
Olympia High School team at base
ball, Saturday, at Lacey. The score
stood 8 to 1.
L. H. Burnett, of Aberdeen, has
been selected for the sixth member
of the Alaska Yukon Exposition
Commission.
Johnny Matheson came over from
Sunnyside, this week, with two fine
draft horses for his brother-in-law,
William Weller.
The new pump for the Olympia
Water Works is expected here soon.
1t will have a capacity of 5000, 600
gallons in "a hours.
Miss Lizzie Overhulse has resigned
her position as teacher in the Cedar
Flats district. The place has been
filed by Miss Esther Baker.
The Westside mill has been &C.
corded a contract for lumber for in
sane hospitals by the State Board of
Control. It amounts to $500.
Herb Castle, of this city, has pur-
chased the launch Jeanne from VIM.
Shorter, and is now running the boat
on the Shelton-Allyn mail route.
Jim Heustis, the Black Lake farm
er, cut off the index finger of his left
hand, the other day, by the misdi-
rected blow of an axe while splitting
wood.
The Dole gas-works franchise was
granted by the City Council Monday
night. Its provisions have been
noted in a previous number Of this
paper.
Mud Bay SAM" an Indian, be-
ing i'll, it is said he has imported five
Yakima tOn,dno,cus men, or Indian
doctors, to drive the evil spirits out
of him.
E. T. Young is preparing to start
logging camp on Mud Bay. He has
purchased donkey-engine from John
Saunders. which he will use in the
business.
It is none too early for our citizens
to begin preparations for grand
Fourth of July celebration. All will
remember Olympla's big success of
the 1905 effort.
W. A. Weller has resigned the
position OF Deputy Assessor on &C.
count OF pressure of private business.
=. W. Reynolds has been appointed
to succeed him.