Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-25

Gr.r,. VI. Guyrr has hrgun suit
for divorce. from her husband. Jerry
J. eager.
Th,. Independence school opened
Monday. with Miss Soma Patterson
as teacher.
\ test cas-. is being made up of the
cnn>,itu,ioua.ity uf the cigarette law.
AT SPOKANE.
The price, of lumber in the local
market has dropped = per thousand
sine oct Isl.
Robert Mari. Jr. is filling Il posi-
tion in his brother Elrrbrrt'S drug
store. at Chchali>.
Mrs. =. {. Hale has sold 10 acres
near DoiilrmycrS Point to the Bos-
ton HarbOr PROTECTOR for $1,000.
4 son of Mr.. and Mrs. +. Mont
gomcry. living at l2l0 East Sixth
street. is suffering from lung trouble.
The four-masted schooner Salem
arrived Tuesday. to take on mil
lion feet OF lumber for San Pedro.
Cal.
Geo. Blankcnship and family have
moved INTO their fine new residence
located near Columbia and Sixteenth
streets.
Miss iutoka Smith OF Puyallup,
and Henry Rick of Centralia. were
united in marriage in this city, last
Wednesday,
The ThurSton County Fruit Grow
ers have received an order by tele
graph for two carloads of winter
pears. from the East.
The City Council, by suggestion of
the teachers of the public schools.
has directed rigid enforcement of
the curfew ordinance.
Mrs. John ID. Atkinson is nursing
sore finger caused by puncture
from a sewing-machine needle. The
injury is painful but not serious.
n Edward Dickinson. of Victoria.
where he holds position with the
Canadian Pacific Railway. is over on
visit to his brother, Frank Dickin-
son.
Mrs. II. S. Gcnevra Lake recently
purchased from T. w. Paterson a
valuable piece of property located at
the corner of Washington and Fifth
streets
John Cross of Black Lake, and
Miss Jessie Burton of this city, were
united in marriage Saturday, Rev.
J. A. Golden, of Olympia. perform
ing the ceremony.
Mrs. Celia Pix has changed her
residence from Tumwater to Seattle.
She left many warm friends here,
but she will make many new ones
wherever she goes.
Meays & Kirkendall have secured
the contract for building of an addi-
ton to Hays SchOOl-hOuse, for $S43,
the lowest bid. Work has already
begun on the annex.
Eighty-fve boxes in an 9-hour day.
is the the record achieved in packing
apples. on o. c. Whites place, by
both Mrs. c. H. Garfield and Mrs. o.
Sullivan, last Monday.
Mrs N. ]. Redpath left on Sunday
for visit to relatives in Albany,
Oregon. She was accompanied far
as Portland by the doctor, who visit
ed that city on business.
The Weber-Bussell Canning Co., of
Puyallup, has contracted for sixty
tons of apples in Mason county
That company has used forty tons of
Thurston county fruit this year.
F. d. Adams of McMinnville, Or,
died Saturday. He has relatives
here and is well known to our peO-
pie from frequent visits to his wife's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.. d. Flesher.
Our fruit-growers have sold five
carloads of Thurston county apples
at 81. 40 box f. o. B. the cars at
this depot, which will thus return a
neat little sum of s., 40 to our local
growers.
A. c. Giesy, skid-road boss in the
Llttlelohn logging camp on Hart
stein Island, sustained broken in
step, Monday, from rolling log. 1t
is quite painful but no serious injury
is unprecedented.
Mr. F. G. Blakeslee has put in a
new and modern front to the Olym-
pa Hardware store, which enables
him to display his many novelties as
well as necessities in his line of trade
to the best advantage.
The Farmers Institute has been in
session this week, with fair attend
ance, and it is hoped that some good
seed have been sOwn in productive
ground that will yield good returns
in this field of husbandry.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Kotic, of Lit
tie Rock, are the happy parents of a
little girl, born Sunday morning
This is special blessing from being
the first visit of the stOrk during
welded life of twelve years.
The contract for arc-lights with
the Olympia Light and Power Co.
having expired, Mr.. Faulkner, its
manager, submitted a proposition
for lighting for term of three years
OF 50 light per month. The FORM
err rate was $3.50.
The City Council has resolved that
all sidewalks on Main street between
Third and Seventh, on Fourth from
Jefferson to Columbia, on Washing.
ton from Fourth to Sixth and on
sixth from Washington to Main, be
hereafter constructed of cement.
A case of bubonic plague having
broken out at Seattle, Health Officer
klncaid asks that the Health Com.
mlttee OF the city confer with him as
10 what prOphylactic measures should
be taken to guard against possible
Introduction of the dread disease.
If there is a panic relative to the
marketability of corporate securities
on Wall street, it is a fact there are
few desirable homes to rent in Olym-
pla. 1t is said Emil Martensen pro
poses to build five new dwellings. in
the near future. to assist in relieving
the congestion.
An investigation of the charge
against c. B. Moore and C. H. Friend.