Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-13


Annie Wright Seminary.
Preston NJ Troy. our respccte,
t"WnSman. was elected Grand Orator
uf the order OF Native Sons, at thei,
li'h annual session. lately held il
Port Townsend.
The hull of Weston : new boat. tn ,
olynpian. built 10y Crawford n Rcet
OF Tacoma has arrived. and is mooret
at Horn dock. 1t is 90 feet length
III feet beam. and il is stated vii
have ~ horse power.
Mr. HolthuScn auto ran out O
gasoline four miles from town Wednes
day and its owner had to plod t.
town in the rain for more oil Will,
his wife sal patiently in the machin.
and waited his return. They changed
their minds and went to the races bI
train.
George f. Fillcy and wife leave to
day for the Eastern cities. for bust
ness and recreation. Mr.. F'illey
thinks that with his wife along he
will be able to pick out a line of holi
day goods that will please everybody
and be the best assortment ever of.
fered in this city.
}. II. Norris, Il former realty deal.
crof this city is over from Vancouver
where he is engaged in the same
line of business. He says that many
of the piers of the railroad bridge
across the Columbia and much of the
road-bcd of the Portland and Seattle
railway are in place.
1t is said that what has been known
rs Dofilemyer $ PUNT has been plat
ted into town-lots. Il hotel erected.
and the wharf built when it was the
prospective city of Hartman. ex-
tended, and that very soon ground
floor lots of Il prospective city will be
placed on the market.
4 daughter of Thomas Gerhke.
Bertha. aged II. of Rainier, died of
diphtheria Monday and was buried
the succeeding day. Three other
children of the family are i'll. one
dangerously from the same disease.
The stricken home has been q,laran-
tined by DR.. Bridgford.
That peaches may be successfully
produced here is shown by some fruit
grown upon the Burton place at the
foot of Washington street. Some of
them attained circumference of
nearly twelve inches and the smaller
ones measured nine inches. They
were seedlings at that, but of the
Royal George variety.
David W. King, the play-writer
and author, of New York, once edi-
tor of the Oiympidn. was on a visit
to his old stamping-grOund this week.
He will return to the Empire State
in November. He is now engaged
in the dramatization of The Way
of the Man., now running as a SER
ial in Outing, for Emerson Hough.
1t is alleged that gold bearing rock
assaying $40 per ton have been found
in the vicinity of Grand Mound
prairie, eighteen miles south of this
city, and that already forty claims
have been located. A portion of the
alleged find extends over the hold
ings of Mr.. f. n. Sargent, who has
taken steps to protect his interests.
A. Cole, the well-known florist.
whose speciality is dahlias, has gone
to Pennsylvania to buy stock, and
especially of that flower. His assert
ment of l25 varieties of it was deci-
mated considerably last year by frost
and other causes, and his purpose is
to make it even better than it has
been. He will be absent several
weeks.
Mrs. May Connolly was installed
as Past Noble Chief of the Pythian
Sisterhood at a session held Tuesday
night, which was followed by a ban
quet. 1t was announced that the
order would give a ball early the
fall season, and Mrs. ThOs. Connolly,
Mrs. Jas. Brewer and Mrs. G. Will
Shatfer were appointed a committee
on arrangements for the event.
1t is said that watermelons can
not be successfully grown in this
State west of the mountains, but it
has been demonstrated by w. H.
Lee, of Bush Prairie, that as luscious
and sweet samples of that delightful
product can be grown in the district
that produced the world-prize wheat,
as in California and Eastern Wash
ingtOn, both of which are famous for
their melons.
There should be no hesitation
about removal of the storage place
for explosives beyond possibility of
danger to life and property. The
building erected for that purpose
should be OF iron and at distance of
at least half mile from the nearest
inhabited building of any sort. 1t is
already provided by ordinance that
powder or dynamite shall not be
stored within 900 feet of any other
building.
The Equal Suffrage Club, Mrs.
Mary Hayes McHenry, President,
met on Saturday last, at the office of
Rev. Mrs. Lake, on Fifth street.
Several suggestions, pertaining to
the work in hand, were discussed,
one new member added, and others
promised. Time and place OF next
meeting will be announced later, as
also the date of the State Convention,
which is to be held in Seattle during
this month.
A grand confederation of the Hoo
HOos of Oregon and Washington was
held in Eagles hall, Monday night,
under the caterwauling of Shark H.
]. Miller. A banquet was held after
initiatory ceremonies at the Mitchell
hotel, where that prince of good fell
lows and most illustrious cat, Frank
B. Cole, officiated as POSTMASTER. 1t
is safe to say that under his delicate
paws no guilty cat escaped. Con-
gratulatiOns were sent to q concat-
enation being held simultaneously at
Atlantic City, N. j., and its support
was asked in securing the annual con-
catenatiOn for Seattle in 1909.
The Gospel Mission was saved
from probably disastrous fire last
Wednesday night. 1t was occasioned
by a heap of smOuldering rags, near