Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-06-18

ana ne Will leave for that place soon
as he can dispose of his interests
here.
Tn" Northern Pacific work train is
employed in making needed improve
n"ntS Ia the Seventh street tunnel.
and II seems that the promise Of an
entire new paSSagrWay OF concrete
ho> p"ea abandoned, for the present
at least,
\ double wedding took place last
night, when Miss Edna Talcott and
Arthur tStrander and Miss Viretta
Ialcott and Albert Marble were
married. The Talcott home was
beautifully decorated for the Joyous
occasion.
Mrs. b. r. Ruth, according to lat
est accounts. is improving in health
at It. Peters Hospital She is now
able 10 walk about the hall of the
building, and it is sincerely hoped
she will not be obliged to undergo an
operation
Mr.. G.. W. Osborne, of South Bay.
after sustaining quite siege of i'll
ness. has improved enough TO take a
pleasure trip to Seattle. where he in
tends to visit relatives and friends
while enjoying the sights OF the A.
Up. Exposition.
Tuesday while Mrs. {. Holthusen
and Miss Clara Westmoreland were
taking buggy ride, both were
thrown to the ground by sudden
lurch of the horse. The former
escaped injury, but the latter sus-
tanned a sprained wrist.
Plans for cannery at Centralia
are fully under way. and 81 900 have
been subscribed and a competent and
experienced manager employed to
have charge of its erection and oper
ton. He is expected to have it in
operation for this year crop.
a plan is on foot for Thurston,
Mason and kitsap counties to i'm
prove Is miles of the Olympia Shelton
road. 1t is said that a petition will
be presented to the County Commits
sioners of ThurstOn to lead off in this
enterprise at the next meeting.
The McRea Stock company that
had leased Olympia theater and
promised something like a continuous
dramatic engagement of tirst-claSs
attractions, has disbanded and it
seems its fond anticipations have gone
"glimmering down the sands of
time.
What fad next? We have had
linen showers" wooden show
ers. tin showers" towel show
ers, and now stocking show
er. and the qatd nnncS are on
the que rire to know what next
may be appropriate to give newly
welded or those about to wed
I John T. Otis took an automobile
ride out in the country, Sunday, and
discovered in the vicinity of RocheS-
ter that there is much railroad build
ing in ThurstOn county just at pres
ent, with promise of a great rush
of this kind of work in the immediate
future which bodies well for Olympia.
DR.. Partlow has let a contract for
building fine residence on the
corner of Columbia and Eleventh
streets, where he has ample ground
eligibly situated for fine home, to
cost about $1,000. Excavation is
now under way and construction will
soon begin. Chas. H. Hutton is the
contractor.
1t is noted that the Chronicle is
keeping Commissioner Van Eaton
quite busily employed in attempted
justification of his acts as custodian
of the cOunty's interests. The COM
bine he formed to buy county prop
erty at less than it's value is one OF
these, which seems to be the most
difficult to explain.
Three carloads of 2-foot sewer pipe
have been received to be laid on
Washington street. from Sixth to
Third, thence to the bay. 1t will
replace the big box sewer placed
nearly 40 years ago. which has served
an excellent purpose till late years,
when frequent caving from rot has
about ended its usefulness.
Harley Post, while speeding on Co
lumbia street, near Sixth, last Fri
day, ran against a tensely drawn
cable that was stretched across the
street to haul donkey engine from
shop, with the result that he was
thrown to the ground and sustained
a fractured shoulder blade and bro
ken arm. He sustained also cuts and
bruises.
Clifford Wilson, a lad OF seventeen
years who took an educational course
at st. Martins College, five miles
east OF Olympia, has paying posi-
ton in an Office at Tacoma, as STEM
ographer and typewriter. 1t will be
remembered that Clifford is the
youngest brother of Mrs. John D..
Atkinson, who now resides at Bel
J bingham.
Rev. Sebastian Ruth, O. S. B. of
st. Martins college, at Lacey, is de-
signing button for our people, to
be worn at the A. Y. p. fair on
Olympia Day." He is an expert
at such work and has designed many
buttons for societies and other Or
CARNATIONS. The design will be SUBJ
United to the Chamber of Commerce
for approval soon.
The Board of Control has let the
contract for erecting the Administra-
ton building and installation of the
power-plant at the Veterans Home.
Port Orchard, the former at cost
OF $4,000 and for the power plant
500 $50. This nearly exhausts the
appropriation made by the last
Legislature, without consideration
of the cottages embraced in the
plans for the Home.
1t is now said that the digging of
clans on the westside of our harbor
has a tendency to loosen the sedi-
mept which f1Ouc with tho o,,rro,t