Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-29
Volt NE L.-NUMBER 35.
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The Hanford ColnmJim is the
only newspaper published in a tent
in Washington.
The Icllom Jackd is the name of a
paper published at Moiavian Falls,
North Carolina.
The Hustler is the name of a news
paper published at Hatton, Adams
county, this State.
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The Lice Wire is the name of the
county (Umatilla) official paper, pub
lished at Pendleton, Oregon.
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The Co1umJ;a JournoI, published
at Pasco, runs this inscription under
its name-plate:
Our motto: BE honest, tell the
truth. fear God. and hustle for the al
mighty dollar"
Here is the cold-blooded style and
manner in which C. 7. Giezentanner.
publisher of the Pasco Express, puts
it: "The only way to become a
subscriber to the Express is to pay
the price strictly in advance.
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If campers are not more careful
laws will be enacted prohibiting
these outings at all in lumber dis.
tricts. This will be the correct
thing If campers cannot take time to
be sure their campfire is black
out"
If you talk with a wage Garner who
has scraped and saved, and saved
and scraped, in order to procure
little home in a regrade district of
Seattle, you will understand why
so many dinner pail" men with
horse-sense' still continue living
in housekeeping rooms in that city.
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According to Brand WhitlOck,
Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, in an article
in the Saturday Erening Post, of July
10th, Miss Frances E. Willard. long
since attested that thousands,
through society's grim machine.
are driven to drink by poverty quite
as often as they are driven to poy-
erty by drink. -
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Neither the P.-L. nor the Seattle
Times, which worship at the shrine
of Secretary Ballinger, have pub
lished as yet, in their Sunday edi-
tions, q full page picture showing the
number and size of snakes the Secre-
tary has killed since his return from
Washington, D. c. Gee! Some
newspaper editors are just too indo-
lent and shiftless for anything!
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David Eugene Olson, a revivalist,
delivered q talk" at Green Lake
(Seattle) the other afternoon, on
How to Be Happy Though Mar
ried." An article informing thou
sands of married men how, and in
what manner he discovered the
scheme, heretofore thought to be
unsoluble, judging from the divorce
epidemic in the United States) he
will be given all the praise, glory
and then some, capable of being con-
tributed by those trotting down the
road of life in double harness.
Detective Charles Phillips, of Sc
attic, who is o candidate for Sheriff
of King county cannot estimate the
votes he has lost by making the fol-
lowing declaration:
=" i'll am elected to the Office OF Sheriff
there will be no gambling, no wide-open
saloons and no dance halls in King
county, and this includes the city of Sc
attle."
After making this assertion, just
how Phillips expects to be elected
Sheriff is puzzle that will make the
Chinese one blush in shame, so to
speak.
Mrs. L. w. Mccoy, of Seattle, was
a visitor to the Portland rose carni-
val. In speaking of the way Port
land merchants boost their made
in Portland" goods, Olympia could
we'll follow suit. She says:
Portland people are quietly but
surely boosting their own city.
While there l did some marketing
and on asking for a certain brand of
ham was told, by small corner
grocery. We do not carry that
brand, but have a ham. made in
Portland, very much superior. Ask
ing for widely advertised biscuit,
they replied, We do not carry that,
but have home made cracker that
is far superior. On asking for
Hawaiian pineapple, the same re-
ply"
It's up to Olympia merchants and
Olympia consumers to get busy.
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"The man who was recently sent to
the county Jail for ten days for refusing
to assist in fighting forest fire at the
command of a Deputy Fire Warden may
consider himself much abused, but it
needs an occasional arrest under the
terms of this law to make people realize
the necessity for it. t.'-Seattle Times.
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