Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-11-25

street. The delay in grading this
street is doubtless responsible for
the injury and the city may find it.
self inculpated.
Our opulent City Council. at its
last meeting, appropriated $500 for
an adding machine for the City En-
gIneer. One would scarcely believe
That any one connected with the city
would need an adding machine. with
the expenditures constantly climb
ing without one.
a beautiful Morris extension chair
was one of the birthday gifts received
by the STANDARD from President
Leopold Schmidt, of the Olympia
Brewing Company. 1t fills long
felt want and nothing could have
been more appropriate as u token OF
respect for its long stewardship.
The basement OF the Baptist church
on Ninth and Franklin streets, has
been flooded by the late rains, but
what damage has resulted is still I'M
known. The vestibule and entrance
of the First Presbyterian church was
also flooded by leakage from the
spiral roof, that has done some dam
age to the plastered walls, probably
nominal
When you shall have paid your
last year taxes, the second Install
ment of which will soon fall due, do
you think you will want any further
street assessments before next year?
If after having paid your taxes and
assessments you still have a surplus,
there are opportunities afforded for
the purchase of Christmas presents
TO distribute among the deserving of
God children.
The only bid submitted for the
East Bay avenue Improvement. eX-
ceeded by over 81 800 the engineer S
estimate and the Council at its last
meeting rejected it. The bid offered
was $l3,974. and the estimate was
for only 1880, and it was said by
one of the Councilmen that the prop
OsitiOn was now tucked into its little
bed for a final slumber.
The fall of a pole carrying the
electric wires on Tumwater Hill
Sunday night, as car was climbing
that hill, made lively if not danger
Gus times for Conductor Brautigan
and Motorman Hogue. No further
damage was done, however, than
smashing several of the car windows
and throwing the car from the
tracks, but the display of lightning
for a time caused considerable of a
scare.
The jury in the case of Thurston
County against John Gunston, pro-
ceedings in condemnation for the
establishment of highway over re-
spondent's land, in the vicinity of
of South Union, awarded Gunstone
nineteen hundred dollars damages,
the cost and jury fees amounts to
about six hundred dollars; all of
which the country must liquidate.
The fewer there are Of such contro-
versies, the better it will be for the
welfare of the pocketbooks of the
taxpayers.
The long drawn out litigation be-
tween Glen Whipple as plaintiff and
James /. Murray intervenor, which
was q controversy over COW. has
come to an end in the Superior Court.
The jury awarded Whipple $50 dam
ages. the plaintiff having replevined
the COW before the Justice of Peace
at Little Rock. from whose judgment
an appeal was taken. From the
time the case first came into the Su-
perior Court, Judge Mitchell was
called upon to decide numerous legal
questions of insignificant dimensions.
Miss Marie Christensen and Harry
E. Van Arsdale, both of this city,
were united in marriage last Satur.
day, at the home of the brides par.
ents, by Rev. r. M. Hayes. The
happy couple, after an elegant re-
past spread for themselves and
friends, departed on the evening
train for d brief wedding tour. They
will return to a fine home prepared
for them at Ninth and Jefferson
streets, where they will be "at home"
to their many friends. The bride is
one of our most popular young ladies'
and is well known to the business
life of the city from her loug service
as book-keeper of the Olympia Hard
ware Company.
James H. Levee, an old army vet
eran, died Monday, after an illness
of fifteen weeks from paralysis. He
was buried with G. A. r. honors,
Wednesday afternoon, Rev. DR..
Hayes preaching the funeral sermon.
Deceased was born at Dunansburg,
IN. Y, Jan. II, 1880. He was mar
ried to Mary E. Carpenter in 1855.
who died in this city in February,
1895. He entered the war service
in 1861, and received an honorable
discharge in 1852. He came to
Olympia with his family in 1889. A
son and daughter, w. H. Levee and
Mrs. Emma Bolton, Wore with him
in his last hours. Another son,
Charles F.. resides at Ramona, S.
D.
A collision between an auto and a
cab belonging to the Reynolds stable,
occurred in front of the Y. M. G. A.
building Saturday night. 1t seems
the cab had been in waiting for some
attendants at the banquet and the
driver on being told that he was too
early had turned to drive away, when
the auto driven by Muir Fairchild
turned the corner into Franklin
street. from Fourth, and crashed
into the cab. The horses and driver
were hurled to the ground and the