Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-11
City and County



school year, according TO State Sci.oo
! Superintendent Dewey. OF CA school
districts in This county 20 are on q
cash basis. Five years ago only one
third OF the school districts of the state
were upon a cash basis while at the
| present time about four-fifths OF all
| he districts of the state have paid VI
| their outstanding warrants and are
| ROW upon cash basis.
| Mrs. Elsie Sturtevant of Portland
accompanied by her daughter Mrs. DR.
| Noble Wiley Jones, and son. visited
at the home Of her brother, Phil
! Ski!lman, recently.
|
| Decision 10 hold their first dance o.
| the night Of Friday. October Il, was
taken at a recent meeting of the mem
! hrs of the ThirtyFive Dancing club
= this meeting also J. +. Grant was
chosen president and Z. +. Stewart
! secl etary-treasuler.
| Fred W. Convery, who filed last
week on the Republican city ticket for
councilman from the Sixth ward, with
drew his name this week. saying he did
not care to make the race on account
of factional difficulties in his ward.
|
Sam B. Hill of Waterville, was in
Olympia on business Monday.
A meeting of the Young Peoples
branch of the w. c. 7. L. was held at
the residence of Miss Junk Monday
night. Light refreshments were
served.
, State Superintendent George B.
COnger of the Washington Anti-Saloon
league addressed a union meeting of
the First Methodist Episcopal and the
United Presbyterian churches Sunday
night with reference to the local option
| fight in Olympia and the liquor traffic
IN general.
Resolutions on the death of Judge
R. o. Dunbar of the state supreme
court were adopted at meeting of the
Thurston County Bar association Mon
day morning.
| Former State Senator Alex Poison
of Hoquiam, stopped in Olympia Mon
cay.
Architect Ii. X. White of the New
York firm of Wilder & White. archi.
tects for the Temple of Justice, re-
turned to New York Monday. Prior
! to his leaving the capitol commission
eliminated 81 $3.50 of cost and added
, $3,949.9S, including the cost of per
manent floor in the minor courtroom,
the main room being left unfloored for
the present
Tomorrow, October IL, is legal
holiday, but it will do the school boys
and girls no good, for it happens to be
Saturday and regular school holiday.
Columbus Day, however, will be fitting
ly celebrated by local organizations.
A plea of guilty to the charge of
hunting without license was made by
A. Fl. Knapp of Yelm, in Justice Cros-
by's court Monday. He was arrested
Sunday by Game Warden John Price
of Yelm, and was fined $25 and costs.
After having been in Jail for nearly
two months, Jack James, a Mud Bay
Indian, was sentenced to ten days more
| by Superior Judge Mitchell last Satur-
day, for his part in fracas at Mud
| Bay when he is said to have struck
en- Indian over the head with bottle.
=
James Gaffney, alias Fred Mckay,
was taken back to Boise, Idaho, Mon
day by Sheriff A. j. Robinson of Ada
county. Idaho, to answer charge of
| forgery.
Net receipts of more than 500 we're
turned over to Garry Hodge, the vet
eran baseball star, as the result of the
benefit game played last Sunday when
Olympia defeated Little Rock by a
score of 6 to 4. Five hundred and
| two paid admissions were taken in at
the gate, while many other tickets
were sold to persons who could not
attend.
Fighting gamely against long odds
in weight, the Olympia High school
football team gave the Whitworth col
lege aggregation hard battle last Sat
urday in the second game of the season
and lost by a score of to O, the college
team forcing over but one touchdown,
made in the third quarter. The local
team was outweighed 10 pounds to the
man but kept the college boys on the
go all the time and put up an exciting
game.
The burning of the Mckinley school,
as the principal reason for the increase
in the school levy for this year, as
fixed by the school directors last Sum-
day night when they determined on a
levy of rs mills. Last year, on a val
uation of 100000 less, the levy was
only 6 mills Final approval of the
levy lies with the county commission
ers.
| After having been served with the
papers in the suit of his wife, Rose
Cartwright, charging him with deser-
ting her, George W. Cartwright Mon
day agreed to pay her SIS month for
the support of 'herself and her children
and furnished $500 bond as security.
The agreement followed several
months of litigation between the
parties.
| Mrs. C. c. Aspinwall of Chehalis,
spent few days in Olympia this week
visiting her father, ]. NJ. Newsum.
| William Meikle Of Seattle, is visiting
| his aunt, Mrs w. MatcnsOn and his
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. William Weller.