Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-06

Monday. Sept. 2.... 81 40 .O5
Tuesday, Sept 3d.. IS 43 -.
]. r. Walker and family of Seattle
spent few days recently in Olympia,
visiting friends. They stopped at the
Kneeland hotel.
C. B. Stark of Quincy, ILL.,, who has
relatives in Tacoma, stopped in Olym-
pia one day last week, looking for a
business opening. He was shown
about the city by ]. Dinsmore of the
Dinsmore-Sams Co.
Dr. G. w. Ingham is installing a
new furnace in his home at Tenth
and main streets.
Charles Somers, Jr., of Charles SOM
ers Co.. a Seattle real estate firm, stop
ped over in Olympia recently on his
way to Detroit, where he has a pear
orchard and vineyard. He will re-
main there during the season.
W. c. Schultheis and family, and C..
w. easier and family, all of Ballard,
were members of an auto party which
stopped over in Olympia Sunday as
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C. B.
Jaynes.
Mrs. Isaac ingalls, Stevens of Bos-
ton, Mass, announces the engagement
Of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Stevens
Bingham, to Mr.. James Hervey Simp-
son Bates of Hoboken and New York.
The wedding will take place in mid
winter. This item will prove of in
terest to the people of this state as
Mrs. Bingham Is the youngest daugh-
ter of our first territorial governor,
the late Maj. Gen. Isaac Ingalls, Stew
ems. Her late husband, Mr.. Edward
Wineard Bingham, was well known
throughout the Northwest on account
Of his work or the election laws Of
Oregon, as was the father of the
Australian ballot law" of Oregon. Her
brother, Gen. Hazard Stevens, is also
widely known here and elsewhere.
Mr.. Bates was special student in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
class of '85, also of the Stevens Insti-
tute of Technology. class of 81. He is
q specialist in power plants, a struc-
tural and mechanical engineer, and,
In conjunction with the Latin Amer
lea company, Is interested in South
American work. Mrs. Bingham writes
and lectures. Is q member of the Pro-
fesstOnal Women's club and the New
England Women's club of Boston, and
still retains her membership in the
Portland WOman's club and the Multi
nomah chapter of the 2. A. R. of Port
land. Ore.
With each day of the week showing
additions to the list of students in all
the schools. City Superintendent C. e.
Beach expects the enrolment in the
srade schools to reach more than 1000
next week, and the high school 285.
Last year the enrolment In the grade
schools was ISL, so far this year 1t has
reached 985 and still increasing. The
present high school enrolment is 275.
The seventh and eighth grades of
the Mckinley school. which was dam
aged by fire, are being housed at the
Lincoln school. The contract for re-
pairing this building was let yester-
day and 1t Is to be ready for use the
arst of the year. An additional teach
er has been employed to meet the In
creased enrolment at this school, as is
also the case at the Garfield school on
the West Side, where an eighth grade
was added.
Following is list of the new teach
ers in the Olympia schools:
SupefvlsOrs.
B. F. Gabriel. manual training; Jessie
NJ. Pelton. domestic science; Ella X.
Jones. music and drawing.
High school.
NJ J. Aiken. principal: B. r. McClel-
land. physics and chemistry; e. r.
Loomis. physical geography and bot
any; Florence Dudley, Latin: Margaret
Bigelow. English and history; Hannah
NJ. Phelps. English: Frances Sylvester,
German and algebra: Percy F. Colbert,
mathematics and athletics; r. r..
Thoma. commercial department: Ethel.
Coulter. assistant in domestic science.
WashinEton school.
H. NJ. Wallace. principal; Clara Nc
kenxie. seventh and eighth grades;
Harry Christopher. seventh and eighth
grades: Florence Haycox. sixth grade;
Henrietta Heinrichs. fifth grade: Eliz-
abeth Matheson, third grade; Alice B.
Guthrie. fourth grade: warrena Thay-
er, second grade; Bessie Friedman. Sec
ond grade. primary; Maude Chamber
lain. first primary.
Lincoln school.
0. c. Gose, principal; Ruth W. Hind
man. eighth grade: Alta B. Torrey, sew
enth grade: Edith Mckenzie, sixth
grade: Bertha Mauerman. fifth grade;
Amelia Dittman. fourth grade; Mildred
SoReile. third grade; Florence Ludlow,
second grade: Janet Moore, first grade.
GARFIELD school.
Sidney E. Calvert. principal, seventh
and eighth grade: Eliza Strand. sixth
grade; Edna Stanford. fifth and fourth
grades; Minnie McRae. second and
third grades: Clara M. Collins, first
grade.
Roosevelt SCHOOL.
Daniel Setchfield. principal, sixth and
seventh grades; Lillian G. Carlton.
fourth and nth grades; Elma G. Smith.
second and third grades; Pear! Vincent.
first grade.
McKinley school.
A. J. Lewis. principal. seventh and
eighth grades; Edith Lind, third and
fourth grades: Clara Junk, first and
second grades.
Reducing the assessors original fig.
ures SITS. 403, the county board of
has fixed the value of tax
able property in Thurston county at
I'll. l25 .048, including both personal
and real property. Last year the total
valuations amounted to $11.0OO,OO0 in
round numbers.
The "old folks" of the First M. E.
church were entertained Wednesday