Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-04-05


future parishional headquarters.
The Council has received twelve
bids for the paving of four blocks on
Third, and one on Main. between Sec
ond and Third streets. The bids
range from sd, 4o0 for asphalt to
SO, 035 for brick. At a special SEES
sion of the Council. last night, the
contract was awarded TO the lnde-
pendent Asphalt Co, of Seattle, for
bitulithic on bituminous base, the
bid on this kind of material being
$23,31O.4S.
Bruce Rogers, Of Seattle, and an
other person whose name the STAND
ARD was unable to learn, have asked
permission TO address the public at
the meeting of the Socialist local at
Labor Temple, tomorrow evening,
on the subject of the Industrial
Worke rs of the World movement, and
the situation at Aberdeen, Hoqulain
and Raymond. 1t is reported that
on last Monday Mr. Rogers called on
Gov. Hay, but the nature of the
III CtTNttW was uOl ItdIlltu.
Hans Peterson, the contractor, to
reduce to the minimum cost of trans
portation for material to be used in
the Temple of Justice, has devised a
plan whereby lumber, brick and
all other kinds of material needed
will be brought from down the Sound,
in large scows, taken through the
West side bridge to Capitol point, on
which the Temple is to be built, to
which it will be elevated by means of
a cable tramway and derrick. 1t was
the devising of this plan of reducin g
cost that enabled Peterson to sub
NIT the lowest bid.
Clyde Patton and Guy Neeley start
ed out from their home at Rochester,
this county, on a walking tour across
the continent, Monday, bearing a
message from Gov. Hay to Gov. Dix
of New York They started at 9 A.
NJ from the postoffice, where large
crowd had assembled to bid them
bon uoyage. They were clad in
khaki and carried light packs. L.
L. Hunter. President of the Com
mercial Club, and Rev. Fawcett
made brief addresses, and the boys
began their long journey amid the
cheers of the spectators. The boys
are making the trip merely for rec
reation, mental and physical.
Some of our local taxpayers are
concluding that jury sessions OF the
Superior Court are expensive luxur-
les. 1t would do no harm for the
public to be informed what these
sessions cost the county annually.
The information cannot be dug out
of the Auditors annual reports.
The items incident to this expense
ought to be segregated. publishing
the names OF jurors and witnesses
with the amounts paid to each man
and woman drawing money out of the
county treasury. The people want
light, and it is hoped they will make
an effort 10 obtain it. Usually the
individuals who are the benefc-
iaries are the standpatters; do not
want any change. Not few would
rather have the information smoth-
cred.
Governor Hay has designated the
afternoon of next Friday, the 18th
inst, a legal holiday, in which all
organizations and good
road bodies are enjoined to meet and
consider plans for construction work
and selection OF deputies to super
wise it. He suggests, in another
proclamation, that April 18th, also
q public holiday, in which the pupils |
of schools shall have special charge Of
the tree planting, and under direction |
of the teachers, ask for volunteers to
care for the trees and shrubbery on |
the school grounds, during the sum-
mer months. Volunteers are asked
of one or two pupils in each school to |
see that the trees are properly cared
for and watered and that the names |
of those boys who volunteer be sent |
to David Brown, President of the
State County Life Commission, at
Spokane.
There is lady in this city the wife
Of a prominent business man. who |
was sorely afflicted with what she |
claimed to be stomach troubles, tried |
all sorts of medicines prescribed for |
this disease, which to some is so
annoying. until the druggist from
whom she had purchased remedies |
advised her to quit filing her stomach |
with dope and think less of her phys
ical ills. BY way OF parepthesis it
may be stated this druggist IS not |
q Christian Scientist. but we'll to
do citizen of this community. Time
passed on, this lady still suffered. It
happened one day she was visited by |
two ladies, neighbors, who were |
Christian Scientists; informed her
about Mrs. Eddy's teachings. that |
God is all in all, spirit-love-truth |
knowing no such thing as disease, in
duced the afflicted woman to read |
Mrs. Eddy's book, which she did and |
claims she was healed; that she can |
digest and simulate food without |
distress.
Why will the Perky 7pins persist |
in reckless statements about SUBJ |
jects on which it uses only the most |
absurd guess work. In abiding to |
the lyceum courses misfortune in
the loss of money as final figures
show, it says the la Brun Opera
Company" one of the course, was |
the best that ever appeared here"
when reasonable inquiry would have |
disclosed the fact that way back un-
der Olympia Theater's FIRST manage
ment, about fifteen years ago, the
then famous Emma Juch played q |
season here in grand opera, with
over fifty performers including
several eminent artists and an
orchestra of twenty people, to q |
business OF over $4,000. Then the |
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