Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-27

postOffice department which Is to
place 36,03S fourth-class postmasters
in the United States under the civil
taken on the petition of the postmast-
ers themselves.
George Smith and Verni Butter
field, two Lacey lads, were fined $3.50
in the local police court Tuesday for
killing ducks out of season. The
boys were caught near Long Lake by
County Warden Meays after COM
plant from a resident of that section.
Contract for the construction of Il
two-story concrete building, 40 by 40
feet, at Fifth and Jefferson streets,
will be let soon by the directors OF
the Olympia Knitting Mills. The
estimated cost of the new building is
$4,000. 1t is made necessary by the
greatly increased business the COM
pany has enjoyed during the past few
months.
w. r. ClarksOn, fOundryman OF
Tenino, answering the suit of Jane
Stewart of that place that she sold to
him S322.24 worth of silver for $1.50,
not knowing at the time the true
value of the metal, alleges that he did
not discover it was silver until some
time after the transaction. He sold
it for $109.29, he says and alleges that
he found out it was the property of
Fred Spencer, with whom he says he
has made satisfactory arrangements.
E. Cahoon of Seattle was a business
visitor in Olympia Thursday.
W. S. Easley, of Portland, was in
the city Thursday.
William Bremen, who sustained the
fracture of bone in his right hand
last Sunday, is well on the way to
recovering the use of the member.
Mrs. Jennie Lowe is visiting friends
in Seattle this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth OFT and daughter,
Gertrude, are spending a few days
with Seattle friends.
Mrs. J. c. Barnes and Mrs. ]. G..
Bolster went to Seattle Thursday
morning with Mrs. Vada Baker, who
has been visiting Mrs. Bolster this
summer. Mrs. Baker left Seattle to.
day for San Diego, Cal, on the Steam.
er Governor.
Postmaster Hewitt, of Tumwater
left Wednesday for Pendleton, Oregon
to attend the roundup.
The Womens Rest Room, which has
filled long felt want among women
shoppers in Olympia from the city as
well as from the country, will be NOV.
ed to the rooms over the Postal Tele.
graph Office on Main street between
Fifth and Sixth, October 1. Two com
mOdiOus rooms have been rented and
the women's clubs of the city which
have been supporting the rest room
will make the new quarters even more
comfortable than the old.
Thomas M. Vance and c. Will Shat.
eO6CthCA Will N n. uIlcTtOIl,
Herman d. Crow. M. F. GOse, Emmett
N. Parker, Wallace Mount, Stephen
J. Chadwick. George F. Morris and o.
G. Ellis, judges of the state supreme
court, attended the banquet given in
Tacoma Tuesday evening in honor of
Judges E. e. Cushman and Clifton W.
Howard, recent appointees to the
Washington federal bench.
Differences of opinion among the
petitioners as to the route which
should be followed by the proposed
road connecting East Bay avenue with
the county road on the north resulted
in the instruction by the county COM
misioners, Monday, that the county
and city engineers jointly determine
the most feasible route and prepare an
estimate of the cost. The original petit
ton asks that the connection be made
on the old U. P. grade through Priest
Point park, but other ranchers that
IL should be made over Ellis cove.
The commissioners this week in.
structed the county engineer to apply
to the state land commissioner for a
right-Of-way through school lands in
section SO, township 10 north, range 3
west, to be used in the construction of
the Hunters point road between Mud
Bay and Oyster Bay.
The ladies' class of the Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium school will entertain the
members of the association and their
friends next Tuesday evening at a
get-together social in the building. This
will be the associations first social
event of the winter season and the
women have made plans for a rousing
good time,
The rector of st. Johns church and
the vestry will be hosts at a parish
reception to be held in the guild room
of the church at 1880 next Tuesday
evening.
N. T. Nelson, F. L. Perry, R. ]. Ell
liot, Adam Dunler, and C. R. Shaw
composed an auto party from Hoauiam
which stopped at the Kneeland over
night Tuesday.
=. 1. Ballard, Jr., OF Tacoma, was In
Olympia Tuesday on business.
r. ]. Chapman, of Tacoma, visited
Olympia Tuesday and Wednesday.
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B. C. Collier of Olympia, was a
business visitor to Seattle the first
four days of this week.
Mrs. j. v. Yantis spent the weekend
at the country home of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Nelson and Mrs. Spurlock.