Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-13

r-c Pearl OF PUGET
The plant OF the independent As
pha,t company on Columbia street
near the Northern Pacific tarcks. was
started up August ~ after having
been CLOSED since last October The
rnai agcment is working a full force
and expects 10 finish up the local paw
ing as rapidly as possible. Fourth
street is now practically completed;
Third and Main streets are plowed and
the grades laid, while sewers and 9th
or preliminary work on the Water and
Fifth street improvements are well I'M
der way.
The regular opening of the roller
skating rink on Columbia street will
be held September 20, according to w.
p. Vance, the manager. after which it
will be open every evening and three
afternoons during the week. New
music has been obtained and visitors
will see other improvements in this
popular amusement hall.
Lee Lev IL, SDIl vi TTeu w. Lewis,
secretary of the State Grange, spent
few days in Olympia last week with
his parents, preparatory to resuming
his courses in agriculture a THE Pull
man State college. Young Lewis was
employed for the last year on the Co
lmbian at Vancouver, Wash, where he
just recently resigned.
Including every breed in the Amer
lean Standard of Perfection, the rec
ognized poultry authority. which will
number so in all, the poultry exhibit
at the Puyallup Valley fair this fall
will be the very cream of Northwest
chickens. The Valley fair opening
the first week in October is the last
! of the Northwest agricultural fairs,
and because it is last the prize Win
ming birds from all of the other fairs
which have preceded it will be ship
ped to Puyallup to be exhibited there
Superintendent Fred A. johnson of
| the poultry department will make the
rounds of the various eXpOSitions and
will select the best exhibits of them
| all to be shown in Puyallup. The
poultry contests are open to the world
| and with but one restriction and that
| is that all entries be made before Sep
TENDER %, one week before the open
| ing date. The fair officers will pro-
vide coops and pens and the feed will
| be furnished by a local milling con-
Germ. There are many valuable prizes
offered for poultry exhibits. The cash
| awards will total more than $500 for
/ individual prizes for single birds and
pens. There are also eight large sill
! yer cups offered as grand prizes to-
gether with other merchandise prizes
! of valuable jewelry, clothing and
chicken foods offered by Tacoma and
; Seattle and Puyallup merchants.
/
! Several exhibits of Thurston coun-
ty products gathered by its ranchers
for the Olympia Chamber of Commerce
to display at the Northwest Land
Products show in Minneapolis in No
vember, and later at Detroit and on a
special train through the East and
Middle West this winter and next
spring. were shipped to Spokane last
week to be preserved. Mrs. J. w. Bo-
lender submitted for display an un-
usually large beet; r. H. Bolander
one Gatepost mangel wurtzel, an Early
Wakefield onion, and several potatoes;
c. ]. Olney large box of exhibits; N.
c. Christensen of Buffers Cove, a
large head of caulifiower. Watson
bloom, and Bartlett pear; and H.
Biechle of South Bay a crate of GRAY
enstein apples.
| The new extension division of the
University Of Washington offers list
of lectures, single or in courses, some
OF them popular in character, others
designed primarily for study classes
Fees for lectures will in all cases COW
er only the actual cost to the extern
sion division. They will include the
travelling expenses of the lecturer and
a moderate personal fee. The lectures
for the coming year include: "Lum.
bering in the Pacific Northwest" Ill
lstrated), by Elias Treat Clark, assist.
ant professor of forestry; two lectures
by Prof. Theodore Christian Frye,
Peat Boys" (illustratedD; Attractive
and Unattractive Farm Houses" also
illustrated. Rev. Herbert H. Gowen,
professional lecturer on Oriental his
tory, literature and institutions, rec
tor Trinity Parish church, Seattle, has
arranged series of lectures on China,
Japan, India and literature Other
lecturers are David Connolly Hall, di-
rector of physical training; John Will
liam Hotson, instructor in botany;
Burt P. Kirkland, associate professor
of forestry; Frederick William Meis-
nest, professor of German; George
Burton Rigg, instructor in botany;
Hugo A. Winkenwerder, professor of
| forestry.
| Rev. G. H. Chrisman Of Portland,
district superintendent of the Chris
tian and Missionary Alliance for the
Northwest, spoke to large congre-
cation at the Westside chapel recently
on "The Holy Spirit" The Sunday
levening preaching service at the
chapel has been changed from 8 until
1880 p. M, while Sunday school is
held at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Cottage prayer meetings are being
held every Thursday evening at the
various homes. while the Bible study
classes, of which Mrs. D. E. Werts is
superintendent and J. F. Brabazon
leader, meet Friday evenings at the
chapel.
Eighty members of the American
Geographical society have been spend.
ing the last two weeks travelling along
the Northern Pacific as the guests of
the railroad touring in a special train
They left st. Paul August 20, stopping
at various places en- route and spend
ing almost week in Yellowstone park
Reaching Seattle tomorrow, they will
travel to Tacoma by boat and will
leave there Sunday night for Port
land. From Portland the party will
cover California, visiting San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles and returning
eastward over the Southern route,
making circle tour and reaching
New York City on the return about
November 1. The party is headed by
DR.. w. M. Davis of Harvard univer-
sity and practically includes all of the
eminent geographers of the world,
over One-half of the nartv heinp for