Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-04-04
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW
PUBLIC LIBRARY IS
TO START TUESDAY
Project Will Be Launched by Ii
brary Board at Chamber of
Commerce Luncheon.
OLYMPIA IN FIRST CLASS
Post Office Receipts for Year Pass
$4,000 Mark-Pure Food Ex-
position Endorsed.

position Endorsed.
Though no program has as yet been
announced the regular weekly lunch
con of the Chamber of Commerce to be
held at the Kneeland cafe Tuesday at
noon will be devoted to a discussion
of library for Thurston county. 1t is
the aim to enlist the support of An
drew Carnegie and it is the belief of
those interested that with the assist
ance Of the Chamber of Commerce the
requirements Of the Carnegie Fund can
be met and that Olympia will receive
at least $25,OOO gift from the steel
magnate.
The members of the library board
will be present, and special invitation
will be sent to the county commission
ers and the members of the city coun-
Gil, for under the most recent legisla-
tion county unit has been made pos
sible for the levying of taxes to sup
port such an institution and in order
that the rural communities may derive
the benefit of the books, stations will
be maintained in different parts of the
county.
Members of the agricultural commit
tee of the Chamber are now engaged in
waging an educational campaign in an
endeavor to have the county commits
sioners employ a farm expert for hor-
ticultvrists and agriculturists of Thur
ston county, as provided In house bill
No. 28. The law is now effective and
unless Thurston county is quick to act
the best men in the state will be en-
gagged by other counties.
The expert would give his entire
time to this county and his mission
would be to work with the farmers in
an endeavor to make their efforts more
remunerative. The fruit industry Of
this county is now worth approximate
ly $50O,0OO per annum and with the
proper encouragement there Is oques-
tion but what the fruit exports for the
year 1915 can he made to reach the
million dollar mark. This will benefit
Olympia directly, while 1t will assure
the county's prosperity.
1t had been the hope of the Chamber
of Commerce to enlist the support Of
the federal government financially but
the appropriation has been exhausted
for this year, though the department is
willing to cooperate in every manner
possible and If Thurston county does
appoint an inspector the department of
agriculture will appoint him a collab-
orator in the bureau, which would car
ry with it the franking privilege in all
of his official correspondence with far
mers throughout the country and
bring him into the same overhead or
ganization where he would receive the
same instructions regarding this work
as do the other county agents else
where where financial cooperation is
being lent. If this was done Olympia
would be one of the first to receive f.
nancial consideration next year.
Adding $6,97S.49 to the amount Of
business handled during the year end
ed March 81, 1912, the Olympia post
Office jumped into the first class with
the close of business March 81. 1913,
marking an increase of more than 400
per cent. in the local Offices business
since 1897.
All post offices handling more than
$4,000 annual business belong to the
first class and Olympia's business for
the year ended March 81 amounted to
s4O,63S.3S, leaving quite a substantial
margin. The receipts in 1897 were
$4,000. Olympia will now be entitled
to better service than it has received
in the past, while the employees will re-
ceive increased salaries. Announce
ment of the growth of the post office
business was made by Postmaster w.
T. Cavanaugh at the Chamber OF Com
merce luncheon Tuesday noon.
With an even larger attendance than
marked the first affair, the weekly
luncheon of the Chamber Of Commerce
last Tuesday noon showed an increased
interest in the new departure and gave
strong endorsement to the proposed
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