Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-11-28


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Ception was held.
The county commissioners this week
liahe6 she road near Puget CITY
.tuNcled ..i - G. i. 1owne and 9TH
els ard the work Ct opening it for traf
ic will be undertaken within the next
few months, as soon as the weather
permits.
Funeral services were held at the
home on Chambers Prairie at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon for NJ. G. Cam
ron, AZ years old, who died suddenly
Monday afternoon from heart trouble.
The body was taken in charge by the
DAD Fellows at the cemetery where inn
Dressive burial services were held, Rev
Robert II. Edmonds, pastor OF the Con
sregational church at Olympia, offici-
ating at the home. Mr.. Cameron, who
was born in Nova Scotia, came to
fhurston county from Brainerd, Mimi,
hree years ago His parents, widow
and 12-year-old daughter, Bessie, sur
vive.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Crocker, pro
)rietors of the public market grocery,
were driven from their home, located
about quarter of a mile east of the
Log Cabin on the Cabin road, early
Monday morning by fire which total
iy destroyed the building before they
were able to save anything except a
few personal belongings, causing a
loss of $4,000. How the fire started
is unknown. Mr.. and Mrs. Croker
had attended church Sunday evening
and when they returned built fire in
he stove, retiring a little later. Wheth-
er the stove itself or an overheated
chimney set the house on fire, they do
not know, as the house was in flames
when they awoke and they were COM
PEELED to escape through a window. 1t
burned to the ground before assistance
arrived. Mr.. and Mrs. Croker are
making their home in apartments in
Olympia temporarily.
Through the kindness of officials of
the Olympia Door company, G. W. Wa
ters of the state agricultural commits
sion has arranged for special series
of whistles as signals to the residents
of Olympia and Thurston county as
to the kind of weather they may expect
for the following "a hours. The Door
company has just instailed new and
more powerful whistle which can be
heard within a radius of at least eight
miles. The signals will be given at 8
o'clock every morning and the follow
ing code will be used:
Attention, blast, Is seconds; inter-
val of 10 seconds; fair weather, blast
of 5 seconds; rain or snow, 2 blasts of
seconds; local rain or sncw, blasts
of seconds. Then, after an interval
of 10 seconds, these additional signals
will be given: lower temperature,
blast of seconds; higher temperature,
2 blasts of 2 second; cold wave. 3
blasts of seconds. If other concerns
throughout the county take up these
signals and repeat them, as 1t is hoped
they will, farmers all over the county
Will receive each day a warning as to
the kind of weather they may expect.
Threats that they would declare
Summit lake and the territory imme-
diately around it game reserve to
protect it's fish were made this week
by the members of the Thurston coun-
ty game commission after they had re-
ceived complaints that INSCRIPTIONS
sportsmen have been catching large
numbers of trout near the lakes small
outlet, where they are spawning.
| What is taken to mean the establish
ment of an important precedent was
made by the public service commission
this week when it ordered all three tel
ephone companies doing business al
Tenino to make physical connections
In this instance the commission com