Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-04-03
BRIGHTON PARK.

~ 4h uihCihhu, eth PicyCC vi thO
Thurston County Railroad company,
spent Sunday visiting his family here.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. West, Mrs.
Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs. George Law
renee, Miss Jessie Mulholland and
f. w. Lewis of this locality were in
! Olympia Monday attending the fun
eral of the late Mrs. Tunniclff, who
was member of Brighton Park
Grange No. 1853.
Mrs. E. Mum was in Olympia
Tuesday on business.
N. S. Hawkins of this neighborhood
has traded his 10-acre farm for prop
erty in Olympia, though he expects
to stay on the farm until next fall,
and Mrs. Hawkins, who is working
at the John Barnes residence in
Olympia, will remain there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Beatty were
called to Seattle on business Monday
but expect to be home in a few days.
A number of young people from
around the county attended the ball
game Sunday.
Miss Lena Koch was in Olympia
Sunday attending church.
Mrs. Walter Williams, deputy as
SCISSOR for this district, is pretty busy
with her work these days. She is the
first woman to be appointed deputy
assessor.
Every one in the community is
busy planting, blowing or spraying.
and getting all the spring work done.
Only two more weeks of the Stan
dard's contest-everybody is wonder
ing who will be the lucky one.
F.. A. Roberts is busy building on
his new place this side of Tumwater.
district and seven of the Bordeaux
district petitioned County Superin-
: tendent l.. A. Kibbe this week to con-
1 solidate the two districts and Mr..
. Kibbe has set May as the date for
: the hearing on the petition. 1t is
said another adjoining district also
: seeks to consolidate with Little Rock,
g and the latter has fine eight-room
: school building which could accom0-
t date all pupils thus brought to it by
e the completion of some of the rooms.
=
: County Superintendent l.. A. Kib-
q be this week appointed G. H. Goldrup
d on the board of directors of the Fair
n view district, where the recent cleo
l. ton failed to bring out vote.
n
Because the residents of TeninO
J. proceeded under the wrong statute
n and awarded a contract for paving
l. the main street of their town before
S, presenting the matter to the county
n commissioners, the latter were COM
PEELED this week to refuse the petit
Of ton presented by delegation from
l. that city this week, asking that the
county pay a part of the cost of the
Is Improvement. Had the council of
Tenino proceeded under the statute
* which permits the town and county
to divide equally AZ per cent of the
cost of the improvement, the county
might have paid it's share if the COM
mssoners had deemed the expendi-
ye ture advisable, which would have
" meant between $1,000 and $4,000 to
\. Tenino.
.. Tenino will soon be in the midst of
k<~vrr
Of has never before seen. The new Rus
~ sci stone building has just been COM
,e pleted and occupied by Joe Bern
Of hardt, Portland man. Messrs.
d ers of the Oasis hotel, have purchased
t. the Tenino bakery property adjoining
the hotel and will erect an annex
r. 5OXl00 feet in size and two stories in
" height. The new bungalow of Mrs.
e NJ. c.. Cole is nearing completion,
n while she has also let contract for
n new stone Office building. Harry
Richards is having plans drawn for a
two-story apartment house at the cor
IF ner of Fifth and f streets; p c. Kib-
4 be is erecting two new cottages; John
N Broomstrom of Centralia has the con-
re tract for building a new residence for
MIR and Mrs. +. r. Scholz; Alfred
id Webster is building a modern five-
ut room bungalow; A. B. Temple is put
Id ting up large residence opposite the
Mutual mill; f. s. Abbott has just
81 completed new residence of First
~ street. and to top all of this off, the
~ town council last week let $37 ,00t
le paving contract.