Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-12-04

Phil Sklllman, deputy county clerk
for the last two terms under D. G..
Parker, has been appointed to the
same position by /. \. Holmes, county
clerk elect, according to an announce
meut made this week.
There were y births and only two
deaths in the city proper during No
yember. according to the report of
Health Officer Robert kincaid Two
4 deaths were also recorded at ST.
Peters hospital.
The trial of W. Dean Hays on the
charges growing out of the failure of
the Olympia Bank G. Trust company
last September, is due to be started
before a jury in the local superior
court next Monday.
Mrs. j. S. Mckee, president of the
Federated Woman's clubs of the
state, will be the guest of honor at a
reception at the home of Mrs. r. r.
Streets next Monday, to be given by
the Eenati club. The members of all
of the women's organizations of the
city have been invited to attend the
function.
Joe Walker, SO years old, native
son of the county having been born
and raised at Gate, died at the family
home there Monday night, the funeral
services being conducted Wednesday
at the home by Peter Wicks of the
Shaker church and interment being
made in the Gate cemetery. A widow
and three children, two girls and
boy, all married, survive.
The annual memorial services of
the local lodge of Elks will be held
at the Presbyterian church at 2
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, when Port
land C. Hunt of Seattle will deliver
the memorial address. Some excel
lent musical numbers, including vo-
cal solos by Mrs. Victoria Haas Kelvin,
a reading by Mrs. B. F. Hume and a
eulogy by Charles B. Wood, complete
the program.
Investigations by w. L. McAtee, a
government expert, for the past two
weeks have confirmed the claims of
local oystermen that bluebills and
scooter ducks eat many oysters from
the beds, the expert having reached
this conclusion after spending two
weeks on Oyster Bay with w. p.
Vance, special patrolman for the
loystermen. After spending two weeks
more at Oyster Bay, McAtee will con-
|tinue his Investigations at Mud Bay.
Extensive changes which will give
them the use of almost the entire
building for their store are being
made by Messrs. Johnson & Granger,
lproprietors of the Olympia Hat &
Furnishing company, to prepare for
the proper display of the new and
larger stock of mems furnishings and
clothing they will handle. When the
work is finished, the store will occupy
all of the room except portion used
! by the Carlyon Real Estate company,
the old partition having been taken
out. The display window is also be-
ing remodelled and new interior fix
lures installed throughout the store.
Whatever rumpus there was smol-
dering over the city's public market
was settled Wednesday evening so
far as the city is concerned when the
council renewed the lease on the Ogle
building at Fifth and Columbia
streets, with the proviso that when
the revenues from the renting of
stalls in the market fail to pay the
rent, the city will not be liable for
the difference. w. c. Bateman &
Son have taken a lease on the Du-
fault building just across the street,
now occupied by the postoffice, which
will be vacated some time this month,
and some of those now using stalls
in the public market expect to move
the entire market to the Dufault
building, but this failed.