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VOL. LIX. NO. 25.
COUNCIL SLASHES
MUNICIPAL BUDGET
WORK UNTIL MIDNIGHT PRUN
-ING REQUESTS OK DEPART
MENTS
The city fathers blew the dust
from off the scissors and slashed mer
rily away on the city budget which
is now being prepared for the coming
year, at an adjourned meeting Tues-j
day evening. Aside from the city
clerk's and city treasurer's depart
ments practically every department
considered by the council was-cut
down.
The entire budget will be consid
ered at the next meeting for, although
the council worked close to midnight
the members were not able to dis
cuss and take final action on the bud
get as a whole.
The assessed valuation of Olvmpia
is $3,288,661. This is about $43,000
less than last year. The decrease in
valuation is due to the shipyards
being taken over by the government.
The demands of the various offices
for the coming year bring the total
of the budget up to $60,784 plus
$5,360 for the city library. This
makes a total of $75,144. The
amount that Olympia has to spend
and which the councilmen are figur
ing on expending for the coming
year is $49,299, raised on a 15 mill
levy on the stated assessed valuation.
This means that the city council will
have to cut the proposed budget down
$25,845.
The council voted to eliminate the
revision of the city ordinances. This
cuts down the budget S6OO, ns that
was tho estimated cost of this work.
The SI,BOO to be paid the assistant
city engineer was left out when the
position of assistant city was
eliminated f rom the engineer's de
partment.
The city health officer's proposed
budget asked that the salary of the
city health officer be placed at S9OO
instead of S6OO as he is receiving at
the present time. Tlie council de
cided that the salary would remain
at S6OO.
F. G. Blakeslee, chairman of the
city park board, appeared before the
council and urged the paving of East
Bay avenue and also stated thnt the
bridge at the park is in need of a
great many repairs.
Tho council discussed the city
library appropriation and practically
decided to allow the library only
$1,250. The library budget called
for $5,300. The city feels that with
the $1,250 from the city and the
same amount from the county and
$1 ,500 from the rent that is received
the library can be run in good shape.
RURAL LETTER CARRIERS
TO GATHER HERE'SUNDAY
Auto Ride to Camp Lewis One Fea
ture of Two-Day Conven
tion.
Some 80 delegates, representing
all parts of the state, are expected In
Olympia Sunday and Monday, at the,
annual convention of the Washing-.
ton Rural Letter Carriers' Assocla- j
tion. Sunday afternoon the visitors!
will be taken on an auto ride to
Camp Lewis and will eat dinner at
the Hostess House, as the guests of
the Thurston county carriers.
Monday will be devoted to the,
business session, the meeting open-'
ing with at| Invocation by the Rev.,
John H. Secor, pastor of the First M. i
E. Church. The city's welcome will
be extended by Mayor Jesse T. Mills,
to which H. J. Reed of Tacoma, pres
ident of the associtation, will re
spond.
Addresses then will be d -llvered
by Frank S. Clem, assistant post
master at the local office, and Fred
W. Lewis of Brighton Park; officers
will be elected; resolutions adopted,
and delegates named for the national
convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Sep
tember 27-30.
The eight rural carriers of Thurs
ton county will be hosts to the dele
gates, details of the convention being
handled by John Hopp and A. L,
Bryning. In 1913 the association
held its meeting at Tumwater.
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Rainier Mill Employe Killed.
Roy Runyan. employed at the
*4Psas fatally injured last Friday by a
saw. He died five hours after the
accident.
itastrinQton Stan&ari)
ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860.
HITS NORMAL GRADUATES.
Ruling Says Diplomat* Do Not. Make
Them High School Teachers.
High schools are not "common
schools" as that term is used in the
state school laws, and therefore diplo
mas from normal schools do not en
title holders to teach in the high
schools, the attorney general's de
partment has advised Mrs. Josephine
Corliss Preston, state school superin
tendent. They must take the regu
lar examination, the opinion says.
The effect of the ruling, it is stated,
will be to compel normal school
graduates now high school instruct
ors to accept positions in grade and
rural schools, thus relieving the crit
ical shortage of such instructors.
High schools have had less difficulty
in obtaining teachers, it is reported
UNIONS READY TO
OBSERVE LABOR DAY
DAY'S CELEBRATION WILL BE
STAGED AT PRIEST POINT
i
PARK MONDAY
Labor day will be observed by the
people of Olympia and vicinity Mon
day with a picnic and celebration at
Priest Point park, under the auspices
of the Oylmpia Trades Council, clos
ing with a ball al the Shipyard Ath
letic Association hull in the evening.
There will also be jitney dances at
the chalet at Priest Point during the
day. Athletic events for men, wom
en and children will occupy much of
the afternoon. An able speaker will
deliver an address on a Labor Day
theme.
Beginning at 10 a. m. busses run
ning from Fourth and Main will
carry crowds to the park. The
Trades Council has arranged to have
adequate numbers of cars to handle
the people without crowding or long
waits, and at a fare of 10 cents. At
the park the committee will provide
an abundance of coffee, sugar and
cream. "Guests will provide their
own chicken and pickle* and the ap
petite," says the official program.
Excellent music is promised both
at the park dance and at the ball in
the evening at the old skating rink,
the hall of the Shipyard Athletic As
sociation.
i The committee in charge of the
events consists of C. B. Young, chair
man; A. J. McOaughun, George Wil
ley. L. E. Castle. P.. S. Writer, and
Fred Hudson, secretary of the Trades
Council.
The original plans for the day in
cluded a speech by Hay McKaig,
master of the North Dakota State
Grange. The speaker who will give
, the address of the day has not been
selected.
LARGE CLASS AT HIGH
Enrolment This Year Hvprotrd to Be
Uitiewt in History.
Students who were in the army ;
during the war or working in the i
shipyards or other industries are re- i
turning to school this fall, and the;
enrolment at the local high school is j
expected by officials to be the largest I
in its history. Increased facilities of
the new building are also inducing
various outside districts to send their
pupils to the Olympia high school,
further enlarging the attendance.
Enrolment at the school is being
made this week, in advance of the
formal opening of the new year next
Tuesday, so that the usual delay will
be avoided and work started on the
first day of the term. Principal E. L.
Breckner requests all pupils from
outlying districts who plan to attend
the local high school this year to reg
ister not later than Saturday.
CLUB FESTIVAL FRIDAY.
I Annual Gathering of Hoys and Girls
to Be Held Here.
The Boys' and Girls' clubs of
Thurston county will hold their an
nual festival in this city Friday. The
club members will gather at Seventh
and Main streets at 10 o'clock in the
! morning and will parade through the
! main streets of Olympia, as the first
' event of the day.
| Demonstrations of the work of the
- agriculture, canning, and garden
| clubs will be given at Priest Point
I park immediately following the pa
-1 rade. Exhibitits of the work that
j the boys and girls have done in the
last year will also be shown at this
time. Songs, addresses by members
of the clubs and club leaders, and a
luncheon are included on the pro
gram which follows the demonr.tra
| tion.
"HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 29, 1919
SUES CITY IK fIGHT
OVER Garbage Dump
OLYMPIA SHINGLE COMPANY
TAKES SEVERAL YEARS'
WRANGLE INTO COURT
The several years' fight of the
Olympia Shingle company against
the garbage dump maintained by the
city near its property on the water
front broke into court this week
when the company, through Attor
ney J. O. Marts, filed suit to have
the dump declared a nuisance and
the city restrained from using it.
The suit is signed by L. Vaughn,
president of the company, and Attor
ney Harry L. Parr is associate coun
sel.
For several years the officers of
the company have periodically pro
tseted to the city council regarding
the dump and at one time threat
ened to move their plant away from
the city unless the situation was ad
justed satisfactorily. The differ
ences would be settled temporarily
but difficulties would again arise and
only recently at the first council
meeting this month, officers of the
company addressed the councilmen,
vigorously protesting against the
dump.
The city, city officials and council-
Imen are named as defendants in the
[suit. The complaint charges that for
[the past three months the grounds
have been used by the city over the
! protests und objections of the com
[pany, that the city has encroached
; upon tlie company's property and is
traspassing on it, that the city is
using tho dump in a manner inju
rious to the health of the company's
employes and Interfering with the
loading of cars by the company, and
that it is maintaining a nuisance
without specific authority from the
legislature to use its own property
for such a purpose.
Declaring that an emergency ex
ists, the company asks for a tempo
rary injunction, continuing in effect
until the court decides whether it
should be made permanent and the
city forced to abate the alleged nui
sance and pay the cost of the action
against it.
NEW BL'CODA MILL READY
Mutual Lumber Company Will Start
I'p Its Plant Next Week.
The new mill erected in Bucoda by
the Mutual Lumber company will be
gin operations the first of next week,
steam being turned into the boilers
for the first time Wednesday of this
week. The new plant replaces the
Mutual mill destroyed by fire in Bu
coda several years ago. Since the
fire the company has been operating
in Tenino. The mill has caused Bu
coda to take a new lease of life,
many new houses being erected in
the town and new business openings.
SNEAK THIEVES ENTER
TWO SOUTHSIDE HOMES
Attempt to Ilreak Into Two Others
but Are Scare* 1 Away—All on
One Day.
| Reports received by the police de
partment Tuesday told how sneak
thieves, presumably those who en
tered several suites at the Capital
Apartments Monday afternoon, also
j broke into several homes in that sec
jtion of the city the same day.
I Mrs. Harry L Wortman of 210
i East Eleventh street, reports that her
home was entered early in the after
noon while the family was absent and
that a $5 war savings stamp and
; money in the baby's bank were taken.
The home of Frank Maahs. next door,
at Franklin and Eleventh streets, was
'ulso entered but nothing was taken,
although the thief completely ran
sacked the house.
| He attempted to enter the home of
'Judge Wallace Mount and also slipped
'a key into the door of the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Thad Fierce but was
frightened away when Mrs. Fierce
came to the door to inquire what he
wanted.
i 4
Local friends are receiving an
nouncements of the marriage recent
ly in Los Angeles of Miss Dorothy
Davidson, daughter of Mrs. Louise
Davidson, to Kenneth 15. Wilson, an
employe of the Olympia National
bank.
HIKES REPORT OK
NEW CAPITOL GrouP
SEATTLE ENGINEER FAVORS
CONTINUATION OK ORIGINAL
WILDER & WHITE PLAN
Partial report made to the state
capitol commission the fore part of
\his week by Engineer R. H. Thorn
Aon ol Seattle of a resurvey of the
pew capitol buildings site recom
An ends a north and south axis for the
proposed group of three structures,
'including the Temple of Justice, now
nearly completed, a main capitol
building and an admins'ration build
ing.
This proposal reverts to the north
face design of the Wilder & White
plans, over adoption of which opposed
interests have clashed for the past 10
years, and overrules the Main street
entrance plan favored by the late
Governor Lister.
Engineer Thomson finds it impos
sible to use the old McGraw founda
tion in his proposed grouping, which
is patterned after the triMgular ar
rangement of the national capitol and
two administrative buildings in
Washington. D. C\ In this adapta
tion to the local stiuation the Temple
of justice would be the most westerly
of the group, with the state capitol
tufiin building dominating the high
point near where the executive man
sion now stands, and the administra
tion building forming the eastern foot
of the triangle.
Engineer Thomson remarks that if
the flight of marble steps from the
railroad station up the hill, as drawn
in tb# Wilder & White plans, were
constructed, this grouping would
confront the visitor with a command
ing view of the main building when
he reached the top step. He favors
terracing and parking the hillside
down to the Sound both on the north
and east of the group.
In important particulars Engineer
Thomson's report supports the group
ing plan steadily upheld by Senator
P. H. Carlyon throughout the long
fight that has preceded prospects of
actual construction. As the report
was incomplete on account of delay
in obtaining contours, the commis
sion, postponed further consideration
until Saturday forenoon, when an in
spection will be made of the site by
the commission and consulting engi
neer for a practical demonstration
of the grouping proposed.
Engineer Thomson advises that the
main capitol building, designed for
legislative use, be erected first, but
the commisslcn believes that it will
lack funds necessary for this work
and favors construction of the admin
istration building to provide pernia
j nent quarters for state department
| work, leaving the old legislative halls
| to serve for another 60 days' seslson.
not due until 1921.
MOST OF COUNTY SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN NEXT TUESDAY
Tej»ehers Still Needed in Ten Dis-
tricts. County Superintend
ent Reports
Practically every school in the
county will open next Tuesday, but
there are several that will be de
layed, as County Superintendent
Hrown states that Thurston county
is still short 10 teachers.
Improvements started or made dur
ing the summer in this county include
a new high school building at Yelni
utul a new school building started in
the Gibson district. Mr. Brown says
that a number of very beneficial coii
solidations have been made by the
various school districts. Among these
is the consolidation of the Mountain
View and East Union schools with
the Rainier school. More than 125
children will attend the school as the
result of the consolidation.
"As soon as the paving between
Tenino and Olympia is done." said
Superitnendent Brown, "we expect to
have a number of the schools in this
section consolidate with the Turn
water schools."
Winner in Baby Show
An Olympia baby. Rois Marie Wat
sou. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Watson, won first prize
in the third class, at the better ba
ilies' contest at the Southwest Wash
ington Fair last week, with a score of
I' 7 per cent
PRICE FIVE CENTB.
GOODHELL TO TELL OK WORK
Baptist Minister to Speak at "Y"
Meeting Sunday Evening.
Special services for laymen are to
be conducted in the high school
auditorium next Sunday evening
under the auspices of the locil Y. M.
C. A., at which Rev. C'aas. T. Good
sell. pastor of the First Baptist
church, will deliver an address on
"Experiences and Obesrvations of a
'Y' Man in France."
President P. M. Troy of the Asso
ciation will preside and a number of
features are being arranged, includ
ing a community sing led by George
E. Knapp. of Tacoina. formerly a
song leader in the "Y" service at
Camp Pike, Arkansas. The churches
of the city will dispense with their
usual Sunday evening services. The
committee announces no admission
will be charged and no offering
taken.
BRIDGE CONTRACT
IS FINALLY SIGNED
COMMISSIONERS CI/OSK AWARD,
SUBJECT TO ALTERATION'
BY CITY
_
The long-talked of bridge across
the Des Chut"s river on West Fourth
street, which has been kicked around
from pillar to post by the city,- coun
ty and state the last three years, isn't
a football any longer—the county
commissioners Monday awarded the
contract for the construction of the
bridge to Charles G. Huber of the
Union Bridge company, on a bid of
$132,750.
M. J. Neylon moved that the com
missioners sign the contract and his
motion was seconded by Commission
er James Sams. Commissioners Sams
and Neylon voted to award the con
tract, while Commissioner S. Y. Ben
nett voted against it.
The contract, as awarded, calls for
the construction of a concrete bridge
with a wooden approach from the
Westside. Of the $132,750 the coun
ty pays $124,000 and the city has
agreed to pay $8,750.
The city, however, is arranging to
hold a bond election to vote the coun
ty $25,000 more, to be used in the
construction of the bridge, if this
election is successful then the coun
ty will build the bridge entirely of
concrete and eliminate the wooden
approaches.
Arrangements were made with the
Union Bridge company so that if the
bond election does fail they will put
in wooden approaches, and if It is
successful they will put in the con
crete approaches for the additional
$25,000.
"I voted against awarding the con
tract at this time." said Commission
er Bennett, "because 1 felt that we
should wait until the city could hold
a bond election, which would not
take long, and award the whole
thing at once. As it Is now every
thing is up in the air."
The contract has been closed and
the bridge is going to be built,
though there is still a little argu
ment between the city and the coun
ty over the alternative proposals. At
their special meeting Tuesday even
i ing the rouncilmen modified their
! rade. Exhibits of the work that
. proposed bond issue and limtted it to
$25,000 instead of "$25,000 or such
sum as may be necessary." The mat
ter probably will he threshed out
further at the council meeting next
Tuesday evening.
TO SURVEY YKLM PROJECT
State Engineers Will Co-operate With
Directors of Irrlgation District.
The directors of the Yelm irriga
tion district of Thurston county and
the secretary, F. H. Ro.vce, visited the
office of Marvin Chase, chairman of
the state reclamation board, Tuesday
afternoon and conferred with Mr.
Chase and E M. Chandler, chief en
gineer for the service.
At the close of the conference a
resolution was passed instructing Mr.
Chase and Mr. Chandler to visit the
project, make a survey and co-oper
ate with the directors and officials
back of the project in further devel
opment of irrigation in this district.
Yew Building
Charles R. Talcott. E. V. Drewry
and Ira C. Miller filed articles of in
! corporation this week for the Olym
pia Warehouse company, capitalized
at $25,000, which will erect a one
i story concrete building at Sixth and
I Columbia streets. Tne building will
| be 120 feet square and probably will
i be used as a garage.
WHOLE NUMBER 3037
BREAK GROUND Hill
$300,000 Building
ST. MARTIN'S COLLEGE HOPES
TO CELEBRATE 25TH ANNI
VERSARY WITH OPENING
More than doubling the capacity of
the St. Martin's Colege building at
Lacey, an extension for which ground
was broken this week will be com
pleted next spring. The cost will be
approximately $300,000. A Tacoma
contractor is handling the work, as
Olympia contractors were unable to
furnish more than one of the two
concrete mixers required by the spec
ifications. The large quantities of
lumber and mortar necessary will be
supplied by Olympia firms, however
The new building will be 300 feet
long and 60 feet wide, and will form
the longer side of an L of which the
present building is the shorter side.
The two will , be continuous with
each other, the longer side of the
new building running north and
south. The college's plana provide
that in the event of more room being
needed, another building similar to
the present one will be constructed
running east and west, so that with
the present building, the one now
started, and the church in the middle,
a huge E will be formed.
The scheme of pressed brick and
Gothic architecture used in the exist
ing building of the college will be
carried out in the extension. There
will be three stories and a basement.
The basement will contain the kitch
en and dining-room. On the flrat
floor will be classrooms and the
chapel. More classrooms will be Cfn
the second floor, which will aIM
house the library. The reading room
In the present building will be con
nected with the new library. On tIM
third floor will be the students' dor
mitories. All these college facilities
will occupy the south 185 feet of the
building. The remaining 115 feet
will be used 'as quarters for the fac
ulty.
Only the foundation will be com
pleted before the fall raine, but it is
hoped to have the superstructure up
by April 12. which will be the twenty*
fifth anniversary of the founding of
the college.
The lafge new building is mad*
necessary by the growth in number
of students of the college. During
the academic year which closed thin
summer 249 students were enrolled*
They eome not only from local fam
ilies, but also from Seattle and tb*
rest of the state, and several have
even come from homes in British
Columbia and Alaska to attend St.
Martin's.
Father Bernard Neary is director
of the college. Both business and
classical courses are given, the work
embracing that of the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades in the grammar
school division; high school work
which is preparatory to college en
trance; a four-year college course,
and a four-year seminary course, for.
candidates for the priesthood
have g raduatad from the collage.
One feature of which the college is
Continued on Page Ten.
CITY TO PHY SHARE OF~
PAVING STREET TO PARK
Maxsmceting Approves East Bag
Avenue Project Committee
to Devise Plan.
Practically unanimous approval of
the proposal to pave East Bay avenue
from Fourth street to Priest Point
park so as to provide a suitable high
way to the city playground, was
given by the masstneeting at the
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
evening, when the subject was dis
cussed front all angles.
By formal vote of the meeting, a
"ways and means" committee was
authorized to investigate details of
the project, estimated to cost $50,000
or $60,000, and deviso a plan where
by a portion of the cost can be borne
by the entire city.
The meeting was called at the In
stance of the Chamber of Commerce
and President Fred W. Stocking
called it to order. Later he was
made permaueut chairman and Jeese
Shelley secretary. The committee
named to work out the details con
sists of Win Wright. H. T. Jones, P.
M. Troy, Councilman Haycox and W.
M. Duncan. They are to report to a
later meeting
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