Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-04-27
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

w. 0. Robins went to Everett yester-
day.
S. Eurchison left yesterday for Port |
land, expecting to be absent a week or
ten days.
Tho Cotillion club will give its first
after Lenten ball at X. of p. hall this !
evening.
Mr.. Charles e. Taylor returned from
Roche Harbor on the last trip of the !
Evangel.
ID. j. Mum, of New Westminster,
friend of J..C. McLennan, is at The
Fairhaven.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. w. Strader went to
Seattle on the Premier yesterday, to be
absent two or three days.
G. w. Waldron is expected back
from San Francisco the latter part of
this week or first Of next.
Davey q Gibson have commenced
work on the coal bunkers, Gaping
piles and fitting the timbers.
County Auditor Collier yesterday
issued a license to wed to Julius NJ.
Scarseth and Louisa Christian Jacob
son, both of Fairhaven.
]. NJ. Acheson left yesterday for
Washington, Iowa, in response to a
telegram notifying him of the danger
Gus illness of his father. He hopes to
return within three weeks.
The Dispatch brought over from
Friday Harbor yesterday twenty-five
carcasses of lambs and sheep and four
of veal for ID. w. Felt, and two tons of
potatoes for W. A. WOodin.
o. c. Pratt, Of Seattle, formerly re-
porter in the superior court of this
county, accompanied by Mrs. Pratt, is
at The Fairhaven. He is making a
record of the case Of Tingley VS.. Ell
bridge ct al, now in progress.
A hot journal in the engine of the
electric ligh station made it necessary
to shut down from o'clock until mid
night, plunging the city in Egyptian
darkness. This is the first time in over
year that the incandescent circuit has
failed to deliver its juice at night.
The wood work on the first one of
the thirty coal cars being built at the
! Fairhaven Foundry is nearly COM
pleted, but the iron work is delayed by
! the non-arrival of material. Twenty
men are now employed at the foundry.
Councilman Ahern left yesterday on
the south bound train for Seattle.
From there he will go to Getchell, on
the line of the Great Northern, where
he will soon open a large boarding
house. He expects to return home
Saturday or Monday.
Customs Inspector G. w. Snyder, of
! Sumas, was i'm the city yesterday. He
reports a gradual awakening of inter-
est in county politics in that locality
/ 10
developing good deal of strength as
a candidate for auditor.
Judge Mckay, Of Salt Lake, brother
in-law Of Mrs. Il. w. Gillette and Mrs.
John Black, arrived yesterday and
leaves today for San Francisco, accom-
panied by Mrs. Gillette. The judge
goes to attend the grand gathering OF
the Legion of Honor to be held there
in a few days. Mrs. Gillette will re-
turn in about two weeks.
A large number of the Odd Fellows
of the Bay cities are at Seattle in at
tendance upon the celebration Of the
seventy-third anniversary of Odd Eel
lows by Seattle lodge. During Monday
the visitors were received and enter
tanned by the committees at the Crane
hotel. In the afternoon baseball games
football games and a tug-of-war be
tween teams from the city lodge
amused the visitors. At night eacl
lodge offered an entertainment, and |
grand ball was given.
Fairhaven coke has met another sue
= cessful test, this time in the larges
a coke consuming region in the West
. Two carloads were recently shipp d Il
/ Butte, Montana, for trial in Shelters
T. Mr.. G. Y. Larrabee has just received
l.. from Thomas COnch, superintendent
r of the Boston and Montana Cope
l. Company, letter containing the re
suit of the trial of this coke in tn
e smelters of the company. He state
/. that they started with the same qua
/, tity and same charge they had beel
K smelling and attained the same result
}. as had been attained when Pennsyl
II vania coke had been used all the time
h Frank p. Dow returned yesterda
, from business and pleasure trip t
Hamilton, Sedro, Mount Vernon an
La Conner. He says that the farmer
of the Swinomish flats still have in
= mense quantities of last years hay an
y oat crop on hand, having held the
~ surplus last fall for the rise that neve
~ came, the comparatively low price
being due principally to the depresse
,, condition of the lumber trade and col
. sequent inactivity in logging camp
n Hay is now selling for $40 per ton G
- the farms and oats for SIS. The cult
~ waited area of the flats will be consde
- ably increased this year and as such
4 misfortune as a crop failure has new
ia been known there an immense J ield
expected.
lie Once In a Life Time
b, $500, $500, $4.00, $500, $40. Yo
e. choice In an elepant snit for 81 :