The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-10-03
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

farties having dry cordwood for sale
VIII do well to see Mr.. f. T. Vernon of
Friday Harbor.
Born to the wife of Mr.. Harrison Cof-
hes' on Tuesday evening, IA boy. Both
mother and child doing well.
Berkshire and Poland China pigs, 6
weeks old, for sale or exchange. En-
qulre at postoffice, Decatur, Wash.
School will begin II re on Monday
next, October eth, with J. NJ Hatcher
as principal and Mrs. C.. NJ. Hammond
as primary teacher.
Tuesday the Thompson took on fl
teen tons of oats at the Trading Co.'S.
wharf and 1870 cases of salmon from the
Island Packing Co.
Mrs. G. N. Culver, of Point Law
renee, Orcas island, received the high
est award for pastel painting, at the
fair held at Whatcom last week.
Court convenes today for the Octol,.
term and any person who wishes to
take out his final citizenship papers
can do so by applying to the clerk.
Mr.. S. A. Weide, of E ,st Sodnd, was
awarded the first premium at the
Northwestern Fair, for the largest and
best exhibit of Riga Flax. Thi, proves
that our county leads in fax as well as
fruit culture.
A meeting of the Farmers Coop
erative Association will be held at the
Shaw island school house, OH Satur-
day, October twelfth, 1895, at the hour
of $50 p. III. All interested are re-
quested to be present.
AT a recent meeting of the Popull>t
central committee at Whatcom, Will
ID. Jenkins, editor of the Champion,
and J. {. Belden, Il member of the
committee INDUCED in a fist fight of
which Jenkins now wears black eve
as souvenir.
There will be a mission preached in
the Catholic church by r. iemptorist
Father from Seattle 1t will begin on
Sunday, Oct. 9th, and will continue
for one week. Services on Sunday at
1920 a. III. and 7:30 p. M. On week
days at 8 a. III. and 1880 p. III.
A New England supper followed by
the Mother Goose cantata will he given
by the ladies of Friday Harbor, in Odd
Fellows hall, on Wednesday evening,
October 9. Supper will be served from
6 to s. Tickets % cents, children 10
cents. A good time is promised to all
who attend.
One of the finest shipments cf italian
prunes we have ever seen was shown us
a few days ago at Orcas. They were
grown by Mr.. Lee, OH Shaw island and
are large and very regular i'm size, rich
in flavor and thoroughly ripe SO tina;
they dry to perfection and make at frs
class marketable fruit when properly
dryed.
Mr. Chas. Crawford, of Roche Har.
Dor met with a painful acci lent on
Tuesday afternoon which will result in
his losing his third and little finger of
his left hand. Mr.. Crawford was run
ming the saw which cuts the hoops for
the barrels, at the mill, and he slipped
and fell with his hand across the saw.
He came here in the evening to have
DR.. Wright dress his hand but fading
him absent on professional visit he
had Peter Jensen dress it as best he
could and then waited for the doctors
return.
Mr.. George Gibbs, of Orcas, was
awarded first premium at the Whatcom
fair for The largest and best exhibit #
tulip bulbs Mr.. Gibbs has some 4, 90
of these bulbs on his place near Orcas,
and has been very successful in prope-
eating them. The enterprise is new
one i'm this section of the country but
he has fully demonstrated the fact that
they can be very successfully cultivated
here and we hope the enterprise may
prove to be as profitable as it has sue
cessful to him.
One of the finest apples at the What
com fair was an immense Baldwin from
Mr.. Wesley Warmers orchard on 10
neg island. 1t is fourteen inches i'll
circumference and weighs full twenty
ounces, or a pound and quarter. Like
q considerable amount OF other me
fruit sent from this county it was re-
ceiyed too late to be entered for compe-
tition and therefore could not take
premium. 1t was kindly donated to
THE islander and is now on eXhlbi
ton at the Post-Intelligencer Office III
Whatcom, where it attracts good deal
of attention.