The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-12-05
LOCAL AND Personal

Mr.. j. c. Clinton returned from q
business trip to Whatcom, Saturday.
Mr.. J. a. Gould went to Seattle on
the Thompson, Tuesday, on business.
Mrs. Isaac Sandwich, of Roche Har.
Dor, has been quite i'll for a few DAYS
past.
Messrs Dell, Bert and Charley Tiff,
of Shaw island, were in the Harbor.
Monday.
New furniture store. Fine stock. 1926
Elk ST., Whatcom. ]. II. Whaling,
proprietor.
Mr.. &. III. Showers, of East Sound,
was in the Harbor the last of the week
on business.
Mr.. A. P. Vaughn, of West Sound,
is spending few days in the county
seat this week.
Children's rubbers at % cents a pair
and ladies' oil grain shoes at Sl.35 per
PAIR, at Murray's.
Mr.. F. S. Keen went to Port Towns
end on the Thompson, Tuesday, and
returned yesterday.
Mrs. Eunice Stevens, of Shaw island,
is in the Harbor, visiting her grandson,
| Newton Jones and family.
Mr.. P. WEIGH, proprietor of the
Tourists hotel, went to Port Townsend,
on the Thompson, Tuesday.
Mrs. M. A. Woodruff, who has been
sojourning on Brush island for few
weeks past is at home again.
Mrs. J. l.. Farnsworth is visiting
friends at Roche Harbor this week,
and Jim is rustling his grub as best
he can.
Mr.. G. N. Culver, of Alderbroof
farm, Point Lawrence, returned from
short visit to the Bay Cities, OH the
Buckeye, Monday.
Mr.. l.. G.. Larson has received quite
large consignment of young fruit
trees and is now kept busy setting them
out ON his place near the Harbor.
Mrs. C. e. Olney, of Marysville, who
has been in the Harbor for several days
past, visiting her sister Mrs. J. A.
Gould and family, returned to her
home last Tuesday.
Mr.. B. w. Holloway, left Monday,
on the Buckeye, for Anacortes, Mt
Vernon and the adjoining country, on
a business trip and will be absent
about week or ten days.
Mr.. John A. Devlin, of Astoria, was
in the Harbor two or three days this
week. He came to attend the annual
meeting of the Island Packing Co. OF
which he is president.
Miss Agnes Aiken, of Point Law
renee, returned on the Buckeye, Mon
day, from Whatcom, where she has
been for the past few days visiting her
nephew, Mr.. O. III. Culvnr and family
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kings little three
year old son, Harry, met with pain
full accident, Tuesday, while playing
in the yard with sharp ak. The
childs' mother did not notice the little
ones playthlng and in a short while
he had chopped off his thumb and first
two fingers of his lest hand. Dr.
Wright was called as soon as he had
returned from a professional visit to
Roche Harbor, and dressed the wound
and today he is reported as getting
along nicely.
The Oceanic Canning Co.'S. steamer
! San Juan was put on the ways yester
day and is undergoing extensive aitera
tons. All of her cabin and upper
works will be taken off, and a smaller
pilot house put on her. She will be re
painted and her machinery will be
completely overhauled and put in first
class shape. The pile driver which
they have been building for sometime
past is now completed and the work O
driving piles for their new wharve'
will be commenced today or tomorrow
Mr.. Newhall has recently place.
new radiators in the steamer Buckeye
and now those who travel on her car
do so with the greatest comfort. Boil
Mr.. Newhall and Capt. Bowden ant
crew have shown a disposition to b'
very accommodating, and they hav'
won the Justly deserved praises which
we hear given them on all sides. oh
will run to any point within reason
able distance off her regular course, 10
messengers or freight in either large 0
small amounts, and only for this fac
MANY farmers who live some distanc
from the Thompsons' or her regula
stopping places would be greatly IN
convenienced and III many cases los
n,uch of their summers crop or vege
tables, fruits, grain, etc.
The ladies of San Juan Valley VII
give an entertainment and Christina
trae for the children on Christmas eve
in Union Grove hall, and judging iron
the preparations now being made
nron,ises to be very delightful affair
Between $40 and $50 has already beer
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