The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-08-22
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

| Jeweler.
Inc steamer Angeles, of Port An.
geies' was in port yesterday.
About 200 head of sheep have been
shipped from this point i'm the past
week.
Attention is called to the new add O,
the Bay View hotel, Oh the third page
of today's issue.
Inc Utopia was in port this morning
ana received consignment of 2OOC
cases OF salmon from the Island Pack.
ink Co.
IL costs no more to live we'll than To
Aalf starve, so drop into the Bay View
hotel, Sunday, or any other day, for
dinner.
This office is indebted to Mr.. J. T.
Walker for beautiful boquet of flow
ers which we now have to adorn orr
sanctum table.
). l.. Davis, of Richardson, reports
that he will be short some fifty or sixty
tons in his hay crop this year owing to
the lack of rain.
Chicken dinner with ice cream etc.,
will be next Sundays dinner at the
Bay View hotel. Everybody invited at
the popular price, % cents.
Just arrived at Holloway's jewelrv
store, new alarm clocks that shine all
night, no lighting matches to see the
time if you buy one of them.
The dance given by some of the
young people on Tuesday evening in
the Odd Fellows hall was fairly well
attended, and highly enjoyed by all
present.
The 200 yard horse race, for a purse
of $500, agreed to by John King and
Jeff. Bradshaw, which came off in the
Valley, last Saturday, was won by Mr..
Bradshaw's horse, by about two feet.
Mr.. J. Greenberg, the merchant,
will go to Whatcom, Friday, and will
return Monday, with some new goods
and remain here two or three weeks
He is the man that sells goods cheap
Call and see him. X
County Commissioner VIM. Graham,
of Richardson, has just completed a
large, new barn on his place near the
water front. He says that he will have
about thirty tons of oats and fair crop
of hay this season
We are reliably informed, that the
young ladies who were using the lamp
at the Cascade Lake Hotel, on the
morning when it burned, eXtinguished
it before they left the room, and that
the fire must have originated from
some other cause.
Mr. James Buchanan has four of the
finest Clydesdale horses we have ever
seen in the west, one of them weighing
twenty. hundred, and the smallest one
over l, 200. He should by all means ex-
hibit one of them at least at the fair to
be held at New Whatcom, next month.
Mr.. E. T. Vernon who has been cor
responding with Victoria parties for
some time past regarding the handling
of eggs ard poultry, has made satisfac
tory arrangements and is now prepared
to purchase eggs or chickens in large or
small lots and pay you the current mar
ket price for them. He pays cash.
Mr.. James Buchanan, of Richardson,
is now building a handsome brick resi-
dence on his farm on Lopez island 1t
covers ground space of rs 81 feet,
and when completed will be two stories
high above the basement. One of the
basement rooms will be fitted up and
used for a milk cellar and the other one
for wash room etc. He is also erect
ing fine barn 20 X 81 feet, and two
stories high.
The citizens of Lopez seem to have a
new method for catching halibut. A
large one, which weighed little over
100 pounds came up to within two or
three feet of the shore, at high tide, to
get a salmon head which had been
thrown out and it was spied by BERTHE
Weeks, who at once secured an ak, and
wading in up to his knees, killed it and
hauled it ashore. We know this is no
fish story for We editor enjoyed por-
ton of it at his dinner Sunday.
B. w. Holloway, the jeweler, of Fri
day Harbor, has now got we'll settled
in his new store and would be pleased
to have all the people on the islands
call and see him. He is here to stay
asld not only wishes the dear people to
say they are glad there is a jeWeler
here, but to practically sympathize
with him in his affiiction The has to
live), by bringing in their old watches,
clocks and jewelry and getting them
fixed or else replacing them with new
ones. He carries complete line OF
watches. clocks, silverware and lewelry
that he will sell at prices that will make