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

Ladies dress goods, cheap, at Muir
rays.
b. w. Holloway, Matchmaker and
Jeweler.
l.. b. Carter is repairing his wharf al
the foot of Spring street.
New furniture store. Fine stock. l22:
Elk ST., Whatcom. ]. H. Whaling
proprietor.
Mr.. Xix is driving the piles for j. l.
Farnsworth's new wharf at the foot Of
Spring street.
Parties having dry cordwood for sale
will do we'll to see Mr.. E. It. Vernon OF
Friday Harbor.
Mr.. w. A. Wakefield reports that he
mas grown some of the finest apples
and pears on Orcas island.
The feed mill at Argyle is now in
operation, and persons desiring grain
ground can have it done at any time.
The school apportionment for the
quarter ending September 80, 1895, for
this county amounts to about $4,000.
School opened here last Monday
morning with ALI enrolment of 81 pu-
pills, As in the primary department
and SO in the grammer school.
The New England supper and enter
tainment given by the ladies, in Odd
Fellows hall, last evening, was a grand
success financially as we'll as socially.
The county commissioners have been
in session since Monday morning but
as the report of their proceedings is not
yet complete we will not attempt to
print same until next week.
A meeting of the Farmers Coop
erative Association will be held at the
Shaw island school house, on Satur-
day, October twelfth, 1895, at the hour
of 2:30 p. m. All interested are re-
quested to be present.
A circular issued by State Superin-
tendent Bean, with regard to the new
school text books is a valuable one to
parents and teachers and should be
carefully read by both and copies of it
preserved for future reference.
Mrs. B. w. Holloway, of this place,
received nine first premiums at the
Northwestern Fair, held at Whatcom
last month. The awards were given on
fancy needle and drawn work. San
Juan county captured fair percentage
of the highest premiums and might just
as we'll have had more had we shown
any of our best live stock, fruit, or fish
Eight or ten piles have been driven
for some British Columbia parties in
Harvey channel, near GrindstOne bay.
for the purpose of locating fishing traps
which we understand they expect to
put in next spring. The same company
has partially secured water right at
a little lake near Grindstone bay and it
now looks very much as though anoth
err salmon cannery might be built in
that vicinity.
The Orcas fruit drier is now in per-
feet running order and the company is
turning out some very fine dried fruit.
The finest prunes they have yet dryed
came from the Lee place on Shaw is
land and the Chatterton place on this
island. It is a shame that the machin-
cry was so late in arriving here as the
best part of the season was over before
they could get the plant in operation,
and only comparatively small
amount of fruit can be dried this year.
A subscription paper has been started
for the purpose of raising sufficient
funds to secure new town pump and
also to have the spring thoroughly
cleaned. The amount needed to do so
in first-class shape is about $1,000 and
such amount ought to be cheerfully
given. Any person who feels that he
can help to raise the above amount by
contributing something should call at
THE ISLANDER office and subscribe.
Let us have a new "Town Pump"