The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-13
LOCAL AND Personal
Murray is selling out.

X A1AsoVNAL
Murray is selling out.
sloop. '' y ouiiding fine
1s B, ". Holloway, Matchmaker and
mr.. VIM. Bratton, of Deer Harhor
was In town Tuesday. Aaioof'
The Oceanic Canning Co.'S Steamer
san Juan was in port last evening.
Mr.. D. Kepler, of Orcas island so,a
aour tons of cherries off his farm last
New furniture store. Fine stock ,o2,
Elk 81, Whatcom. J. 81. Whaling.
Mr.. VIM. Lake, of Ballard. a brother
VI MIS-. u. 81 briggs, is in the Harbor
Mr.. A. +. Vaughn, of West Sound.
was In the Harbor on business the first
Mr.. NJ. r. Noftsger went to Seattle
on the Thompson, Tuesday, for short
business trip.
Mr.. Steve Doyle well-known here is
now employed on the mail steamer
Lydia Thompson.
Mrs. Newton Jones went to Shaw
island last Friday to make relatives
and friends short visit.
Contractor J. l.. Farnsworth is pro-
crossing finely with his rock contact
for the Island Packing Go.
Mr.. +. P. NewhaIl, of Newhall. Or
cas- island, made business trip to Ana
cortes the first of the week.
Mr.. Chas. Leavell, of Olga, expects
to leave Saturday for short visit to
his sister at New Westminster, BIC.
Captain III. H. Hudson, of Shaw ISL
and, was in the Harbor, Monday and
made The ISLANDER a pleasant call.
Mr.. John G. Viereck Jr., of Dee
Bay, returned home on the Buckeye,
Monday, after short visit to the Bay
Cities.
Remember the masquerade ball to
be given i'm Union Grove hall on the
2lst inst. A big time is in store for all
who attend.
Messrs Jack Douglas and w. P. Holt
went to Victoria last Friday ON the
schooner Echo, the guests of Captain
G. w. Shain.
Miss Agnes Aiken returned to Point
Lawrence Monday after spending two
weeks visiting o. II. Culver and family
in Whatcom.
Mr.. E. III. Nash our popular county
clerk and Miss ID. Kelly, both of this
island, will be married in Seattle, OH
Sunday next,
Mr.. A. III. Sitter went to Seattle via.
Anacortes, Monday, on short bust
ness trip and will return tomorrow OH
the Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bolton, of Lopez,
have been in the Harbor for the past
few days, the guests of Judge w. III.
Thacker and family.
| Mr.. A. Stable, of Orcas is to start in
few days for the Olympic mountains
on hunting and trapping expedition
and will likely be gone several weeks.
| Mr.. and Mrs Frank Guard and
children spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. L. Paxton, on Brush island,
and returned on the Buckeye, Monday.
Mrs. August Anderson and little
daughter, of Whatcom, came over on
the Buckeye, Monday, to make her
relatives and friends here short visit.
Mr.. F. Alspaugh, of Portland, Ore
gon, representing r. G. Dun d Co.'S.
mercantile agency, was i'm the Harbor,
Monday and Tuesday, taking the rat
ings of our various business houses.
Miss Rhoda A. Lee ard Miss Anna
Wakefield, of West Sound, are i'll the
Harbor attending the teachers exami-
nation which began today. They are
the guests of MIR. and Mrs. A. ii.
Sitter.
RI. Morse, the we'll known What
com hardware merchant, says he will
make speciality of the reliable Myers
spraying pumps this spring and will
sell the bucket sprayers at $3.50, instead
of $3.50, which was the price last sea-
son. Every fruit raiser should have
one.
Little Willie Wills, the four year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wills who
reside i'm the San Juan valley, met with
a painful accident yesterday morning
while at play. In some unknown
wav a log of wood rolled onto the child
and broke its left thigh. DIR. Wright
was called who set the break and when
he left the little one was resting nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Cross and son,
Of San Francisco, passed through here
on the Thompson last week enroute to
Fast Sound. Mr.. Cross comes to Orcas
island to take charge of the Orcas Is
land Fruit Co.'S. large fruit farm near
the north beach. He has had very
extensive experience in horticultural
work and comes to this county highly
recommended.
There promises to be lively competl-
ltion This year for the salmon caught In
the waters of the lower Sound, as work
10 soon to commence upon three new
canneries, whose principal supply must
10 drawn from these waters, one In