The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-08-20
LOCAL AND Personal
Murray, the bargain shoe man.

Murray, the bargain shoe man.
B. w. Holloway, Matchmaker and
Jeweler
Mr.. c. t. Butler, of Lopez, was in
town on business yesterday.
Mr.. q. III. Nash returned from a
short visit to East Sound, on the lydia
Thompson, Tuesday.
The steamer G. G. Cherry broke her
propeller shaft last Friday which dis
abled her for a few days.
Lieutenant Elmer w. Clark, of Van
couVer Barracks, Wash, was in the
Harbor on business Monday.
Mr.. j. c. Clinton returned from FL
lensburg, Tuesday, where he went to
attend the Demo-Pop. love feast.
Mr.. w. Green, of Seattle, represent
ing the San Francisco Shoe Co. of that
city was in town on business Yesterday.
Mrs. May Greenwood, of Seattle. has
been in the Barbor for several davs
past the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. G.
Larson.
Mr.. j. M. Coleman, of Seattle, was a
passenger on the Thompson yesterday,
enroute to his camping ground on Or
cas- island.
The second annual session of the San
Juan county teachers institute will
convene in October; the exact date can
not now be given.
For SALE-80 acres fruit land. SITS:
40 acres 500; 20 acres $50. Money to
loan for or years at low rate of in
terest. &c. CLINTON.
Mr.. A. Murdoch Cow, of Seattle.
who is spending the summer with his
parents at East Sound, was in the Har-
Dor the first of the week.
Mr.. w. E. Sutherland, the enter
prlslng Orcas merchant, returned from
a few days visit to the Bay Cities, on
the Thompson, Tuesday morning
Miss Fannie Lake, of Ballard, arriv-
ed here on the Thompson, yesterday,
and will make her sister Mrs. G. B.
briggs and family few days visit.
On account of the polls closing so late
last evening we are unable to print the
list of delegates elected at the primar-
les but will give complete report in
our next issue.
Mrs. Belle Harrison and children, of
Kamloops, B. c., arrived at Orcas a few
days ago and are visiting at the home
of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. George
Gibbs of that place.
It is reported that the Fraser river
cannerymen are now enjoying a pros
porous canning spell, the sockeyes run
ming in such quantities as to keep them
very busy night and day.
Mr.. H. W. Harding, of Bethlehem,
of East Sound. He expects to pur-
Nichols place there, and build him a
summer home on it.
Mr.. James Mervyn, of Lopez, had
his hand badly cut on a circlar saw
Tuesday, while at work in his mill. He |
came to the Harbor yesterday and had |
DR.. Wright dress it, returning OH the |
Buckeye III the afternoon.
At the teachers examination held
here last week there were nine appli-
cants for certificates present. Certifi-
Gates were granted as follows: w. d.
Pratt, New Whatcom, second grade;
Misses Louise Culver, Isabel Gregg,
Lily Marold and Flora Guard, third
grades.
Miss Lydia Thompson, of Seattle,
daughter of Mr.. J. r. Thompson, after
whom our handsome mail steamer
Lydia Thompson was christened, was
passenger on the boat last Monday
and Tuesday enjoying round trip
passage among the islands with her
father.
The pleasure of riding around the
islands on fine steamer and the pop
ularity of the Thompson Bros. and the
pleasant and agreeable officers in
charge of our mail steamer Lydia
Thompson, is we'll shown by the large
amount of travel and her fine passen-
ger list which she has almost daily.
Mr. L. Gould, of Jackson, Alaska,
took the Thompson, at Orcas, ON last
Thursday, for Port Townsend where he
secured passage on the City OF Topeka,
on SATURDAY, cItTOuto lOI Ills ioiAO oioOA
a ten days visit Oh the Sound including
few days visit with his partners Mr..
Geo. Gibbs, of Orcas, and Mr.. ). w.
Young, of West Sound.
Someone seems to have got tired OF
having so many useless ours running
about our streets and swapping at every
passer by, and is putting out poison by
the wholesale for their benefit. AS IS
very often the case some OF the better
animals got hold Of it and consequently
had to pass in their CHECKS. There are
three or four good dogs here but the
majority of them are not worth vast
ing powder on.
Mr.. Chas. L. Tut, of Colorado
Springs, Col, gentleman of consider
able means, who has been visiting the
Sound country and San Juan county
more particularly for several days past,
has become so very much infatuated
with our delightful climate and beauti-
full inland sea so thickly dotted with
hundreds of beautiful and productive
islands. that he has fully resolved 10
spend his summer months here from
now on and to substantiate his resolve
he purchased, OH Tuesday last, OF Mr.;
J. +. Farnsworth, small piece OF land
known as Dinner island, situated near
San Juan island and only short dis
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