The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-28
LOCAL AND Personal

AOCAL AND PERSONAL
The sockeye salmon catch this seaso
has been just one-half Of what & a.
last year up to this time.
Miss Kate Gregg, Of East Sound
stopped over here for a time Tnesdav
while on her way to Seattle.
Heavy 9-ounce Riveted Oyerall. 70
Men. all cotton and yard wide. for 3
cents, at the Blue Front Store.
Send to Sutcliffe 4 Hill, Whatcom
:Or samples of Wall Paper and Paints
They will be sent you free of charge.
Considerable damage has been don.
to the fish traps on the salmon bank
and elsewhere by the recent hipl
winds.
Mrs. Geo. s. Wright :and her tw,
daughters are visiting In East SounG
TINS week and are guests of Mrs. w. j
Dickson.
VIM. O. Clark, of West Sound. il as.
sisting Surveyor Vaughn in doing some
county road surveying this week 81,
San Juan.
John J. Klllebrew and Edwin r
Kolko, of Orcas, were in the county
seat Monday looking after business
interests.
Martin & Jensen's new Spring street
general store is being filled with large
and fresh stock, and will soon he omen
for business.
The county commissioners meet IA a
board Of equalization next week. They
will also hold an adjourned session of
the July meeting.
County Surveyor A. P. Vaughn. of
West Sound, ia doing some road sur
veying for the county this week on
San Juan island.
P. A. Jensen and S. d. Martin re-
turned Monday from business trip of
a weeks duration in Seattle. They
report everything lively as usual in
the city.
The Christian Science society have
made arrangements for the use of DR..
Wrights building on Spring street
and will hold their meetings there in
the future.
Nelson & Robinson, of Whatcoiu.
jewelers. and opticians, will in Friday
Harbor about the middle Of August.
Watch our ad. X
p. T. Nelson, Of the firm of Nelson
q Robinson, of Whatcom, dealers In
optical goods, made his headquarters
at the Bay View hotel for q couple of
days early in the week.
Capt. III. III. Hudson, of Shaw island,
was a county seat visitor Yesterday.
He reports crops good and everyone
happy and cOntented ON the island,
Notwithstanding the Cuban war.
Miss Addie Dightman closed q three
term of school in the Lawrence
Tucker district, north of town, today.
Miss Dightman is one of San Juan
cOunty's most successful teachers.
Judge ]. P. Houser, the present SUI
perior Judge of Skagit and San Juan
is mentioned as one of the
probable candidates of the fusion party
for the supreme judgeship of the state.
Judge w. H. Thacker and Judge
Warbass visited Lopez island during
the week for the purpose Of examining
some prehistoric Notifications located
on that island. They report some very
discoveries.
J. C. Hill, the Whatcom hardware
dealer, is combining business with
pleasure, and accompanied by his wife,
is making tour of the county. While
in Friday Harbor Mr.. Hill paid THE
ISLANDER Office friendly call.
Senator F. G. Harper, formerly of
East Sound but now of Seattle, stop
ped off from the boat few minutes
Tuesday on his return to Seattle. The
senator has been spending short va
cation at his old home in East Sound.
There Is not vacant dwelling house
in town! Friday HarbOr has the repu-
tation of being one of the busiest
small places on the Sound, and the
lack of vacant houses and "For Rent"
signs, goes:a long ways in substantiating
that reputation.
Willie Malcolm, the little son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert K. McLaclan, OF Deer
Harbor, met with quiteia severe accident
Saturday, falling from a cherry tree
while gathering fruit, and breaking
his right arm about two inches above
the wrist. The fracture was reduced
by DR.. Wright and the patient is up
and around.
From q private letter recently re-
ceived from one of our citizens, we learn
that Messrs. Turnbarge and Harrison
are well and are employed in the mines
near Dawson City, and that Joseph
Belleview and the Paxon brothers are
prospecting the Stewart river. Our
San Juan contingent in the far north
have so far been very fortunate in es-
Gaping accident and sickness.
We would respectfully call the at
tention of the friends and patrons OF
the public schools over the county, to
the workings of the financial system
inaugurated by the present school law.
Each district draws money from the
state on the bases of 2, 600 days. attend
ance. or credits, at the rate of a cents
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