The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-21
LOCAL AND PERSONAL


1 LOCAL AND PERSONAL
County Treasurer Void vas It Ia.
Harbor Wednesday on o11cial businssl
P. A. Jensen went to Seattle Tue,
day. He expects to be absent abou
. week.
Sheriff Jones went to West Scum
Monday on official business. returnin
! Tuesdary.
The steamer Rainier, Of Port Towns
end. discharged cargo at our wharye
last Saturday.
IF you have headacbe your ewes ar
detective. Call 1t the Bay View hote
on the 18th. Nelson & Robinson.
Heavy e-ounce Riveted Overalls 70
Men. all cotton and . yard wide, for s.
cents, at the Blue Front Store.
| Send to Hutcliffe 4 Hill. Whatcom
eor samples Of Wall Paper and Paints
They will be sent you free Of charge. !
The tug Laurel, Capt. John Eder
and Jesse Bird engineer, is ENGAGED Il
towing fish scows for the Packing Co
Don't forget the date, 18th Of july
your eyes tested free by q scientific
optician. Bay View hotel. Nelson 4
Robinson.
Rev. Arthur B. Cort and family re-
turned Monday from Lopez, where
they have been visiting for the past
two weeks.
Call and have your eyes tested by .
scientific optician. VIII be here only 8
few days. Nelson 4 Robinson, at Bay
View hotel.
G. E. Cantine, Of Lopez, was In the
county seat Tuesday. He reports every.
body busy and everything quiet In
that locality.
Judge Bowman is putting in shelves
and counters and is painting and other
wise improving his store building on
Spring street.
A hair pin, horse shoe shaped, tor
Torso shell, lost in FRIDAY Harbor
Finder please return same to this Office
"AsN OSAA6S eAA0 AOCCAs
Will Dightman returned from the
Mt. Rainier mining district Monday.
He says that that locality 10 showing
up some fine quartz prospects.
Miss Florence Lee accompanied her
sister, Mrs. Holmes, as far a. Seattle.
where she will visit with her sister.
Mrs. Bryant, for few weeks.
There will be q Rebekah lodge insti-
tuted in Friday Harbor on Friday
evening, July %, 1898. All who an
ticipate joining this lodge are requested
to be present.
Judge Bowman has replanked the
side walk In front Of his property on
Spring street. We understand his
store building will shortly be occupied
by a new firm of merchants.
DR.. Wright is the happy possessor of
q new wheel. For fear the doctor may
forget his usual caution we warn him
that too much scOrching may induce
bicycle eye, bicycle lung or bicy Gle
heart.
Our townsman c. l.. Carter Is spend
ing two weeks vacation In the Mt.
Slicker mining district, about ninety
miles north of Victoria OH Vancouver
island, B. C. We hope he will strike
it rich.
Last Saturday evening Mt. Dallas
Lodge No. IS, I. o. O. F., installed
the following officers for the ensuing
term: Newton Jones, n. G.; III. w.
Martin, v. g. Aug. Void, Sec, and ].
A. Gould, Treas.
President John s. McMillin Of the
Tacoma and Roche Harbor Lime COM
pany, was county seat visitor 6atur-
day. Mr.. McMillin reports everything
generally prosperous and everybody
happy and well at our neigboring burg
The former member of the Republic
can State Central committee for this
county having resigned on account OF
absence, Sheriff Newton Jones has
been appointed in his stead. The COM
mittee has been called to meet in Seat
tie July 30.
Mrs, r. w. Holmes, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T..
M. Lee, left Thursday for her home In
Detroit, Michigan. She will visit her
sister, Mrs. Bryant, in Seattle, and her
uncle in North Dakota q short time
before returning home.
Our patriotic fellow citizen p. A.
Jensen, has rendered the public great
service In furnishing the needed ma
terial and repairing the side walk on
Argyle street. II Pete don't receive
his reward in this world for this worthy
act, he certainly will In the next.
James Buchanan, Of Lopes island.
passed through town bound for Roche
Harb0r early in the week. Mr.. Blu
chanan says that haying IL being
pushed to completion as fast possible
| In his section. The threatened catchy
weather IL hurrying the farmers up .
little In this particular.
A man eating shark was caught IN
one of the Island Packing company's
traps Sunday. 1t was nine feet IN
length, and seven gallons OF oil was
extracted from It's liver. This species
of shark is rare in northern waters and
this is the first one, 90 far as known,
ever seen in the Sound or Straits.