The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-14
EAST SOUND LOCAL NOTES.

Mr.. Thos. Gill, Of Whatcom, spent
several days on the island last week.
DR.. Fred Geoghegan left Monday for
Tacoma to be absent some time on bust
ness.
Mrs. Thos. Walton spent several
days last week visiting friends in New
Whatcom.
Prof. Harding left last week for the
east to be gone, it is possible, until the
late autumn.
Miss Mamie Hambly is spending a
couple of weeks in WhatcOm county
visiting her friend, Miss Palmer.
The many friends of DR.. Willard Nj.
King will be glad to hear that he is
successfully located at Mount Vernon.
Rev. Mark Jukes, of Whatcom, held
services in the Emmanuel church on
both Wednesday evening and Thurs
day morning.
DR.. Darling and Mr.. Bloedel, Of
WhatcOm, came over in the yacht
Thelma and spent several day at the
East Sound house.
Mrs. Bell, accompanied by Mrs.
Jones, arrived Thursday from Ash
croft, B. c., and will spend the remain
der of the summer here.
Mrs. Daisy Chase, Of Little Rock.
came home to attend the wedding of
her sister, Miss Lulu BOstian, and IL
the guest of her parents.
Joe, the youngest son of DIR. I. Har-
rison, Seattle, came down on Fridays
boat to visit his grandparents and his
aunt, Mrs. Eb Harrison.
Mrs. John Sutherland, with her
daughters. Ruth and Jessie, arrived in
East Sound last Friday evening after
an absence of ten months.
Miss Jessie Templin, accompanied by
Mrs. Sharpless, came up from Seattle
the first of the week and are the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Templin.
Misses Mabel and Helen Harper,
daughters of ex-senator Harper, Seat
tie, arrived Friday evening to make an
extended visit to the family Of Mr..
| Smith Showers.
Mr.. Hugh Templin has built a float
for the-convenience OF parties landing
at his wharf in small boats. This piece
Of public spiritness IL greatly apprei-
ated by said parties.
Several guests of the East Sound
house having expressed q desire for
deep-sea fishing, Mr.. Sutherland pro
cured launch and most delightful
day was passed on the Gulf of Georgia.
The Rev. VIM. Dickson and family,
| of Anacortes, accompanied by Miss
Inez Bailey, of Mount Vernon, came
over Tuesday and will spend two
months in their cottage here, Mr..
Dickson visiting his parish from this
place.
| A number Of camping parties are ex'
pected within few weeks, among
them scientific party from Seattle,
which will include the celebrated
young naturalist of whom the state Of
Washington is so pround-Mr. Trevor
Kincaid, and Prof. Edm ond Meany.
The Misses Walker, of Portland, Or.
are the guests of their aunt, Mrs. B. Ct
GeoQhegan. They are the daughter
1 Of Dr.. Walker, of Portland, otherwise
known throughout the northwest a.
Arctic Walker, on account OF the mum
erous arctic excursions made by him In
the interest Of science.
The 4th q July Pr. published a pa
triotic poem from the pen OF our youn(
fellow townsman, Mr.. A. Murdoch
Cow. Mr.. Cow is q member OF 9 liter
iary family, his cousin being the famou'
novelist and war correspondent, Rich
ard Harding Davis, and also being tn
Davis. No doubt some day in the fu
ture we shall point with pride to tn
poet. and that East Sound was ono
the residence of Mr.. Cow.
EAST SOUND.