The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-10-20
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

SVSAA AMI u E00VNAA
L. B. Carter is in Seattle on business
Mrs. Ethan Allen is quite sick q
her home.
J. A. Gould returned yesterday from
q business trip to Seattle.
Judge J. p. Houser has been lookin,
after court matters here this week.
Miss Sadie Middleton went IN por
Townsend, Tuesday, ON the Thomp-
son.
Miss Allie Gould, of Seattle, sister o
J. A: Gould, is Visiting her brother
and family.
Grain is coming in rapidly from tn.
country and the warehouses are near
ly all full.
Mrs. A. C Brown and daughter
Minnie, went to Seattle, SUNDAY. on
the steamer Alice Gertrude.
Mr.: Shoots and family and Rev. and
Mrs. White have moved into the Reth.
lefsen house on Spring street.
Send to SutclifFe & Hill, Whatcom,
!Or samples of Wall Paper and Paints'
They WILDE sent you free of charRe,*
Several hundred boxes of auplea And
other fruit have been shipped to Seattle
from Orcas island Points during the
past week.
Saturday night the steam schooner
Nellie Jensen took eleven tons of grain
from Carter's wharf to Port Townsend
merchants.
M. A. Phipps, Of Roche Harbor. re-
turned home Tuesday from the east.
where he had been visiting relatives for
several weeks past.
During the past week several hun.
dred tons of grain have been shippefl
from the islands to Seattle and Beliinp.
ham bay merchants.
Ladies, have the best and most
stylish Lace Fine Shoe for 81. so that
you ever saw anywhere. Come and
see them. L. B. Carter.
have few sacks of extra GOOD
coarse salt, suitable for sailing meat.
fish, etc., which I am selling very
cheap. E. II. Nash.
Mr.. Portfolio, Puget Sound agent for
Balfour, Guthrie & Co., of Liverpool.
spent two or three days in the Harbor
last week in the interests of his firm.
Wanted-Prime clover hay (2nd crop
preferred); mangel wurtzels; carrots;
rutabagas; cabbage; onions. Address,
with price, Ben Lichtenburg, Gem
Farm, Lopez, Washington.
Miss Agnes Aiken, Of Point Law
renee, has been in the Harb0r for the
past two or three days visiting rela-
tives and friends. She left for her
home, on the Buckeye, today.
Yesterday the Island Packing Co. Is
pile-driver began the work Of driving
the piles for the extension to l.. B.
Carter's wharf. When completed, Mr..
Carter will erect y new warehouse on
it.
John z. Nelson, of Mt. Vernon,
Peoples Party nominee for joint Sem
ator for Skagit and San Juan counties,
has been in town for few days past
trying to rustic votes for himself aud
his ticket.
Mrs. w. III. Parsons, Of Seattle, will
he In Friday Harbor, Nov. l, with q
large and elegant line of millinery at
reasonable prices. Any orders for GUS
TONERS wishing goods before that time
will be promptly filed.
The steamer Brixham. Capt. Drurie,
owned aud operated by the Boston &
Alaska Transportation company, on
Sunday last struck q hidden rock
eighteen miles this side of Juneau and
sank completely out of sight in a few
minutes.
Picked up near Henry island, Sept
9th, by George Smith, of Roche Har-
Dor, small boat marked "R. & G. Co"
measuring Is feet long and 81 feet
beam. Owner can have same by call
ing on him at above named place and
proving property and paying charges
Thursday Mr.. F. w. Keen, president
of the Island Packing Co., went to Port
Townsend to arrange for q tug to take
the cOmpany's steamer Michigan,
which has broken shaft, to Seattle,
where she will undergo repairs and be
put in first-class shape for next seasons
work.
Next Monday afternoon, October q,
at 2 O'Clock, Hon. F. w. Cushman will
address the people Of Lopez island on
the issues of the present campaign, at
the Presbyterian church. All who
possibly can should turn out and hear
him, as he ia q most excellent speaker.
He will speak here in the evening OF
the same day.
On about November LIST we move In
to our new Brick Block, now being
constructed, on Holly street, New
Whatcom. We are reducing our big
stock at prices less than wholesale cost.
Now is your chance to lay in your
winters supply of Clothing and Dry
Goods. Greenberg Bros, Oakland
Block, New WhAtcOm. "6t
Mrs. G.. B. briggs, Of this place, has
lust received the sad news Of the serious
illness of her father, Capt. T. w. Lake,
of Ballard. A few days ago he was
stricken with q severe stroke OF parAly..
sis and on account of his advanced
wears a fatal termination Of his life is
looked for any day. Mn. briggs leaves
for Ballard today on the Thompson.