The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-10-31
Gown and County News

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r.. .ement, plaster. lime. hair an
,, rI 90 to the Morse Hdw. Co.
,nss Burke and family have move,
-, ;a their cottage OH Spring street.
Majestic Steel RangesEsend to tn
MA Hdw. Co. for an illustrated cata
lOgue, free.
w McGeary and family have
Ed to their farm near the south
and u Of the island.
vvou are In need Of blue-stone. sui
n;or lime write the Morse Hdw. Go.
RTbstcom, for prices.
Tho Rebekah lodge Is arranging Il
10. a thanksgiving ball and supper
=, odd Fellows hall.
r,,ls Della Carter's fifth birth day
:. ~ he celebrated Friday by q party to
st;ob ante q number Of little folks
Ssve received Invitations.
ror ANYTHING you want in the line Of
,nhber poods-boots, rubbers, mackin.
io,bes etc.-go to Churchil's.
The Blue Front Store has just re-
osiyed a new supply of Mems, Ladies'
md Children's Rubbers and Rubber
Roots-Iots of them and cheap, too.
The pupils of the public schools are
.oioyinp a vacation this week while
,hs teachers are absent attending In.
.tutes. Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens are
attending in Whatcom and Miss
Dightman in Anacortes.
Bsar In mind that copies Of the
IsIANpER's illustrated supplement
nav be obtained at ISLANDER Office
hr fifteen cents, and IL desired they
will be mailed from the Office to any
address in the United States or Canada
without extra charge.
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A good way to help yourself is to
help the community in which you live
BY patronizing It's industries, institu.
lions and enterprises, thus keeping the
money you spend near enough to give
YOU a chance to trade back for it to-
orrow.-Fairhaven Times.
C.E. Erickson, general foreman for
the Roche HarbOr Lime Company,
returned Monday from Toledo, Lewis
county, where he has purchased fine
farm and will engage in dairying aud
stock raising. He will remain ut Roche
Harbor, however, until the close Of the
year.
There was double wedding at the
fine home of Mr.. and Mrs. p. Z. Peter.
son in the San Juan valley last even
Ing, when their daughter Dorothea
was welded to Mr.. VIM. G. Bailer aud
their daughter Eliza to Frederick
Neaves. Mr. and Mrs. Bailer will be
"at home" in few days in the cozy
cottage just completed by Mr.. Bailer
on the big Baier farm in the valley.
Mr. aud Mrs. Neaves will reside OH
Mr. Neaves' fine farm near Saanicll,
Vancouver island.
very enjoyable meeting of the
reading circle OF the Sau Juan Club
was held at the club rooms Friday
evening. DIR. Wright presided. Judge
Thacker read very interesting paper
on the early history Of Britain prior to
the Roman conquest. The period ol
the Roman invasion and occupancy fol-
500 years was covered by o. II. Culver.
Mrs. FARMLAND read paper on the
Danish invasion; H. 3. King talked OF
the Saxon conquest, and w. o. Clark
reviewed the period from the time ol
King Alfred to what is known as the
Norman conquest. The next meeting
will be held Friday evening, Novem.
Der 10, and will be principally musical
ard social in character, with possibly
one or two papers ON early Englisl
literature.
Here is the way the Seattle Time.
summarizes the seasons salmon catcf
from the waters of Puget Sound: II
The number of salmon caught in Pugel
sound this year were laid end to enc
lhey would extend from Seattle t
New York and enough would be lef
over to come twO-thirds Of the way
back. If laid side by side they woult
form path two feet wide from Seattle
10 St. Paul. The number Of salmon
caught this year, according to Deputy
Fish Commissioner A. d. Boardman
was 10, 100000. or these II, 800, 900 wer'
packed and 100000 were sailed o
dried. The weight of this years catcl
Esconservatively placed ut $4,000 tons
IL placed in ordinary freight cars ]
would require train nine miles lOnl
10 Accommodate them. 1t would TAX
TOUR steamships of the size of the Call
lorhla to transport this immens
amount of salmOn.n
1t is proposed to have "market
Gay" at Whatcom. 1t is q good schem
surely. Farmers In this county, an
especially OH Orcas island, can testlf,
mat 1t Is seldom that Whatcom afford
agood market for agricultural product
ana no concerted effort has hithert
oeen made by business men there =
attract the farming trade by makin
Tue town a good market for fruit, tv
Stock s,, and miscellaneous farm products
when the limited demands of the l0cs
market are supplied sellers are too frt
duently treated with scant cOurtes
.nere-so they say. 1t very often haE
pens that they have to dispose Of thei
produce at ruinous sacrifice, forwar
~ 70 Seattle or take 1t back home. No
long since an Orcas island orchards
6etlt fQw havnc - a~sa1isy o1sn1r~ frsal