The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-04-04
Gown and County News

A un Mr.. VIM. Houston, Of Roche
Hsrbor'
1.r.s Guthrie, one of the pioneers o
aD ras in town the first OF the weet
on BUSINESS
Comrbo-Napths Moth Balls Csc pei
. md For sale by the Friday Har
bor Drug 20.
rso latest periodicals at THE ISL
,rnrR office, exclusive agency fol
PUGET Sound News Co.
1obu Sweeney has been having quite
y, Of repairs and Improvements made
bis harms and outbuildings.
.,s-sd Douglas had the misfort une ia
,EIonste his shoulder by being thrown
s.or a load of lumber last week.
We will fill your prescriptions cor.
~ for less money than Seattle drug
rompanies. Friday Harbor Drug Co.
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One Of the younger children of Mr..
nd Mrs. %. g. Swapp, OF Henry isl.
and, is reported very Ill with typhoid
fever
The county treasurer reports that
more than one-third of all the taxes
i.v;ed on the 1900 roll have already
been paid.
Hackett writes from Union City
h,t he and bis family are "all well
and happy" aud expect to remain there
THE summer.
silk yelvets at 75c per yard. Cotton
yejrets at 4Oc per yard. Corduroy vel.
vs dress binding at &c per yard at San
Juan Trading Co.'S.
Jaw Aiken is third assistant engineer
on the steamer Cottage City, one Of the
fssest and finest steamers on the Sc
strie-Skagway route.
Rr, Capron was called to Waldron
island last week to see Mrs. Ernest
Rehorst, who was suffering from hem.
Orrhages of the lungs.
Do YOU know that you can get heavy
mounts, two inches square, for stamp
pictures, for only five cents q dozen at
The Islander Co.'s store?
We are manufacturer agents for the
Rock Island Plow Co. Call and see, II
YOU are needing anything in farming
machinery. Martin g. Jensen.
Capt. HUMPHREYS, of the steamer
Michigan, recently purchased some
valuable business property on Elk
street, near Holly, in Whatcom.
Nearly or quite dozen large looms
and two or three gulls were standing
on small rock between Olga and Pea
vine pass when the Buckeye passed
close by it Saturday.
The Groll Lumber Company, Lopez,
will fill orders for fish trap Gaping,
any size and any length up to fifty feet,
deliver anywhere in the county and
guarantee satisfaction.
Sheep owners say that the cold, rainy
weather of late has been very hard
upon young lambs and that the condi.
ton of the sheep generally Is not as
good this spripp 90 usnaI
Watches repaired by E. F. Harpst
Twenty years experience. All work
guaranteed. / also have a Bike and
Gun shopin connection Next door to
bank, Friday Harbor, Washington
The Pacific Sheet Metal Works
plant at Fairhaven has oeen gobbled
ply the tin-plate trust, but extensive
additions and improvements indicate
that it is to be continued in operation
and Oh considerably larger scale.
The report of a sale OF half Interest
in the Island Telephone Company's
system to Robt. Finn was made by
authority of DR.. Capron, the owner
but he now authorizes the statement
that the papers were not signed and
that the deal is 'off."
The Clark map of the county il
tTenty-six inches square. It show!
all the section and township lines, lo
boundaries, numbers and acreage
county roads, government reserves FOL
lighthouse and military purposes, anc
names Of bays, passes, points and chan
nels. Price $1.0O.
AT the meeting of the school literary
society Friday evening the following
program was rendered.: Current events
Andrew Hansen; reading, Clarice Will
son and Jessie Strahl; debate, IRE
solved. That in ten years the fishing
industry on Puget Sound will not bt
profitable" The judges decided II
FAVOR Of the negative.
Mrs. Jas. Stove, of Nanaimo, B. G.
requests the ISLANDER to say that SHIT
and her sister, Mrs. Geo. Davies, re
sret exceedingly that they were unabl'
10 reach Roche Harbor in time to go
thelr mother. the late Mrs. John Briggs
before her death. The letter telling
mem Of her illness was five days II
reaching them and it was then too lat
'of them to make the trip.
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An attack of measles prevented Stew
tpoyle from taking the position offere'
nm as master of the steamer Hecto
ana Tor that reason the owners engages
~ M. Alexanderson, Familiarity kno~l
"Aleck, the sailor" He took tn
masters oath at the custom house her
Irluay. The owners of the HECTIC
nave been promised charter for tn
season by one of the Anacortes Gamer
companies.
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Inc steamer Michigan is again ''a