The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-05
Gown and County News

Observation-Disclosures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
school will begin here next Monday.
nonsld Ross went to Seattle Satur-
day.
wonted-At the San Juan creamery,
ooe ton of apples for canning.
urs G. w. Morse has returned from
Seattle. where she spent most Of the
summer.
Campho- Naptha Moth Balls Csc per
,onnd. For sale by the Friday Har-
bor Drug 20.
urs p. Welch and daughter Alice
left for Victoria Tuesday to visit Mrs.
Welch's sister.
Mrs. Wileys rattle of bay horse Is
% he held at Carter's store Friday af-
ternoon, September 20.
We still have a few summer shirt |
,raists that we are closing out at special |
nriees.-Martin & Jensen.
Mrs. n. f. Churchill, Myrtle and |
nthe baby" and Christina Mckay |
have been spending few days in Sc
attic.
Are YOU going to paint? If 80, use
hest goods. Send a postal to the Morse |
Hdw, Go. for observation-disclosures paint |
color cards.
Road district elections will be held |
This wear on the 18th Of October. Su-
pervisors are required to give ten days'
notice by posting.
Miss Lizzie Scurr, of Cripple Creek,
Colorado, is visiting her uncles, Rich
ard and Robert Scurr, at their lovely
farm near Roche Harbor.
Mrs. Ballinger and son Dorr returned
TO Port Townsend Tuesday. Lieut..
Ballinger il expected down from
Alaska on the cutter Grant about the
10th.
Watches repaired by E. F. Harpst.
Twenty years experience. All work
guaranteed. / also have q Bike and
Gun shop in connection. Next door to
bank, Friday Harbor, Washington.*
C.M. Tucker has u peach tree grow
Ing against his house at Argyle, which
produced quite a number of fine
peaches this season, notwithstanding
the unfavOrable spring. One of them
measured nine inches in circumference.
Found-Adrift i'm Nelson harbor. on
Monday, August 10, 1901, a scow Sc #.
long, IA it. wide and44 #. hold. Same
can be seen in Nelson harbOr, Decatur
island, Washington. Owner is re-
quested to pay charges aud take 1t
away. Mrs. G. w. Hammond.
James Holden was i'm town Saturday
from Westcott bay. He says "the
baby" has been named Orchard Scurr
county's pioneer citizens, who is as
number Of his own instead Of being All
old bache lor.
The steamer Alpha, Of Whatcom,
which was built by Scruder & Son at
Otis and launched last spring and hos
been operated during the summer un.
der charter to the PA. F. Co., caught
fire at Port Townsend Saturday and
before the flames could be extinguished
the deck house was burned off.
Henry Cayou was in town the first
Of the week. He and his partner, ]. p.
Nelson, have just finished fishing for
the season and have taken up their
web. Mr.. Cayou thinks their two traps
caught upwards of 500. 900 sockeyes, of
which they sold 2O3,O7O to Blaine can
nerymen under contract made early
in the season. Mr.. Nelson left Monday
for New York city to visit friends in
the Empire state and witness the great
International yacht race of Sandy
Hook.
Will Handles, eldest son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. q. G. Randies, returned Saturday
from Kansas, Nebraska and South Da-
kota, In which states he had been
spending a number of months. He was
In Kansas during the terrifically hot
weather of midsummer. when the crops
OF the rich prairies were destroyed by
the heat, and he spent two weeks dur
ing the harvest season in South Da-
kota. He says he has chad enough
OF that section and IL glad to get back
to Puget Sound.
Urban f. Hicks, of East Sound, the
well known pioneer, who crossed the
plains in 1852 and was captain OF one Of
the companies of volunteers in the In
Dian war Of 1856, spent q few days |
here visiting old friends during the
past week. He has applied for admis-
son to the soldiers home at Orting, |
under the act Of the legislature extend |
ing the privileges Of the home to In
dian war veterans. Mr.. Hicks is said |
70 be the oldest pioneer printer In the |
state. One of his sons, Gwin Hicks, is
The present state printer.
The forthcoming illustrated supple |
ment to the ISLANDER, upon which |
Mr.. Wilhelm, of Seattle, has been ut
work for the past two mouths, will bel
ihcomparably the finest presentation OF
tne resources, advantages and attrac-
IONS OF the county, and especially OF
Tue home life of the people as indicated
oy numerous views of residences and
larm scenes, which has ever been pre-
pared in any form. There will be
soout one hundred pictures Of resi-
aences, stores, churches, school houses
ana other public buildings, fishing and
otner industrial scenes. farm views,
ec., that will give non-residents -
clearer idea of the county's varied adj