The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-03-06
Local News Briefs

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The school year here will close about
May lst. There will be no vacation in
the meantime.
Mrs. r, c. Willis, of Olga, is guest
q. Mrs. Harriet Wright and Mrs. Geo.
s. Wright.
Mrs. J. w. Firth and little daughter.
Francelle have been spending a few
days in Victoria.
Mr.. and Mrs. JAS. f. King left Mon
day for u visit to Whatcom and Seattle,
Mr.. King going to buy 4 heavy team
to take the place of the one he lately
sold to LaPlant Bros. Of West Sound.
There will be u masquerade ball at
Odd Fellows ball, Monday evening,
March II (St. Patrick's day. Supper
will be served at the Bay View hotel.
Admission, including supper, $1.25.
Everyone cordially invited.
Jas. Il. Geoghegan was i'm town Mon-
day en- route to East Sound for q short
visit with his mother and sisters before
returning to Dawson City, where he
went in the first year of the Klondike
rush, returning last fall. He spent
most of the winter in Seattle, working
in a jewelry store.
g. f, Emmerling has bought the
George Holllns place, in the San Juan
valley, recently vacated by the Dart
family. The Emmerling family ar
rived this week from C'Briep, King
county. They also purchased from the
county this week forty acres, adjoining
their place near Orcas, upon which the
county recently foreclosed tax lien.
H. l.. Wilhelm, well known in this
county from his work in preparing the
illustrated supplement to the ISL.
AMBER, published last fall has taken
charge Of 1.-THE Coast,p a bright month
Iy publication issued in Seattle and
now entered upon its third volume.
The first number under Mr.. Will
helms management was issued last
week.
Reporting the recent finding of
rified mail SACK OH the Bellingham bay
beach near the mouth of Little Squal-
icnm creek, as mentioned in the ISL.
ANDER last week, the Whatcom Rev
ellie says: "The pouch was a paper
pouch but its entire contents consisted
Of open letters. All the letters were ad:
dressed to island postoffices in the San
Juan group and all bore the date of the
Whatlom postmark Of December %.
Postmaster Eldridge says there have
been no complaints Of losses, not even
of this one; and it Is plain that the sack
was rifled enroute from Whatcom to.
the Islands," December % was Sum
day.
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Fifteen members of the Apacortes
lodge of Odd Fellows visited the local
lodge here last Saturday night, coming
over and returning in gasoline
launch. They were expected two or
three weeks earlier and quite extensive
preparations were made then for their
entertainment, but rough weather pre-
vented their coming. The hospitable<
ladies of the Rebekah lodge here, how
ever, gave the visiting gentlemen and
their hosts most welcome surprise by
going to the hall anout 10 o'clock with
a sumptuous lunch and otherwise help
ing 70 make the occasion 30 enjoyable
that the festivities were prolonged until
o'olook~in the morning.
The old Hoe (Washington) hand
press, upon which every issue of the
ISLANDER was printed from the time
the paper was started, nearly twelve
years ago, until the middle Of January,
was shipped to Seattle Tuesday, new,
larger, faster and easier running press
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