The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-01-16

The San Juan Club reading circle
will meet at the club rooms Friday
evening, January IL. Subject: William
the Conqueror.
There will be special meeting Of the
Santa Juanita Club held at the home
of Mrs. Minnie Thacker, at the usual
hour, Saturday, January Is. All
members are requested to be present.
Why pay more when you can buy
cheaper ut Martin d Jensen's?
Couuty Treasurer Tucker is at Ia
coma at the bedside of his brother, DR..
Tucker, whose condition was reported
yesterday to be very serious. His other
brother, C. N. s. Tucker, had been
sent for.
Andrew Newhall is said to be quite
i'll at his home at Newhall. The
steamer Buckeye, which he owns,
made a special trip for a physician
Tuesday and called here, but the ma
ture Of his illness was not reported.
For fruit trees that are acciimated
and first-caass in every respect and are
warranted true to name call upon or
write to P. Bostian, Crystal Spring
Nursery, East Sound.
The deed and mortgage records OF
che county auditors Office have been
transferred to the vault of the San
Juan County Bank for safe keeping.
Auditor Clark gets a considerable
amount of exercise trotting back and
forth between the court house and the
bank.
Mems pants, and mems and ladies'
wool underwear, large stock, at Mar
tin & Jensen's.
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Twenty-three members Of the Santa
Juanita Club were present at the meet
ing last Saturday at the home Of Mrs.
Fowle. The regular business of the
club was transacted, followed by the
literary program. A vote of thanks
was rendered to Mrs. Carrie Blake
Morgan for volume of her poems
"The Path Of Gold" The next meet
ing will be held January Is at the
home Of Mrs. Firth.
There are hundreds of the great Mo-
jestic steel ranges in use on Puget
Sound The Morse Hdw. Co., What
com, has sold several car loads during
the past season.
e. Harvey Johnson and Z. E. Louns-
bury, Of Bellevue, near Seattle, have
made arrangements to establish asmall
salmon cannery at Argyle, having
leased site from Walter LampharG
and water privilege from VIM. Jones'
They will begin in small way, with a
plant having daily capacity OF about
fifty cases. Mr.. johnson Informs the
ISLANDER that they expect to begin
work about the first Of May.
The directors of the Friday Harbor
schools have instructed the principal
that pupils must attain the following
percentages in the studies enumerated
to warrant promotions: Written arith-
metic so, mental arithmetic IS, gram
mar 20, language IS, geography 80, his
tory IS, physiology 70, music 20, read.
ing 50, eivics rs, photography IS; schol'
arship average 70; attendance 95; de-
pertinent IS. For the 9th grade: Aige.
bra so, botany IS, philosophy 20, Eng
iish literature 20, physical geography
50.
Say, Samanthy Ann, have sold my
oats and wheat to Garter. he pays IN.
oest price 1 ever got, and says ne don,
give a hoOter whether take any traoe
or not. It's different with some Other
merchants 1 know"
Commissioner Bostian reports gooc
demand for fruit trees at his Crysta
Spring nursery. OF the winter varie
ties of apples he is selling principally
the Baldwin, Wagner, Rome Beaut,
and quite a number Of the VOL
River, which is the handsomest appl'
ofall, though not quite the equal, II
flavor, of the other varieties mentioned
1t has as yet been raised but little II
this county, but some very nice one
have been produced and there seems 9
he no reason to doubt that 1t Will q
we'll and color handsomely on place
we'll located for sunlight. OF the fal
varieties the King and Duchess Of Old
enberg are the favorites.
Residents of the county along tn
route of the mail steamer Lydi
Thompson were much surprised
learn Monday that the new compan
had summarily displaced the OLD on
GERS, not only on the Thompson ou
also on all the other steamers OF IN
Thompson feet. Captain Bergman
succeeded by Captain Davis, who hs
recently been in the employ of the me-
company as master Of one Of its Aiask
steamers. He is not an entire strange
to this route, however, having pee
steward on the old steamer J. B. Ibid
when che ran here in charge Of Captai