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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-12-31
WHY IS NOT STREET WORK
BEING DONE BY CONTRACT?

With all due respect to the mem.
bers of the town council responsible
for the expediture of several hundred
dollars in the construction of wood
cutters along Spring street, an ''im
provement'' (?) which has aroused a
good deal of criticism from taxpay-
ers. the Islander takes the liberty to
inouire why the council did not call
for bids for doing the work by con-
tract, as the law plainly requires in
all cases where the estimated expendi-
ture of the work to be done exceeds
500? If competitive bids are called
for the council may. If it considers
the lowest bid rendered too high. or
der the work done independent of
contract, if convinced that saving
can be effected in that manner, but
the law expressly declares that before
exercising such discretionary author
ity the courcil shall first call for bids
for doing the work and furnishing the
material required by contract.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-12-31

One of the most enjoyable and
nicely conducted charivaris ever held
in the county took place Christmas
evening at the hospirable home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Heidenreich,
on the west side of the island. the
occasion being the marriage of their
son John to Miss Becker, of Argyle,
which took place Christmas morning.
About eighty people were present.
Refreshments were served in great
abundance and music and dancing
were enjoyed until late hoHr.
tsCurfew shall not ring tonight. -
or any other night. from tower over
the spring in the center Of Spring
street, In front of P. A. Jensen's
store, ii Mr.. Jensen has his way about
it. He secured q temporary injunc-
tion from Court Commissioners Car
ter this week stopping the work un-
til the matter can be heard In court.
It is to be hoped that the court will
issue q permanent injunction.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Vintage Nicknames.

We have nicknames for the vintages
which few persons except the wine
drinkers know. Thus the vintage of the
present year we call Zeppelin in honor
of the air navigators achievement and
because it is so high. Records show that
these nicknames were bestowed on Vim
tages as far back as 1929, when the bad
watered wine was called Baptist"
The sour wine of 1860 was called
Garibaldi and in memory of the Chinese
war the 1894 wine is still known as
Wei-hai-wei The vintages of 1896
promised much and gave little and was
nicknamed Ii Hung Chang, and another
nickname for the same years wine
Moses, was given because the wine was
taken from the water principally
Munchener Nachrichten.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
A Farmers Enterprise.

An Iowa farmer has succeeded in
opening up big field for his enter
prise by applying an old method to a
new service. He has gone into the
business Of furnishing fresh eggs daily
to a regular list of customers, after
the fashion Of the milkmen and bakers.
This farmer is man who raises many
chickens and markets a large number
Of eggs. These he had been selling to
dealers, who in turn sent them to cold
storage warehouses or to wholesalers.
Finally they got to the consumers, usu-
ally pretty stale and much the worse
for handling, through the retail grocer
or huckster. When eggs were plenti-
full and the wholesalers were we'll
stocked up, the farmer got little for
them. When eggs were few and prices
to consumers were very, very high,
the farmer found that his eggs in the
warehouses were still in competition
with the producer. This mans egg
route isn't an egg route exclusively.
He sells dressed chickens and other
farm produce, too, and when his egg
wagon is going about the driver takes
orders for other things which are raised
ON the farm.-Springfeld Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Orchard Suggestions.

AS a. rule apples from orchards that
are in sod culture are better and more
highly colored than those from titled
orchards, but this is not necessarily so.
The trees that are titled must be
pruned more openly and fertilized with
more potash and phosphoric acid and
less nitrogen.
The peach requires good culture, but
this culture should not be continued too
late in the season or the wood will not
harden by the time winter sets in and
the tree will be injured.
1t is an excellent plan to SOW a cover
crop at the time the last cultivation
takes place.
The fruit grower is apt to make two
mistakes in planting trees. One Is
planting too many varieties, and the
other is planting too many trees.
1t is more a matter Of quality than
of quantity in growing fruit and we
should not plant more trees than we
can care for.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

hams Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds of
female troubles, and I feel that I can
never praise itenough." Mrs. LIZZIE
HOLLAND, Noah, KY.
The Changeof Life is themostcritical
period of woman's existence, and
neglect Of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Womeneverywher shouldremember
that there is no other remedy known to
medicine that will so successfully carry
women through this trying period as
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs.
For 80 years it has been curing
women from the worst forms of female
ills INFLAMMATION liberation, dis
placements, fibroid tumors, irregulari-
Ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, al
Lynn, Mass Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
CUTICURA CURED HIM.

Eczema Came on Legs and Ankles
canadian Chief of Police COuJd
Not Wear Shoes Because of Bad
Scaling and Itching.
II have been successfully cured OF
dry eczema. was inspecting the re-
moval of noxious weeds from the edge
of a river and was constantly in the
dust from the weeds. At night
cleansed my limbs, but felt prickly
sensation. I paid no attention to il
for two years, but noticed a scum
on my legs like fish scales. did not
attend to it until it came to be toe
itchy and sore and began getting two
running sores. My ankles were all sore
and scabby and could not wear shoes
I had to use carpet and felt slippers
for weeks. l got cake of the Cuti
cura Soap and some Cuticura Oint
ment. In less than ten days / could
put on my boots and in less than three
weeks was free from the COMPOUNDED
itching. Capt. George p. Bliss, Chief
Of Police, Morris, Manitoba, March 20
1907, and Sept. "a, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
WESTERN CANADA'S CROP YIELD
FOR 1908 WAS SPLENDID.

Americans Profited Largely and Send
Back Satisfactory Reports.
The census branch Of the Department.
of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, mas
completed its returns of the showing OF
Western Canada's grain yield for l9OS,
and the report makes very interesting
reading. In the three provinces Oh
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
which comprise what may be known as
Central Canada, there was a total
wheat yield of about 100000 BUSH
els. worth to the farmers about $780,
100000; in addition to this the oat,
barley and fax crops were worth an
other $35,000,000 Letters have recent
ly been received from many of the set
tiers from the United States From
these, that of Rev. Oscar L. King has
been selected. He lives in the vicinity
of Edmonton, Alberta, and what he
says will be of interest to those who
contemplate moving to Central Can
ada. Every line of the letters is inter-
esting. Those who wish for further
particulars as to how to secure home
steads and prescriptions, should write
any Canadian Government agent. Mr..
King says
1 am well satisfied with Alberta.
This country offers excellent Opportun1-
ties for anyone to make good home
for himself and family if he is willing
to put up with few hard knocks for
frcf fxuo
worth a few hard knocks to get a 16O-
acre farm of rich productive land with
no mortgage ON it. This province is
well fitted for grains, stock raising and
dairying. We have found the climate
generally healthful, more healthful
than Michigan, and although the Their
mometer sometimes drops to 40 de-
grees below zero in winter, yet we do
not seem to feel that temperature any
more than we did or 10 degrees be-
low zero in Michigan. We like the
winters
The Government takes great interest
in the education of the people and
quickly aids the settlers in establishing
schools where they are called for. The
schools though graded differently than
| those in the States are efficient and adj
vancing. Our great drawback has been
the limited and inadequate railway ia
cilities, but new roads are being rapid
ly built and many more are projected
| through various parts of the province.
The new policy of the Alberta Govern
ment to construct a great many branch
lines throughout the province will
| greatly help all parts of the country
| If those new settlers who have to go
back a considerable distance from ex-
| listing railroads and towns to find free
hOmesteads will but locate along the
| line of a projected railroad they will
| in two or three years be near both
| town and railroad. When I first came
| to this country three and half years
| ago the homestead 1 took up was 70
miles from a railroad town, now there
is a railroad % miles north, another
% miles south and a third is being
| built through my neighborhood.
1 think the prairie country or coun-
try that is partly prairie offers much
better opportunities than the prairie
portions.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Cost Of Raising n Calf.

In an experiment to ascertain the
cost Of raising q calf Prof. Shaw OF
Michigan station took dairy calf and
kept an accurate account of the ex-
pense Of feeding for one year from its
birth. The amounts of feeds used in
that time were 381 pounds of whole
milk, 2,56S pounds of skim milk, 1,262
pounds of silage, 219 pounds Of beet
pulp, 1,254 pounds of hay, 1,247 pounds
of grain, 147 pounds of roots, IA pounds
of alfalfa meal and 80 pounds of green
corn. The grain ration consisted of
three parts each of corn and oats and
one part of bran and oilmeal. At the
end Of the year the calf weighed 800
pounds at cost of $2S.55 for feed. The
calf was Holstein.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Ru1es for successful Farming.

To my mind the ideal system of
management to maintain our income
from our farms with reduced labor and
capital must come about in the follow
ing manner:
More economical production in all
lines and reducing the amount of labor
by growing much clover and grasses.
Keeping live stock to harvest these
crops and selling only finished pro-
ducts.
Turning the less profitable land into
pasture and grasses and working the
best land more intensively.
Growing cash or market crops that
give high returns for the labor en-
ployed and fertilizer used, such as po-
tatoes, fruit, etc.-B. Lara, Wisconsin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
A Gate That Never Says.

l have used this gate for many years
and never spent five minutes repairing
it. Countersink two pieces and pin
them together. Then set up two 2x4
pieces 2 #. higher than the gate so it
can be raised in winter. Mortice and
set in between the crosspieces, which
are II in. apart, the board, a, and
fasten cap to the top of the frame.
The gate is Is it. long, u TT. being for
the gateway and A TT. for the weights
to balance it. The frame is of 2x4's.
Cover the Aft. end with boards and fill
with enough stones to balance it when
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Mothers to Learn How to Control Their
Children

DIR. Eugene R. Eliscu, 500 West
10th street. New York, is going to in
corporate school to teach mothers how
to control their children by hypnotism
when necessary and by calm and peace
full suggestion at all times The school
is not formally opened yet, but DIR. Ellis
uate M. D., and has studied abroad.
She is unmarried and ~ and not
ashamed of either. She has beautiful
black hair, which would have been white
long ago, she says, if she had not learned
to control absolutely those emotions
which, in fear or anxiety, transmute
themselves into chemical processes that
lines away from strong, firm mouth
and the wrinkles out of a splendid fore
head
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Starting Early Celery.

Celery growing on commercial
scale has received most attention in
the 'muck-bed'' areas of Michigan and
New York, where thousands of acres
are devoted to this crop. California
and Florida have taken up the indus
try and during the winter and spring
months provide Northern cities with
large amounts Of celery.
To secure an early crop the best
plan for the amateur grower is to fill
a wooden tray Is inches by "a inches
in size with fine soil three inches deep
This soil should be pressed down and
the seeds scattered either in rows OF
broadcast. Cover the seeds by sprink
ling through fine sieve a small guam
tity Of leaf mold or sand. The win
dow Of a moderately warm room with
frequent sprinkling will provide the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
A. 25o,ooo Busher elevator.

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box
G, La Crosse, Wis, by all odds the larg-
est farm, grass, clover, potato and veg
etable Seed Growers in America, if not
the world, have just broken ground for
a unique seed elevator with storage
and cleaning capacity of more than a
quarter of a million bushels.
This great firm is sending out Glover
Seed testing 1886 per cent pure, a rec
ord justly to be proud of.
If you haven't Salzer's Catalog, look
up their advertisement and write for
it to-day.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
"Water Sheep"

A business communication in Arabic
recently reached Manchester firm, and
when translated by a Syrian interpreter
proved to contain a request for the price
of coppering two water sheep of GER
tain given dimensions. The translator
was confident of his version, but admit
ted that he did not know what water
sheep could be. For the moment even
the heads of the firm were puzzled, I'M
til it struck some one that this was
the nearest synonym in the vocabulary
of a pastoral people for hydraulic
rams Manchester Guardian.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
When and How to Prune.

1t is very important that the healing
process should start soon after the
wound is made, otherwise the cambium
will be killed back quite distance
from the exposed surface, and healing
will be greatly retarded. For this rea-
son winter pruning should be avoided
particularly in frosty weather In the
early fall or late spring the cambium
is active and wounds made at this time
start to heal at once, and there is lit
tie or no dying back Of the cambium.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
what a woman win Not Do.

There is nothing a woman would not
do to regain her lost beauty. She
ought to be fully as Jealous in pre-
serving her good looks. The herb drink
called Lanes Family Medicine OF
Lanes Tea is the most efficient aid
in preserving beautiful skin, and will
do more than anything else to restore
the roses to faded cheeks. At all drug
gists' and dealers, 25c.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
The Grin of spring.

During the last twenty years many of
our citizens have been attacked in the
spring months by grip. Some have had Sc
rious or slight attacks every year or two
All know it to be dangerous disease. Ii
Lanes. Pleasant Tablets (which are sold
at % cents box by druggists and deal
are felt, there is hardly chance of the
malady getting foothold. If you can
not get them nea1 home, send % cents to
Orator E. Woodward, LIE Roy, N. Y. Sam
ple free.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Her Mistake.

81 tell you l won't have this room,''
protested the old lady to the bell boy
to pay my good money for a pigsty with
a measly little foldin' bed in it. If you
think that jest because Pm from the
country .&
Profoundly Disguised, the boy cut her
short.
sect in, mum. Get in" he ordered.
''This amt yer room. This is the ele-
vator"- Everybody Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Salt Water to XIII Weeds.

Salt water for killing weeds has
been extensively used during the past
season ON the Oregon Short Line rail-
way, and very satisfactory results have
been reported. Water for the purpose
is taken directly from Great Salt Lake
which is approximately % per cent salt
and is merely pumped into tank cars
and hauled over the line.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Feed for Poultry,

The effect of meat rations was tested
at the West Virginia Experiment Sta
ration largely of corn and other
starchy grains, while another pen was
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Anv One Would Do.

In a speech before the Wellesley club
recently, Augustus Thomas told this
story about Nat Goodwin:
Say, Nat said Willie Collier to Mr..
Goodwin as they were coming out of
the Lambs club shortly after the latter's
marriage to Miss Goodrich, 'invite me to
one of your weddings some time, won't
you ?''-Everyb Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

Deep water diving can be carried on
with safety to a depth of 21O feet pro-
v;ded proper precautions are taken and
suitable appliances used, according to a
report of the British admiralty commit
tee appointed to investigate the subject.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

fed partly on meat and fresh bone.
The meat fed fowls laid 1866 eggs,
while the grain fed birds laid 3,431,
or less than one-half as many as those
receiving the heterogeneous rations. The
eggs from the meat fed fowls were
larger, much firmer, rather better and
produced far more vigorous chickens
than those of the others.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
A Useful Farm Implement.
To Reva1ue State Lands.

That all the homestead lands in
Michigan have been withdrawn from
the market is announced by State Land
Commissioner Huntley Russell. The
lands will be kept out until they have
been reappraised, as provided by a res
olution recently introduced in the lower
house of the state legislature.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Knew His Lesson.

Sunday School Teacher-Today' les
son teaches us of the influence of kings
and queens, but there is higher power.
Which little boy can tell us what it is ?
Well, Willie. what is it?
Aces, y was the confident reply.-New
York Herald.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01


back and loins, dis
ordered urine, pain
in passing, bad odor,
etc. The least move
hurt me, and 1 could
not turn in bed
without help. 1 took
"a friends advice
and used Doan's
Kidney Pills. The
trouble disappeared
entirely and has not
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
whiskey for Rheumatism.

To one-half pint good whiskey, add
one ounce syrup sarsaparilla, and one
ounce Toris compound, which can be
procured of any druggist. Take in tea
spoonful doses before each meal and
before retiring. Followed up, this is
a sure remedy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

s A Simple and Safe Remedy for cough
or Throat Trouble is Browns Bronchial
Troches. They possess real merit. In
boxes % cents. Samples mailed free.
John l. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

conditions necessary for termination.
When the seedlings appear after two
or three weeks turn the boxes daily
to keep the growth even. The illus
tration shows the form of box used
for starting the plants.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

Tremendous Cost of Prairie Dogs.
In the state of Texas alone prairie
dogs eat annually enough grass to sup
port 1,562, 800 cows. Utterly useless, the
little animal is a pest SO dreaded that
the forestry service has undertaken his
determination. Poison is killing him,
wherever he now fiourishes and another
resource of the farmer is safeguarded.
Who would think that the prairie dog,
the shy and amusing little rodent that
we like to watch before the door Of
his burrow at the Zoo, would ever be-
come the subject Of the government In
terventiOn or endanger the success Of
stock raising? Yet such is the fact,
says the Technical World Magazine
Out on the national forests which Uncle
Sam is guarding for the use of the pub
lie, expert hunters have gone after the
prairie dog with zeal, ingenuity and
poison and literally exterminated them
in great numbers, because some of their
choicest bottom lands have had the
grazing ruined for stock by the indus
trious burrowing of the dogs"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Oregon Apples for king Edward.


What are considered the finest apples
ever grown in the United States or
any other country passed through Bos-
ton recently ON their way to the table
of King Edward of England. They are
known as winter banana apples, and
are two and a half times the size of
the ordinary apple to which one is ac-
customed. These apples are grown at
the Beulah land orchards, Hood River,
Ore, by Oscar Vanderbilt, an expert
orchardist, and they are considered the
highest development in the cultivation
Of this fruit. Their color is perfect,
the rosy blush blends with the green
in the most luscious manner inagin-
able. In flavor and texture they are
as good as they look.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

headaches, nervous
prostration, and
hemorrhageS.
"Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compoundmademe
well and strong, SO
that / can do all my
homework, and at
tend to the store
and post-ofice, and
Ifeel muchyounger
than I really am.
"Lydia r.. Pink.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

: You will respond very quickly to the
Garfield Tea treatment, for this Natural
laxative corrects constipation, puri6es the
blood, and benefits the entire system.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

The river having the most rapid flow
of all the streams in the world is the
Sutleg of British India, which has a de-
scent of $4,000 feet in $50 miles.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

The city of Sheffield. England, fa-
nous for its cutlery. is the first munich
pal body in Great Britain to decide to
provide a rifle range at public cost for
the use of the community.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01

I'm the mountain regions of Cuba
there are many ridges and valleys of
extremely fertile land, nearly all I'M
touched, anI existing practically as they
did before the time of the Spaniards.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
Domestic Eye Remedy

Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs laws
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
eists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine
In Your Eyes You Will Like Murine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-01
wIRE-covERED GATE THAT BALANCES.

hung. Cover the gate with wire fenc-
ing and hang by chain. Put bolt
through the lower part of the frame
into the crosspiece, "a. J. Fraser, in
Farm and Home. sT eEGG