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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-09-19
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DOE BAY
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little Miss Ethel Fairbanks OF
dakota is spending the winter with
her grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J..
X. Burke and attending school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers and daugh-
Ter Marion, who have spent the last
eight months at Alderbrook farm.
seft Saturday for their new home
in Oregon.
Mr.. G. N. Culver is spending a
Few DAYS at AIderbrook farm.
Joe and Henry Martel were the
over-Sunday guests of their pa
Fonts Mr.. and Mrs. John Martel.
Mr.. Stevens of Bellingham was
che guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Schmedli Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holman Drain was
the g"est of relatives and friends
in Bellingham a few days the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Jensen and
children were passengers tor Bel
Iingham on the City Thursday, re-
turning Saturday.
Mrs. D. Bower ntertained at din
ener Sunday in honor OF Geneald
Buffers brit h day anniversary.
Plates were laid tor six.
Fred Stewart was the weekend,
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. T0wend.
Mrs. A. Viereck and daughter
Miss Harriet Soderbour we're shop
Ding in Bellingha,l Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers were
q o town few days the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Enlow. Willie
and Miss Emma Doan were the
. guests of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Rogers the past week.
The dance which will be given in
Doe Bay hall on the goth will be in
the nature of harvest dance and is
being looked forward to by young
sand old. Good music and a good
time will be assured those who at
tend. Dance and supper IS cents.
Mr.. Garland of South Bellingham
was here Sunday with his launch
Garland, bringing over Mrs. Green
"a nd son Fred.
Mrs. D. Brown, Winston Drain.
aCleon Meredith, Fred Stewart and
AIR. Stevens were passengers for
-Bellingham On the City Monday.
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Single Prices Drop
Continued from Page One


ders, it seems. but there is no visi-
BILE surplus of stocks in the Eastern
yards and the buyers are merely
purchasing enough lumber and shin
giles to supply the demand.
One year ago, it is. pointed out.
Eastern buyers were stocking up
for the fall trade and the prices of
stars had raised to $2.10 and clears
to $40. The price of lumber was
steady. also. and there was plenty
of orders. Poor crops in the south
east, because of the recent droughts,
and unsettled conditions throughout
the country because OF the tariff.
are blamed for the weak condition
of the market by the manufacture
ers.
E. j. Cleary. of the Earles Cleary
Lumber & Single company, said
that an effort is now being made to
get IS per cent. of the mill owners
of the state to agree on shut down
in order to allow the market to
stiffen. Mr.. C!eary says his COM
pany has received letter asking if
his plant will close down if IS per
cent. Of the state mill owners do
likewise.
An effLrt is also being made by
the Washington Red Cedar Single
Manufacturer association to in
duce the single manufacturers to
close down for thirty or sixty days.
With the small supply Of shingles on
hand in the Esatern yards the asso-
citation points out, shortage in
stocks would result Immediately af-
ter a shut down and a sharp ad-
vance in prices would result.
Mill owners say many of the
smaller mills will be forced to close
soon if prices continue to drop. as
trey cannot manufacture shingles
! at a profit at much lower margin.
The annual car shortage is expect
ed to set in soon and this may help
somewhat in curtaiiinR the output,
it is said. With several lines run
ming into Bellingham manufacture
ers have had little trouble in receiv-
ing cars here in the past as the COM
petition among the railway compa-
MES is keen. The small mill own
ers in the country districts. who
have only one line to draw their
cars from. however, have suffered
as the empties have been rushed to
points where competition existed.
Many millmen say the effort to
get the mill owners to agree upon
general shutdown will be fruitless
as this has been tried repeatedly in
the past without success. 1t is
case of the survival of the tittest
they say, for in the past when
large majority of the manufacturers
agreed to close for certain period
of time there were always few
who would not fall in line. while
others broke the agreement as soon
as the prices started to climb.
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To Ex plot Thelslands
Continued Prom Page One

Mr.. Hibbard replied that he is in
communication with eastern capital
lists who are DESTROYS Of establishing
a chain of hotels in the Pacific north
west and that he will put in q good
word for Anacortes.
Mr.. Mclean has sent the CORES
pondence in the matter to the Ana
cortes Chamber of Commerce. An
acortes American.
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ROCHE HARBOR

Mrs. A. D. Conway. Milliner of
Friday Harbor, will display her lat
est styles in Fall Hats Sept. % and
% at the Roche Harbor Hotel.
Come in and see them.
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EAST SOUND

AT Harrison's Restaurant. East
Sound, Sept. "a and 25 Mrs. A. D.
AA'oaway will display he attest sty-
~Ges in Fall Hats.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-09-19

Mrs. A. D. Conway Of Friday
Harbor will be at Rev. Nichols par
sonage. Richardson. tuesday. Oct.
2 with a fine line Of Fall Hats.
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Dependency

Is often caused by indigestion
and constipation. and quickly disap-
pears when Chamber;ain's Tablets
are taken. For sale by Friday.
Harbor Drug Co.
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There will be a fine display of
Fall Hats at the Wilson Hotel. We'd
nesday, October /. Come in and
be convinced. Mrs. A. D. Conway.
Friday Harbor.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
Pages Nine to Twelve 's

noise. You could hear her all over the fair ground.
 There was merry go round; and men selling chances for teddy bears and dolls on all corners. 1 didn't tr3 any chances to win one; but there were several 1 know who did, and had the luck to get one.
 l saw a great many kinds of hens and pigeons and other poultry, l think they were pretty.
 I liked to see the horses trot. There was one horse that went without any driver, and 1t won the race, too.
 saw the airship when it ciroled around up in the air, and then when , it landed I was real near 1t. We thought it was going to come right down on our heads. It was fine, but l don't think l should care to take ride in one of them. When it came in. sight it was up so high that it did not look to be over two feet long and the man looked to be very small It went around over the lot several times, coming down lower each time, when all of a sudden it gave drop, and then it run along gon the ground l suppose most of the Wide-Awakes have seen them, but tilis is the first l ever saw.
 The first day of the fair there was ! one went past our house, along the ] road. We think it was the same one l that was over to the fair. I can't tell you all l saw, as It would l take up too much room.
 LUCY A. CARTER, Age Il. Scotland
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The Lost Child.

Half past one and Mary had nat re- turned. Her father and mother were hunting for her. After dinner Mary took her dolls out to play and did not come back
 Mary's schoolmate, Elsie, said she saw her going down the road about 3 o'clock with her dolls.
 Her father told her mother that he would hitch up Dolly, the horse, and go down to grandma's and see if she was there. When he got there Mary was eating her supper
 He said: Mary White. how dare you run away?''
 Why. papa! I heard you tell man. ma last night that grandma was sick. l came to see her"
 Her father only laughed and said: You were 9 good girl to come and see her, but you know mamma and I were worrying and thought you were lost.
 MARGARET MGRATH. ROZra hVi1Ia
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UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAKES.

There may be persons who do not even observe the differences in rain drops. It Is quite likely some grown people think that all raindrops are of the same size and all snowfiakes are the same shape. but they are not. While there have been found over 1900 patterns Of snowda4es, all raindrops take on the same form, for they are round Never mind how much water there is. it tends to form a round ball, SO water Is never level. the water in a dipper or wash basin being a little higher than st the edges.
 Do you know an Englishman once devoted himself to measuring rain drops and he found that some rain drops were five times as big as some others. There are doubtless more than i've sizes Of raindrops, but that was all he caught for measurement and comparison.
 How do ycu suppose he could catch a rsindrop2 He made plates of plaster % porous that the drops sank right in and did not spatter. The smallest rsindrop was the size of birdseed and the largest as large as a pea
 Isn't 1t wonderful how men invent ways 10 measure not only raindrops but heartbeata7
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INTERESTING PEOPLE.

Francois Ferthialt, the latest chew alier of the French Legion of Honor. published his first volume in 18S0,when he was IT. and his latest in 1912. This makes @ record hard to parallel. There appear to be only two other instances of a centenarfan writer, and neither of these could show literary life extend ing over 82 years. Michel Chevreul, who died In 1889 at the age of 103, is sued his earliest publication at the age of 37 and his latest sixty years afterWarl Miss Caroline White, whose death occurred last September in her 101st year, came nearer than this to the recordd of NJ. Ferthialt. She began writing for the monthly magazines when she was 22 and cont1nued her literary labors until within a few months of her death.
 It was not without just cause that Mr Gladstone's name was given to the handy Gladstone bag" The grand old man was master of every detail of the art of packing. At a country house they were discussing at breakfast the right way to pack a sponge bag when consequently waterlosRed. MT. Glad stone, who apparently had been wholly absorbed in his mornings correspond ence, suddenly closed the discussion by informing the party that they were all wrong. The only proper method" he Sald, IS to wrap It Tn your bath toWel and stamp upon 1t. Then put it in your sponge bag. You will find it perfectly dry"
 Father Ohrwalder, who for eight years was a prisoner among the African der wishes and escaped has died at Omdur- man. His career is one of the TO- mances of the Sudan. Born in Lanas near MeTan, in the Tyrol, in 1S56 he went to Cairo in 1879 after being train ed as 8 missionary. The following year he went up to Khartum, and in 1882 he was captured by the Mahdists in the Oar Nuba- He made many vain at tempts before he escaped.
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VACATION HIKE OF MAINE GIRLS

Our Camp Fire in Br1dgton consists pf about dozen girls and our guardi- an. Miss Eva Howard. We meet in a small rest room on Main street every Thursday afternoon at half past two.
 At one of our meetings Miss How ard invited IS over to her camp on Woods Pond 10 staS aH day and cook our dinner oH the beach
 She appointed a dinner committee of three 10 buy our groceries. and each girl paid her part.
 Woods Pond is reached by a trail through the woods and across a meadow. but as none of Us had ever been through it before We were afraid we would not come out at Woods Pond Bounding Elk and Hawk Eye two of the boy scouts. agreed to act as guides
 The trail led through deep woods of pine and on either side of it were patches of red bunch berries which made it look very pretty. When we reached the T, ca dow we saw two large brown henhavks circling around a maple tree which probably contained their nest
 Just as we caught sight of the water between the trees Miss Howard came out 10 meet us and show us her camp We put our groceries in the kitchen and then Miss Howard told us we might have e9To boats to use all day
 The water was as smooth as glass and we had A :ine time taking turns rowing around the pond. Two of the girls. Laveoia and Light-of the Morn ing, had not had much success rowing so they landed to try their luck hunt ing for wild Towers and butterflies in the woods Ienind the camp. They found some rare specimens of ground hemiock covered with delicate, scarlet wax cups holding a ninan brown seed
 I-AVeoiA bib1 the dinner horn and Inc girls landed and began to get din= ner The DoyE had piled up q large stack or brush for our lire and Miss Howard ligi ted il all al once. The wind was blowing towards the cottage and as the brush was very dry fierce blaze spraDg up and, set the grass sn Ere Miss HoHaFd WAS fFighseRGd aaA
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Norwich
A Reautiful Morning Rainbow.

Dear Uncle Jed: This morning. Sep tember 17th, I saw the most wonderful sight I ever saw. At about half past five papa came in from his milking and said:
 Get up if you want to see the most beautiful thing you ever saw
 We all went to the back door and looking out saw great, big, wide rainbow in the west. It extended from northwest to southwest, forming more than half circle. If shone SC bright ly that it seemed as if each color stood out distinctly one from another. It had all the shades of red. blue and yellow.
 Then, as we looked. another rain bow grew in the heavens higher than the first. The colors were just the same, but not so distinct All the clouds in the sky were red and pink Finally the sun came out and the beautiful cOlors faded away.
 WINNIFRED BOLTON. Age To-
 North Franklin.
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screamed for her brother to bring some water to put it out. She was afraid he would not get there quick enough. so she picked up a pole and pushed inc brush over toward the water The fire was so hot 1t scorched her face. but the water soon put the fire out
 The ashes were hot and the girls brought the potatoes down to the pond and washed them. Opechee put the po- tatoes In the ashes and Laceola GOV cred them 70 with ashes.
 queen -of-thC- Woods and Wenonah made the tomato soup while Nene- moosha made the sandwiches and Opechee and Light -of-the- Morning set the table under the trees.
 The tomato soup was done and we all sat down to eat it and praise tho girls cooking, Some of the girls. did not like tomato soup. so they went down to try the potatoes The small ones were dcne aud these they ate hut the rest Were only done on one side So be sure and turn your potatOes over if you try to cook them in the ashes
 After we finished the soup. we cut some green sticks and put a slice of bacon on them to fry. The fat from the bacon made the fire burn so brisk iy that the stick caught fire before the bacon was quite done. We had our meeting on the piazza and chose our Indian names some of which I have given.
 About o'clock our guides came in from fishing and after thanking Miss Howard for our good time we started home across the trail On the way some of the girls picked a large mum ber 6f scilhfo onia berries and red bunch. berries to string for our ceremonial suits which we are going to cut out at ths next meeting.
 One das We had . flower contest and one ef fhe girls picked $ differz ent wild fl6we@s going only q short dis tanes. Wh6H 1t is cooler We are going on another hike and have d clam chowder or oyster stew fer dinner Constance Walker, in Portland Ex-
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POETRY,
The Moo Cow Moo.


 By Edmund Vance Cooke From chronicles of the Little Tot" My pa held me up to the moo-eow-
 moO;
 So clost I could almost touch. En ] fed him couples of times. or En ]. wasn't a fraid-cat-much. But if my papa goes into the house En mamma, she goes in, too, ] just keep still like a little mouse or the moo-cgE moo might moo! The moo-cow-moo's got tail like a
 rope,
 En it's ragelled down where it grows. En it's just like feeling a piece of
 soap
 All over the moo-cow's nose. Just a-swinging his tail about, Win he opens his mouth, en then, I
 run
 Cause that's where the moo comes
 out, En the moo-cow-moo's got deers on his
 head
 En his eyes stick out of their place, En the nose of the moo-cow- moo Is
 spread
 All over tke end of his face. En his feet is nothing but finger nails En his mamma don't keep 'en cut. En he gives folks milk in water pals En he don't keep his handles shut. Cause fl yod or me pulls the handles The moo COW moo says it hurts, But the hired man he sits down clost
 by
 En squirt5. en sauirts, en squirts
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
The First Shot at Lexington.

Early in 1775 General Gage in com mand of the British forces began tC erect Notifications around Boston
 General Gage planned a surprise tc capture the stores of military supplies at Concord, and dispatched a force of 500 men directing them to go by way of Lexington and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
 Paul Revere was informed of the route of the troops by the aid of lan- terms hung in the belfry of Old North church and started on his famous ride warning the inhabitants and also Adams and Hancock, who fled.
 At daybreak on April 19, 1775, be- tween seventy and eighty minute men were drawn up at Lexington on the common to oppose the eight hundred British.
 The British major in command or dered his men to fire and a volIey was poured into them; eight minute men fell dead and ten were wounded The British marched on to Concord where they again met the minute men and after destroying the few militaEr stores returned to Boston.
 HAROLD w. BLAIS
 Palfiq
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
The Bread -crunb sponqe.

I dare say that you will be rather surprised to hear that nearly 300 diff ferent kinds of sponges have been found in the British seas You will not be able to find very many of these, however. for they nearly all live in deep water. and have to be scooped up by means o1 the dredge But the bread -Crumh sponge is easily found for 1t lives in shallow water and you are nearly sure to find it if you look for it in the rock pools.
 But l hardly. think that anybody on seeing it for the first time would take 1t to be a sponge at all For it is not in the least like a bath sponge It is just kind of feshy crust sometimes greenish in color and sometimes vel low, which grows round the stems of seaweed or covers the surfaces of rocks and stones. And the odd thing about it is that when it clings to sea- weeds its surface is quite smooth, with a number of large holes in it, but that when it grows on rocks it is covered
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crows tongue it would learn to speak, but I did not wish to do it because l thought it would hurt the little thing. I clipped off the end of his wings so he could not fly away. When he was a year old he could fly at least to the top of the wall
 If said Come here, Tommy" he would fly 10 me. He ate with the hens. His feathers shone and he looked like a king of the barnyard But one day he heard a flock of crows in our corn field and called to them in their Ian guage. Soon he hoped to them, and l never saw him again.
 MARY RYBIC, Age F. Mansfield Four Corners.
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Norwich.
Her School.

Dear Uncle Jed: I ann going to write about my schoI. I am in the seventh grade. I study history, reading, spell ing, language arithemtic and physiol- ogy. We write many poems in oui poem books We have just written the poem of The Vision of Sir Launfal" I like to go to school.
 am going to try and go to high school next year Our school is a me dium sized school. We have a reading table. one bookcase, one teachers desk and 29 double desks.
 We have also a great many pictures on the walls. And we also have a large Webster's Dictionary and standard.
 We have B children in our school.
 AGNES FORBES, Age 13.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
Jus+ Before Christmas.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willie, but the felleFs call me Billi Mighty glad I ain't a girl-ruther be a boy Without them sashes, curls an things that's worn by FauntIer0y! Love 10 chawnk green apples an go swimmin' in the lake Hate 10 take the castor-iIe they give for bel4yachei Most all the time the whole year round there ain't no flies on me, But jest fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!
 Eugene Field.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAKES.
Four and Twenty BIackbirds


 You all know the rhyme. but have you ever heard what 1t really means? The four aId twenty blackbirds repre- sent the four and twenty hours. The bottom of the pie is the world, while the crust Is t-C sky that overarches it. The opening of the pie is the day dawn, when the birds begin to sing, and surely such a sight is fit for a king
 The king. W ho Is represented as sit ting in his parlor counting out his money, is the sun, while the gold pieces that slip through his fingers as he counts them are the golden sunbeams. The queen, who sits in the dark kitch- en. is the moon, and the honey on which she feasts is the moonlight
 The industrious maid, who is in the garden at work before her king, the sun, has risen, is daytime, and the clothes she Fangs out are the clouds. The birds, who so tragically end the song by 'niEping off her nose,' are the sunset. So we have the whole day, if not in a nutshell, in a pie.
 LILLIAN BRBHAUT. Age Is, East Norwich N Y
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
My Summer Vacation.

Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you about my vacation My school was out the 9th of June. l went up to my grand parents and stayed a week.
 I then went home, and my mother took me to New York with her. We went to Oneonta first and stayed there two weeks Then we went to South C1iIboa and stayed a. week. We visit ed several other places. The last place we visited was Jamaica. We stayed there week. My cousin came home with us. Everybody was glad to see us We were away five weeks. We came home the last of July.
 My school opened the I'd of Septem- Der.
 BERTHA FULLER, Age g.
 Eaglevil1e.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-02
Grotron Monument

How many of the Wide Awakes would like to hear about my visit to Groton monument? I went to New London in an auto crossed over the river on the ferryboat and then we went te the monument, It is very high, one hundred and thirty five feet; and twen- ty-two feet square at the base.
 We had to take lanterns te go uI the one hundred sixty six steps to the top and then we could see a great many different places; and Block Is- land and a great many other islands; and the house where the wounded Americans were left by Ire British sol dewn and went to the cid fort, I saw the cannon and went through the en- trance from the fert te the rifle pitt
 I think all the boys and girls would be interested to visit the fort and mon ument.
 RAYMOND WELDEN, Age g.
 WilIjmantic
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What Lucy Saw at the Fair.

Uncle Jed: I will tell you of my trip to the Willimantic fair. have n0t been to a fair before since l was three years old, so this year as school closed the second day of the fair all who wanted to go could and not miss school.
 My father. mother and brother went with me I had a good time. I will tell you some. of the things | saw.
 There was one man there who had a monkey sitting up on a box beside him. The children would give him peanuts and candy to eat This was the first monkey I ever saw. I don t : think I would like to have one for a pet, for they are too dirty looking to suit me. The man who had the mon key had in a tent a wild girl and she kept making a dreadful growing
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Leon's veqetabIe Garden.

Dear Uncle Jed: Last spring the Con- necticut State Agricultural society gave me seeds to plant, and 1 have had fine success with them
 My faher gave me a place in his garden, and l raised pumpkins, corn, turnips. onions, carrots, beets, squash, cucumbers, lima beans and watermel- Ons.
 A sample of these was exhibited at the State Fair at Berlin. Conn, Sept, 23d to 27th.
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