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WEATHER REPORT
December
Maximum temperature 40.
Minimum ” 3.
M ti maximum " 33.48
Mean minimum ” 22.51
27.99
Precipitation, inches, 4.71
Snow fall, 10.25
nr.ber of days clear 3. partly
cioudv 18. cloudy in, rainy 26
•M I). Sworn;mass, Vrol. Observer
Miss Louise I. McWhinnie, only
daughter of Mrs. lames McWhinnie
of Cambridge, Mass, w.is married the
25th of this month to Mr. Earnest }•
Sargeant of Spokane, Wash.
Miss McWh’.unie made .1 host of
friends here the summer of 1909 when
she spent a month with ns together
with her mother and two other ladies
from New England.
Mr. and Mrs. Sargeant will make
their home in Spokane We wish
them great happiness.
Change Of Japan Current.
We are told that we are indebted to
a change in the course of the Japan
k ur: eut for our remarkably mild win
tei. That the Current in now flow
ing closer to our shores seems to [>e a
fact. It is due to this that the Str.
Alameda on a recent trip from Sew
ard to Seattle ran 50 miles ahead of
her log, aim the Kdith 28 miles. All
vessels sailing to Alaska ports have
been notified to make the necessary
changes in their reckonings to meet
the new conditions brought about by
the altered course of the Current.
(>ntr of the oldest residents on Wood
Island tells us that 40 years ago there
was just such a winter. Hut people
did not give the Japan Current the
credit for it. In those days the Rus
sian Ice Co., was doing an extensive
business on Wood Island. A vessel
came heie early iu Oct. hoping to get
her cargo of ice and get away in Nov
hut she had to wait until March be
fore there was unv ice, and then it
was only 12 in« lies thick. We hope
that so far as the March ice is con
cerneu that history will not repeat it
self this vear.