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Show llelellfllfriil by Ire, jijiBBBBBB Nuutuckctci'H will long remember tho UbbbbbI winter of IDOCM. Three different times jHbbbbbb! lias tile Island been Isolated by Ice, 'UsbbbbI weeks lu nil. No ouo 'person could buy ralaaaai two pounds of sugar or more than one WsbbbbI quart of kerosene. Only island beef ifiH could bu purchased ut the markets. JFbbbbbI Captain Klllcn, n well-known islander, SH after figuring the prlco of grain and SsbbbbI tho amount of mill; ho wns getting, Sl nud then learning the prlco that lean bKbbbbI cow meat was bringing, decided to UbbbbI kill old Sal, ids favorite cow, und sho Ml fetched from thirty-eight to forty-four Knaaal cents n pound. Tho assistant keeper Wl from Gray Point light walked to town Icl across the bay, a distance of twenty Is miles, something that never was heard m iB of before by the oldest Inhabitants S H and some of them nro past nlnctv lu !bbbb! " nvcrley Magazine. S H |