Timber slips injure worker at Imperial Fir mill
Peter Hoksbergen sustained badly mashed toes when a timber fell on his foot at the Imperial Fir Lumber Company mill on Saturday.
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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
10
Peter Hoksbergen sustained badly mashed toes when a timber fell on his foot at the Imperial Fir Lumber Company mill on Saturday.
Mr and Mrs S Roberson returned to Lynden from California and stay with their daughter Mrs F Rose. Several couples plan an East trip departing Tuesday with a South Dakota stop and visits across the Middle West. A baby boy was born Aug 12 to Mr and Mrs Arie Zoet. The son of Mr and Mrs Earl McClimans had an operation Friday. Rev E Breen is improving at home. Mrs Bert Vander Ploeg has been ill. Mrs M Meenk and children returned Friday from Birch Bay. Mr and Mrs A Verbrugg and family and Mrs W B Schuyleman agreed to Birch Bay Friday.
A. B. Christopherson of the Alaska Business College warns of a severe need for trained office workers on the Pacific Coast. He cites five times as many job calls as graduates and notes stenographers and bookkeepers are in short supply as demand grows across business sectors.
The County W C T U will host a picnic at Corn Wall Park on Thursday August 26. Candidates for various offices will speak and a musical program will follow in the afternoon. All are invited and urged to bring a basket lunch.
The Everson Valley Home urges voters to study Referendum Bill No 1 and vote with judgment. They argue that funds from car license fees and the referendum would fund trunk roads, not benefiting Whatcom County much, and caution taxpayers against further encumbrances without real gains.
A British Columbia judge upholds the closing of two percent liquor joints along the BC border. Justice Murphy of New Westminster denies a quash of Surrey Municipality by-law licensing near beer, strikes fee and age restrictions as invalid, and limits council power to grant licenses only to hotels with dining rooms, foretelling no reopening of BC boundary pubs.
The Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur, once bicycle repair shop owners in Dayton Ohio, built a winged craft with twin propellers and a 16 horsepower engine. They flew four times at Kitty Hawk North Carolina on December 17 1903 with the farthest 852 feet.
Dr S S Howe practices limited to eye ear nose and throat conditions in Bellingham. Glasses fitted.
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