County News Items Highlight Local Developments
Government postal savings bank opens at Sumas. Bellingham Skagit interurban to be completed by July first. J J Donovan reappointed to State Normal School board of regents at Bellingham. County farm superintendent Miller plans a Christmas dinner for thirty eight occupants. Postmaster Elmer Beal sells Maple Falls post office property to Mr Underwood of Bellingham. Ta McFadden rumored as future chief of police in Bellingham under Mayor-elect Cleary. Inspector Flint notes Nooksack valley fruit growing season just starting. Mr Myers of Orcas Island nets over 4200 from three acres of pears. County commissioners allocate 1000 of 2022 95 forest reserve receipts to general school fund. rest to road fund. Western Washington Horticultural Association meets Feb 22 23 in Bellingham with many fruit growers attending. Inferior Fish Company pleads guilty to unlawful fishing, fined 250 minimum. Many dead cases cleared from docket by Judges Hardin Kellogg in joint session. jury term docked to next Saturday. Local option law decisions affect gifts of liquor in dry units. Henry Leist expected to plead guilty.
New York Welcomes Western Governors at Waldorf Astoria
Western governors arrive at the Waldorf Astoria in New York after traveling from Philadelphia. Flags representing California North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming Nevada Oregon Idaho Montana Minnesota Colorado and Washington adorn the hotel. The eight governors Carey Oddie Vessey Hawley Burke West Norris and Eberhart tour the country to promote their region while touring with a train carrying Class A Western products such as apples nuggets sugar beets wheat alfalfa wool corn and breezy good junior.
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Pictures in Sunday School Kellogg Teaching by Stereopticon
Kellogg plans to inaugurate a system for Sunday school instruction using stereopticon pictures. The approach aims to enhance lessons with visual aids and projector slides during class sessions.
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Kellogg
Comfort for the Christmas mourners poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A somber Christmas meditation asking peace for the afflicted and grieving. The speaker prays for the prisoner, the neglected child, the weary brain, and the empty home, invoking divine comfort through the season.
Christmas Bells and Old Christmas Come But Once a Year
Poem excerpt reflecting on Christmas bells and Saint Nicholas like figures. The text celebrates yearly return of Christmas carols and holly, ivy, mistletoe imagery, with a timeless wreath and cheerful mood echoed in Joaquin Miller’s closing couplet.
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Joaquin Miller
Wise Sayings and a Sheriff’s Riddle
A fragment ponders how many times Christmas might occur in a year and how the sheriff would respond. The quirky line hints at counting occasions and the sheriff’s roundabout call, framed as a humorous, old fashioned aside.
Noted Basso Edouard de Reszke Near Death in Heart Trouble
The famous basso Edouard de Reszke and his brother Jean are reported near death from heart trouble. The dispatch notes grave condition and urgent medical concern surrounding the two performers.
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Wilfrid Laurier
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Charles W. Eliot
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