Frendale social roundup highlights visits and fires
A Frendale social page details visits by Miss Mabel Jones Snohomish, Miss Rose Grant, and Miss Ruth Cederberg, plus guest stays for Mrs Nettie Barkley and Mrs Frank Mulks. Neighbors attend weddings, travel to Lynden for races, and a home fire destroys Leslie Browns house. Names include C B Lego Glen, Percy Hood, Henry Dewitt, E D Sather, and many more in community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Lego
Glen
Mabel Jones
Snohomish
Percy Hood
Rose Grant
Henry Dewitt
Ruth Cederberg
Bellingham
Nettie Barkley
Ridgway
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Minor McLain
Nell Roybar
J. Albert Prouty
Frank Mulks
Los Angeles
Mulks
P. H. Cowherd
Community Guests and Visits Across Ferndale and Nearby Towns
A long list of local and visiting residents share social calls and travels. Everson notes include W C T U Flower Mission, hospital bouquets, and birthday celebrations. Visits span Ferndale Lynden Sedro-Woolley Anacortes Birch Bay and Seattle with relatives friends and out-of-town guests.
Local Residents Attend Visits and Gatherings Nearby
Mrs. S Weide visits in Clearbrook while Mrs P D Harkness hosts at home. Mrs R Thompson and Euphemia join O G Caley on route two. Vermullen family visits Lynden relatives. Sam Sturgeon returns from Clear Lake. Mrs M E Brewer and son visit Jas Black. Katherine Donely from Bellingham visits Randall home. Ohlund and Burman return from Nebraska trip. Shulman family and Dorothy back from Vashon Island. Wm F Langer family host C R Caley. Cyr and Mead families share Sunday dinner. Swan Larson of Bellingham visits Arthur Mead. Hilda Iverson joins Mary Bushby then tours to Bellingham Ferndale. Margaret Thompson from Bellingham weekend with E Thompson. Adkinson family travels to Mt Vernon Sunday. H P Johnson returns after Tacoma camp meeting. A group of young friends gather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl White
Ferndale
Leonard White
RE. Moubtray
L. Lockhead
Esther Warner
Alfred Ginger
Ralph Warner
White City
Jack Chase
Maple Falls
L. C. Bell
Larson
Tacoma
Will Kahle
Oregon
Krenz
Route
Mr. Brewer
Auburn
A. A. Thompson
Portland
Ore
Chuckanut
Tressa Stone
Lynden
Lida Stone
Clyde Reed
Wesley Horr
Horr
Oklahoma
Wm. Peist
Sophia
Ingersoll
Birch Bay
A. E. Hardin
Eardley
California
R. S. Shulman
Vashon
Everson W. C. T. U
Headquarters
S. Weide
Clearbrook
P. D. Harkness
R. Thompson
Euphemia
O. G Caley
Vermullen
Sam Sturgeon
Clear Lake
M. E. Brewer
Goshen
Jas
Black
Katherine Donely
Bellingham
Milton Cyr
John Cyr
Elmer Cyr
Swan Larson
Arthur Mead
Hilda Iverson
Mary Bushby
Margaret Thompson
Belingham
E. Thompson
J. H. Adkinson
Mt. Vernon
H. P. Johnson
Community notes from Woodland and Birch Bay Fourth
Local brief lists residents and visitors over the Fourth. Families from Lund travel to Birch Bay including S Bradley J Curry H J Pyeatt L A Hagoes C G Lund B A Pyeatt and Misses Ruth Neslund Helen Howard and Helen Van Horn. Various guests and hosts share meals and gatherings at homes of the Neslund Pyeatt Pyeatt Vander Mei Janson Meyers Engman and others around Woodland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lund Auto
Birch Bay
S. Bradley
J. Curry
H. J. Pyeatt
L. A. Hagoes
C. G. Lund
B. A. Pyeatt
Ruth Neslund
Helen Howard
Helen van Horn
Paul Henderson
Seattle
Jes
Seneca Smith
Bellingham
John Sheperd
Edison
Gilbert
O. E. Wilson
B. Pyeatt
Jeffcott
Custer
Vander Mei
Henry Janson
Will Janson
Bayard Pyeatt
John Meyers
Wm. Stephenson
Fred Trissel
The
Bay
Hargoes
Elmer Lund
J. C. Engman
Stanwood
Courage and Decision Quote by Goethe
A dramatic Goethe quotation on courage and resolve. It contrasts timid wavering with firm self-command, stating that only erect, decisive action can summon inner strength and turn back misfortune. The line reflects stoic self-discipline and defying external forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goethe
A Minority Report from Frankfort
A short vignette describes Gabe a timid Black man who marries a domineering woman and moves to town. When confronted about leaving the country he says his wife dislikes country life and he has come to hate what she dislikes. The piece reflects social dynamics and humor from the Saturday Evening Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Gabe
Mistah Franklin
Natchelly
Saturday Evening Post
Just as He Was Told City Alderman and Cigar Loan
An impecunious constituent asks a Chicago alderman for a dollar. The alderman gives a two dollar bill and directs a fifteen cent cigar, keeping the rest as change. The visitor returns with 85 cents and asks who the cigar was for, prompting the politician to tell him to leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Yeats Poem Excerpt About True and False Love
The fragment focuses on love’s differ ent expressions from Yeats, contrasting total devotion with admiration for beauty and inner depth. It presents the pilgrim soul amid evolving sorrow in a beloved’s changing face.
Fooling the Game Warden and Rival Tales
A reader recalls two women rivals in a humorous exchange about a forty year old memory while another anecdote describes a game warden disguising himself to catch a restaurateur serving game out of season. The owner realizes the “pheasant” was actually crow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow
What She Feared
A story recalling a gas main laid along a country road and residents adopting gas lighting. Mrs. Jobes explains her fear that an exploding lamp cannot be discarded outside since the gas is nailed fast, contrasting it with a lamp that can be tossed out a window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua Jobes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Geo. Casebeer
D. McNair
John
E. W. Swanson
H. A. Cratsenberg
A. P. Long
Jack Smith
Alaska
Tom Colter
Rodney Platter
Bert Murray
James Beatty
Will Conklin
T. W. Suckling
Anacortes
W. DeCamp
de Camp
Mattie Taws
L. Long
Ramsey
Wilkie Chandler
Laurel
Geo. Tiffany
Maple Fall
Joe Jackson
Leslie Brown
Vancouver
M. G. Kelly
Kelly
Louis Pfister
Ind
Berne Hudson
O. O. Pierce
Bedford
Monte Adams
East Sound
J. E. Duncanson
R. K. Bellman
Margie Rowe
Robert Rowe
Grace Lightfoot
Wm. Fell
Pioneer Park
Harriet
Lois
Mable Jones
Earnest Barnhart
L. P. Bennet
Raymond
Pearl van Ostrand
C. W. Hamshaw
Leonard
Tribune
Everson
Archie Langer
Francis Simonson
Peter Avery
Son
Dighton
Kansas
Henry Getchell
Gray’s Harbor
D. G. Norman
Wm. Warner
Elmer Warner
Lynden Lumber Coufacturers OF
Burson and Lowamo Hose
Tess & Ted
Stollwerck
Liro Naunes
Lynden Co-Operative
Tore
Argonaut
Chase & Sanborn
Swift’s Pride
Elder & Pace
Lynden, WN
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